This grants database lists recent external grants received in the college. As you ponder your external funding opportunities, we hope it will help you see the variety of projects Arts and Sciences researchers are pursuing with support from a significant number of sponsors.
| Date | Principal Investigator | Sponsor | Amount | Project Title | Keywords (hidden column) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| February 2023 | Senner, Nathan | Universidad Austral de Chile/U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service/DOI | $39,490 | Revealing Unknown Links in the Life Cycle of Shorebirds | |
| February 2023 | Cutter, Susan | Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech)/Feeding America |
$51,400 | Strengthening Charitable Food Systems Capability | |
| February 2023 | Tan, Changhui | National Science Foundation (NSF) | $404,193 | CAREER: Nonlocal partial differential equations in collective dynamics and fluid flow | |
| February 2023 | Becker, Kimberly | William T. Grant Foundation | $50,000 | Addressing Conceptual and Pragmatic Challenges to Measuring Use of Research Evidence
In Children’s Mental Healthcare by Leveraging Clinical Documentation |
|
| February 2023 | Serang, Sarfaraz | Utah State University/NIAAA/NIH | $61,755 | Longitudinal Impacts of Pandemic-Induced Disruptions on Adolescent Siblings’ and Parents’
Alcohol Use: A Family Life Course Perspective |
|
| February 2023 | King, Adam | SC Department of Natural Resources (SCDNR) | $5,804 | Spanish Mount Archaeological Artifact Processing SC | |
| February 2023 | Whitehead, Dustin | SC Film Commission - SC Department of Parks Recreation and Tourism | $150,000 | The South Carolina Film Training Partnership (GOS - Get on Set) | |
| January 2023 | Morris, James | NC Wilmington/NOAA | $39,283 | """Coastal Resilience: Evaluating Risk of Tidal Marsh Inundation and Monetizing Services
to Prioritize Management Actions (Part 2)""" |
|
| January 2023 | Li, Jie | National Science Foundation (NSF) | $865,975 | CAREER: Enzymatic sulfur incorporation and modification in the biosynthesis of natural products | |
| January 2023 | Crocker, Holly | Andrew W. Mellon Foundation | $500,000 | Civic Engagement, Voting Rights, and the Founding Documents at the University of South Carolina | |
| January 2023 | Kulkarni, Varsha | NASA / Space Telescope Science Institute (James Webb Space Telescope) | $167,376 | Probing Silicate and Carbonaceous Dust and Ice in Distant Galaxies with Mid-IR Spectroscopy
of Quasars with Foreground 2175 A Absorbers |
|
| January 2023 | Coffman, Donna | National Cancer Institute (NCI)/NIH | $144,610 | Developing Methodology to examine causal mediation of Time-Varying Effects in Smoking Cessation Treatments | |
| January 2023 | Edmunds, Sarah | Chan Med School Worcester - University of Massachusetts/NIMH/NIH | $70,628 | "Improving the Part C Early Intervention Service Delivery System for Children with
ASD: A Randomized Clinical Trial (“RISE”)" |
|
| January 2023 | Hudac, Caitlin | University of Alabama Birmingham/NIDA/NIH | $45,834 | HEALthy Brain and Child Development Study at UAB and UA | |
| January 2023 | DePratter, Chester | Marine Corps Recruit Depot, Parris Island, SC/DOD | $99,540 | Artifact Analysis and Curation Services - MCRD Parris Island Museum |
|
| January 2023 | King, Adam | SC Department of Natural Resources - Heritage Trust Program | $8,500 | Archaeological Testing at Spanish Mount | |
| January 2023 | Ryker, Katherine | National Science Foundation (NSF) | $119,548 | Collaborative Research: Quantifying the extent of student learning and affect associated with observed levels of instructional reform | |
| January 2023 | White, Scott | Savannah River Nuclear Solutions/DOE | $69,668 |
Support of the South Carolina Seismic Monitoring Network | |
| December 2022 | Morris, James | University of Georgia/NOAA | $39,102 | NOAA ESLR - Sub to University of Georgia | |
| December 2022 | Smith, Erik | NOAA/DOC | $188,675 | Building Capacity at the North Inlet – Winyah Bay NERR for conservation and restoration infrastructure projects | |
| December 2022 | Armstrong, Alissa | Silicon Valley Community Foundation | $1,150,000 | Improving DEI via investigating the role of inter-organ communication in whole-organism responses to diet | |
| December 2022 | Ge, Ting | NSF |
$516,622 | CAREER: Molecular Modeling of Ring Polymer Mechanics - Expanding Applicability of Ring Polymer | |
| December 2022 | Petti, Roberto | ERN Neutrino Group | $40,000 | CERN Project Continuation (Neutrino Platform) | |
| December 2022 | Coffman, Donna | Temple University/NIH | $116,249 | mHealth-based Just-In-Time Intervention to Improve Physical Activity Microrandomized Trial | |
| December 2022 | Coffman, Donna | Temple University/NIH | $92,300 | Behavioral and Biological Rhythms in Children's Obesity-Related Health Disparities SEARCH | |
| December 2022 | Coffman, Donna | Temple University/DoD | $32,000 | Development of a Sensor-Based Movement Biomarker to Capture Upper Extremity Use | |
| December 2022 | Smith, Courtnie | SC Dept of Mental Health | $9,650 | John H. Magill School Mental Health Certificate Program | |
