The 2004 South Carolina Research Infrastructure Improvement (RII) program proposed the following strategies to yield measurable change in South Carolina's academic research enterprise:
1) invest in the academic research infrastructure within the state's three major
research universities
by developing research infrastructure that provides new
expertise and core support (equipment,
facilities, technicians, etc.) to multiple investigators and
research teams;
2) promote partnerships with the state's 4-year institutions to broaden the
support base and extend
science and technology (S&T) research opportunities to
faculty and students;
3) support projects with high potential to bridge university research with
private sector interests, and
to generate sustaining non-EPSCoR funding from federal,
state, or private sector sources;
4) use prior successful EPSCoR projects as templates that can be visualized and
applied in a variety
of settings and environments; and
5) focus on projects that add measurable value to existing research capability
by developing research
infrastructure in a small number of key S&T areas.
Presentations were given by both newly hired faculty, target faculty, and students supported by the 2004 Research Infrastructure Improvement grant during the October 2007 NSF Outreach Visit, in order to highlight their research. Below are a few of their presentations.
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Dr. Mehmet Bilgen MUSC |
Dr.
Catalin Buhusi MUSC |
Dr.
Mulugeta Gebregziabher MUSC |
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Dr. Elena Dimitrova Clemson |
Dr. Michael Sehorn Clemson |
Dr. Hugh MacMillan Clemson |
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Dr. Nicholas Panasik Claflin |
Ms. Lateisha Tiller Claflin |
Drs. Esmaiel Jabbari, Melissa Moss,
Guiren Wang, James Blanchette, Xiaoming He, and Arash Kheradvar USC |
Click here to see a video highlighting research being done by Dr. Arash Kheradvar, a newly hired faculty member at the University of South Carolina as part of the 2004 NSF RII.
Co-Funding is not a program to which proposals can be submitted. Instead, it is a funding mechanism that operates internally within the National Science Foundation and does not involve any action on the part of the proposer. The EPSCoR Co-funding mechanism focuses on those "Fund-if-Possible" proposals, which the NSF merit review process finds to lie at or near the cutoff for funding by the programs to which they were submitted. NSF/EPSCoR funds meritorious proposals that would otherwise not be supported due to availability of funds or other overriding program priorities.
For more information on NSF EPSCoR co-funding, please see the NSF/EPSCoR Co-Funding website.
Clemson University
University of South Carolina
Medical University of
South Carolina
Claflin University
South Carolina State
University
Other EPSCoRs
There are 27 jurisdictions including Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands
that qualify as EPSCoR
eligible.