| Faculty/Staff | Project | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| Fernanda Burke | Relationship of Fatty Acid Structure and Soap Properties: Inquriry Based Lab Experiment for Undergraduate Chemistry. | $10,455 |
| Chris Judge | Research and Writing a Chapter for the Oxford Handbook of Mississippian Archaeology. | $9,127 |
| Patrick Lawrence | "A Peculiar Moral Fitness": Moralist Nationalism, the ACS, and Native American Removal | $9,223 |
| Kim Richardson | The Steel Pen Revolution | $4,136 |
| David Roberts | The Cynical Therapeutic | $9,833 |
| Total: | $42,774 | |
| Mini Grant Cycle | ||
| Amy Gerald | The Black Grimkés in Charleston: Building Public Memory from the Trauma of Slavery | $1,926 |
| Evan Nooe | Investigating Representations of Florida History, Tourism, and Public Memory | $1,985 |
| Kim Richardson | The Steel Pen Revolution | $993 |
| Total: | $4,904 |
| Faculty/Staff | Project | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| Sahar Agahasafari | “Multimedia Arts Learning: Connecting STEAM among Special Education Students” | $9,378.80 |
| Elizabeth Easley | “Comparison of Fitness Measures and Physical Activity Levels in NJCAA Female Athletes between Their Competitive Season and Their Off-Season” | $7,491.00 |
| Amy Gerald | “The Black Grimkés in Charleston: Building Public Memory of Black Descendants of White Planters” | $9,303.00 |
| Peter Seipel | “What Do We Owe the Global Poor?” | $7,539.00 |
| Sarah Sellhorst | “Production of a Peer-Reviewed Manuscript about Faculty Perceptions on Undergraduate Research at a Predominantly 2-Year Campus” | $7,198.00 |
| Nahid Swails | “Magnetic Field-Assisted Laser Welding: Towards Reliable and Sustainable Joining Process for Shape Memory Alloys” | $3,372.50 |
| Total: | $44,282.30 |
| Faculty/Staff | Project | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| Marybeth Berry | The Deconstruction of Athol Fugards "The Island" | $7,664 |
| Courtney Catledge | Evaluation of a one dose Hepatitis B booster in meeting immunity requirements for BSN students | $10,708 |
| Kate Holland | Assessing the Impact of the Pandemic Induced by the Spread of the Coronavirus on Academic Success, Daily Habits, and Overall Mental Health in College Undergraduates | $5,085 |
| Jason Holt | Spectral Bifurcations of the One-Dimensional Schrodinger Operators with Slowly Decaying Sparse Potentials | $6,123 |
| Patrick Lawrence | Obscenity and Comics: Exploration of Key Themes and New Perspectives | $6,650 |
| Brittany Taylor - Driggers | Adaptable Art Studio Spaces at Universities in SC | $3,770 |
| Faculty/Staff | Project | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| Adam Biggs | Strange Cures: Book Proposal | $8,258 |
| Elizabeth Easley and Sarah Sellhorst | Incorporating a Research-Based Curriculum into the Biology 243 and 244 Laboratory
Sequence |
$15,908 |
| Peter Seipel | Should We Be Effective Altruists? | $6,191 |
| Nahid Swails | A Novel Approach for Designing Microstructure of Structural Materials with Improved Mechanical Properties | $4,458 |
| Jerrod Yarosh | Exploring Perceptions of Racial Bias in Pro-Environmental Behaviors | $3,430 |
| Faculty/Staff | Project | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| Kate Holland | Examining Changes in Systolic and Diastolic Blood Pressure and Performance on a Verbal Fluency Task as a Function of Anger Expression Style | $6, 253 |
| Jason Holt | On the Spectrum of the One-Dimensional Schrodinger Operator with Sparse Delta Function Potentials | $5,942 |
| Dana Lawrence | Romeo and Juliet Tourism in Verona | $3,462 |
| Patrick Lawrence | "Obscene Gestures: Counter - Narratives of Sex and Race in the Twentieth Century" | $8, 821 |
| David Roberts | Individuation Gone Awry: Cynicism and the Therapeutic | $9, 464 |
| Faculty/Staff | Project | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| Brooke Bauer and Brittany Taylor-Driggers | The Ripple Effect of Historical and Curatorial Research in Public Spaces | $5,090.00 |