| November 2022 | Strosnider, William | Clemson Univ/SC Water Resources Center | $33,545 | Quantifying ecological responses following floating treatment wetland application in brackish stormwater ponds | |
| November 2022 | Li, Jie | National Organization for Rare Disorders | $50,000 | Improving PMP models for pre-clinical testing and evaluating PMP-associated bacterial
functional metabolites in PMP progression and treatment |
|
| November 2022 | Shimizu, Ken | Petroleum Research Fund/ACS | $110,000 | Hydrogen bonding protects groups | |
| November 2022 | Ellis, Jean | NSF | $25,610 | RAPID: Impacts and recovery of natural and managed coastal dunes on a South Carolina
barrier island from Hurricane Ian |
|
| November 2022 | Donaldson, Bobby | National Park Service/DOI | $500,000 | NPS AACR: Booker T. Washington High School Auditorium Building | |
| November 2022 | Elfenbein, Jessica | SC Humanities/NEH | $2,000 | Wood Basket of the World: Lumbering, Manufacturing, and Conserving South Carolina's Forests | |
| November 2022 | Wang, Zhu | UC San Diego/ONR | $69,099 | Nonlinear Hamiltonian and Lagrangian Model Reduction for Ocean Simulation and Tethered Air-Surface Vehicle Control | |
| November 2022 | Przybysz, Jane | SC Arts Commission | $70,517 | SCAC Folklife Partnership Grant Renewal | |
| November 2022 | King, Adam | SC Dept. of Transportation | $139,877 | Administrative Services for ArchSite II, 2022-2024 | |
| November 2022 | Barra, Monica | Social Science Research Council/Wallace Foundation | $70,000 | SSRC Arts Research with Communities of Color (ARCC) Fellowship | |
| November 2022 | Frost, Daniel | NSF | $7,390 | Collaborative Research: RAPID: Capturing the Elgin-Lugoff earthquake swarm with a dense nodal array | |
| November 2022 | Henderson-Platt, Andrea | Rice University/The Issachar Fund | $42,054 | Science and Religion of the Human Body | |
| October 2022 | James Morris, Baruch Institute | Marine Biological Laboratory, National Science Foundation | $316,203 | LTER: Plum Island Ecosystems, the impact of changing landscapes and climate on interconnected coastalecosystems | NSF |
| October 2022 | Jeffery Twiss, Biological Sciences | SC Research Foundation, Adelson Medical Research Foundation | $391,712 | Targeting Axon Intrinsic Pathways to Accelerate Regeneration and Promote Neuroprotection | SCRF |
| October 2022 | Susan Richardson, Chemistry | Clemson University, Department of the Interior, United States Geological Survey | $32,000 | Identifying PFAS Hotspots in Surface Waters of South Carolina Using a New Optimized Total Organic FluorineMethod | DOI, USGS |
| October 2022 | Natalia Shustova, Chemistry | US Department of Energy | $225,000 | Organometallic Catalysis from Molecular Catalysts Non-Covalently Confined in Metal-Organic Frameworks | DOE |
| October 2022 | Hans-Conrad zur-Loye, Chemistry | US Department of Energy, Rutgers University, Advanced Research Projects Agency–Energy | $165,000 | PIoneering A Cermet Waste Form For Disposal Of Waste Streams From Advanced Reactors (PACE-FORWARD) |
DOE, ARPA-E |
| October 2022 | Don Jordan, Center for Science Education | National Science Teachers Association, Department of Defense | $28,252 | USC 2023 Center for Science Education, Junior Science & Humanities Symposium (JSHS) | NSTA, DOD |
| October 2022 | Siming He, Mathematics | National Science Foundation | $123,611 | Topics in Mathematical Biology and Fluid Mechanics (Transferred Award) | NSF |
| October 2022 | Yuriy Pershin, Physics | University of California San Diego, National Science Foundation | $373,518 | RAISE: MemComputing: from software to hardware | NSF |
| October 2022 | Caitlin Hudac, Psychology | GRIN2B Foundation | $7,508 | Linking Brain and Behavior: A GRIN2B Biomarker | |
| September 2022 | Nathan Senner, Biological Sciences | Science Mission Directorate, NASA | $92,564 | Multi-Source Detection and Monitoring of Ephemeral Shorebird Habitats in an Agricultural Prairie System | |
| September 2022 | Kristy Welshhans, Biological Sciences | Whitehall Foundation, Inc. | $100,000 | Coordinated control of local translation mediates brain development | |
| September 2022 | Donna Chen, Chemistry | Department of Energy | $3,181,725 | Design of New Catalysts for the Generation of Clean H2 from Liquid Organic Hydrogen Carriers: Dehydrogenationof Methylcyclohexane on Bimetallic Catalysts | DOE |
| September 2022 | Morgan Stefik, Chemistry | Department of Energy | $850,000 | Understanding the Role of Defects to Accelerate Wadsley-Roth Niobates for Long-Duration Energy Storage | DOE |
| September 2022 | Susan Cutter, Geography | Society of Woman Geographers | $12,000 | Fellowship Agreement for Sarah L. Jackson | |
| September 2022 | Susan Cutter, Geography | NASA | $120,000 | Identification of Disadvantaged and Low-Capacity Communities Subject to Wildfire Risks | |
| September 2022 | Thomas Lekan, History | National Humanities Center | $40,000 | “Conservation by Slaughter”: Wildlife Utilization and the African Origins of Sustainable Development | |
