Research & Fellowships Week

USC Research and Fellowships Week Event Location: Tutor Campus Center (TCC) 232Target Audience: UndergraduatesWhat skills are essential to get started in laboratory research? Where do you learn those skills? How do you find a lab to begin doing research? This workshop provides a hands-on approach to understanding the practice a subset of essential hands-on skills to make them competitive candidates ...

USC Research and Fellowships Week Event Location: VirtualTarget Audience: UndergraduatesA session about service-related fellowships and how to build a meaningful portfolio of service experiences for a possible future in public service.

USC Research and Fellowships Week Event Location: VirtualTarget Audience: PhDs in STEM FieldsA session hosted by the Office of Research discussing research ethics.

USC Research and Fellowships Week Event Location: Tutor Campus Center (TCC) 227Target Audience: Undergraduates, Masters, PhDsThe annual USC Libraries Research Award recognizes excellence and creativity in the use of USC Libraries’ research collections and services. Graduate winners receive up to $500; undergraduate winners receive up to $300. Student winners of the USC Libraries Research Award talk about their research, applying ...

USC Research and Fellowships Week Event Location: VirtualTarget Audience: Masters, PhDsBoren Fellowships provide funding for U.S. graduate students studying critical need languages outside of Western Europe. In exchange for funding, recipients commit to working in the federal government for at least one year after graduation. *U.S. citizenship required

USC Research and Fellowships Week Event Location: VirtualTarget Audience: UndergraduatesBoren Scholarships provide funding for U.S. undergraduate students studying critical need languages outside of Western Europe. In exchange for funding, recipients commit to working in the federal government for at least one year after graduation. *U.S. citizenship required

USC Research and Fellowships Week Event Location: VirtualTarget Audience: PhDsHow can we have joy and even find healing while writing the dissertation? This session will provide first-hand experience, research, and practical tools for thriving during the process of completing a dissertation. Professor Cynthia Villarreal (USC Rossier PhD, 2020) will lead a powerful session that invites students to take a balanced ...

USC Research and Fellowships Week Event Location: Tutor Campus Center (TCC) 227Target Audience: Undergraduates, Masters, PhDsA panel of librarians will discuss best practices for contextualizing a proposal topic within a sound literature search, scientific materials, foreign language, primary sources, and an appropriate data research strategy.

USC Research and Fellowships Week Event Location: Tutor Campus Center (TCC) 227Target Audience: UndergraduatesWhat does it mean to be a first-generation college student doing research? Our panel of first-gen students, staff and faculty will share stories about their own research journeys. Other topics will include: cultivating relationships with faculty mentors, finding support in a research environment, and discussing guided research ...

USC Research and Fellowships Week Event Location: Tutor Campus Center (TCC) 227Target Audience: UndergraduatesThe ability to sustain ourselves and future generations in an equitable manner while remaining within the ecological limits of our planet is one of the major challenges of our time. If you are interested in working in sustainability, involvement in classes, research, and other scholarship in this ...

USC Research and Fellowships Week Event Location: VirtualTarget Audience: Undergraduates, Masters, PhDsThe Fulbright U.S. Student Program provides funding to carry out a research project, graduate study or teach English for an academic year in over 140 countries outside of the United States with the goal of mutual exchange. *U.S. citizenship required

USC Research and Fellowships Week Event Location: VirtualTarget Audience: Undergraduates, Masters, PhDs, FacultyLetters of recommendation are critical in fellowship applications and a variety of other academic evaluations and selection contexts, but they are also one of the most common places that bias is written into academic records. Toward the goal of equity-minded evaluation, this workshop will enable participants to recognize ...