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USC Dornsife Magazine, Spring/Summer 2013

 

THE CREATIVITY ISSUE

Cover Story: In a stratospheric leap for neuroscience, researchers at the Brain and Creativity Institute (BCI) are limited only by their imaginations.

By Pamela J. Johnson   Full Story

 

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Crood Awakening

In The Croods, the new, box-office hit from DreamWorks Animation, Kirk DeMicco ’91 has created an endearingly dysfunctional prehistoric family who must learn to evolve...or die. by Susan Bell

 

 

Hire Purpose

Finding USC Dornsife a destination for entrepreneurial thinking, these newest faculty members are heading in exciting and novel directions. by Pamela J. Johnson

 

 

The Dark of Harkness

Writing fiction gives Deborah Harkness license to explore where her inner historian would not dare to tread. by Michelle Salzman

 

 

Positive Change

In a university-wide effort, USC Dornsife undergraduates teach civic engagement and entrepreneurship to elementary schoolchildren. by Laura Paisley

 

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Big City Ways

Peter La Chapelle ’02 takes a cue from Woody Guthrie and finds his own way to persevere.

 

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