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More Than Just the Score
January 27, 2010Although ESPN The Magazine Senior Writer Jorge Aranguré Jr. ’97 remains concerned with these key components of sports reporting, deeper issues are at play in his features. Aranguré-penned stories tend to… more>
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In & Out of Fiction
January 27, 2010Percival Everett doesn’t spend a lot of time considering his body of work. Instead, says the 52-year-old author, whose new novel I Am Not Sidney Poitier (Graywolf, 2009) came out in June, “I think about writing one… more>
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Faculty Bookplate
January 27, 2010Transforming Global Information and Communication Markets The Political Economy of Innovation by Jonathan Aronson and Peter Cowhey The MIT Press / Jonathan Aronson, professor in the USC Annenberg School for Communication… more>
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Exploring the Rise and Demise of Empires
January 26, 2010When Sarah Hawley took her first archaeology course in USC College, she did not know it would be a watershed experience. Entering USC to study theatre the year before, she was immediately hooked and switched her… more>
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Faculty Notes
January 25, 2010Alber Named 2009 Pew Scholar Frank Alber, assistant professor of biological sciences, will get closer to determining the architecture of a macromolecular machine after being named a 2009 Pew Scholar in the Biomedical… more>
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Alumni Bookplate
January 25, 2010LaffitAnatomy of a Winnerby Madelyn Cain-IngleseAffirmed Press / Madelyn Cain-Inglese (MPW, ’00), also a lecturer in the Master of Professional Writing Program, tells the life story of Hall of Fame jockey Laffit Pincay… more>
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Surviving Serpentine Soil
January 25, 2010Recently published in Nature Genetics, a paper by Sergey Nuzhdin, alumnus Tom Turner, and their co-researchers reveals how plants survive in marginal soil environments. Nuzhdin, professor of molecular biology in USC College,… more>
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New Partnership Enhances Pre-Health Programs
January 19, 2010More than 30 percent of first-year students at USC College enroll as pre-health majors. This large cohort, along with future pre-health students, soon will benefit from enhanced pre-health undergraduate programming and… more>
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Reveling in the Ring
January 15, 2010Every Saturday afternoon a 9-year-old boy plunks down next to his father and together they listen. The radio dial properly adjusted, a broadcast of the Metropolitan Opera's production of Puccini's La Bohème begins. A… more>
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Support Hiked for Amazon River Study
January 14, 2010An enormous plume of freshwater leaves the Amazon River and spreads across the tropical Atlantic Ocean, setting the stage for the symbiosis of some bacteria and algae on a scale that appears to subtly influence the climate of… more>
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