Upcoming Office of Research Internal Grant Deadline: Collaboration Fund (April 5, 2021), supporting research collaborations among faculty and students working on interdisciplinary societally-relevant research topics. Coming soon: Sustainability Tracking, Assessment & Rating System (STARS) Survey: STARS is a transparent, self-reporting framework for colleges and universities to measure their sustainability performance. As part of USC’s STARS reporting, faculty will be asked via their schools to participate in a brief survey about research & scholarship…
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All researchers must follow these guidelines in addition to the rest of the information given in our COVID-19 Research Continuity Guidelines and Resources section: Continue to maintain highest safety practices in all in-person activity and use remote work methods whenever possible. Any faculty, staff, or student with any symptoms of COVID-19 or who has been exposed to someone…
Safe research continues at USC: Please always look here for regular updates on research during COVID-19. Currently, any work on campus requires a weekly negative COVID-19 test. Per the LA County regulations, USC is currently vaccinating USC community members (including researchers) who are 65 or older. Internal Funding Deadline Reminders: The Zumberge Individual Research Award (Feb 1, 2021); USC Stevens – Technology Advancement Grants (TAGs) (Feb 5, 2021); Zumberge Interdisciplinary Large Research Award (February…
THE USC OFFICE OF RESEARCH WISHES YOU SAFE AND HAPPY HOLIDAYS AND ALL THE BEST IN THE NEW YEAR FACULTY ENGAGEMENT: Mentoring and training workshops: Click here for the latest Center of Excellence in research workshops. FEDERAL FUNDING PATHWAYS: USC recently led the submission of two NSF National Artificial Intelligence Research Institutes proposals and served as a partner institution on several other submissions to the same program.…
Funding Opportunities: We are happy to announce four new Requests for Proposals: 1) the Ming Hsieh Institute Award (due Jan 25, 2021), 2) the Zumberge Individual (due Feb 1, 2021), 3) Zumberge Interdisciplinary Large (due Feb 16, 2021), and 4) Zumberge Diversity & Inclusion (due Feb 22, 2021). Tech Transfer Working Group Report (TTWG): TTWG was constituted in Jan 2020 to provide faculty input on USC’s tech transfer practices and policies and consider the broader innovation environment at USC. The group has developed…
The Annenberg Inclusion Initiative, led by Dr. Stacy L. Smith, is the leading global think tank studying inequality in all forms of entertainment. The Initiative’s work catalogues discrepancies across gender, race/ethnicity, age, LGBTQ+, people with disabilities, and mental health. The Initiative also identifies solutions and advocates for change.
The Center on Knowledge Graphs research group creates new approaches for amplifying artificial intelligence using structured knowledge. The group combines expertise from artificial intelligence, machine learning, the Semantic Web, natural language processing, databases, information retrieval, geospatial analysis, business, social sciences, and data science. The center is composed of 16 senior ISI researchers, guiding the work…
The University of Southern California’s Tobacco Center of Regulatory Science (USC TCORS) is one of nine Tobacco Centers of Regulatory Science in the U.S. We were created to serve in the production of relevant scientific data to inform the regulatory decision making at the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) Center for Tobacco Products. Additionally, we…
Funding Opportunities: We are happy to announce two requests for proposals: 1) the Strategic Directions for Research Award, supporting innovative collaborative research (January 18, 2021 deadline; provides up to $200,000; smaller budgets are welcome) and 2) the Core Instrumentation Deans Matching Fund (January 11, 2021 deadline; for acquisition or major upgrade of current shared equipment). Deadline Reminders: The internal deadline for…
The faculty and research teams of the USC Michelson Center for Convergent Bioscience are working on new frontiers in medicine and health. Interdisciplinary collaboration is leading to the development of new life-saving devices and therapeutics.