2017
David James, USC School of Cinematic Arts — LAXTON
Martin Krieger, USC Sol Price School of Public Policy — Transit Oriented Development
Judy Muller, USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism — Establishing a Retirement Career in Travel Journalism
Alexander Sawchuk, USC Viterbi School of Engineering — Video Analysis of Cataract Surgeon Skills
Joel Schechter, Keck School of Medicine of USC — New Pathways in Art
2016
Shao-Yao Ying, Keck School of Medicine of USC — MIR-302 as a Drug For Wound Healing
Maria Luisa Zubizarreta,USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences — Evidentiality, Temporaility, and Definiteness in Paraguayan Guaran
2015
Elinor Accampo, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences — Silencing the Invisible Enemy in World War I: France and the Spanish Influenza, 1918-1919
Gene Albrecht, Keck School of Medicine of USC — Complex Curvilinear Allometry of Brain Size and Scaling in Mammals
Kathleen Allen, USC Marshall School of Business — The Physics of Execution: A Study of the Effects of Pace and Momentum on Technology
Janet Fulk, USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism — Multidimensional Network Influences on Crowdsourced Design Outcomes
Gary Glaze, USC Thornton School of Music — The Art of Singing
Yasushi Hamao, USC Marshall School of Business — Experience from Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami
Dennis Hocevar, USC Rossier School of Education — STEM Tracking and Underrepresented Minority STEM Success
Richard B. Jewell, USC School of Cinematic Arts — Slow Fade to Black: the Decline of RKO Radio Pictures and travel/research support for Frenemies: Washington and Hollywood during World War II
Maryalice Jordan-Marsh, USC School of Social Work — Building Games for Healthy Aging
Robert A. Larsen, Keck School of Medicine of USC — Cultivation of Treponema pallidum
Morten Lauridsen, USC Thornton School of Music — Prayers, the Songs of Morten Lauridsen
Herbert Meiselman, Keck School of Medicine of USC — Hemorheology and Traditional Chinese Medicine
Peter Monge, USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism — Understanding Online Creative Collaboration
Mansour Rahimi, USC Viterbi School of Engineering — Environmental Impact of Micro-nuclear Desalination Plants in the Middle East
Azade-Ayse Rorlich, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences — Muslim Visual Culture in Late Imperial Russia
Mario Saltareli, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences — Polysemy and Linear Order: the Isometry of Language
Charles Sammis, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences — Damage Mechanics in the Earth Sciences
Jonathan Taplin, USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism — Towards a Moral Framework for the Internet
Clive R. Taylor, Keck School of Medicine of USC — Founding of the International Diagnostic Immunohistochemistry Society & Editing From Magic to Molecules: A History of Pathology and Disease
Eric Trules, USC School of Dramatic Arts — Trules Podcast
Wynne Waugaman, USC School of Social Work — The Miracle that Didn’t Happen for the Jews
Bradley R. Williams, USC School of Pharmacy — An Exploration of Aging through Photography
2014
Michael Arbib, USC Viterbi School of Engineering — Vision and Language in the Context of Brain, Evolution & Computation
Jean Crampon, USC Libraries — Valero IV History Project
Werner Dappen, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences — Solar Physics
Gregory Davis, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences — Tectonic Research in Northern China
Robbert Flick, USC Roski School of Art and Design — “COMMUTE” project: mounting of selected photos
George Hayden, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences — Thematic and prosodic study of Hong Sheng’s play, The Hall of Long Life
Ronald C. Henry, USC Viterbi School of Engineering — Researching the health effects of airport emissions
Andrea Hricko, Keck School of Medicine of USC — Environmental Health Issues in the Urban Environment
Peggy Kamuf, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences — Monograph on capital punishment & editorial effort on Derrida’s lectures
Thom Mason, USC Thornton School of Music — America’s Great Jazz Heritage DVD series
Cynthia Munzer, USC Thornton School of Music — Sing to Breathe: a vocal arts and health project
Niel Nathason, Herman Ostrow School of Dentistry of USC — Conducting a national survey of dental schools
Robert Rueda, USC Rossier School of Education — Digital Equity and Common Core Technology Project
F. Stan Settles, USC Viterbi School of Engineering — Trojan Thunder Project
Martin Weiss, Keck School of Medicine of USC — Photographic Atlas of Neurosurgical Procedures
Lillian Yang, USC Libraries — Publishing of a collection of personal essays in China