Next Week: Love Data With University Libraries
Love Data Week is an annual, themed celebration of data, with data-related programming delivered by academic libraries in the United States and beyond during the week of Valentine’s Day. This year, Love Data Week takes place February 10-14. Please join University Libraries for a week of learning opportunities and events. Visit the Love Data Week 2025 webpage for descriptions, dates and times, and registration links.
University Libraries Adds Scopus Database, OA agreements with Elsevier and Cambridge
USC-affiliated authors can now publish at no cost in many journals published by Elsevier and Cambridge thanks to two new Open Access agreements administered by University Libraries. The Libraries are also now providing access to Scopus, a vast multidisciplinary research and citation database that can help users increase research efficiency, access information on article, journal and author influence, and enhance the visibility of their research.
Presenters & Reviewers: Register for Discover USC 2025
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. Work presented at Discover USC spans disciplines to represent the wide variety of scholarship at South Carolina’s flagship university.
Get an overview of the important details, changes and updates here!
Registration deadlines:
- Presenters: Wednesday, March 5, 2025
- Reviewers: Friday, March 28, 2025
Add Discover USC 2025 to your calendar
Faculty: Encourage your undergraduate students to apply for grant funding
Application deadlines for grant funding through the Office of Undergraduate Research are coming up, beginning in February. Now is the time for undergraduates and mentors to review available grants to determine eligibility.
Magellan Scholar proposals are due in USCeRA by Wednesday, February 12, at 5:00 p.m. Magellan Mini-Grant applications, and several others connected to Living-Learning Communities, are due by Tuesday, March 25 at 5:00 p.m.
Encourage your students to contact OUR to discuss eligibility and application questions: our@sc.edu or 803-777-1141.
Collaborative for Health Equity Research
USC-CHEER aims to create a vibrant, research-focused, cross-disciplinary network of USC faculty, staff, students and community collaborators. Our mission 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 dates for Spring 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
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