VSoE RESEARCH INNOVATION FUND

In September 2007, VSoE announced the Research Innovation Fund, a new program aimed at fostering novel strategic research directions, projects, and activities in the school.
 

2007

• Research Innovation Fund announcement memo (2007)
• Research Innovation Fund First Call for Proposals (submissions were due 11/26/2007)
• Fall 2007 Research Innovation Fund Awards
• 2007 RIF Grant Reports
  • Startup Development of the Space Engineering Research Center (SERC)
  • Targeted Delivery of Antigen for Novel Vaccines
  • Establishing a New USC Invited Workshop on Theory and Practice in Wireless Networks
  • Organized Research Unit (ORU) on Carbon Capture and Sequestration: Meeting the needs of the Energy Sector

2008

• Research Innovation Fund Second Call for Proposals (submissions were due 04/21/2008)
• Spring 2008 Research Innovation Fund Awards
• 2008 RIF Grant Reports
  • USC DIversity Workshop
  • International Symposium on the Dymanics of Extended Structures, in Honor of Prof. Ahmed M Abdel-Ghaffer
  • Megacities
  • Robotics ORU Faculty Visiting Program
  • USC Symposium on Structure and Function of Energetic Materials

2009

• Research Innovation Fund Third Call for Proposals (submissions were due 09/21/2009)
• Fall 2009 Research Innovation Fund Awards
• 2009 RIF Grant Reports
  • Is the Current Dominant Aircraft Design Configuration Optimal?
  • New Directions in Emotional Speech Production: Modeling of co-modulation of articulatory gestures and speech prosody

2010

• Research Innovation Fund Spring 2010 Call for Proposals (submissions due 02/08/2010)
• Spring 2010 Research Innovation Fund Awards
• Spring 2010 Reports
  • Second International Conference on Quantum Error Correction
  • Comparative Analysis of a Novel Approach to Economical Wind Energy
  • Emerging Trends in Materials Simulations and Experiments Conference
  • The BioRC Biomimetic Real-Time Cortex Project
• Research Innovation Fund Fall 2010 Call for Proposals (submissions due 11/01/2010)
• Fall 2010 Research Innovation Fund Awards
• Fall 2010 Reports
  • Center for Geothermal Studies (CGS) Distinguished Speaker Program (DSP) and Annual Technology Workshop (ATW)
  • Intravitreal Drug Delivery: Experimentation and Mathematical Modeling of Ocular Fluid Dynamics and Transport Phenomena
  • Distinguished Speaker Series on Innovation in Informatics to meet Smart Energy Challenges (IISEC)
  • USC‐DOE Meeting on Emerging Trends in Materials Simulations and Experiments

2011

• Research Innovation Fund Spring 2011 Call for Proposals (submissions due 04/04/2011)
• Spring 2011 Research Innovation Fund Awards
• Research Innovation Fund Fall 2011 Call for Proposals (submissions due 11/23/2011)
• Fall 2011 Research Innovation Fund Awards