Sixteen outstanding faculty members and 14 top-notch doctoral students across the University of South Carolina will receive Breakthrough awards at the spring Research Awards Dinner and be celebrated in a special awards booklet.
The Office of the Vice President for Research is proud to celebrate 2019, a year of outstanding scholarship, record-setting funding and growth in the University of South Carolina's research enterprise. Read on for some of 2019's brightest research highlights.
The 26th NSF EPSCoR National Conference, hosted by the UofSC Office of the Vice President for Research on Sunday, October 27 through Wednesday, October 30, drew more than 400 faculty, students, postdoctoral scholars and others for a packed program of speakers, breakout sessions and more, around the theme of "Science and Partnerships Across Disciplinary Boundaries."
Dr. Kelvin Droegemeier, White House Office of Science and Technology Policy Director and Science Advisor to the President of the United States, will convene a luncheon on Monday, October 28, to discuss research policy with UofSC faculty members.
Total research and sponsored awards soared to $278.6 million in fiscal year 2019, setting a new record for the fifth consecutive year.
The Office of the Vice President for Research is seeking nominations for our three signature Breakthrough award programs: Breakthrough Leadership in Research, Breakthrough Stars and Breakthrough Graduate Scholars. All nominations for these programs are due by Friday, October 18, 2019.
The Office of the Vice President for Research is accepting SPARC Grant applications until Wednesday, November 13. SPARC applicants are required to attend a SPARC application workshop, which will be offered four times beginning on Thursday, August 29.
The Office of the Vice President for Research and the South Carolina EPSCoR Office are honored to host the 26th NSF EPSCoR National Conference in Columbia on Sunday, October 27 through Wednesday, October 30, 2019.
For the seventh year in a row, the University of South Carolina has been named one of the top 100 worldwide universities granted utility patents in 2018 by the National Academy of Inventors and the Intellectual Property Owners Association.
The Office of the Vice President for Research is pleased to invite undergraduate students working on summer research projects with UofSC faculty to share their work at the 2019 Summer Research Symposium on Thursday, August 1, in the Thomas Cooper Library's Hollings Program Room.
The Office of the Vice President for Research has received funding from the South Carolina Lottery program to purchase state-of-the-art research equipment to develop and sustain interdisciplinary research. The office will coordinate an internal competition to select the final project for funding. Proposals are due by 5:00 p.m. on Thursday, August 1.
All undergraduate students conducting research on UofSC campuses this summer are encouraged to join the Office of the Vice President for Research for our summer workshop series, Research: Next Steps to Success, beginning on Wednesday, June 5, 2019.
Governor Henry McMaster presented the 2019 Governor's Award for Excellence in Scientific Awareness to Dr. Timothy Mousseau, Department of Biological Sciences, and the 2019 Young Scientist Award for Excellence in Scientific Research to Dr. Hui Wang, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry.
The Office of the Vice President for Research is proud to announce the results of our 2019 ASPIRE faculty research funding competition. Since it began in 2012, the annual ASPIRE grant program has funded promising research and shared research infrastructure, to enhance research and scholarship throughout the UofSC system.
The Office of the Vice President for Research is pleased to honor faculty members who have steadfastly supported our programs with two awards, the Distinguished Research Service Award and the Distinguished Undergraduate Research Mentor Award.
The Office of the Vice President is pleased to announce the 2019 recipients of the RISE--Research Initiative for Summer Engagement--grant awards. The RISE program funds meritorious summer research projects by faculty members working at UofSC system campuses and Palmetto College.
The University of South Carolina has retained its top "R1: Doctoral Universities - Very high research activity" designation in the 2018 Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education. Only 130 universities, including Harvard and Stanford, share this elite designation.
Each year, the Office of the Vice President for Research offers graduate students in all areas of study a unique opportunity to compete for grants of up to $5,000 to fund research, scholarly and creative projects. This academic year, 57 students from eight different academic units will receive SPARC grants.
From engineering to art, these outstanding researchers perform at the highest level and make big impacts on the University of South Carolina research and scholarly community.
The Vice President for Research and Carolina Distinguished Professor is the first ever National Academy of Inventors Fellow at the University of South Carolina.
The Office of the Vice President relies on faculty members throughout the USC System to serve as reviewers for our internal funding and awards programs for faculty and students. Serving on a review committee is a great way to support the USC research community and keep our internal funding and award programs vital and strong.
The Office of the Vice President for Research is seeking nominations for our three signature Breakthrough award programs: Breakthrough Leadership in Research, Breakthrough Stars and Breakthrough Graduate Scholars. All nominations for these programs are due by Friday, October 26, 2018.
Consistent increases in extramural funding at South Carolina's flagship university have been boosted by internal investment in new lines of research and shared infrastructure, incentivization of interdisciplinary collaboration and recruitment of outstanding faculty, postdoctoral scholars and graduate students.
This new round of funding will support five more years of work at the multi-disciplinary center, which conducts cutting-edge research on regulating inflammation to treat autoimmune disorders.
Graduate students and postdoctoral scholars are invited to a special Grant Writing Basics Workshop on Wednesday, September 19. The workshop includes an overview of strategies for grant writing and budget development, followed by a panel discussion featuring past SPARC and ASPIRE I, Track II-B reviewers.