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

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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Watch: Office Hours with Odesma Dalrymple, PhD Prof. Dalrymple teaches classes in industrial and systems engineering.
Imane Khalil Play Video
Watch: Office Hours with Imane Khalil, PhD Prof. Khalil teaches classes in mechanical engineering.
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Watch: Research Week 2018 with Provost Gail Baker Provost Baker and two professors discuss the power of research experiences for students.

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