The University of Southern California (USC) is committed to enhancing and expanding its support of faculty research activities by stimulating the pursuit of funding from Federal agencies and other external sponsors. Researchers can bolster a grant application with strong preliminary data to demonstrate two key factors: (1) approach — the proposed research is promising; and (2) feasibility — the ability of the researcher and research team to carry it out is credible. The more paradigm-shifting the hypothesis is, the more a researcher must lay a solid foundation for the proposed projects. Similarly, if initial findings are surprising, the inclusion of more data is very useful to convince reviewers that the results are real, replicable, and statistically significant. A sufficient degree of preliminary data is necessary to convince scientific peer reviewers that the project has a high likelihood of success.
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Proposals must be submitted via our Grant Portal.
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Awardees
Past Awardees
2024
Andrzej Rutkowski, USC Libraries
Meredith Drake Reitan, USC School of Architecture
Phillip Ethington, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts & Sciences
Curtis Fletcher, USC Libraries
Suzanne Noruschat, USC Libraries
Mats Borges, USC Libraries
BEFORE THE BULLDOZERS: BUNKER HILL IN THE NEW DEAL ERA
Houda Alchkar, USC School of Pharmacy
Nicholas Graham, USC Davis School of Gerontology
APOC2-CD36 deregulation presents a metabolic vulnerability in Acute Myeloid Leukemia
Huriya Jabbar, USC Rossier School of Education
How do Mixed-Income Neighborhood Initiatives Reduce Educational Inequality for Low-Income Black Youth?
Paul Seidler, USC School of Pharmacy
Structure-based investigation of neurotransmitters as modifiers of tau aggregation
Serghei Mangul, USC School of Pharmacy
Matt Pennell, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts & Sciences
Steven Gazal, Keck School of Medicine of USC
Developing reliable and scalable methods for deep immune phenotyping in public transcriptomics databases across diverse populations
Susumu Takahashi, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts & Sciences
Stephen B Cronin, USC Viterbi School of Engineering
Development of Bright and Stable Diamond Quantum Emitters for Quantum Sensing Applications
Swabha Swayamdipta, USC Viterbi School of Engineering
Eric Rice, USC School of Social Work
Understanding Attitudes towards Homelessness through an Expert-Guided AI Social Engine
Willie Neiswanger, USC Viterbi School of Engineering
Krishna Garikipati, USC Viterbi School of Engineering
Yan Liu, USC Viterbi School of Engineering
Foundation Models for Materials Physics to Accelerate the Development of Solid-State Batteries
Yasser Khan, USC Viterbi School of Engineering
Krishna Nayak, USC Viterbi School of Engineering
John Wood, Keck School of Medicine of USC
Skin-line wearable sensor development for diagnostic ECG and MRI at 0.55 T
Zhenglu Li, USC Viterbi School of Engineering
Correlated Electron-Phonon Coupling from First-Principles GW Perturbation Theory
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Silvia
SILVIA DA COSTA, PH.D.
University of Southern California
Director, Research Initiatives and Infrastructure