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When Worlds Collide
September 22, 2010What is the legacy of Spanish colonialism in the Americas and how does it still affect Latin America and Latinos in the United States today? This question is raised in the upcoming PBS documentary When Worlds Collide: The… more>
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Antonio Damasio Wins Honda Prize
September 21, 2010The Honda Foundation of Japan has announced that its annual Honda Prize, one of the most important international awards for scientific achievement, will go to Antonio Damasio, David Dornsife Professor of Neuroscience and… more>
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Chasing Chimps
September 16, 2010Roaming a Myrtle green swath of forest in the Pearl of Africa, Maureen McCarthy attaches what looks like an oversized electric-yellow iPhone to a long stick and extends it skyward in a tiny clearing among a canopy of… more>
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Summer Excavation Class at Ostia Antica, the Port of Ancient Rome
September 13, 2010This past summer, John Pollini, professor of classical art and archaeology in art history in USC College, led 11 students on an excavation at Ostia Antica, the important port town of ancient Rome and the third best preserved… more>
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Feelings, Oh, Oh, Oh!
September 8, 2010Even a cognoscente of the written word like Aimee Bender admits the difficulty in communicating feelings. In her new novel, The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake (Random House), the professor of English in USC College… more>
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In Memoriam: Thomas Ely Lasswell, Sr., 90
September 8, 2010Professor Emeritus Thomas Ely Lasswell, Sr., a national leader in the sociology of family, 30-year USC College scholar and former chair of the Department of Sociology, has died. He was 90. Lasswell died due to complications… more>
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History in the Making
August 31, 2010Sitting on a park bench outside Leavey Library, USC College undergraduate Caitlin Chang confidently recites the mission statement of the USC Shoah Foundation Institute for Visual History and Education (SFI): To overcome… more>
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Meet USC College's New Faculty
August 31, 2010Giorgio Coricelli Assistant Professor of Economics Ph.D., Economics, 2002, The University of Arizona Previous Institution: Institut des Sciences Cognitives, CNRS Giorgio Coricelli studies human behaviors emerging from the… more>
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Brains and Beauty
August 27, 2010Mind first bloomed quietly And no one knows when, Although we know where: Within a brain that lived within a body. Sound heady? It should. This is the introduction to a poem written by neuroscientist Antonio Damasio of USC… more>
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USC Center for Applied Mathematical Sciences Turns 20
August 25, 2010This year marks the 20th anniversary of the USC Center for Applied Mathematical Sciences (CAMS), a research unit housed in USC College's Department of Mathematics. Susan Friedlander, professor of mathematics and CAMS' fourth… more>
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