University of South Carolina-Columbia
Columbia, SC·Public·Medical school
22 labs on PI Pages. It spends $277M a year on research and awards 425 research doctorates a year.
- Students
- 39,611: 30,016 undergraduates, 9,595 graduate
- Postdocs
- 114
- Faculty
- 1,753 full-time
- Campus
- Primarily residential
Labs here
Jan Yow
Education Research
Develop 16 STEM teacher leaders from five South Carolina school districts through a three-year Ed.D. STEM program and a two-year Action Research Implementation program.
Philip Busbee
Microbiology & Immunology
Test whether eating microplastics of different sizes worsens depression-like behavior and markers of brain inflammation in mice with colitis induced by dextran sodium sulfate (DSS), a model of ulcerative colitis.
Fanghui Shi
Public Health & Epidemiology·Early-career
Build computable phenotype algorithms that identify sexually transmitted infection (STI) patterns from electronic health records and survey data in the All of Us research program.
Morgan Stefik
Materials Science
Determine how the chemical reactivity of polymers and nanoparticles controls lasting polymer-nanoparticle binding, so that designed polymer structure-directing agents keep particles in the order they were added.
Howard Liu
Social Science
Develop the GeoRDyn toolkit, combining AI, computer science and statistics to model the spatial and relational complexities of collective-action events in fine-grained data.
Where its research money goes
A year of research spending, from the NSF survey every research university fills in.