During a two-day summit held at USC, about 50 researchers from national and international universities met to discuss how research could help understand the enduring challenges facing the nation's nearly 22 million veterans and their families. The inaugural summit was the first step in developing a national research agenda that would target these critical issues in the next decade. Read more

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Recent research has found that though sexual functioning problems are significantly higher among military service members than civilians, very few receive treatment. These problems, which are strongly related to the physical and psychological health of service members, are often overlooked by both military populations and clinicians, making it yet another invisible wound of war. Read more

Listen: Audio recording of the conference

A recently published article in Work: A Journal of Prevention, Assessment & Rehabilitation aims to outline the military workplace culture so that employers can better create supportive workplaces for veterans and military spouses during their reintegration back into civilian communities. Read more

USC's crowdfunding platform, Ignite USC, is raising funds to provide scholarships for children of veteran or active duty U.S. service members to attend a four-week program at the university in which they can earn college credit and preview their "freshman year" at one of the world's leading private research universities. Learn more.