May 2025
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– Accolades for 2 Dornsife faculty;
– New external funding success for 1 College Investigator;
– Diverse and current external funding opportunities, including several forecasted opportunities (we will see more of these next week), and 2 funding opportunities from Dornsife Corporate and Foundation relations;
– A few announcements: (1) new NIH policy on foreign subwards; (2) NSF recent policy capping indirect costs at 15%; (3) as of print time the no cost extension (NCE) feature for eRA Commons is currently not available; and (4) our standing invitation to join Dornsife research administration staff during Wednesday Office hours to get clarification on issues impacting your proposal submissions. -
– High honors for a college faculty member;
– Many current and diverse funding opportunities, including one limited submission;
– Announcement of a upcoming post semester webinar offered by the Office of Research and Innovation on innovation and entrepreneurship. The webinar is organized by the Center for Excellence in Research.
– Dornsife research administration continues to hold office hours for questions or issues in developing and reviewing faculty proposals. -
– Recognition of one Dornsife faculty member;
– External funding success obtained by four Dornsife investigators;
– Current and diverse external funding opportunities, including one limited submission;
– A prepublication of the National Academies Press on a code of conduct for AI for Health and Medicine;
– A reminder of an upcoming (May 28th) webinar by the Center for Excellence in Research; and
– Another reminder — this one of the Research Administration Wednesday office hours. -
– External funding success for one Dornsife faculty;
– A mix of external funding opportunities that includes one limited submission and a funding opportunity identified by Dornsife and University Advancement;– Reminder that Heidi Parker and Sarah Bishop offer expert assistance when PIs are considering submitting a proposal.
– A missive from DCG regarding updates by USC Biosafety to ensure compliance to a recent Executive Order regarding enhancing biomedical safety and security;
– Open invite to connect with Dornsife research staff anytime, including during the Dornsife Research office hours.
April 2025
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– Accolades for 2 Dornsife faculty members;
– New external funding success achieved by 1 College investigator;
– Several funding opportunities, including a “threepeat” of a USC internal funding opportunity (revised); 2 limited submission funding opportunities; and a suite of NIH funding opportunities that have been updated to align with NIH’s priorities;
– Updated NIH executive payscale; and
– Dornsife Research Administration Office Hours. -
– Recognition for 1 faculty member;
– External funding success for 4 Dornsife investigators;
– Current and diverse external funding opportunities, including 1 limited submission, and 3 updated NIH funding opportunities;
– Upcoming Center for Excellence in Research workshop, that aims to offer guidance and resources to help navigate the evolving landscape in national research priorities and opportunities; and
– Reminder of Dornsife research administration office hours with research administration staff. -
– Accolade for one Dornsife faculty member;
– External funding success for three investigators;
– External funding opportunities, including two American Diabetes Association limited submissions;
– Communication from Contracts and Grants on new mandatory requirements for individuals who currently work on Department of Energy and National Nuclear Security Administration active awards or are submitting proposals to either of those agencies;– Information on yesterday’s Center for Excellence in Research workshop “Pivoting with Purpose: Reframing Research in Changing Times” including a link to a Forbes article on words and phrases to consider not using when applying for NIH or NSF grants;
–Standing invitation to connect with Dornsife Research Administration staff anytime, including our Wednesday’s office hours. -
– Recognition for 2 College faculty members;
– External funding success achieved by 1 Dornsife investigator;
– Diverse and current funding opportunities; and
– Weekly reminder of Dornsife Research Administration office hours.
March 2025
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– External funding success achieved by a Dornsife investigator
– Current and diverse external funding opportunities, including one limited submission; and two connected with Dornsife Corporate and Foundation Relations.
