University of Southern California
One of 新澳门六合彩资料 BUILD鈥檚 Ph.D. Partners is the University of Southern California (USC). USC鈥檚 Dr. Lourdes Baezconde-Garbanati, Professor in the Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, serves on the External Advisory Board for 新澳门六合彩资料 BUILD and assists in facilitating all collaborative activities with Dr. Richard Watanabe, Professor of Preventive Medicine and Physiology & Biophysics, and Vice Chair for Education, Keck School of Medicine, and Dr. Thomas William Valente, Professor of Preventive Medicine and Interim Chair of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine. Together they provide oversight and approval of BUILD collaborative activities at USC.
Our collaboration with USC includes a variety of activities summarized below.
Field Trips
USC has organized annual campus field trips for 新澳门六合彩资料 BUILD student trainees where they have the opportunity to learn about the interdisciplinary research being conducted in the Department of Preventive Medicine. They also learn about summer research training opportunities {LINK: } and at USC, as well as receive career development advice.
Mentorship
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Colloquia Series
Part of 新澳门六合彩资料 BUILD鈥檚 training program is a series of Colloquia held twice a semester. Faculty from USC have been featured speakers at several of them. Open to all faculty and students on campus, the series serves as a recruitment tool for new BUILD faculty mentors and BUILD students, as well as help facilitate networking research opportunities between USC faculty and 新澳门六合彩资料 faculty and students.
Workshops
USC has coordinated with our Research Resources and Training Coordinator to help identify instrumentation and research methodology expertise to provide 新澳门六合彩资料 BUILD-sponsored faculty and student research training workshops at USC.
Conferences
USC has regularly invited BUILD student trainees to participate in their Annual Diabetes & Obesity Research Institute (DORI) conference. In 2015, one BUILD student won a research award at this conference.
