To celebrate World IP Day, April 26, 2023, the National Academy of Inventors (NAI) released its annual list of the Top 100 worldwide university utility patent holders. These rankings are based on calendar year data provided by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, and NAI has been releasing these rankings since 2013. We are excited…
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Andrew T. Guzman, noted scholar of international law and economics and current dean of the USC Gould School of Law, has been named USC’s next provost and senior vice president for academic affairs, USC President Carol L. Folt announced Tuesday. To read the full story, click here.

Research and Scholarship Training Workshops: The Center for Excellence in Research spring 2023 workshops are now open for registration on our website! More will be added throughout the semester. If you would like to be updated about new workshops, please join our mailing list. Do you have an idea for a workshop? We would love to hear from you! FEDERAL…

Every year, the Herman Ostrow School of Dentistry hosts a Research Day where students, faculty and staff are commemorated for their incredible research in dentistry, dental hygiene, physical therapy, occupational therapy, biokinesiology, and occupational science. This event includes keynote speakers and a poster session that is followed by awards presented to the best posters in several categories.…
Center for Translational Research on Environmental Health aims to apply novel team-science approaches to address today’s key pressing environmental health issues and understand the risk factors that continue to drive obesity, type 2 diabetes, metabolic disease and cancer through translational research design.

USC announced on Wednesday the opening of its new Capital Campus in Washington, D.C., which will significantly increase the university’s reach by expanding its deep academic and research expertise, innovation and talent on the East Coast. As a leading research university, USC will convene high-level conversations with national and global opinion leaders on the most…
At the University of Southern California, research in the space sciences is carried out by the Space Sciences Center and Department of Physics and Astronomy. Work at SSC involves both laboratory and space based investigations of photoabsorption and emission processes in atomic and molecular gasses in the spectral region from the extreme ultraviolet through the…
USC Research and Innovation (R&I) grant programs are tailored to support a diverse range of research areas, scholarship, and artistic and cultural expression and are currently under revision, with new award programs being created. We are happy to announce new grant programs, including: the Institutional Training Planning Award, the Howard Hughes Medical Institute Mentorship Award,…
Funding opportunities: USC Research and Innovation (R&I) grant programs are tailored to support a diverse range of research areas, scholarship, and artistic and cultural expression and are currently under revision, with new award programs being created. We are happy to announce new grant programs, including: the Institutional Training Planning Award, the Howard Hughes Medical Institute Mentorship Award, the Alternative Methods…
Recognizing the outstanding base of addiction experts at USC and that interdisciplinary collaboration among them had historically been underleveraged, IAS was launched in July 2018 under the leadership of Adam Leventhal (IAS Director, Preventive Medicine) and John Clapp (IAS Co-Director, Social Work) with 30 inaugural faculty members across 5 schools. Institute Startup was supported by…