Research & Innovation
Research is what we do best because we’ve created a dynamic, collaborative ecosystem to produce timely, quality work. Breaking silos is what we do. Students at all levels are encouraged to participate in cross-disciplinary research projects, working with distinguished faculty and our surrounding community. Industries around the world look to USC for leadership, inspiration and opportunities to partner around today’s most important and immediate questions.
Tackling Today’s Problems
Research at USC translates into real-world solutions. These projects have generated actionable plans for some of today’s most pervasive issues.
The Truthiness Collaborative
Connecting Skid Row
The next biofuel source could be giant sea kelp
Student Research
Students are integrated in every level of the research that happens at USC. Learn how students contribute to important advances.
Faculty Research
Our top-notch faculty make us one of the leading private research universities in the country. Find out what they’re working on.
Research Resources
Our resources empower USC’s research community to be creative, make astonishing discoveries and translate findings for the betterment of humanity. Find support, methods and tools to make these endeavors happen.
A Place for Innovation
Thinkers and doers thrive in USC’s collaborative, multidisciplinary environment. We foster an entrepreneurial culture focused on solving problems to improve the human condition — and it all starts with innovation.
Centers & Institutes
Spanning a wide array of disciplines and specialties, USC’s centers and institutes are the hotbeds of innovative inquiry and collaboration pushing the frontiers of knowledge forward. USC’s interdisciplinary research ecosystem includes numerous cross-school research projects, programs and initiatives.
Research News
USC-led research finds that an electric field device placed on the scalp, along with immunotherapy and chemotherapy, may help patients with glioblastoma live longer.
In a proof-of-concept study, the test detected five key biomarkers of Alzheimer’s disease — more than current commercially available blood tests can measure.
A new USC-developed technique enhances quantum sensing by counteracting the limitation of decoherence, unpredictable behavior caused by environmental noise.
USC-led study uses AI to analyze genetic mutations and improve cancer treatment strategies