USC Grows Efforts to Improve South Carolina’s Brain Health
Brain health research is huge at the University of South Carolina, as a growing slate of recent news headlines attest. Between the USC Brain Health Network’s growth throughout 2024, approval of the forthcoming USC Brain Health Center architectural renderings and the October 25 announcement of a new USC hospital focusing on neurological care, USC is making news with our mission to improve brain health care for SC residents with life-altering neurological diagnoses like Alzheimer’s disease, dementia and strokes. Read about the university’s recent moves to expand brain heath care in South Carolina in these featured articles:
- USC Newsfeed: USC planning SC’s first hospital specializing in neurological care
- SC Daily Gazette: New Upstate MRI machine latest in SC efforts to boost Alzheimer’s, dementia research
- Post & Courier: Commentary: Why USC is building a hospital like no other in Southeast
- USC Newsfeed: Better tools for new discoveries | New MRI scanners to bolster university’s Brain Health Center
Become a Reviewer for Internal Funding and Awards Programs
The Office of the Vice President for Research offers a comprehensive slate of internal funding and award programs for faculty, students and postdoctoral scholars. These annual programs provide recognition of outstanding work and unique opportunities for researchers at every level to take on scholarly projects that might be hard to fund through other methods. To keep these programs strong and successful, the Office of the Vice President for Research looks to faculty members throughout the USC System to serve as reviewers on the committees that guide selection of award and/or funding recipients. Interested faculty members are encouraged to sign up to serve on a review committee.
2nd Annual Graduate Student Data Visualization Competition
The University Libraries is once again sponsoring the Graduate Student Data Visualization Award during the 2024-2025 academic year. This competition is designed to:
- Highlight research by current University of South Carolina graduate students.
- Celebrate excellence using data visualization to encourage and enhance knowledge explanation and comprehension.
- Promote data literacy and effective data visualization creation and presentation.
- Encourage awareness of data literacy services and resources provided by the University Libraries.
The Graduate Student Data Visualization Award offers USC graduate students the opportunity to show off their skills using data visualization in their research. Submissions will be accepted any time between Monday, October 7, 2024 and Friday, January 3, 2025. A first-place award up to $1000 is possible with second and third place awards also possible. Learn more about the goals of the award, submission requirements, evaluation criteria, and find the submission form here.
Research funding available for USC graduate students
SPARC Graduate Research Grant applications due November 7, 2024. The Office of the Vice President for Research is pleased to announce and invite proposals for the SPARC graduate research grant program. SPARC grant applications are due by 5:00 p.m. on Thursday, November 7. Complete information about the application process, including all SPARC application materials, is available on the SPARC program page.
Note: This program has limited eligibility. Please carefully review program guidelines regarding eligibility requirements.
Don’t Forget: Multifactor Authentication Implementation for Research.gov effective October 27, 2024
In order to enhance security measures which protect the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) IT systems, various user accounts and information regarding your personal and scientific data, the NSF has elected to begin using a multifactor authentication (MFA) for Research.gov. If you have a Research.gov account, please set up an MFA ASAP. To learn more about this new security measure, read about it on the NSF website.
31 October 2024