USCB Gives Grants to its Faculty for Research in the Lowcountry
USCB's Sea Island Institute awards grants to support research that directly impacts our region’s economic, ecologic and cultural vitality. Grant proposals are peer reviewed by a committee of USCB faculty, and supported by the Office of the Executive Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs and Provost.
Apply for a Sea Islands Institute Grant
All tenured and tenure-track USCB faculty are encouraged to apply.
Fill out my online form.
The following Sea Islands Institute grants have been awarded to USCB faculty:
2020 |
||
| AWARDEE | TOPIC | AWARD |
|
Hammond, Beth Ricardo, Libby Sidletsky, Jim |
Lowcountry Historical Connections for Local Children: A Summer Institute | $4,600 |
| Erdei, Ron Swofford, Sarah Levitt, Jody |
USCB & The Children’s Center Early Learning Application | $4,800 |
| Jayne Violette Diana Reindl Roberts, Summer Lahar, Cindy Nadeau, Angela |
Solitude, Seclusion, and Survival: Stories from Older Adults in the Lowcountry during the COVID-19 Pandemic | $5,000 |
2019 |
||
| AWARDEE | TOPIC | AWARD |
| Iglesias, Joe Reindl, Diana Lewis-Kratky, Rena |
Do healthcare organizations address the needs of their patients including the Hispanic minority groups during the delivery of their services and after patients receive the services? | $2,117 |
| Swofford, Sarah Sawyer, Caroline Barnes, Mollie |
SCETV and USCB’s By the River Interdisciplinary Podcast | $4,770 |
| Serieux, Elizabeth Catma, Serkan |
Assessing the Public Health and Economic Impact of Climate Change on Beach Width | $2,490 |
2018 |
||
| AWARDEE | TOPIC | AWARD |
| Cavanagh, Kim | The Barnwell Site Project | $4,524 |
| Ritchie, Kim | Genetic Identification of Beneficial Bacteria Associated with Regional Sharks | $2,750 |
| Sawyer, Caroline | SCETV & USCB’s By The River’s Season Two Post-Production | $4,859 |
2017 |
||
| AWARDEE | TOPIC | AWARD |
| DebRoy, Swati | Student-Driven Educational Intervention in Jasper County School to Alleviate the Obesity Epidemic | $2,500 |
| Fitzgerald, Carey | Student-Driven Educational Intervention in Jasper County School to Alleviate the Obesity Epidemic | $5,000 |
| Maraffi, Topher | Preproduction Research for an Educational Documentary On the Carolina Roots of American Swing Dance | $2,500 |
| Montie, Eric | Locating Spawning Aggregations and Critical Nursery Habitats of Red Drum in the Calibogue and Port Royal Sound Estuarine System | $5,000 |
| Ritchie, Kim | Antibiotic-Producing Bacteria as a Health Proxy for Tiger Sharks of Port Royal Sound | $5,000 |
2016 |
||
| AWARDEE | TOPIC | AWARD |
| DebRoy, Swati | Statistical Modeling for Trend Analysis of the Obesity Epidemic in Beaufort County School Children over the Past 8 years | $5,000 |
| Glaze, Brian | Open Air Metal Sculpture | $2,500 |
| Montie, Eric & Borgianini, Steve | Establishing a relationship between seasonal patterns of fish sound production and seasonal patterns of juvenile fish abundance in the May River, SC | $5,000 |
| Thomas, Najmah | African American Culture: Understanding and Celebrating Our Shared South Carolina Story | $2,500 |
2015 |
||
| AWARDEE | TOPIC | AWARD |
| Debroy, Swati | Modeling the dynamics of childhood obesity in Beaufort County school children in order to recommend sustainable interventions |
$5,000 |
| Morris, Brent | Radical Reconstruction at 150: Reassessing America’s Most Progressive Era | $5,000 |
| Pawelek, Kasia | Optimizing insecticide treatments against culex pipiens complex mosquitoes to decrease in the risk of a West Nile virus outbreak in Beaufort County, SC: collaboration with Beaufort County Mosquito Control on the preliminary results towards NSF grant proposal | $5,000 |
| Staton, Joe | Developing microsatellite loci protocols for Palaemonetes pugio | $5,000 |