| Steven J. Campbell | Predicting Leaders’ Decisions during International Crises: The Utility of Poliheuristic Theory | $5,432.00 |
| Stephen Criswell | SC Native American Documentation Fieldwork: Pee Dee, Edisto, Santee | $3,464.00 |
| Elizabeth Easley | Faculty Perceptions Regarding Undergraduate Research at Predominantly 2-year Campuses | $4,835.94 |
| Christopher Judge | Radiometric Dating of Archaeological Features Containing Triangular Arrowheads from the Johannes Kolb Site | $1,900.00 |
| Kaetrena Davis Kendrick | Continuing Studies on Low Morale in the North American Workplace | $4,200.00 |
| Peter Seipel | Segregation at American Airports | $8,799.00 |
| Faculty/Staff | Project | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| Li Cai | Immuno - Targeting of Cancer Cells with Human Natural Antibodies | $6,125 |
| Susan Cruise | Factors of Risk Status and Persistence of Undergraduate Students at the University of South Carolina Lancaster | $4,845 |
| Fran Gardner | Book in Progress Working Title: Bravery, Ritual, and Practice: Elements of a Creative Life | $4,329 |
| Kate Holland | Examination of the Influence of Trait Rumination on Spatial Ability Under High and Low Arousal Conditions | $5,855 |
| Patrick Lawrence | Counter - Narratives of Sex and Race in the 1970s | $6,159 |
| Kim Richardson | The Church in Newly Independent Brazil | $1,984 |
| David Roberts | Cynicism within Culture and Education | $5,266 |
| Sarah Hunt Sellhorst | Visceral Adipose Tissue in College Students Manuscript | $5,437 |
| Faculty/Staff | Project | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| Brooke Bauer | An Enduring People: Catawba Women and Education |
$3,957.13 |
| Adam Biggs | The Newest Negroes: Revisions | $3,736.79 |
| Stephen Criswell | South Carolina Native American Documentation Fieldwork Project | $5,953.85 |
| Elizabeth Easley | The influence of physical activity and exercise motivation, benefits, and barriers on body composition in college students at a rural, Southern university | $4,166.91 |
| Chris Judge | A Pilot Study to Evaluate the Research Potential of a Large Collection of Prehistoric Native American Artifacts Recently Donated to USCL’s Native American Studies Center | $3,868.67 |
| Howard Kingkade | Short Film Project | $7,079.36 |
| Bettie Obi- Johnson and Annette Golonka | Identification of Unknown Compounds in the Floral Scent of Gelsemium sempervirens | $10,437.30 |
| Todd Scarlett | Foraging movements of Great Blue Herons (Ardea herodias) determined by satellite tracking | $800.00 |
| Faculty/Staff | Project | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| Marybeth Berry | "Bea & Me”: A Solo Performance | $3,369 |
| Dr. Mike Bonner | Indexing Fees | $2,037 |
| Brent Burgin | An Epistolary Review of Catawba Indian Letters to the Governor | $2,653 |
| Dr. Steven Campbell | Games Advisers Play: Political Manipulation of Foreign Policy in the Carter Administration | $4,537 |
| Dr. Susan Cruise | Barriers in higher education for young adults who have aged out of the foster care system | $4,316 |
| Dr. Kate Holland | Extending the Capacity Model to Include High and Low Levels of Trait Anxiety: Examination of the Influence of Affective and Cognitive Stress on Cardiovascular Reactivity and Performance on an Affective Memory Task Using a Dual Task Paradigm | $5,704 |
| Dr. David Roberts | Cynicism within Culture and Education | $5,167 |
| Dr. Sarah Sellhorst | The Relationship of Visceral Adipose Tissue to BMI and W/H Ratio in College Students Aged 18-25 years | $8,035 |
| Brittany Taylor-Driggers | Differences in Dirt: Clay Relationships within the NAS Special Collection Part II | $4,182 |
| Faculty/Staff | Project | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| Dr. Chris Bundrick | Woven Between the Lines: The Short Fiction of Elliott White Springs | $2,500 |
| Dr. Fernanda Burke | Improving the Pharmacokinetics of Naturally Occurring Peptides: A Parallel Teaching Approach | $8,050 |
