Resources for Doctoral and Postdoctoral Scholars
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A digital hub for life science news and jobs. It provides essential insights, opportunities, and tools to connect innovative organizations and talented professionals who advance health and quality of life across the globe.
H-Net: Humanities & Social Sciences Online
Offers academic and non-academic job announcements in non-profit and for-profit fields and government. Announcements of events, upcoming conferences, calls for papers, calls for publication, programs, workshops, sources of funding, and fellowships.
A free online career exploration and planning tool for Ph.D. students and postdoctoral scholars in the humanities and social sciences. Assess your career-related skills, interests, and values, explore career paths appropriate to your disciplines, create goals and map out the next steps for career and professional development success
An online platform that allows PhD-level scientists and humanists, regardless of professional stage, to explore future career options. It engages with an individual’s interests and extrapolates these interests to positions in actual professional settings in industry, academia, and government sectors. While the simulations do not evaluate an individual’s performance on the task, they offer insight into the specific, real-life duties of varying career paths.
A unique, web-based career-planning tool tailored to meet the needs of PhD students and postdocs in the sciences.
Provides programs and resources for prospective and current STEM graduate students — including funding opportunities and professional development programs and resources.
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USC RESOURCES
Office of Research and Innovation
USC offers faculty, postdocs, and research administrators a wide range of internal and external funding sources across the university for research and other scholarly projects.
Dornsife Graduate students have access to fellowships, grants, and awards throughout their graduate careers.
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RESOURCES FOR POSTDOCTORAL SCHOLARS
USC Office of Postdoctoral Affairs
The USC Office of Postdoctoral Affairs is the central resource on campus serving as a liaison between the Office of the Provost, postdoctoral scholars, faculty, and staff to disseminate university initiatives and policies. It works closely with academic units to help recruit a diverse cadre of the best junior scholars to the university and facilitate the training and preparation of postdoctoral scholars for careers as independent researchers, academics, and leaders of their chosen fields.
Awards and Fellowships Database
Searchable database for fellowships.
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EXTERNAL RESOURCES
A searchable federal database with opportunities from all federal agencies.
