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Chemical That Acts Like a Fuel Gauge
July 1, 2007The concept that a drop in blood sugar triggers a craving for food is best understood just before lunchtime. But exactly how the process unfolds has proven difficult to explain, even on a full stomach. Solving the puzzle… more>
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Psychology Association to Honor Bob Knight
July 1, 2007Bob Knight, Merle H. Bensinger Professor of Gerontology and professor of psychology, will receive the Retirement Research Fund Distinguished Contribution Award in Applied Gerontology from the American Psychology… more>
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New Imaging Clarifies Nutrient Cycle
July 1, 2007USC scientists have applied a nanoscale imaging method to a biological system, helping to clear up an old puzzle of the global carbon and nitrogen cycle. Their study appears today as an advanced online publication of The ISME… more>
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Computing Power Grows at Quake Center
July 1, 2007Figuring out what the next big quake will do to Los Angeles takes a lot of computing power, and the Southern California Earthquake Center is about to get it in spades. The National Science Foundation has awarded the center… more>
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Gillman Names New Leadership Team
July 1, 2007Dean Gillman was named dean in May by President Steven B. Sample and Provost C.L. Max Nikias. Gillman issued this announcement to faculty and staff Monday, July 2: Over the last month I have received invaluable advice from… more>
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Pioneering Anthropologist was Authority on the Tiv Tribe
July 1, 2007Paul James Bohannan, known as the world’s leading expert on the Tiv of Nigeria, has died. He was 87. An emeritus professor of anthropology at USC College, Bohannan’s rich body of work as a cultural and social… more>
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Grappling With International Relations
June 1, 2007In April, 56 students from the USC Teaching International Relations Program (TIRP) woke up early to spend a Saturday leading discussions on Iran and how to build stability in the Middle East. Nearly 200 high school students… more>
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USC Archive Project Gets Getty Grant
June 1, 2007The Getty Foundation has awarded the USC Libraries and the USC College Center for Religion and Civic Culture a grant to host the Switzerland-based Basel Mission Picture Archive. The archive’s 29,000 digitized images… more>
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Joint effort by USC College and Viterbi probes the mystery of toxic algal blooms
June 1, 2007Yacht-owners, kayakers, harbor patrolmen and sea lions are seeing a new vessel on the waters of Redondo Beach's King Harbor these days — a miniature sea craft that someday may save the lives of some of those same sea… more>
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Bibliophile Lazar Plans Special Tome
June 1, 2007Scholar Moshe Lazar, who has been described as “a one-man humanities department,” is a bibliophile of epic proportions. Over the decades, he collected rare books from around the world as he traveled and… more>
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