Howard Wayne Harris proves his 9th grade teacher wrong. Earning his Ph.D. at the USC Dornsife hooding ceremony May 16, he was…
USC Dornsife issued more than 2,500 degrees during Commencement 2013: 1,959 bachelor’s, 326 master's, 81 graduate…
USC Dornsife students win top prizes at the 15th Annual Undergraduate Symposium for Scholarly and Creative Work. In…
USC valedictorian Katherine Fu and salutatorians Alexander Fullman and Julia Sabo Mangione — all in USC Dornsife — will…
Introducing the 2013 Dornsife Scholars. The six winners will each receive $10,000 to be used for graduate or professional…
Environmental educators at USC have been showing the university's research facilities on Catalina Island to hundreds of students from middle schools and high schools since the conclusion of the 2010 QuikSCience Challenge, a… more>
categories: undergraduate
tags: catalina island, natural sciences, quikscience challenge, wrigley institute for environmental studies, wrigley marine science center
USC College Dean Howard Gillman has announced the hiring of Dr. Kenneth Geller as the new director of the USC College-Keck School of Medicine Academic and Advising Program following a national search. Geller will lead the… more>
categories: research
tags: advising, keck school of medicine, medical school, medicine, pre-health
If tectonic plate collisions cause volcanic eruptions, as every fifth grader knows, why do some volcanoes erupt far from a plate boundary? A study in Nature suggests that volcanoes and mountains in the Mediterranean can… more>
categories: research, faculty research
tags: earth, earth sciences, magazine, national science foundation, publication, thorsten becker, volcano
When injuries prevented Greg Woodburn from continuing to run track during high school, he never lost his passion for the sport. Instead he directed that energy toward founding a nonprofit organization called Give Running,… more>
categories: undergraduate
tags: award, charity, community, environment, history, india, mali, nonprofit, running, sports
Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger today announced the appointment of Dan Schnur, director of the Jesse M. Unruh Institute of Politics, as Chairman of California's Fair Political Practices Commission (FPPC). The commission, a… more>
categories: research, faculty research
tags: california, dan schnur, fair political practices commission, governor, jesse m. unruh institute of politics, political science, politics, social sciences
Arizona's controversial new immigration law has California's voters divided by age, ethnicity and gender, according to the findings of the latest USC College/Los Angeles Times Poll. In addition, the disastrous oil spill in… more>
categories: research
tags: california, dan schnur, election, jesse m. unruh institute of politics, politics, poll


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