USC Stevens Center for Innovation

We're looking for qualified candidates in several areas, including technology licensing, contracts, and marketing. We currently have openings for the following positions:
- Associate Director of Licensing
- Senior Licensing Associate, Life Sciences
- Licensing Associate, Life Sciences (2 positions)
- Senior Licensing Associate, Physical Sciences
- Licensing Associate, Physical Sciences
- Research Contracts Associate
- Marketing Coordinator

Links to job descriptions can be found on the Careers page of our website: https://stevens.usc.edu/about/careers/

A reminder that LOIs are due Friday, Feb. 4, for this year's TAG program!

Funding opportunity! We have opened our 2022 Request for Proposals for the USC Stevens Technology Advancement Grants (TAG) program. TAG awards provide USC researchers up to $100,000 for a project duration of no more than one year and support unlicensed, early stage technologies invented at USC through validation or proof-of-concept development.

➡️ LOI submission deadline: February 4, 2022, 5:00PM Pacific Time
➡️ Full details: bit.ly/USCStevensTAGRFPAnnouncement
➡️ Application link: bit.ly/USCStevensTAG2022Apply

We're hiring! We have openings in several areas, including technology licensing, contracts, finance and operations, and marketing. Visit the careers section of our website (https://stevens.usc.edu/about/careers/) for links to the job postings and be sure to share with your network!

We are currently recruiting for the following positions:
- Licensing Associate
- Director of Commercialization Finance and Operations
- Financial Analyst II
- Senior Material Transfer Agreement Administrator
- Marketing Coordinator

Funding opportunity! We have opened our 2022 Request for Proposals for the USC Stevens Technology Advancement Grants (TAG) program. TAG awards provide USC researchers up to $100,000 for a project duration of no more than one year and support unlicensed, early stage technologies invented at USC through validation or proof-of-concept development.

➡️ LOI submission deadline: February 4, 2022, 5:00PM Pacific Time
➡️ Full details: bit.ly/USCStevensTAGRFPAnnouncement
➡️ Application link: bit.ly/USCStevensTAG2022Apply

Now hiring! We're looking to fill multiple roles at the USC Stevens Center for Innovation:
⭐ Director of Commercialization Finance and Operations
⭐ Licensing Associate
⭐ Financial Analyst II

➡️ More info and to apply: stevens.usc.edu/about/careers

Check out this great article spotlighting one of this year’s USC Stevens Student Innovator Showcase winners: Roshni Lulla of Recordless! 🎶

The USC Dornsife Ph.D. Academy supports Dornsife Ph.D. students to help them thrive during each year of their Ph.D. program. We want to highlight the amazing students that are a part of our unique community.

This month’s student spotlight is on Roshni Lulla, a first-year Ph.D. candidate in the Brain and Cognitive Science program in the Department of Psychology. Roshni won the Brooks Kushman Patentability Award at the 14th Annual USC Stevens Student Innovator Showcase in November 2021. Congratulations, Roshni!

Read her full feature on our website here: https://dornsife.usc.edu/phd-academy/student-spotlight-roshni-lulla/. ✌

✨ Congratulations to University of Southern California professors Andrea Armani, Sri Narayan, and Cyrus Shahabi, who have been elected as Fellows of the National Academy of Inventors, the highest professional distinction accorded solely to academic inventors. Each year, the National Academy of Inventors presents this honor to inventors who have "demonstrated a highly prolific spirit of innovation in creating or facilitating outstanding inventions that have made a tangible impact on the quality of life, economic development, and welfare of society." More info: bit.ly/NAIFellowsUSC2021

USC is now home to a total of 21 NAI Fellows:
* Andrea Armani
* Keith Chugg
* P. Daniel Dapkus
* Scott E. Fraser
* Ming Hsieh
* Mark S. Humayun
* Behrokh Khoshnevis
* Jay Kuo
* Gianluca Lazzi
* Gerald Loeb
* Ellis Fan-Chuin Meng
* Andreas F. Molisch
* Sri Narayan
* Shrikanth S. Narayanan
* C. L. Max Nikias
* Cyrus Shahabi
* Neil Siegel
* Mark E. Thompson
* Andrew J. Viterbi
* Michael S. Waterman
* Alan E. Willner

Did you miss our USC Stevens Student Innovator Showcase? Read our recap story for all the details about our annual event where USC student entrepreneurs pitched their startup and business ideas for cash prizes and in-kind awards. Six teams won a total of over $30,000 and additional in-kind awards valued at over $30,000, representing a range of creative business ideas, including a medical device for cancer patients, a platform for college athletes to monetize their media, an app to help the visually impaired, and more.

USC student entrepreneurs win thousands in prizes at annual Stevens Showcase - USC Stevens Center for Innovation On Nov. 17, 2021, the USC Stevens Center for Innovation hosted its 14th Annual USC Stevens Student Innovator Showcase, where USC student entrepreneurs pitched their startup and business ideas to compete for cash and in-kind awards.

Missed last week's webinar on intellectual property rights in creative fields? Head to our YouTube channel for a recording of the discussion lead by Nixon Peabody's Seth Levy, who has extensive experience in this area of intellectual property law. In the webinar, we also discuss how University of Southern California faculty, staff, and graduate students can interact with the Stevens Center to secure intellectual property rights and what can be done with them. This webinar is especially relevant for attendees from the Schools of Architecture, Art & Design, Cinematic Arts, Dance, Dramatic Arts, and Music.

Congratulations to the winners of yesterday's USC Stevens Student Innovator Showcase, our annual University of Southern California student business competition:

WaterShield
$10,000 USC Stevens Transformational Innovation Award
Team Leader: Farbod Amirghasemi, USC Viterbi School of Engineering

DYME
$10,000 Best Business Concept Award (sponsored by the Diem Shotwell Metcalfe Family Fund at USC Marshall School of Business)
Team Leader: George Pappas, USC Marshall School of Business)

Veever
$4,000 Global Impact Award (sponsored by the Daniel Floersheimer Family through the USC Marshall School of Business)
Team Leader: João Pedro Novochadlo, USC Marshall School of Business

SoundToy
$4,000 Allen Clair Nelson Innovation Award (Sponsored by a donation by Allen Clair Nelson through the USC Viterbi School of Engineering)
Team Leader: Juri Hwang, USC School of Cinematic Arts

MeetSee
$2,500 Venture Validation Award (sponsored by the Lloyd Greif Center for Entrepreneurial Studies at USC Marshall School of Business)
Team Leader: Daniel Hanasab, USC Marshall School of Business

Recordless
Brooks Kushman Patentability Award (In-kind, value over $15,000)
Team Leader: Roshni Lulla, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences

WaterShield
Pillsbury Mentorship Award (In-kind, value over $15,000)
Team Leader: Farbod Amirghasemi, USC Viterbi School of Engineering

Thank you to the 2021 Award Sponsors of today's USC Stevens Student Innovator Showcase for supporting entrepreneurship ✌️

🌟 Details: bit.ly/SISFinalistsNewsArticle
🌟 Register to watch the Showcase live at 10AM Pacific Time TODAY: bit.ly/WatchSISLive2021

Watch all 10 finalist teams compete TODAY, Nov. 17, 10AM at our USC Stevens Student Innovator Showcase. They will be pitching their startup and business ideas to judges LIVE on Zoom to win $30,000 cash prizes and in-kind awards worth $30,000. Register for the Zoom link: bit.ly/WatchSISLive2021