| September 2022 | Michelle Brown, Psychology | National Institutes of Health, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development | $713,152 | Beneficial or Fostering Future struggles (B.F.F.s)? Characterizing the Role of Friends in the DevelopmentalTrajectory of Maltreated Adolescent | NIH, NICHD |
| September 2022 | Svetlana Shinkareva, Psychology | The REAM Foundation dba Misophonia Research Fund | $400,000 | An fMRI Investigation of Mental Imagery and Visual Correlates of Triggers in Misophonia | |
| September 2022 | Mark Weist, Psychology | University of Florida, Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute | $43,348 | Equity-Enhancements to Reduce Disproportionate Unmet Mental Health Need of African American Children | PCORI |
| September 2022 | Steven Smith, SC Institute of Archaeology and Anthropology | South Carolina Battleground Trust | $87,646 | Archaeological Recovery At Camden Battlefield | |
| August 2022 | John Fisher, SC Institute of Archaeology and Anthropology | SC Department of Parks, Recreation, and Tourism | $14,829 | Phase I Survey of a 20-acre Tract for the River Falls Access Area, Greenville County, South Carolina | |
| August 2022 | Zhengqing Fu, Biological Sciences | National Science Foundation | $574,446 | Coordination of Plant Growth and Defense Through Key Regulators in Salicylic Acid and BrassinosteroidPathways | NSF |
| August 2022 | Brian Hollis, Biological Sciences | National Science Foundation | $383,432 | Experimental speciation and the genomics of reinforcement in Drosophila | NSF |
| August 2022 | Qian Wang, Chemistry | National Science Foundation | $470,000 | MRI: Acquisition of the MALDI-MS rapifleX system as an analytical tool to support multidisciplinary research atUniversity of South Carolina | NSF |
| August 2022 | Susan Cutter, Geography | South Carolina Office of Resilience | $65,000 | Assessment of Resilience Best Practices and Metrics in support of State Resilience Planning Efforts | |
| August 2022 | Kirsten Dow, Geography | Richland County Conservation Commission | $6,250 | Heat Mapping in Richland County | |
| August 2022 | April Hiscox, Geography | Application Insight, LLC, U.S. Department of Agriculture | $23,053 | Radar-based Spray Drift Detection and Quantification System | USDA |
| August 2022 | Constance Shulz, History | National Historical Publications and Records Commission | $100,000 | The South Carolina Revolutionary Era Pinckney Papers Projects: Preserving the Digital Research Assets of Two Digital Documentary Editions - Final Year | NHPRC |
| August 2022 | Peter Binev, Mathematics | National Science Foundation | $49,500 | Foundations of Computational Mathematics Conference – FoCM 2023 | NSF |
| August 2022 | Yi Sun, Mathematics | National Science Foundation | $176,321 | Hybrid Kinetic Monte Carlo Methods with Applications in Biofabrication and Epidemics | NSF |
| August 2022 | Alexis Federico, Psychology | National Institutes of Health, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development | $125,721 | Infant Predictors of ADHD and ASD Symptomology | NICHD, NIH |
| August 2022 | Caitlin Hudac, Psychology | Simons Foundation | $15,000 | BioGENE Study at the Simons Searchlight 2022 Family Meeting | |
| August 2022 | May Quattlebaum, Psychology | National Institutes of Health | $116,256 | Integrating Family Resilience and Cultural Assets to Inform the LEADS Health Promotion Trial with AfricanAmerican Families | NIH |
| August 2022 | Mark Weist, Psychology | SC Department of Health and Human Services | $3,224,526 | Development and Implementation of a SC School Behavioral Health Academy | |
| August 2022 | David Fuente, School of the Earth, Ocean and Environment | National Science Foundation | $55,827 | Collaborative Research: NNA Research: Meq unguvatkarput (water is our livelihood) - building communityresilience for the future | NSF |
| August 2022 | Brian Habing, Statistics | National Institute of Statistical Sciences | $74,528 | IPA for NISS Associate Director for Education Activities and Research | |
| August 2022 | Stephanie Milling, Theatre and Dance | SC Arts Commission | $15,000 | Culturally Responsive Dance Pedagogy as a Vehicle for SEL and Responding to Learning Loss in DanceEducation | |
| July 2022 | Kimberly Simmons, Anthropology | National Park Service, U.S. Department of the Interior | $139,250 | Ethnographic Overview and Assessment of Charles Pinckney National Historic Site and
Fort Sumter and Fort Moultrie National Historical Park |
DOI |
| July 2022 | James Morris, Baruch Institute | Maryland Environmental Service | $59,689 | Model Evaluation of Poplar Island Responses to Rising Sea Level | |
| July 2022 | James Morris, Baruch Institute | National Science Foundation | $234,022 | Collaborative Research: Not all nitrogen is created equal: Quantifying the effects
of different nitrogen forms on marsh persistence |
NSF |
| July 2022 | Erik Smith, Baruch Institute | National Ocean Service, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce | $780,500 | North Inlet - Winyah Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve FY22 Operations Award | NOAA, DOC |
| July 2022 | Beth Krizek, Biological Sciences | National Science Foundation | $549,151 | Transcriptional control of growth regulatory modules by AIL transcription factors | NSF |
