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 Highlights
- NSF - Enforcement of NSF-approved Biographical Sketch and Current and Pending Support Formats Begins on 10/5/20
- USD News Minute for Apr. 20
- Information from NSF on COVID-19: Community Guidance
- NSF-Approved Formats for the Biographical Sketch (NSF 20-1)
- February 2020 Faculty Newsnotes
- The Maillard reaction: What is it and why it matters
- USD Professor, Joel Alex Mejia, Awarded $579,000 NSF CAREER Award to Promote Latino Success in Engineering
- Legal clinic serves trafficking victims
- Faculty Newsnotes: December 2019
- How Kroc School Professor Ami Carpenter's Human Trafficking Report Findings Are Fueling Prevention Efforts
- Faculty Newsnotes: November 2019
- San Diego Union-Tribune: Angel Conference Raises Stakes
- 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