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Class of 2014: A Welcome to Relish
August 19, 2010Welcome Picnic View the "Welcome to USC College" video 1. Students line up to meet with their academic advisers in humanities, social sciences and natural sciences. Those undecided in their majors also met with… more>
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Explosives, Black Holes and Dr. Who
August 17, 2010Nick Warner leans forward in his desk chair, his arms outstretched, hands cupping the air in front of him as if protecting a small flame. "When I was 15, I had something explode right here," he says. For Warner, USC… more>
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August 12, 2010
Cool Science
At the bottom of the Earth — the planet's coldest, driest, windiest place — the sky radiates a lavender-yellow hue in the midnight sun. Whiter than milk, the blanket of ice seems infinite. Amid the… more>
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New Study Examines the Brain's Wiring
August 10, 2010The brain has been mapped to the smallest fold for at least a century, but still no one knows how all the parts talk to each other. A study in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences answers that question for a small… more>
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USC College, Marshall Earn Collaboration Grant
August 6, 2010A team of faculty from USC College and USC Marshall School of Business has received a three-year grant through the inaugural USC Research Collaboration Fund for Pacific Rim studies. Called "The Political Economy of the… more>
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August 5, 2010 USC Shoah Foundation Institute Trains Teachers at Intersection of Holocaust Education and Digital Literacy Studies
The Leichtag Family Foundation has made a major gift that will enable the USC Shoah Foundation Institute to expand its Teacher Innovation Network, a program initiated in 2009 to advance the use of Holocaust eyewitness… more>
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Dean Gillman Announces Launch of Spatial Sciences Institute
August 4, 2010Not so long ago many of us referred to our Thomas Brother Guides to find out how to get across town. Now we access our GPS navigation systems or tap into mapping programs on our iPhones, Blackberries or other devices. But the… more>
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Navigating through Kelp and Swimming with the Sharks
July 29, 2010One of the new courses in the summer line-up of USC College's Problems Without Passports program takes students to the USC Wrigley Marine Science Center on Catalina Island and to Guam and Palau in Oceania, a region mostly… more>
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Microbes on the Menu
July 27, 2010The functioning of marine ecosystems depends on the size and flavor of microbes at the base of the food chain. Changes to the Earth's atmosphere might rearrange that microscopic menu. Microbes that currently are the main… more>
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A Real Tweet
July 22, 2010Loud and lively singers, some liken the sound of finches to toy trumpets -- ka-ching, beep-beep, oi, a-ha, or da-de-da! Both male and female zebra finches sound off in chattering trills and calls. However, it is only the male… more>
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