1. Academic Senate retreat, 8/17/10 Facilitating Scholarship in the Humanities and Social Sciences Justin Pearlman Assistant Vice Provost for Research Advancement

2. 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

3. Faculty research grant programs USC Research Collaboration Fund  Awards of up to $30K/year for 3 years  First cycle of awards made for AY2010-11  Foster multi-school scholarly communities around broad research topics

4. 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.

5. 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

6. Some selected school activities  Centers and Institutes  New/Expanding  School research offices  College humanities council