| July 2022 | Qian Wang, Chemistry | Integrated Micro-Chromatography Systems, Inc. | $16,320 | Synthesis of Starting Materials of Glycolipids and Gangliosides | |
| July 2022 | Christi Metcalfe, Criminology and Criminal Justice | North Carolina Office of Indigent Defense Services | $9,973 | The availability of indigent defense in North Carolina and its relationship with local
jail populations and pretrial case decisions |
|
| July 2022 | Jean Ellis, Geography | Slocum-Lunz | $1,200 | Topographic analysis of dunes along a managed coast | |
| July 2022 | April Hiscox, Geography | National Science Foundation | $273,725 | Collaborative Research: Understanding Interactions between Mesoscale and Microscale
Flows in the Stable Boundary Layer over Shallow Terrain |
NSF |
| July 2022 | Bobby Donaldson, History | National Park Service, Department of the Interior | $3,362,100 | Cooperative Agreement between the Department of the Interior/National Park Service
and the Center for Civil Rights History and Research: Programmatic Activities for the CRC |
NPS, DOI |
| July 2022 | Marty Matthews, History | National Historical Publications and Records Commission | $110,000 | The Papers of William Short: A Digital Selective Documentary Edition | NHPRC |
| July 2022 | Samuel Mcquillin, Psychology | The Duke Foundation | $580,000 | Strengthening and Expanding School Mental Health by Integrating Community Mentors
in School Problem Solving Teams |
|
| July 2022 | Jane Roberts, Psychology | National Institutes of Health, National Institute of Mental Health | $3,215,991 | Autonomic and Sensory Dysfunctions in FMR1 Conditions: Development, Mechanisms and Consequences | NIH, NIMH |
| July 2022 | Besim Dragovic, School of the Earth, Ocean and Environment | National Science Foundation | $137,781 | Collaborative Research: Rodingites as Recorders of Tectonic Processes from the Seafloor to Convergence: A case study of the Dun Mountain Ophiolite Belt |
NSF |
| July 2022 | Erin Meyer-Gutbrod, School of the Earth, Ocean and Environment | University of St. Andrews, Department of the Interior | $14,833 | Assessing Population Effects of Offshore Wind Development on North Atlantic Right Whales | DOI |
| June 2022 | Rekha Patel, Biological Sciences | Massachusetts General Hospital |
$110,000 | Investigating RNA- and RNA-binding protein mediated toxicity in iPSC-derived XDP cell culture models to potentially identify shared mechanisms with other dystonia types and neurodegenerative diseases. | |
| June 2022 | Rekha Patel, Biological Sciences | Department of Defense, U.S. Army Medical Research Acquisition Activity | $728,188 | Dysregulation of eIF2 alpha pathway in drug-induced dystonia (DID) and inherited dystonia 16 (DYT16): testingnovel therapeutic interventions. | DoD, USAMRAA |
| June 2022 | Tammi Richardson, Biological Sciences | Slocum-Lunz Foundation | $1,152 | (PI - Kristiaan Merritt) - Slocum-Lunz Foundation - The Colorful World of Cryptophyte Microalgae | |
| June 2022 | Daniel Speiser, Biological Sciences | Slocum-Lunz Foundation | $1,170 | (PI - Madison Janakis) - The role of polarized light in visual signaling in the blue crab, Callinectes sapidus | |
| June 2022 | Chuanbing Tang, Chemistry | American Chemical Society | $5,100 | 2022 ACS Project Seed at USC | |
| June 2022 | Qian Wang, Chemistry | Society for Community Research and Action | $15,000 | Synthesis effort to assist the commercialization of glycolipids and glycosphingosines | SCRA |
| June 2022 | Hans-Conrad zur Loye, Chemistry | National Science Foundation | $710,000 | New Fluoride and Oxyfluoride Materials – Targeting Magnetic and Optical Properties | NSF |
| June 2022 | Cuizhen Wang, Geography | College of Charleston, NASA Established Program to Stimulate Competitive Research | $34,963 | sUAS and 3D Marsh Modeling to Support NASA's New Satellite (SWOT) for Coastal Topography and MarshSustainability of South Carolina | NASA EPSCoR |
| June 2022 | Sayward Harrison, Psychology | United States Department of Health and Human Services, Health Resources and Services Administration | $1,350,000 | Supporting Substance Use Disorder Services in South Carolina (SSUDS-SC)—An Innovative Training Programfor Health Service Psychology Trainees | HHS, HRSA |
| June 2022 | Albert Goodyear, SC Institute of Archaeology and Anthropology | Felburn Foundation | $29,000 | Continuation of Analysis and Curation of the Topper Site Artifacts | |
| June 2022 | Claudia Benitez-Nelson, School of the Earth, Ocean and Environment | National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce | $120,000 | Davidson Fellowship (Gwen Harper) Spatial and Temporal Variability in Dissolved Organic Matter Sources,Composition and Sinks within the Winyah Bay Watershed | NOAA, DOC |
| June 2022 | Claudia Benitez-Nelson, School of the Earth, Ocean and Environment | National Science Foundation | $280,509 | Collaborative Research: Three decades of foraminiferal assemblages in the Santa Barbara Basin provide a linkbetween present and past climates | NSF |
| June 2022 | Peter Duffy, Theatre and Dance | SC Arts Commission | $10,064 | SC Arts Commission Special Project: Arts Grow SC | |
