Recent Awards
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Paul Gayes (Burroughs and Chapin Center for Marine & Wetland Studies) and Len Pietrafesa and Shaowu Bao (Marine Science) received a subaward of $58,789 from Savannah River Nuclear Solutions, LLC for the first year of their project on Sea Breeze Research to study land/ocean atmosphere interactions that drive the sea breeze fronts in the southeastern US and the influence of the sea breeze on atmosperic phenomena. |
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Cheryl Morgan received an award from the SC Vocational Rehabilitation Department for up to $104,000 to provide pre-employment transition services to students with disabilitites. |
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Daphne Holland received a $20,000 award from the Richland County School District Two funded by the US Department of Education for the Midlands GEAR UP Program. |
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Elizabeth Baltes (Visual Arts) received an individual $6,000 award from the National Endowment for the Humanities for a Summer 2021 Stipend for her research and writing on Portrait Statuary from the Athenian Agora Excavations. |
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Katie Maddox (Graduate Student) received a $4,650 grant from the Georgia Ornithological Society for her project on Foraging Success and Nest Predation in Loggerhead Shrikes of Two Habitats in Northeastern South Carolina. |
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Michael Roberts (Gupta College of Science) received a $2,000 subaward from the University of Kentucky Research Foundation funded by the National Institutes for Health for the Southeast XLerator Network. |
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Carolyn Dillian (Archaeology and Anthropology) received funding in the amount of $2,522 from the Horry County Higher Education Commission to support the department's creation of museum exhibits and for radiocarbon dating of samples |
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Taylor Damonte received $16,872 from the Horry County Higher Education Commission to help support the Clay Brittain Jr. Center for Resort Tourism |
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Alli Crandell (Athenaeum Press) and Scott Mann (Visual Arts) received $12,254 in funding from the Horry County Higher Education Commission for their project entitled Immersive Histories of Horry County Gullah Geechee Sites |
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Siming Guo along with Monica Gray, Roi Gurka, Wes Hitt, Xiangxiong Kong, and Richard Murray received $19,563 from the Horry County Higher Education Commission for their project entitled the CCU Department of Physics and Engineering Science Makerspace |
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Aneilya Barnes (History) received $9,477 from the Horry County Higher Education Commission for the Prince Fellows Program |
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Paul Gayes received $21,935 from the Horry County Higher Education Commission for his project on Amplification of the Burroughs and Chapin Center for Marine and Wetland Studies Observation-Modeling-Technology Initiatives in Support of University and Community Interests and Needs |
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Wes Hitt (Physics and Engineering Science) received a $4,000 award from the College of Charleston/NASA for the Space Grant Campus Director project. |
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Molly Takacs (Marine Science graduate student) received a $2,000 grant from the Savannah Presbytery MK Pentecost Ecology Fund for her project on the Abundance and growth of juvenile Atlantic and Shortnose sturgeons in the Winyah Bay System. |
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Carolyn Dillian (Anthropology and Geography) and Katie Clary (History) were awarded a $1,700 mini-grant from SC Humanities for their project on The Waccamaw Indian People: Past, Present, and Future. |
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Ariana Baker (Library Services) received a $1,000 grant from the Partnership Among SC Academic Libraries (PASCAL) for a project called Leveraging Leganto: Promoting Ex Libris Reading Lists to CCU Faculty. |
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Bryan Wakefield (Chemistry) received a 5-year award from the National Institutes for Health through the University of South Carolina for a total of $748,405 for the CCU INBRE Program. |
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Brandon Palmer (History) received a $10,000 grant from SC Humanities for the project entitled National History Day in South Carolina 2020-2021. |
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Robert Pellerin (Public Safety) will supervise a Victims of Crime Act (VOCA) grant from the Office of the SC Attorney General in the amount of $35,062 for partial funding of a Law Enforcement Victim's Advocate and received $11,276 in funding from the SC Department of Public Safety for COVID-19 Prevention, Preparedness and Response. Major Pellerin also received $1,313.19 from the SC Department of Public Safety for the Bulletproof Vest Partnership (BVP) Program. |
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Till Hanebuth (Marine Science) received $126,299 in funding from Georgetown County for Phase II of a Feasibility Study on Developing a Strategy to Overcome Georgetown Harbor Silting. |
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Chris Hill (Biology) received $22,951 from the SC Department of Natural Resources for his project entitled Population Dynamics of Loggerhead Shrikes in a Commercial and Urban Landscape. |
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Gary Schmidt (Languages and Intercultural Studies) received a two-year grant from the US Department of Education in the amount of $181,636 for his project entitled Building Collaborative Area Studies through an Interdisciplinary Language Resource Center. |
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Var Limpasuvan (Marine Science) received funding in the amount of $209,891 from the National Science Foundation for a second year serving as a visiting scientist at NSF. |
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Will Jones (Computing Sciences) received funding in the amount of $89,525 for his HPC Scheduler Resilience Research with the Los Alamos National Laboratory. |
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Jamia Richmond (Foundations, Curriculum and Instruction) received an award from the SC Department of Education in the amount of $58,822 for the SC-CREATE project. |