The Center at USC assists in the development of new communication applications on local, national and global levels, and explores the impact changing technology has on society.

A virtual research enterprise designed as an Advanced Technology Resource for Investigating and Understanding Management and managed processes. Site provides program details and selected research papers.

Interdisciplinary research unit that creates new tools and techniques for developing and delivering highly interactive graphical simulation-based learning environments. Topics of interest include authoring tools for intelligent tutoring systems, simulation training, behavior authoring for virtual environments, and instruction in virtual environments.

Dedicated to the advancement of biomedical modeling and simulation through Core and collaborative research. Administered by the USC Department of Biomedical Engineering.

USC Department of Electrical Engineering program to perform high-impact research on urgent transportation issues in cooperation with industry and government.

Organized research unit based in the USC Department of Mathematics to foster research and graduate education.

Site provide introduction and access to information about the USC Center's activities and programs.

Supports research related to computational biology for the USC Departments of Biological Sciences, Computer Science, and Mathematics.

Research laboratory administered by the USC School of Dentistry.

A central facility for the USC Departments of Materials Science and Biology. Responsible for the acquisition, use, and maintenance of major instruments for characterization of the microstructure and composition of all types of solid materials.

Founded in 1987 to promote cross-disciplinary scholarship on gender by faculty and graduate/professional students.

Understanding and process control of manufacturing nanostructures using post-growth dry etching and growth-controlled synthesis on nanomesa arrays.

Established in 1986 by the USC School of International Relations to promote advanced research and sustained discussion of theoretical and policy issues in international political and economic affairs.

Organized research unit of the USC School of Education facilitating the research collaboration, dissemination and professional development activities of faculty, students, and others. The Center provides a base for those interested in multilingual education, English-as-a second language, and foreign language instruction, multicultural education and related areas.

Academic research unit and a community partner for faith-based organizations. CRCC conducts research on the civic role of religion, helps to build the capacity of faith-based organizations to address significant social issues, and communicates findings to scholars, legislators, community leaders, media, and funders.

Information Services Division initiative for campus-wide technology training and outreach, and off-campus partnerships. CST is dedicated to raising the awareness of intra and inter-campus accessibility issues, creating local and internationally-partnered technology conferences and training seminars, and is committed to the long-term impact of technology on pedagogy.

Provides an environment for research and teaching in the areas of large-scale software design and development processes, generic and domain specific software architectures, software engineering tools and environments, cooperative system design, and the economics of software engineering.

Founded in 1985 to create and disseminate the understanding of emerging, strategic, and policy issues facing the global wireline, wireless, cable, entertainment, information, and computing industries. Associated with the USC Marshall School of Business.

Research on charter schools, school-based management, and professional development in K-12 schools. Administered by the USC Rossier School of Education.

Provides an environment for research on computer network protocols and distributed system algorithms and architectures. Current research areas include network protocols for resource reservation and admission control, real-time packet scheduling algorithms and type-of-service routing algorithms, resource discovery architectures, multicast transport protocol, and reliable multicast protocol. Administered by the USC Department of Computer Science.

Laboratory conducts research in a number of basic and applied areas including image and scene segmentation, stereo and motion analysis, range analysis, perceptual grouping, shape analysis and object recognition. Administered by the USC Department of Computer Science.

The Egg Company 2 at USC is a Los Angeles incubator for start-up companies in multimedia and a research center for high technology, electronic communications and commerce.

Creates and manages technology commercialization programs and international technology transfer partnerships for USC.

Teaching, research and archival facility for new media at the USC Department of Anthropology. Founded in 1988 to promote the development of interactive media in and for anthropology, ethnography and the analysis of behavior.

Offers training courses and training tools to assist those involved in cross-connection control. Administered by the USC Department of Civil Engineering.

Off-campus research facility of the USC School of Engineering, involved in a broad spectrum of information processing research and in the development of advanced computer and communication technologies.

Organized research unit of the USC School of Medicine, established to promote multidisciplinary health research.

Interdepartmental unit of USC School of Engineering and Information Sciences Institute for government and industry-sponsored research in robotics, machine vision, and manufacturing systems.

Research facility of the USC School of Engineering for advanced computer-based real-time interactive media.

Interdisciplinary effort between faculty and students that seeks to produce new materials and devices at the nanometer scale, by direct interaction with atomic structures.

Resource for optimal study and control of pharmacokinetic systems and individualized drug therapy. Administered by the USC School of Medicine.

Research facility associated with the USC Department of Chemistry to study fundamental hydrocarbon and polymer chemistry and other areas of organic synthesis and mechanistic organic chemistry.

Promotes real estate research, degree programs, professional development, and industry outreach and education. Administered jointly by the USC Marshall School of Business and the School of Policy, Planning, and Development.

Program from the USC School of Fine Arts was initiated in 1992 to explore studio art in the context of digital technologies.

Consortium to undertake system, component, and technology research in photonics in areas of vital importance to defense and commercial industries in the US.

A multidisciplinary research program that prepares doctoral students to confront, analyze and resolve the challenges posed by problems of urban sustainability. Administered by the USC School of Engineering.

Research unit within the USC Department of Electrical Engineering-Systems to facilitate the interaction of faculty with governmental and industrial research sponsors.

Online version of this scholarly journal examining various social, economic, legal and political aspects of computer-mediated communication. Published by the Annenberg School of Communication, University of Southern California.

The Media and Injury Prevention Program (MIPP) is an innovative attempt to use traffic reports as a mechanism to promote better driving. Site provides the history, details and ideas behind the project.

1995 research project that combined robotics and archaeology in an interactive art installation.