USC Aiken Faculty Earn Research Awards
Aiken, SC (04/01/2020) — Several University of South Carolina Aiken faculty earned RISE awards, presented by the vice president for research on the Columbia campus.
"I am extremely proud of these faculty members who are conducting exciting research on our campus," said Dr. Chad Leverette, director of sponsored research.
The RISE program provides summer support for faculty in all disciplines who engage in a wide variety of research and scholarship activities. RISE employs a competitive application process to provide funds for summer salary, research supplies, travel related to research, and undergraduate student support to bolster scholarship throughout the USC system.
2020 USC Aiken Rise Recipients:
Dr. Nicholas Marshall of the Chemistry and Physics Department
- Development of an initiator for the surface-initiated Kumada polymerization reaction (SI-KCTP)
Dr. Kristina Ramstad of the Biology and Geology Department
- Leveraging bioinformatics for increased power in genomic analyses of American wood storks (Mycteria americana)
Dr. Gerard Rowe of the Chemistry and Physics Department
- Computational Studies of the CO2 Reactivity of a Series of Copper(I) Pyridylamidate Complexes
Dr. Adam Pazda of the Psychology Department
- Exploring how the chroma and lightness content of visual imagery relates to emotions
