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Discover USC 2025: Registration opens Monday, January 27

Sponsored by the Office of the Vice President for Research, Discover USC showcases innovative projects produced by graduate and undergraduate students, postdoctoral and medical scholars from across the USC system. Work presented at Discover USC spans disciplines to represent the wide variety of scholarship at South Carolina’s flagship university.

This year, Discover USC will be held on Friday, April 25, 2025, at the Columbia Metropolitan Convention Center. The USC community is invited to attend Discover USC and learn firsthand about current research and scholarship from hundreds of undergraduate and graduate students, medical scholars and postdocs.

Add Discover USC 2025 to your calendar.

 

Discover USC 2025 Registration

Registration for presenters and reviewers will open on Monday, January 27. Visitors who will not be serving in one of these roles are welcome to drop in without registering.

Registration deadlines:

 

Important Notes for Discover USC 2025

Discover USC organizers are making a few changes for 2025 that will affect presenters and volunteers.  

NEW for Discover USC 2025:
  • One poster per presenter: Because of the overwhelming popularity of Discover USC, for the first time, presenters may only present one poster at Discover USC 2025. Up to two presenters are allowed per poster, but please note that neither the first nor the second presenter on one poster may present another poster. (In other words, the second presenter on a poster cannot also be first presenter on another poster.)
  • No volunteer registration: Because Discover USC needs only a limited number of volunteers in 2025, we will not be opening volunteer registration this year. Faculty, staff, graduate students and postdocs who were planning to volunteer are encouraged to serve as reviewers this year instead.
  • The presenter deadline is on a Wednesday (rather than a Friday as in past years).

 

Faculty Reminders:
  • Mentor nametags: To reduce paper waste at the event, nametags will not be printed for mentors at Discover USC 2025. Mentors are encouraged to bring a nametag issued by USC or Prisma Health to identify themselves. (Mentors are eligible to receive a boxed lunch with their employer-issued nametag.)
  • Academic class requirements: Discover USC organizers ask that presentations not be made a requirement for all students in an academic class (if it is not a requirement already).

If you have any questions about Discover USC 2025, please contact us.

Discover USC, Sponsored by the Office of the Vice President for Research


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