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Shoah Foundation

The Shoah Foundation’s mission is to develop empathy, understanding, and respect through testimony. The Institute currently has more than 55,000 video testimonies, each one a unique source of insight and knowledge that oﬀers powerful stories from history that demand to be explored and shared. The testimonies are preserved in the Visual History Archive, one of the largest digital collections of its kind in the world. They average a little over two hours each in length and were conducted in 65 countries and 43 languages. The vast majority of the testimonies contain a complete personal history of life before, during, and after the interviewee’s firsthand experience with genocide.

650 West 35th Street, Suite 401
Los Angeles, California

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X-Ray Crystallography Facility

The purpose of the X-Ray Crystallography Facility is to structurally characterize single-crystal samples of organic, inorganic, and organometallic compounds using X-ray diffraction. Equipment and services include: a Bruker APEX DUO single-crystal diffractometer equipped with an APEX2 CCD detector, Mo fine-focus and Cu micro-focus X-ray sources and a Rigaku Ultima IV powder/thin film diffractometer to conduct rapid structural analysis. It is capable of handling samples that are sensitive to air, moisture, and/or temperature and the core provides training for users to conduct their own experiments.

University Park Campus
John Stauffer Science Lecture
837 Bloom Walk
Los Angeles, CA 90087

West Semitic Research Project

The West Semitic Research Project uses advanced photographic and computer imaging techniques to document objects and texts from the ancient world. Equipment and services include: advanced photographic and imaging technologies to document texts and objects from the ancient world. Its archives, accessed electronically via its InscriptiFacts database application, include a wide variety of inscriptional materials, particularly in Northwest Semitic languages.

University Park Campus
Mark Taper Hall
328 Taper Hall
Los Angeles, CA 90089
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USC Libraries Bioinformatics Service

The USC Libraries offers a university-wide bioinformatics support service for all faculty, students, and researchers. We provide research consultation and training, bioinformatics software, collaborative data analysis, and computing resources, catering to a wide range of bioinformatics tasks, including experimental design, statistical analysis of high-throughput genomic data, comprehensive functional analyses, advanced literature study, public genomic data mining, etc. We also provide bioinformatics support for grant applications.

UPC Office
CEM 202
814 Bloom Walk

HSC Office
Norris Medical Library RM203
2003 Zonal Ave
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USC Digital Repository

USCDR provides fee-based consulting and services to help USC researchers meet grant data management plan requirements. Services include: digitization, cataloging, preservation, and online access. Consulting is also available to help researchers determine appropriate web hosting and web design solutions. USCDR is a center that is jointly operated by the USC Libraries, the USC Shoah Foundation Institute (SFI), and USC’s Information Technology Services (ITS) division. As such, USCDR is able to offer researchers access to the professional expertise and technological infrastructure of the SFI, Libraries, and ITS.

University Park Campus
Edward L. Doheny Jr. Memorial Library
3550 Trousdale Pkwy, DML 310
Los Angeles, CA 90089-0183
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Structures and Materials Research Laboratory (SMRL)

The Structures and Materials Research Laboratory (SMRL) at the University of Southern California (USC) is located in the basement of Kaprielian Hall (KAP). SMRL is specially designed to conduct material, and reduced-, large- and full-scale structural testing. The laboratory is equipped to conduct research to improve the safety, sustainability and serviceability of built infrastructures. The Laboratory consists of over 4,000 ft2 of test space and associated fabrication facilities. A series of servo-hydraulic actuators with capacities ranging from 11 kips to 340 kips are available for structural testing on a large-scale reaction frame with a 30 ft. by 18 ft. footprint and a 14 ft. high L-shaped wall. Five universal testing machines with capacities ranging from 1 kips to 1,000 kips are available for mechanical characterization of materials. Additionally, one of the universal testing machines is equipped with an environmental chamber with a temperature range of -200 °F to 600 °F for thermo-mechanical testing of materials under loads of up to 110 kips. A dedicated room with all the necessary infrastructure (drains, ventilation, etc.) is available for mixing and casting cementitious materials. SMRL also has a salt spraying chamber, a moist cure chamber and two high range ovens for materials curing, conditioning and long-term durability testing. In terms of data acquisition and sensors, a wide range of instrumentation and supplemental equipment for measurements of load, deflection and strain is available.

University Park Campus
USC Viterbi School of Engineering
Kaprielian Hall, room B39
3620 S. Vermont Avenue
Los Angeles, CA 90089-2531
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