May 5, 2021 | Erin Bluvas, bluvase@sc.edu
Faculty and postdoctoral scholars 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 is now in its 10th year of annual funding. This year, the program received 170 proposals from UofSC faculty researchers, awarding grants to 102 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 always a great day when we can support our outstanding faculty and postdocs and provide the funding they need to take their research to the next level," said USC Vice President for Research, Prakash Nagarkatti. "By investing in these meritorious 2021 ASPIRE projects, we are investing in the future of research at the University of South Carolina. Congratulations to all of the 2021 ASPIRE grant recipients.”
The 2021 ASPIRE recipients include the following Arnold School faculty members:
2021 ASPIRE-I: Innovation Recipients
Sub-track I, junior faculty development
|
Principal Investigator |
Title |
Department |
| Ciaran Fairman | Feasibility of a hybrid delivery of home-based resistance exercise training in lung cancer patients | Exercise Science |
| Leila Larson | Integrated psychosocial, nutritional, and health intervention to improve early child development in Liberia | Health Promotion, Education, and Behavior |
| Melissa Nolan | Canine Tick-Borne Disease in South Carolina: Filling in the One Health Knowledge Gap | Epidemiology and Biostatistics |
| Shan Qiao | Mental health of people living with HIV in COVID-19 pandemic: lived experience through a triangulation approach | Health Promotion, Education, and Behavior |
Sub-track IIA, research faculty development
|
Principal Investigator |
Title |
Department |
|
Edena Guimaraes |
Assess if Latinx individuals in South Carolina will get the COVID-19 vaccine |
Health Promotion, Education, and Behavior |
Sub-track IIB, postdoctoral scholar development
|
Principal Investigator |
Title |
Department |
|
Oluwafemi Adeagbo |
Assessing the Needs, Barriers and Facilitators of Implementing Telehealth Interventions for HIV Care and Prevention for Men Who Have Sex with Men in South Carolina |
Health Promotion, Education, and Behavior |
|
John Bernhart |
NEW Soul for Families: Developing a Healthy Eating Soul Food Program for the Family in Partnership with EdVenture Children's Museum |
Prevention Research Center |
|
Jessica Chan |
There is no place like home: Investigating the relationship between home environment and academic outcomes in children with and without language or reading impairments |
Communication Sciences and Disorders |
|
Christina Chauvenet |
Understanding Decline in Participation in the Special Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) in South Carolina |
Health Promotion, Education, and Behavior |
| Yoo Jin Cho | Package warning labels communicating relative risks of tobacco products: reducing disparities in smoking among disadvantaged populations in the US | Health Promotion, Education, and Behavior |
| Laura Friedman | Adults with Fragile X Syndrome and Autism Spectrum Disorder: Language, Outcomes, and the Interface with Maternal Phenotypes | Communication Sciences and Disorders |
| Brdiget McFadden | REVISED ASPIRE I TRACK IIb PROPOSAL: An Examination of Inter-limb Functional Asymmetry after a Fatiguing Bout of Exercise in High-Level Soccer Players | Exercise Science |
Sub-track IV, senior faculty exploration
|
Principal Investigator |
Title |
Department |
|
Xuewen Wang |
Association between Sleep Assessed by Ambulatory Polysomnography and Chronic Low Back Pain |
Exercise Science |
2021 ASPIRE-II: Integration recipients
|
Principal Investigator |
Title |
Department |
|
Susan Steck, Jan Eberth |
Racial and Rural Disparities among Early-onset Breast Cancer Survivors |
Epidemiology and Biostatistics |