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.
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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.
RECENT DEVELOPMENT: As many of you may have learned, on September 22, 2020, the Trump administration issued an EO on Combating Race and Sex Stereotyping. The EO applies to federal contractors and federal grant recipients, and seeks to prohibit employment training that implicates race or sex stereotyping and alleged “divisive concepts” like unconscious bias or “white…
The USC+CHLA Alpha Clinic is one of nine Alpha Clinics (ACs) funded by the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM) at top medical centers in California. With its AC network partners, the USC+CHLA Alpha Clinic engages patients, clinicians, researchers, community providers and community members in clinical research, education and outreach to accelerate the development and…
CONGRATULATIONS! We are happy to announce the FY21 awardees for all USC Research and Innovation (R&I) award programs. Seventy-two proposals were submitted to seven award programs, of which 33 were awarded (16 to female lead PIs) for a total of $2.9M. Details on program awardees can be found here: Core Instrumentation & Dean’s Matching Fund; Ming Hsieh; Collaboration Fund; Zumberge Diversity & Inclusion; Zumberge Individual; Zumberge Interdisciplinary Large. The Request for Proposals for the 2020 Provost’s New Strategic Directions in Research award will be announced…
CONGRATULATIONS! The USC Research and Innovation (R&I) is proud to announce the University’s support of COVID-19 research. Since March, we created multiple calls for research proposals for work on COVID-19. We received 65 proposals across 11 USC schools, with a total of 63 PIs and 97 team members; 39 USC faculty provided thoughtful volunteer peer review.…
At USC’s Department of Computer Science, we are pioneering breakthroughs in a full spectrum of topics related to AI, including machine learning, computer vision and image processing, human- robot interaction, speech and language analysis, information extraction and privacy-protection. Our researchers are working in areas where artificial intelligence has been under study for decades—like language—and where…