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  • A woman wearing a blue striped button-down shirt enters a glass doorway at the Columbia Metropolitan Convention Center while holding a rolled-up Discover USC poster and a reusable water bottle. She carries a shoulder bag and looks to her left as she steps inside, with greenery and a walkway visible outside behind her.

Plan Your Day at Discover USC 2026

Posted on: April 14, 2026; Updated on: April 14, 2026

Discover USC 2026 organizers are excited to share details to help presenters, mentors, reviewers, volunteers and visitors get prepared—and excited—for the big day on Friday, April 24, 2026.

 

Get social

At this year's event, we will be celebrating 10 years of Discover USC. We invite you to join us in the festivities by sharing your Discover USC experiences using hashtag #DiscoverUSC2026. 

 

Plan your itinerary

Get ready for Discover USC 2026 by browsing presentations with our Find a Presenter tool, which now live and ready to help users find the details they need on all 1,000+ Discover USC 2026 presentations. With Find a Presenter, users can search, filter and sort presentations based on their interests, then export the results into a .csv spreadsheet to save details including title, abstract, presenter(s), mentor(s), poster number, time and location.

 

Download the official Discover USC 2026 Guidebook app

All Discover USC participants and visitors are encouraged to download the official Discover USC 2026 Guide on the Guidebook app. The 2026 Guide is available now, and has everything you need to navigate Discover USC 2026 and get event day updates from organizers.

Through the Discover USC 2026 Official Guide, users can:

  • View all the details on Discover USC 2026 presentations.
  • Search all presentations by presenter name(s), title, keywords found anywhere in the abstract or title, mentor name(s), poster number and more.
  • Refer to general information about the day, including the schedule with locations for each presentation session and information on free shuttles.
  • Receive event-day updates and reminders from organizers.

Get the guide: Scan the QR code in the callout box on this page or visit the Official Discover USC 2026 Guide web page to download the Guidebook app and get the official 2026 Guide.

 

Event day reminders

  • Navigating the event:
    • All presenters should pick up their name tags on the upper level near the top of the escalator.
    • All undergraduate presentations will be delivered in the Exhibit Hall on the convention center’s lower level. 
    • All graduate student, medical scholar and postdoc presentations are in the Columbia Ballroom on the upper level.
  • Visitors: Discover USC is free and open to the public. Visitors are welcome to join us for the event, with no registration or check-in required. 
  • Mentors: Remember you do not need to check in at Discover USC 2026. To reduce paper waste, 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.
  • Reviewers: If you are serving as a reviewer at Discover USC 2026, thank you! Please check in and pick up your review packet at the appropriate table about 30 minutes before the presentation session begins:
    • Undergraduate poster reviewers should check in inside of the Exhibit Hall on the lower level.
    • Reviewers for graduate, medical scholar and postdoc posters should check in at the appropriate table inside of the Columbia Ballroom on the upper level.

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