Academic Senate retreat, 8/17/10 Facilitating Scholarship in the Humanities and Social Sciences Justin Pearlman Assistant Vice Provost for Research Advancement
Faculty research grant programs Advancing Scholarship in the Humanities and Social Sciences grant program Individual research grants of up to $25K Over 130 awards made in 4 years of program 13 schools, 20 college departments Both TT and NTT faculty
Faculty research grant programs USC Research Collaboration Fund Awards of up to $30K/year for 3 years First cycle of awards made for AY Foster multi-school scholarly communities around broad research topics
Research Collaboration Fund awards Game Theory and Human Behavior Political Economy of the Pacific Rim USC Water Institute Digital Humanities and Scholarly Publishing Air Pollution, Aging, and Brain Disease Seed grants: Serious Games for Education; Urban Adaptation to Climate Change; Digital Design; GIS Spatial Sciences.
Office of Research resources Center for Excellence in Research CER workshops, training CER Faculty Fellows Meetings with funding sponsors (e.g., NEH) Proposal development support Retreats; collaborative forums
Some selected school activities Centers and Institutes New/Expanding School research offices College humanities council