| Dr. Courtney Catledge | Evaluation of lung capacity utilizing serial peak flow results in students from 6-12 grades participating in Band and implications for asthma outcomes | $7,725 |
| Dr. Elizabeth Easley | The influence of physical activity and exercise motivation, benefits, and barriers on body composition in college students at a rural, Southern university | $9,640 |
| Fran Gardner | Artistic Works: Two Summer Projects | $7,524 |
| Ann Scott | Implementing Appreciative Advising within a Rural BSN Collaborative Program | $2,061 |
| Dr. Andy Yingst | A Context in which Finite Ergodicity is Generic | $2,500 |
| Faculty/Staff | Project | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| Dr. Mike Bonner | The Blockade in the Civil War | $3,006 |
| Brent Burgin | Saving an Ancient Tradition: The 1973 Columbia Museum of Art Catawba Pottery Exhibit | $4,292 |
| Dr. Steven Campbell | Brzezinski’s Controversial Enemy Image of the Soviet Union | $3,906 |
| Dr. Stephen Criswell | South Carolina Folklife Essay Collection | $5,169 |
| Dr. Kate Holland | Extension of a Double Dissociation Paradigm to Include Exposure to Physiological Stress in High and Low Hostile Individuals | $5,000 |
| Chris Judge | Searching for the Earliest Corn Crop in South Carolina | $2,375 |
| Dr. Nick Lawrence | Appealing to the Sensible: “Mr. Parkman’s Tour,” Gold Fever, and Melville’s Ambivalent Westward Approach | $4,241 |
| Dr. Annette Golonka and Dr. Bettie Obi- Johnson | Gelsemium sempervirens: Scent Profile and Nectar Inhabiting Microorganisms | $2,242 |
| Brittany Taylor-Driggers | Differences in Dirt: A Research of Clay Relationships within NAS Special Collection | $9,769 |
| Faculty/Staff | Project | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| Dr. Fernanda Burke | A Teaching Approach to Improving the Pharmacokinetics of Naturally Occurring Peptides | $9,100 |
| Dr. Walt Collins | Indexing Project for the edited volume The Sefi Atta Reader, Walter Collins, editor | $800 |
| Fran Gardner | Personal Petroglyphs: A Developing Body of Work | $3,800 |
| Dr. Lisa Hammond | Contemporary American Motherhood Memoirs article | $3,800 |
| Claudia Y. Heinemann-Priest | Catawba Language Material Retrieval Project – the NAA Rudes/Siebert collection | $2,500 |
| Marybeth Holloway | Expressive Actor/Lugering Method Training & Presentation of Work at La Mama Symposium for Directors | $7,200 |
| Kaetrena Davis Kendrick | An inquiry regarding the experiences of Korean academic librarians | $5,300 |
| Dr. Howard Kingkade | Film Project | $3,300 |
| Dr. Dana Lawrence | Communication, Collaboration, and Community: A Participatory Design Approach to Writing Center Administration | $4,300 |
| Dr. Bruce Nims | Revision for Publication of Three Conference Papers on Akira Kurosawa | $3,700 |
| Faculty/Staff | Project | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| Dr. Noni Bohonak | Development of Online CSCE101 | $12,000 |
| Dr. Michael Bonner | Completion of Manuscript: Confederate Political Economy | $2,214 |
| Dr. Stephen Criswell | Phase 2 of Oral History Collection and Transcription | $8,151 |
| Dr. Nicholas Guittar | Sexual Affinity/Sexual Identity Study | $3,437 |
| Dr. Kate Holland | Capacity Model for Anxious Arousal and Type II Diabetes | $13,549 |
| Dr. Bettie Obi-Johnson | The Role of Nectar-Inhibiting Yeast in Plants | $2,437 |
| Chris Judge | USCL Native American Studies Center-Summer Research | $7,792 |
| Faculty/Staff | Project | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| Brent Burgin | The Origins of Catawba Literacy | $4,413 |
| Dr. Fernanda Burke | Improving the Pharmacokinetics of Naturally Occurring Peptides Involved in Satiety and Metabolism Disorders | $12,839 |
| Dr. Steven Campbell | Archival Research to Expand Work Related to Dissertation Topic, Leading to Publications in Political Science | $2,000 |
| Fran Gardner | Place & Voice: Preparation for Artist-in-Residence at Chaco Culture National Historical Park, New Mexico | $8,375 |
