Office of Sponsored Programs
The Office of Sponsored Programs at USD partners with faculty, administrators, and graduate students to provide a variety of pre-award services for externally-funded projects.
These services include concept development and identification of potential extramural funding sources, proposal and budget preparation, and the submission of innovative, high-quality, competitive proposals. Our team is committed to providing quality service and support to the university community.
Research Week 2020: April 20 - April 24
Research Highlights
- NSF Dear Colleagues: Fastlane and Research.gov will be unavailable from Friday, November 8 at 8:00 pm EST until Tuesday, November 12 at 6:00 am EST
- USD law professor ageless as a consumer advocate
- Federal grant funds USD programs for opioid treatment
- Isn't it About Time? Collaboratively Built Structure Heads to Burning Man
- USD Project "VisMO" Receives Over a Million Dollars in NSF Research Award to Study Spatial and Mathematical Learning in Children
- Program aids small businesses: San Diego, USD team up, use $1.5M in grants to help six neighborhoods
- USD professor shares regard for lowrider culture
- NSF Dear Colleague Letter: Research Protection
- NSF Revised Proposal & Award Policies & Procedures Guide (nsf19001)
- The San Diego Union-Tribune highlights: Group seeks to educate students, teachers on signs, dangers of human trafficking
- Clean Energy Accelerator Awarded $1.5 Million Federally Matched Grant to Expand Energy Startup Support in the Inland Empire
- $100 million is ordinary money in the world of 'El Chapo'
- History Professor Dr. Thomas Barton Receives NEH Research Grant
- Join NSF Program Director Julie Martin on December 4, 2018, between 2-3pm, in the Humanities Center, SH-200
- NSF Revised Proposal & Award Policies & Procedures Guide (replaces nsf18001)
- The San Diego Union-Tribune highlights: Girls become 'Cyber Scouts' in USD computer class
- NSF announces new measures to protect research community from harassment (nsf18-082)
- NSF Important Notice No. 144: Harassment (February 8, 2018) (in144)
- NSF Prospective New Awardee Guide (January 2018) (nsf18033)
- New NSF Proposal & Award Policies & Procedures Guide (PAPPG) (NSF 18-1) Has Been Issued
- USD Awarded NSF Grant for Community Engagement Project
- USD McNair Scholars Program Gets Five-Year Funding Renewal from U.S. Department of Education
- USD Receives $1.6 Million Grant to Provide Innovative Behavioral Health Training
- USD Opens Center to Aid Local Startups
- REU Fellows Expand Knowledge via Summer Research
- Science Society Honors University Professors
- USD Earns NSF Grant to Fill Void in Research Enterprises for College Students
- Keck Foundation Awards USD's Humanities Center $250,000
- The Campaign for USD: Fighting the Good Fight
- USD Magazine: "Nutritious. Delicious. Ambitious"
- Union Tribune Highlights how SD School take on Sex Trafficking
- Carpenter's Research Triggers Declaration of "Human Trafficking Month" by San Diego City Council
- NSF Awards Nearly $1.7 Million to CUR to Create Research-Based Curricula
- USD Professor Earns Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award
- University of San Diego Awarded NSF Grant for Engineering Conference
- "Is Baja CA becoming a War Zone?" KPBS Radio Interview with Dr. David Shirk
- Parents Just as Wary of Neighborhood Schools as They Were Five Years Ago
Videos
Watch: STEM Wow; Odesma Dalrymple, PhD, Perla Myers, PhD, Joi Spencer, PhD, Vitaliy Popov, PhD, Yaoran Li, PhD
STEMWoW is a multilayered approach to STEM learning and workforce development in STEM fields, targeting Hispanic youth. The project explores youth STEM identity through three mechanisms: (1) an assessment of their individual interests, strengths, and values, (2) exposure to an array of viable STEM careers, and (3) engagement in rigorous hands-on STEM activities. The project centers on a youth summer STEM enrichment program and a series of follow-up booster sessions delivered during the academic year in informal contexts to promote family engagement. Paramount to this work is the core focus on San Diego’s Five Priority Workforce Sectors: Advanced Manufacturing, Information and Communications Technology, Clean Energy, Healthcare, and Biotech. Few, if any, existing projects in the Advancing Informal STEM learning portfolio have explored the potential connections between these five priority workforce sectors, informal STEM learning, and identity among predominately Hispanic youth and families engaged in a year-long, culturally responsive STEM learning and workforce focused program. If successful, the model could provide a template for the facilitation of similar efforts in the future.
Watch: 2019 STEM WoW; Ellis Bell, PhD, Jessica Bell, PhD, Anthony Bell, PhD, Joe Provost, PhD
The Malate Dehydrogenase CUREs Community, supported by an NSF IUSE grant, has grown over its first 18 months, and now involves faculty from 16 diverse institutions ranging from research intensive institutions like the University of Nebraska at Lincoln, comprehensive universities such as Marshall University, primarily undergraduate institutions of various sizes including USD, HSC and Union College, Community Colleges such as North Hennepin CC and Southwestern CC, and a number of Minority serving Institutions like SFSU and UNM, teaching laboratory courses that serve over a thousand students each year and incorporate Course Based Undergraduate Research Experiences for both majors and non-majors. We are exploring aspects of CUREs that make them high impact teaching practices, including the impact of duration and scientific collaboration. The Community is creating resources to share with other institutions to promote further adoption of CURE based teaching and provides a supportive environment for faculty development, facilitating adoption of CURE approaches to laboratory teaching. All CUREs implemented by MCC contain the same elements: Scientific Background, Hypothesis Development, Proposal, Experiments/Teamwork to test hypothesis, Data Analysis and Conclusions, and Presentations.
Watch: Dr. Janel Ortiz launch study to track the Wild Birds
Tracking San Diego’s Parrots: USD Biology Instructor Launches Study to Track the Wild Birds
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In the News
Celebrating USD Research Week April 5-12
// March 29, 2019
History Professor Dr. Thomas Barton Receives NEH Research Grant
// December 18, 2018
Events Showcase USD Community's Focus on Research
// April 24, 2018
Research Week: Faculty Recognized for Mentorship, Grant Proposals
// April 19, 2018
USD Research Week Powered by the Sun
// April 18, 2018
Research Week: Celebrating the Exploration of Knowledge
// April 13, 2018