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SURF Students Wave Hello to Top Award
November 3, 2009USC College's Summer Undergraduate Research Fund (SURF) has made a splashy entrance. After the program's second official year, research produced by SURF students has won a top honor from the Association of Pacific Coast… more>
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Higher Education Group Honors Sanchez
October 29, 2009George Sanchez, director of diversity and professor of American studies and ethnicity and history at USC College, has been selected as the outstanding Latino/a faculty in higher education research institutions by the American… more>
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No Myths, Just Monk: The Story of a Musical Legend
October 27, 2009Every day for almost a year, Robin D. G. Kelley dug through junk to find a man. In a storage facility stacked to the ceiling with overflowing bags and boxes, Kelley donned a dust mask and spent hours sorting through the… more>
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Legends Asch and Myerhoff Inspire A New Generation of Visual Anthropologists
October 23, 2009Twenty-six years ago the first visual research center at USC within the College of Letters, Arts & Sciences was founded by Academy award winner Barbara Myerhoff ("Number Our Days"). The program thrived and was further… more>
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October 22, 2009
Seeking the Truth of the Khmer Rouge
Born and raised in Prasat, a small village in Cambodia, Kosal Path was not yet one when the radical Communist Khmer Rouge came into power, igniting a genocide that would end in the massacre of nearly 2 million… more>
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Ph.D. Candidate Catherine E. Clark Awarded Bourse Chateaubriand Fellowship
October 20, 2009We've all heard the phrase "a picture is worth a thousand words" so often that it has begun to lose its meaning. A single image, according to the saying, can tell a story better than mere text. So how many words is an entire… more>
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Meet New College Faculty
October 16, 2009View all of the new USC College faculty members. Wendy Wood Gives New Meaning to "Old Habits Die Hard" Wood, passionate and articulate about her research, is a highly regarded social psychologist who studies attitude and… more>
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New College Faculty 2009–2010
October 16, 2009Jody Agius Vallejo Assistant Professor of Sociology Ph.D., Sociology, 2008, University of California, Irvine Previous Institution: University of California, San Diego Jody Agius Vallejo specializes in international… more>
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More New College Faculty 2009–2010
October 16, 2009View more new faculty members: < page 1 David Kang Professor of International Relations and Business, Director of Korean Studies Institute Ph.D., Political Science, 1995, University of California, Berkeley … more>
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Eradicating Malaria in Malawi
October 12, 2009Mary Ellen "Jem" Jebbia knows firsthand that the fight against malaria is more complicated than dispensing bed nets. The USC College senior spent three weeks in Malawi fighting malaria this summer through a Faiths Act… more>
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