Discover USC 2025: Registration opens Monday, January 27
This year, Discover USC will be held on Friday, April 25, 2025, at the Columbia Metropolitan Convention Center. The USC community is invited to attend Discover USC and learn firsthand about current research and scholarship from hundreds of undergraduate and graduate students, medical scholars and postdocs. Registration for presenters and reviewers will open on Monday, January 27. Visitors who will not be serving in one of these roles are welcome to drop in without registering.
Registration deadlines:
- Presenters: Wednesday, March 5, 2025
- Reviewers: Friday, March 28, 2025
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.
Collaborative for Health Equity Research Pilot Grant Program seeks applications
USC-CHEER aims to create a vibrant, research-focused, cross-disciplinary network of USC faculty, staff, students and community collaborators. The mission of this new effort from the USC Provost’s Office is to improve health and well-being for South Carolinians and beyond through collaborative, cross-disciplinary research and innovation to advance the field of health equity science.
USC researchers are encouraged to submit funding applications for USC-CHEER projects that examine important research questions related to health inequities, involving faculty collaborators from two or more disciplines. Key CHEER application dates for Spring 2025:
- RFA Release Date: Tuesday, January 6, 2025
- Letter of Intent Due Date: Friday, February 28, 2025, 5:00 p.m.
- Application Due Date: Friday, March 31, 2025, 5:00 p.m.
- Earliest Anticipated Funding Date: May 1, 2025
USC School of Medicine Columbia seeks faculty mentors for the 2025 Student Opportunities for Academic Achievement through Research (SOAR) program
The SOAR program is an 8-week research/scholarly project internship for USC School of Medicine medical students during the summer between their MI and MII years. This program offers a $2,500 stipend for the student and up to $500 reimbursement for the mentor’s project-related supplies/costs. For additional information or questions, please visit the SOAR program website or email SOAR@uscmed.sc.edu.
Faculty that are engaged in health sciences related research or projects that are interested in summer assistance and mentorship opportunities with SOAR are encouraged to apply via the online mentor application here: https://redcap.link/SOAR_Mentor_2025. Please complete the SOAR mentor application by January 31st, 2025.
Monthly Grant Awards Report: December 2024
The Office of the Vice President for Research is pleased to share our monthly report listing new grant awards USC faculty researchers across the university system received between December 1 and December 31, 2024. Please note that some awards received toward the end of that period might have missed the reporting cut-off. In such cases, the award will be listed in the next monthly report. To review the report for December 2024, click here.
University Libraries Digital Research Services Workshops
Digital Research Services at University Libraries is pleased to offer workshops for members of the University of South Carolina community. Many are open to faculty, staff, and students at all USC campuses. To find out more and register, click here.
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