| Mary Beth Holloway | Expenses Related to a Theatrical Production in Osijek, Croatia | $8,000 |
| Dr. Sarah Hunt-Sellhorst | Differences Among Traditional Body Composition Measures Across Age and Activity Level in Older Adults | $2,180 |
| Brittany Taylor | Drawing in Clay: An Artistic Collaboration to create a Body of Work with a Catawba Potter, Phase 1 of 3 Phases | $8,927 |
| Faculty/Staff | Project | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| Dr. Bettie Obi-Johnson | “Measurement of Chemicals Leached from Plastic Food Containers by SPE GC-MS: Development Of an Undergraduate Chemistry Experiment” | $6,381 |
| Dr. Annette Golonka | “Identification of Nectar-Inhibiting Microorganisms in Local Populations of the Plant Silene Carolinian” | $1,047 |
| Dr. Kate Holland | “Lateralized Differences in Cerebral Activation as a Function of Digestive Stress: Changes in EEG Beta Magnitude in Diabetic and Non-Diabetic Men and Women” | $6,445 |
| Dr. Lisa Hammond | “Finding the Goddess and Other Poems” | $5,007 |
| Dr. Stephen Criswell | “South Carolina Native American History Collection Project | $6,145 |
| Faculty/Staff | Project | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| Claudia Y. Heinemann-Priest | The Review Panel recommends funding this proposal for continued development and expansion of a comprehensive dictionary for the Catawba Language. | $3,184 |
| Dr. Fernanda Burke | The Review Panel recommends funding this very well developed proposal for improving the pharmacokinetics of naturally occurring peptides involved in satiety and metabolism disorders | $11,636 |
| Dr. Kate Holland | The Review Panel recommends partial funding this proposal for assessing neuropsychological and physiological correlates of aging. We recommend funding for the equipment required to carry out the study, but suggest that subjects be recruited without compensation. | $718 |
| Dr. Noni Bohonak | The request was for student assistants to help Dr. Bohonak continue her work on computer modeling of protein folding | $3,466 |
| Marybeth Holloway | This proposal was to support research of Beatrice Herford’s work. | $4,988 |
| Christopher Judge | This proposal was to provide summer salary and benefits for Chris to develop and prepare an NSF Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant application. | $6,008 |
| Faculty/Staff | Project | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| Dr. Nicol Augusté | Decoding the Catawba: Utilizing Archives to Unearth Post-Removal American Indian Realities | $7,719 |
| Dr. Mark Coe | Developing Research Skills and Making Contacts in Discipline | $2,400 |
| Dr. Stephen Criswell | Preparation for Publication of Body of Work on African American Family Reunion Traditions | $8,529 |
| Dr. Howard Kingkade | Preparation of Scripts for National and International Writing Competitions | $3,525 |
| Dr. Bettie Obi-Johnson | Development of Inquiry-Based Chemistry Labs Using Modern Analytical Instrumentation | $5,500 |
| Small Grant Awards | ||
| Dr. Shemsi Alhaddad | Hecke Algebras for Monomial Groups | $1,474 |
| Dr. Mark Coe | Travel Expenses in excess of departmental funds available | $600 |
| Dr. Sarah Hunt | Relationship of BMI and Body Composition in Predicting Frailty and Quality of Life | $1,555 |
| Faculty/Staff | Project | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| Dr. Walt Collins | Voice recorder, ground transportation and summer stipend with fringe benefits to conduct scholarly interviews of two authors. | $6,608 |
| Fran Gardner | Production of a body of work for exhibition at the Florence Museum of Art, Dec 2007-Jan 2008 | $9,878 |
| Chris Judge | Supplies, equipment, consultant fees, carbon 14 dating charges and salaries for two archaeological technicians for 6 days and 1 lab technician for 6 days. | $7,587 |
| Small Grant Awards | ||
| Dr. Howard Kingkade | Travel to premier of movie Hole in the Paper Sky written by Kingkade | $1,500 |