| May 2022 | Dustin Whitehead, Theatre and Dance | SC Film Commission - SC Department of Parks Recreation and Tourism | $100,000 | South Carolina Film Training Partnership | |
| May 2022 | Jie Li, Chemistry | American Society of Pharmacognosy | $5,000 | American Society of Pharmacognosy Starter Grant | |
| May 2022 | Linda Shimizu, Chemistry | National Science Foundation | $470,150 | Functional nanotubes from self-assembling bis-urea macrocycles | NSF |
| May 2022 | Chuanbing Tang, Chemistry | National Science Foundation | $395,000 | Collaborative Research: Mechanochemistry of Metallocenes | NSF |
| May 2022 | Hui Wang, Chemistry | National Science Foundation | $487,098 | Ligand Dynamics and Chemistry on Locally Curved Metallic Nanoparticle Surfaces | NSF |
| May 2022 | Varsha Kulkarni, Physics | College of Charleston, SC Space Grant, NASA | $16,000 | Unraveling the Structure and Star Formation History of Polar Ring Galaxies | |
| May 2022 | Kirstin Dow, Geography | National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce | $450,000 | Addressing geographical and social diversity in heat-health messaging | NOAA, DOC |
| May 2022 | Zhenlong Li, Geography | National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, SC Sea Grant | $34,993 | Creating a GIS-Based Siting Tool for Mariculture Site Selection | NOAA |
| May 2022 | Mariah Kornbluh, Psychology | Queen's University of Belfast/World Templeton Charity Foundation | $6,533 | Truth: Empowering flourishing through epistemic vigilance | |
| April 2022 | Daniel Speiser, Biological Sciences | Air Force Research Laboratory | $33,241 | Efficient visual processing by molluscs with distributed sensor arrays and less-centralized nervous systems | |
| April 2022 | Dmitry Peryshkov, Chemistry | National Science Foundation | $456,907 | Redox-Active Carborane Clusters for Metal-Free Bond Activation | NSF |
| April 2022 | Christopher Tollefsen, Philosophy | George Mason University | $7,000 | Academic Freedom on Campus Lecture Series | |
| April 2022 | Kristen McLaurin, Psychology | National Institute on Drug Abuse, National Institutes of Health | $262,289 | Neurocognitive Impairments Resulting from Adolescent Prescription Opioid Use Disorder: Longitudinal Impact, Neural Mechanisms, and Comorbidities | NIDA, NIH |
| April 2022 | Chester DePratter, SC Institute of Archaeology and Anthropology | U.S. Marine Corps, Department of Defense | $9,889 | Identification and Labeling of Charlesfort/Santa Elena Slides and Photos | DoD |
| April 2022 | Subrahmanyam Bulusu, School of the Earth, Ocean and Environment | Florida State University, National Academy of Sciences | $400,000 | Advancing Gulf of Mexico Operational Forecasting with Application to Fisheries, Industry Safety, and Natural Hazards (GOFFISH) | NAS |
| April 2022 | Dean Hardy, School of the Earth, Ocean and Environment | Sapelo Island National Estuarine Research Reserve, State of Georgia | $17,959 | An Assessment of the Ditches and Water Levels in Hog Hammock on Sapelo Island. | NERR |
| March 2022 | Berten Ely, Biological Sciences | National Institute of General Medical Sciences | $1,740,170 | USC Postbaccalaureate Research Education Program | NIGMS |
| March 2022 | Sofia Lizarraga, Biological Sciences | National Institute of Mental Health | $3,542,521 | ASH1L mediated transcription networks in autism spectrum disorders | NIMH |
| March 2022 | Deanna Smith, Biological Science | National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, National Institutes of Health | $398,798 | Deciphering the cellular roles of LIS1 in the mature nervous system | NINDS, NIH |
| March 2022 | Christopher Sutton, Chemistry | University of Colorado, Department of Energy | $255,565 | Accelerated Selection of Optimal Perovskite Alloys for Solar PV using a Combined Quantum andMachine Learning Hierarchical Approach | DOE |
| March 2022 | Susan Cutter, Geography | UCLA, National Science Foundation | $5,000 | Planning Grant: Engineering Research Center for Wildfire Hazard Resilience and Risk Engineering(WiRE) | NSF |
| March 2022 | Christopher Tollefsen, Philosophy | George Mason University | $7,000 | Academic Freedom on Campus Lecture Series | |
| March 2022 | Meeta Banerjee, Psychology | Society for Community Research and Action, American Psychological Association | $2,500 | Society for Community Research and Action (SCRA, Division 27) Award for research and work in Flint,Michigan | SCRA, APA |
| March 2022 | Guillermo Wippold, Psychology | Society for Community Research and Action, American Psychological Association | $2,500 | SCRA Research Scholar 2021 Program | SCRA, APA |
| March 2022 | John Fisher, SC Institute of Archaeology and Anthropology | Vestry of Saint James' Parish Church | $55,042 | Proposal for work at the St. James Parish in Goose Creek, SC for expansion of the National Register ofHistoric Places site boundaries | |
| March 2022 | Steven Smith, SC Institute of Archaeology and Anthropology | The Chickasaw Nation | $4,945 | Archaeological Survey, Blackland Prairie FY2022 | |
