Research at USC

• USC ranks in the top dozen of private universities in America in dollar volume of federal research support, as well as in total research expenditures.
• Sponsored research has doubled over the decade and is currently $421 million annually.
• George A. Olah's Nobel Prize recognizes his work in carbocation chemistry.
• USC has 44 members of the National Academies of Sciences and Engineering, and Institute of Medicine.
• More than 200 faculty members have received academic and professional awards from organizations such as the National Institutes of Health, National Science Foundation, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, National Endowment for the Humanities, John Simon Guggenheim Foundation and Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences.
• Faculty of the Viterbi School of Engineering are consistently among the top three engineering schools in peer-reviewed research funding per professor.
• Andrus Gerontology Center faculty average over $600,000 annually per professor in peer-reviewed research funding, among the highest totals in any field in any university.
• The Preventive Medicine department of the Keck School of Medicine is ranked first in the nation for extramural funding—Ronald Ross's research has earned a lifetime total of over $200 million in national peer-reviewed funding.

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