| Dr. Annette Golonka | Exploration of nectar inhabiting microorganisms in local populations of the plant Silene Caroliniana | $1,421 |
| Mike Reynolds | Travel to present conference paper Contesting Morality: Ideology and Sectional Conflict in Antebellum America | $821 |
| Terri Polenski | Equipment and seed monies for future research project | $1,500 |
| Faculty/Staff | Project | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| Dr. Stephen Criswell | Completion of editing collection of essays on South Carolina folklore and folklife. | $7,879 |
| Dr. Todd Scarlet | Reproductive success of Red-Headed Woodpecker in Urban and Rural Habitats | $7,368 |
| Dr. Lisa Rashley | The Material Manifestation of Slavery: Phyllis Alesia Perry’s Stigmata and Pam Durban’s So Far Bac | $7,753 (awarded in 2005, but deferred to 2006) |
| Faculty/Staff | Project | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| Dr. Noni Bohonak | Student research assistants and equipment | $5,560 |
| Dr. Danny Faulkner | Visits to Lowell Observatory and AAS meeting | $5,000 |
| Dr. David Norman | Various conference papers and proposals for publications | $3,182 |
| Dr. Walt Collins | Research, presentation, and eventual publication of scholarly essay and for publishers' permission fees to quote from novels for book project | $1,528 |
| Faculty/Staff | Project | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| Fran Gardner | Language & Landscape: Taking the Art and Poetry Collaboration to Publication | $6,678 |
| Dr. Danny Faulkner | The Study of Interacting Binary Stars | $5,220 |
| Faculty/Staff | Project | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| Dr. Dwayne Brown | The Effects of USCL Arts and Science Adventure Camp, Summer Experiences for Children in Grades 6 to 9 on Mathematics Achievement and Student Attitude | $8,771 |
| Dr. B. H. Caraway | The Production of a cRNA Library for Spirillum volutans ATCC 19554 by Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction (RT‑PCR) | $6,229 |
| Faculty/Staff | Project | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| Dr. Noni Bohonak | Continuing work: Finding a Fitness Function to be Used with Genetic Algorithms to Solve a Protein Folding Problem: The ab initio Prediction of a Protein Using Torsion Angles | $2,840 |
| Fran Gardner | Development of new bodies of work | $7,064 |
| Dr. Todd Scarlett | The Relationship Between Masting Trees and Potential Seed Dispersing Birds and Mammals | $2,500 |
| Faculty/Staff | Project | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| Dr. B. H. Caraway | Purchase of the Revco Ultra Temperature Freezer | $5,811 |
| Dr. Lisa Rashley | Chapbook project tentatively titled Notice of the Iguanodon | $2,689 |
| Dr. Lori Robison | Continuing work toward the completion of book:Domesticating Difference: Gender, Race, and the Birth of a New South | $1500 (not awarded due to resignation; funds diverted to travel) |
| Faculty/Staff | Project | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| Dr. Noni Bohonak | Acquisition of computer equipment for protein modeling project | $2,340 |
| Dr. Danny Faulkner | Continuing study of eclipsing binary stars | $2,340 |
| Fran Gardner | Art supplies, services and travel/subsistence to Santa Fe, NM to study work of Georgia O’Keeffe | $2,820 |
| Dr. Eric Wolfe | Summer stipend for revision and re-submission of manuscripts for publication | $2,500 |
| Faculty/Staff | Project | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| Dr. Noni Bohonak | Finding a Fitness Function to be Used with Genetic Algorithms to Solve a Protein Folding Problem: The ab initio Prediction of a Protein Using Torsion Angles | $3,010 |
| Dr. Danny Faulkner | Study of Eclipsing Binary Stars | $2,932 |
| Dr. Lisa Rashley | Project on Frances Sargent Osgood | $2,958 |
| Dr. Lori Robison | Continuing work toward the completion of book: Domesticating Difference: Gender, Race and the Birth of a New South | $5,100 |
| Dr. Todd Scarlett | Effects of Mast Seeding on the Population Biology of Birds and Mammals | $11,000 |