| February 2022 | William Strosnider, Baruch Institute | National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, SC Sea Grant | $135,802 | Guiding successful applications of floating treatment wetlands in brackish coastal ponds | NOAA |
| February 2022 | Tad Dallas, Biology | National Science Foundation | $274,542 | MSA: Understanding spatial patterns of abundance and occupancy in terms of taxa, traits, and space | NSF |
| February 2022 | Katie Kathrein, Biology | National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, National Institutes of Health | $212,422 | Ing4-deficiency enhances the regenerative capacity of multipotent progenitor cells | NIDDK, NIH |
| February 2022 | Annie Bourbonnais, School of the Earth, Ocean and Environment | National Science Foundation | $37,467 | Collaborative Research: A Novel Carbon Nanotube Based Phosphate Sensor Using Potentiometric Principles for Oceanographic Use | NSF |
| February 2022 | Erin Meyer-Gutbrod, School of the Earth, Ocean and Environment | South Carolina Research Foundation, Tides Foundation | $124,947 | Detecting vocalizations of endangered North Atlantic right whales along the winter migration corridor | SCRF |
| February 2022 | George Voulgaris, School of the Earth, Ocean and Environment | National Science Foundation | $867,987 | Collaborative Research: Dynamics of Cross-Shelf Plumes under Upwelling Wind Conditions | NSF |
| February 2022 | Alicia Wilson, School of the Earth, Ocean and Environment | National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, SC Sea Grant | $158,346 | Studying How Things Fall Apart: Exploring Municipal Services System Failures to Help Develop Science-Based Decision-Points in South Carolina Coastal Communities | NOAA |
| January 2022 | Andrea Henderson-Platt, Sociology | University of Michigan, National Institutes of Health | $89,115 | Structural Racism and Adverse Birth Outcomes in the U.S. South: A Multigenerational Perspective | NIH |
| January 2022 | Geoffrey Alpert, Criminology and Criminal Justice | Clemson University, Office of Justice Programs, Department of Justice | $65,650 | An Evaluation of De-Escalation Training to Understand the Links between Training and Outcomes | OJP, DOJ |
| January 2022 | Caryn Outten, Chemistry | National Institutes of Health, National Institute of General Medical Sciences | $1,925,290 | Mechanisms of Fungal Iron Regulation and Thiol Redox Metabolism | NIH, NIGMS |
| December 2021 | Sharon DeWitte, Anthropology |
Texas A&M University Health Sciences Center, National Science Foundation | $28,071 | Paleoepidemiological and ancient DNA study of a potential epidemic site | NSF |
| December 2021 | James Spirek, SC Institute of Archaeology and Anthropology |
South Carolina Department of Archives and History | $250,000 | A New Andalucía: Surveying for the Flagship of Lucas Vázquez de Ayllón in South Carolina | SCDAH |
| December 2021 | John Kupfer, Geography |
North Carolina State University, Southeast Climate Adaptation Science Center, United States Geological Survey, Department of the Interior | $60,437 | Managing Fire in Longleaf Pine Ecosystems: Current Constraints and the Longer-Term Challenges of Landscape Transformation and Anthropogenic Climate Change | SECASC, USGS, DOI |
| December 2021 | Scott Decker, Psychology |
The Woodcock Institute | $15,000 | Predicting at-risk reading outcomes in multi-tiered models using diagnostic cognitive and neuro-cognitive tests | |
| December 2021 | Scott Decker, Psychology |
The Woodcock Institute | $15,000 | Integrating Instructional and Diagnostic Testing in Multi-tiered Models to Identify Children with Dyslexia Using a Neuropsychological Approach | |
| December 2021 | Elizabeth Will, Psychology | The Woodcock Institute | $49,592 | A Longitudinal Outcome Study of the Symptom Progression and Diagnostic Stability of Autism in Children with Down syndrome | |
| November 2021 | Magda Stawkowski, Anthropology |
Wenner-Grenn Foundation | $40,000 |
Hunt Postdoctoral Fellowship: Mutant Encounters: Radioactive Life on the Semipalatinsk
Nuclear Test
Site in Kazakhstan
|
|
| November 2021 | Jeffry Dudycha, Biological Sciences |
Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation | $453,739 | Resource development for the Daphnia dentifera - Metschnikowia bicuspidata host-symbiont system. | |
| November 2021 | Christi Metcalfe, Criminology and Criminal Justice |
National Institute of Justice, Department of Justice | $357,234 |
Court Decision-Making in Domestic Violence Cases: An Analysis of the Case Processing
Pipeline in
South Carolina
|
NIJ, DOJ |
| November 2021 | Adam King, SC Institute of Archaeology and Anthropology |
South Carolina Department of Natural Resources | $11,000 | Archaeological Survey and Testing at Spanish Mount Site (38CH62) | SCDNR |
| November 2021 | Joshua Tebbs, Statistics |
University of Nebraska, National Institutes of Health | $370,720 | Group testing for infectious disease detection | NIH |
| October 2021 | Robert Dunn, Baruch Institute |
The Regents of the University of Michigan, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce | $599,959 | Integrating climate change effects into ecosystem-based fisheries management: Penaeid shrimp in the southeast US | NOAA, DOC |
