May 18, 2020 | Erin Bluvas, bluvase@sc.edu
Faculty members from across the Arnold School received funding through the Office of the Vice President for Research’s Advanced Support for Innovative Research Excellence (ASPIRE) program. The internal, competitive program has invested $18.2 million in faculty projects over the past eight years, yielding a return of about $189.6 million. This year, the program received 173 proposals from UofSC faculty researchers, awarding grants to 80 of the proposals after evaluation by faculty review committees.
ASPIRE awards are designed to enhance UofSC’s research capabilities. They do so by investing in faculty by helping them begin promising new research endeavors for later external funding (ASPIRE I: Innovation), build up a collaborative, interdisciplinary research project (ASPIRE II: Integration), and/or invest in the University’s research infrastructure (ASPIRE III: Infrastructure).
“It is amazing to see the innovation of our faculty researchers in the ASPIRE proposals each year,” said USC Vice President for Research, Prakash Nagarkatti. “These deserving researchers will maximize this investment by developing new lines of research, building scholarly collaborations across disciplines and bringing new equipment to campus that current and future researchers will use to generate their own discoveries.”
The 2020 ASPIRE recipients include the following Arnold School faculty members:
2020 ASPIRE-I: Innovation Recipients
Sub-track I, junior faculty development
|
Principal Investigator |
Title |
Department |
| Behroozmand, Roozbeh | Effect of Visual Feedback Training on Speech Production in Aphasia | Communication Sciences and Disorders |
| Monroe, Courtney | Evaluating Columbia Moves 2.0: A social network approach using team autonomy social support training and technology to increase physical activity | Health Promotion, Education, and Behavior |
| Natafgi, Nabil | What Factors Influence Whether a Payer/Insurer Reimburses for Telehealth Services or Not? A qualitative exploratory study | Health Services Policy and Management |
| Vejerano, Eric Warren | Atmospheric Reactions of Harmful Algal Bloom Toxins Contained in Aerosols | Environmental Health Sciences |
| Xiao, Feifei | A Novel Statistical Algorithm for Copy Number Variation Detection with Application to Lung Cancer | Epidemiology and Biostatistics |
| Yang, Chih-Hsiang | Investigating the Influences of Mindfulness and Physical Activity on Cognitive Aging and Well-Being: An experience sampling study | Exercise Science |
Sub-track IIA, research faculty development
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Principal Investigator |
Title |
Department |
|
Flach, Alicia |
Capturing Physical Activity, Symptom Presence and Severity in People with Parkinson's Disease in Real-Time: A pilot study |
Exercise Science |
Sub-track IIB, Postdoctoral Scholar Development
|
Principal Investigator |
Title |
Department |
|
Butowicz, Courtney |
Linking Cortical Sensorimotor Adaptations to Impaired Movement Control in Lower Limb Amputees |
Exercise Science |
|
Nkwonta, Chigozie |
Impact of HIV Stigma on HIV Treatment Cascade: A qualitative study of challenges and needs of women living with HIV |
Health Promotion, Education, and Behavior |
|
Tam, Cheuk |
Prescription Opioid Misuse and its Related Psychosocial Factors Among People Living with HIV |
Health Promotion, Education, and Behavior |
Sub-track IV, Senior Faculty Exploration
|
Principal Investigator |
Title |
Department |
|
Geraci, Marco |
Bivariate Circular Regression for Longitudinal Data Analysis with an Application to Children's Sleep Studies |
Epidemiology and Biostatistics |
|
Kaczynski, Andrew |
Baseline Evaluation of a Major Park Renovation Natural Experiment to Improve Diverse Health Outcomes in Columbia, SC |
Health Promotion, Education, and Behavior |
|
Moore, Douglas |
The ACEs Policy Simulator: An agent-based modeling approach to evaluating policy effects on adverse childhood experiences |
Health Promotion, Education, and Behavior |