– Support available with proposal development for federal science submissions and humanities submissions by Dornsife grants experts;
– More updates from DCG on judicial and legislative action at the federal and state level; and
– Research administration office hours for help with research administration concerns. -
– High honors for two Dornsife investigators;
– External funding success for one college faculty member;
– Diverse and current funding opportunities, including two internal funding opportunities and one limited submission;
– Announcement on upcoming Center for Excellence in Research workshop;– Dear Colleague Letter from the Director of NSF; and
– Reminder of our standing invitation to connect with the Dornsife Research Administration staff for support regarding your pre- and post award questions and concerns. -
– Prestigious recognition for one College faculty member;
– One external funding success achieved by a Dornsife PI reported for this week;
– Current and diverse external funding opportunities, including 3 limited submissions, and 2 opportunities from Dornsife Corporate and Foundation Relations;
– Announcements from (1) DARPA’s Special Notice concerning the Microsystems Technology Office (MTO) Spark Tank event and (2) information from the Department of Energy’s Workforce Development for Teachers and Scientists program; and
– Dornsife Research Administration Wednesday office hours -
– High honors for two Dornsife faculty;
– Three investigators have won funding awards;
– Current and diverse external funding opportunities, including 3 limited submissions;
– Upcoming Center for Excellence in Research workshop; and
– Standing invite to connect with Dornsife research administration staff. -
– Accolades for 5 Dornsife faculty members — Congrats!!;
– We can report that 3 PIs have received external funding support;
– Current and diverse external funding opportunities, including one limited submission;
– Some announcements: (1) Updated info on NIH Biosketch and Pending support forms; (2) Article in Science on pending new funding opportunities after 2 month hiatus; and
– Standing invite to connect with Dornsife Research Administration staff anytime, but including office hours.
February 2025
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– Accolade for a College faculty member;
– External funding success achieved by 5 Dornsife faculty
– Current and diverse funding opportunities including an internal opportunity from the Office of Research and Innovation; 3 limited submissions; and a funding opportunity coordinated by Corporate and Foundation Relations.
– Important information on a request to visit Dornsife faculty concerning an upcoming funding opportunity from the Office of the Senior Vice President.
– Reminder of Dornsife Research Administration office hours. -
– Terrific funding report achieved by Dornsife faculty;
– A panoply of current and diverse external funding opportunities;
– Announcement of the launch of a new feature in Workday’s Grants Management Dashboards, designed to streamline the process of proposal submission for PIs and Administrators;
– Save the date announcement of upcoming Center for Excellence in Research workshop; and
– Weekly reminder of Dornsife Research Administration Office Hours. -
– External funding success achieved by two Dornsife investigators;
– Announcements of current and diverse external funding opportunities, including two limited submissions and one external funding opportunity from Dornsife Corporate and Foundation Relations;
– Updates from the Department of Contracts and Grants on the current situation regarding federal research funding vis a vis the Trump administration’s executive orders and directives;
– And, of course our weekly invite to connect with Dornsife Research Administration to share questions or concerns. -
– High recognition for a Dornsife faculty member;
– Great external funding success for 6 investigators;
– A good number of current and diverse external funding opportunities;
– Encouragement to attend USC President Carol Folt’s state of the university address;
– Information on the Center for Excellence in Research first workshop for this spring;
– Updates from DCG on the evolving developments of the Trump administration’s executive orders and directives and legal responses;
January 2025
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– High recognition of two Dornsife faculty members;
– Announcement of external funding grants awarded to 10 investigators;
– Many and diverse funding opportunities, including a USC internal funding opportunity, a funding opportunity for graduate students from central advancement, and one limited submission;
– Important information concerning proposal submission due dates to federal agencies during natural disasters;– In case you haven’t seen it, Dornsife Public Exchange has provided a curated list of resources for services, legal resources and ways to help related to the wildfire situation in the Southland; and
– A reminder that Dornsife Research Office hours are back in operation. -
– 4 new external funding awards for Dornsife faculty;
– Many and diverse external funding opportunities including 3 limited submissions;
– New DCG NewsFlash! concerning NIH’s updated security standards and practices for shared NIH Genomic Data Sharing policy;
– Reminder of video recordings of the Center for Excellence in Research Fall 2024 workshops; and
– Reminder of weekly office hours for Dornsife research administration matters. -
– Recognition of a Dornsife faculty member;
– External funding successes by several College faculty;
– Many funding opportunities, including 1 USC funding opportunity; 3 limited submissions; 1 funding opportunity from Dornsife Corporate and Foundation Relations; and
– Information from USC central administration and DCG in response to the U.S. Office of Management and Budget communications; and
Reminder of office hours for Dornsife Research Administration.
Weekly Research Advancement Report
Contact USC Dornsife Research Administration
Allan Hancock Foundation Building (AHF 108)
3616 Trousdale Pkwy, AHF 108
Los Angeles, CA 90089
Open Monday to Friday: 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
Email: research@dornsife.usc.edu