| October 2021 | Fabienne Poulain, Biological Sciences |
National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, National Institutes of Health | $407,545 | Beyond ephrins: unbiased discovery of novel signaling pathways regulating topographic map formation and maturation in vivo | NINDS, NIH |
| October 2021 | Jeffery Twiss, Biological Sciences |
East Carolina University, National Institute of General Medical Sciences, National Institutes of Health | $683,450 | Homeostatic Reset as a New Therapeutic Paradigm for Slow Progression Diseases | NIGMS, NIH |
| October 2021 | Christopher Sutton, Chemistry |
Rennselear Polytechnic Institute, Department of Energy | $376,000 | Beyond-DFT Electrochemistry with Accelerated and Solvated Techniques (BEAST) | DOE |
| October 2021 | Donald Jordan, Center for Science Education |
National Science Teachers Association, Department of Defense | $28,252 | USC Junior Science & Humanities Symposium (JSHS) | DOD |
| October 2021 | Mathew Boylan, Mathematics |
National Security Agency | $15,029 | Number Theory Meetings in the Southeast | NSA |
| October 2021 | Christian Cicimurri, McKissick Museum |
National Endowment for the Humanities | $9,993 | NEH Preservation Assistance Grants for Smaller Institutions to Purchase Materials and Supplies for the Long-Term Care of Folklife Collections at McKissick Museum | |
| October 2021 | Jane Przybysz, McKissick Museum |
South Carolina Association of Counties Folklife Partnership Renewal Grant | $66,033 | SCAC Folklife Partnership Renewal Grant | |
| October 2021 | Jane Przybysz, McKissick Museum |
Lee County, American Rescue Plan Act, Department of Transportation | $14,550 | Pearl Fryar Topiary Garden Capital Investment | ARPA, DOT |
| October 2021 | Mark Weist, Psychology | East Carolina University, Institute of Educational Sciences, United States Department of Education | $1,756,552 | Improving Social, Emotional, Behavioral, and Academic Functioning of Elementary School Students through the Interconnected Systems Framework | IES, USDE |
| October 2021 | Annie Bourbonnaise, School of the Earth, Ocean and Environment |
South Carolina Sea Grant, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration | $156,359 | Evaluating nitrogen removal strategies to improve stormwater management practices in coastal South Carolina | NOAA |
| September 2021 | Jennifer Plunket, Baruch Institute |
National Ocean Service, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration | $68,970 | North Inlet - Winyah Bay NERR: Climate Vulnerability Web Application Development | NOAA |
| September 2021 | Bert Ely, Center for Science Education |
South Carolina Sea Grant Consortium, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration | $8,380 | Get Hurricane Smart: Centering Youth as Ambassadors of Community Hurricane Resilience | NOAA |
| September 2021 | Donna Chen, Chemistry |
Department of Energy | $219,276 | Multimetallic Metal-Organic Frameworks as Tunable, Multifunctional Catalysts for Gas-Phase Hydroformylation and Hydrogenation Reactions | DOE |
| September 2021 |
Natlia Shustova, |
Boston College, Department of Energy | $66,327 | Organometallic Catalysis form Molecular Catalysts Non-Covalently Confined in Metal-Organic Frameworks | DOE |
| September 2021 | Bobby Donaldson, Center for Civil Rights |
National Park Service, Department of the Interior | $500,000 | National Park Service: African American Civil Rights Grant Opportunity | NPS, DOI |
| September 2021 | Lili Ju, Mathematics |
Department of Energy | $300,000 | Reliable and Efficient Machine Learning for Leadership Facility Scientific Data Analytics | DOE |
| September 2021 | Lana Burgess, McKissick Museum |
South Carolina Humanities, National Endowment for the Humanities | $2,000 | The Changing Cultural Climate in Museums | NEH |
| September 2021 | Yordanka Ilieva, Physics |
National Science Foundation | $1,350,000 | NSF-BSF: The Study of Nuclear Physics with Intermediate Energy Probes | NSF |
| September 2021 | Mark Weist, Psychology | South Carolina Department of Mental Health | $35,476 | John H. Magill School Mental Health Certificate Program | |
| September 2021 | Michael Bizimis, School of the Earth, Ocean and Environment |
United States Geological Survey, Department of the Interior | $31,340 | Nd, Hf, Sr isotope Analyses USGS (RFQ 140G0321Q0178) | DOI |
| September 2021 |
Yen-Yl Ho, |
National Institutes of Health | $360,498 | scDECO: A novel statistical framework to systematically identify differential co-expression gene combinations using single-cell RNA sequencing data | NIH |
| September 2021 | Dewei Wang, Statistics |
University of Louisville Research Foundation, National Institute on Aging, National Institutes of Health | $98,351 | Global significance test based on quantile regression with applications to genomic studies of Alzheimer's disease | NIA, NIH |
| August 2021 | Sharon DeWitte, Anthropology |
National Science Foundation | $22,753 | Doctoral Dissertation Research: Histories of Stress: A Life Course Approach to Population Health in Medieval Berlin | NSF |
| August 2021 | Sharon DeWitte, Anthropology |
