USC Team Receives $500,000 from NEH for “LA2026” Project
The Office of Research and Innovation is thrilled to announce the recent award made by the National Endowment of the Humanities to the USC-Huntington Early Modern Studies Institute. Dr. Peter Mancall previously received internal funding and support from OORI’s Research Initiatives and Infrastructure unit to support and supplement their eventual submission to NEH.
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Research Happening Across USC
- The institute, supported by funds from the Lord Foundation of California, is the next step in the university’s effort to enhance research and education under the Frontiers of Computing “moonshot.”
- The Chung Lab at USC Viterbi has engineered a therapeutically enhanced, naturally derived particle for powerful gene therapies.
- A USC-led study finds that even storms below hurricane strength significantly increase infant deaths in low- and middle-income countries, and not just for the reasons experts expected.
- In a proof-of-concept study, the test detected five key biomarkers of Alzheimer’s disease — more than current commercially available blood tests can measure.
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