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Future Fuels Initiative Ramping Up
October 30, 2006The Future Fuels and Energy Initiative is taking concrete steps into its second year with a pilot grant program and a visiting scholar program. Provost C. L. Max Nikias established the initiative last fall. It builds on… more>
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Conversation With Alison Dundes Renteln
October 27, 2006Alison Dundes Renteln, professor of political science and anthropology, is the director of the Jesse M. Unruh Institute of Politics, named after the late speaker of the California State Assembly, who was known as “the… more>
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USC Groups Attend Neuroscience Meeting
October 17, 2006Highlights from presentations by USC researchers at the Society for Neuroscience’s annual meeting this week and next in Atlanta, Ga. Estrogen Plays Both Sides on Alzheimer’s Hormone replacement therapy can… more>
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Alum Salutes Professor With Scholarship
October 17, 2006When self-described conservative student activist Stephen Lesher arrived on the USC campus in 1992, he was ready to do battle with the liberal professors he thought dominated academia. But for the political science major, a… more>
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Political Scientist Earns Fellowship
October 13, 2006For her work on how immigrants are changing the face of the religious right, USC College professor Janelle Wong has been named a Woodrow Wilson Center Fellow for the 2006-07 academic year. Wong, an associate professor with… more>
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A Place to Commune, A Place to Remember
October 1, 2006In the early ’70s, Richard S. Ide and his friends tried to establish a commune in Vermont. It was meant to keep them in contact with each other, and provide a place they could always return with their families. It never… more>
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A Boone for the Environment
October 1, 2006Hardhats and shiny shovels notwithstanding, the recent groundbreaking at the Catalina Island campus of the USC Wrigley Institute for Environmental Studies was not your typical university celebration. The invite advised island… more>
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Into Africa
October 1, 2006To sit down and speak with USC College doctoral students Yesim Ince and Geert Poppe is to be energized. These international relations scholars are excited to talk about what they did this summer.Their enthusiasm for both the… more>
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Portrait of an Activist-Academic
October 1, 2006Those familiar with Ruth “Ruthie” Wilson Gilmore’s work as an anti-prison, -racism, -sexism activist may not be surprised to learn she is the daughter and granddaughter of activists.But there are lesser-know… more>
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A Brief History of Hollywood
October 1, 2006As Hollywood grapples with the rapidly changing face of media, moviegoers have fragmented into niche audiences, making popular culture harder to gauge, University Professor Leo Braudy said.“Has Hollywood, in a sense… more>
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