National Science Foundation | $25,194 | Doctoral Dissertation Research: Sex Differentials in Frailty in Medieval Ireland | NSF |
| August 2021 | Nathan Senner, Biological Sciences |
National Science Foundation | $349,864 | Climate change, community dynamics, and long-distance migratory birds | NSF |
| August 2021 | Bobby Donaldson, Center for Civil Rights |
USC Educational Foundation, Central Carolina Community Foundation | $24,458 | A Community Engagement Strategy for Justice for All: South Carolina and the American Civil Rights Movement (3rd Party Match for U00029760) | CCCF |
| August 2021 | Stephen Dilworth, Mathematics |
Simons Foundation | $42,000 | Banach Spaces and Applications | |
| August 2021 | Frank Thorne, Mathematics |
National Science Foundation | $191,555 | Quantitative Methods in Arithmetic Statistics | NSF |
| August 2021 | Kimberly Becker, Psychology |
Society for Community Research and Action, William T. Grant Foundation | $60,000 | Mentoring Grant_2021_Becker and Chu | SCRA |
| August 2021 |
Wendy Chu, |
American Psychological Association | $2,411 | Collective Trauma Requires Collective Healing: Understanding How Asian Americans Respond to Anti-Asian Racism Using a Racial Healing Framework | APA |
| August 2021 | Elizabeth Will, Psychology |
National Institutes of Health, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development | $291,072 | Early Developmental Determinants and Pathways in Down syndrome | NIH, NICHD |
| August 2021 |
James Spirek, |
The Hunley Commission | $50,000 | USS Housatonic Investigation Project | |
| August 2021 | Claudia Benitez-Nelson, School of the Earth, Ocean and Environment |
National Science Foundation | $140,467 | Collaborative Research: US GEOTRACES GP17-OCE and GP17-ANT: Export and remineralization rates of bioactive and particle reactive trace elements using thorium-234 | NSF |
| August 2021 | George Voulgaris, School of the Earth, Ocean and Environment |
Southeast Coastal Ocean Observing Regional Association, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration | $550,000 | SECOORA - Partnering to meet the needs of coastal communities for actionable information to protect lives and property: SC HF Radar | SECOORA, NOAA |
| July 2021 | Joseph Quattro, Biological Sciences |
National Park Service | $99,505 | Soil Macrofauna Inventory at Congaree National Park With an Emphasis on Synchronous-Flashing Fireflies | NPS |
| July 2021 | Jeffery Twiss, Biological Sciences |
Clemson University, South Carolina Established Program to Stimulate Competitive Research | $18,000 | Stimuli-responsive polymers to modulate peptide efficacy in axon regeneration | SC EPSCoR |
| July 2021 | Jeffery Twiss, Biological Sciences |
Craig H. Nielsen Foundation | $600,000 | Axonal Stress Granules in Spinal Cord Injury | |
| July 2021 | Carolyn Wessinger, Biological Sciences |
National Institutes of Health, National Institute of General Medical Sciences | $1,840,840 | Quantitative genetics and population genomics of repeated complex trait evolution | NIH, NIGMS |
| July 2021 |
Susan Richardson, |
National Science Foundation | $150,000 | Collaborative Proposal: Treatment of Cyanotoxins by UV/Chlorine: Optimizing Removal While Developing Strategies to Minimize Disinfection Byproducts and Toxicity | NSF |
| July 2021 | Hui Wang, Chemistry |
Petroleum Research Fund, American Chemical Society | $110,000 | Pathway Switch of Catalytic Hydrogenation Reactions on Sub-5 nm Platinum Nanocatalysts | ACS |
| July 2021 | Elaine Chun, English Language and Literature |
National Science Foundation | $9,216 | Doctoral Dissertation Research: Language Ideologies and Activism in Transgender Communities in the U.S South - Archie Crowley | NSF |
| July 2021 | Kirsten Lackstrom, Geology |
University Corporation for Atmospheric Research, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration | $18,455 | Drought Planning in the Southeast United States: An Assessment of State Approaches, Planning Needs and Gaps, and Opportunities for the Southeast Drought Early Warning System | NOAA |
| July 2021 | Constance Shulz, History |
National Historical Publications and Records Commission | $110,000 | Papers of the Revolutionary Era Pinckney Statesmen - FINAL NHPRC proposal | NHPRC |
| July 2021 | Linyuan Lu, Mathematics |
National Science Foundation | $1,530,973 | RTG: Mathematical Foundation of Data Science at University of South Carolina | NSF |
| July 2021 | Jane Przybysz, McKissick Museum |
Central Carolina Community Foundation | $37,263 | Pearl Fryar's Topiary Garden | CCCF |
| July 2021 | Jessica Bradshaw, Psychology |
James S. McDonnell Foundation | $250,000 | Embodied Infant Experience and Neurodevelopmental Disorders | |
| July 2021 | Courtnie Smith, Psychology |
South Carolina Research Foundation, BlueCross BlueShield Foundation | $382,295 | South Carolina School Mental Health Internship and Educational Program | |
| July 2021 | Besim Dragovic, School of the Earth, Ocean and Environment |
National Science Foundation | $314,922 | Collaborative Research: Developing crystal clocks in metamorphic rocks: Using lithium in subduction zone garnets to decipher fluid release timescales | NSF |