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In Memoriam: Moshe Lazar, 84
December 21, 2012Moshe Lazar, professor emeritus of comparative literature and former chair, has died. He was 84. Lazar died on December 13, 2012, at his home in Los Angeles after fighting Alzheimer’s disease for six years. Described… more>
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Rings of Power Struggle
December 19, 2012Everyone knows a Hobbit’s traditional forum is in English class. But for Patrick James, the world of J.R.R. Tolkien is more than escapist fantasy. The Dean’s Professor of International Relations in USC Dornsife… more>
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Mind Games
December 18, 2012As a child, how many of you memorized the planet names and order with this little ditty: My very elegant mother just sat upon nine porcupines. Although the demotion of Pluto to a dwarf planet renders this particular mnemonic… more>
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The Little Enzyme That Could
December 12, 2012The cute kiddie cartoon shows an animated Candy Hwang wearing a white lab coat jotting down data on her clipboard. But the 90-second video is not child’s play. Called The Secrets of Nitrogenase, it clearly and concisely… more>
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'The Cherry on Top'
December 12, 2012Here’s the scene: The USC men’s water polo team is swimming in their home pool for the 2012 NCAA tournament against crosstown rival the UCLA Bruins. A year ago, the Trojans had achieved a history-making four-year… more>
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One Man’s Trash, Another Man’s Treasure
December 11, 2012A team of USC Dornsife chemists has developed a way to transform a hitherto useless ozone-destroying greenhouse gas that is the byproduct of Teflon manufacture into reagents for producing pharmaceuticals. The discovery was… more>
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A Rising Star
December 6, 2012At 6 a.m., Brittany Berns would awake to the sound of her neighbors’ breakfast pans clacking. Nearby, roosters crowed and pigs snorted. After grabbing a bite of rice and beans, Berns would pull a bucket of water from… more>
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Marine Biologist Takes Risks
December 5, 2012Jed Fuhrman, McCulloch-Crosby Chair of Marine Biology in USC Dornsife, has been honored with a prestigious Marine Microbiology Initiative Investigator Award from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation. Fuhrman is one of 16… more>
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Warshel Fêted by Royal Society of Chemistry
December 4, 2012In 1963, a burning question kept invading the mind of a young kibbutznik studying chemistry at the Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, in Haifa. Arieh Warshel had to know: just how do enzymes speed up chemical… more>
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