Congratulations to 14 members of the USC Upstate faculty who have received RISE awards.

The RISE, or Research Initiative for Summer Engagement, program provides financial support to pay for summer salary, research supplies, travel related to research and undergraduate student support.

2017 USC Upstate RISE Recipients:

Recipient Name	Project Title
Jack Cheng	Nonlinearities of Mortgage Spreads over the Business Cycles
Michael Dinger	IT Role Embeddedness: Testing A Theory of IT Professional Behavior
Ann Hoover	The Role of Power in the Backlash Effect
Rebecca Mueller	Learning by Doing: The Impact of Question Development and Implementation on Teachers’ Understanding of Compelling Questions
Allison Pingley	Czeching out of Communism
Nolan Stolz	Recording Two Original Orchestral Compositions: “From The Hudson” and “Prairie View”
Matthew Placek	Online News and Citizen Support for Democracy in Central and Eastern Europe
Nicole Richardson	Through a Glass Darkly: Ye Shaoyuan’s Search for His Deceased Daughter in a Late Ming Séance
Kimberly Shorter	Effects of MTHFR Function on Epigenetics-Related Genes’ Expression in Folic Acid-Treated SH-SY5Y Cells
Ning Yu	Developing an Open Source Deep Learning Tool Based on a Novel Auto-Encoder Algorithm
Emily Kofoed	Silence at the North Pole: Russia’s Rhetorical Strategy for Arctic Sovereignty: An Analysis of International Political Discourse in an Information Age
Tina Herzberg	Case Studies of Established Print Readers Learning and Using Braille and Technology in School and Home
Calvin Odhiambo	Black-White Racial Disparity in Cardiovascular Disease Risk Among People with HIV-AIDS in America: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
Felicia Jenkins	Physical Activity and Cardiometabolic Risk Factors in African American Women

To see a list of all 35 faculty members recognized in the USC system.