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Champion for Education
August 5, 2011Celia C. Ayala discovered her life’s passion at an early age. With a quest to contribute to her community, she knew what she wanted to do; it was the how that remained a mystery. In her eighth floor office, Chief… more>
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USC Dornsife Professors Receive Honorary Degrees
July 29, 2011Waterman Presented Honorary Doctorate by Ambrosia Viramontes-Brody Michael Waterman, widely regarded as the founding father of computational biology, openly admits he has never taken a biology course. There was however a… more>
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Real-World Classroom for Virtual Classmates
July 28, 2011This summer, students in USC Dornsife’s online graduate programs in geographic information science and technology (GIST) gathered at the USC Wrigley Marine Science Center on Catalina Island to meet their classmates… more>
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Teaching with Testimony
July 26, 2011The USC Shoah Foundation Institute for Visual History and Education recently hosted its third annual Teaching with Testimony workshop for nationwide educators to learn how to best implement the institute’s archive into… more>
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Swanson Elected President of Society for Neuroscience
July 26, 2011Larry Swanson, Milo Don and Lucille Appleman Professor of Biological Sciences in USC Dornsife, has been elected president-elect of the Society for Neuroscience. During his one-year term as president between 2012 and 2013,… more>
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The Magic of Paris
July 22, 2011With the Eiffel Tower as her backdrop, USC Dornsife alumna Corey Arterian felt at one with those writers who came before her, penning poem after poem about the City of Light. Paris, she came to understand, incites emotions… more>
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USC Scientists Contribute to a Breakthrough in Quantum Computing
July 21, 2011Scientists have taken the next major step toward quantum computing, which will use quantum mechanics to revolutionize the way information is processed. Quantum computers will capitalize on the mind-bending properties of … more>
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In Memoriam: Gunnar Nielsson, 77
July 20, 2011Gunnar Nielsson, retired professor in USC Dornsife’s School of International Relations and expert in European integration, has died. He was 77. Nielsson died July 10 at a nursing facility in Seal Beach, Calif., after… more>
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Mellon Mays Program Mentors Minority Students
July 19, 2011Exploring topics ranging from the social impact of black stand-up comedy to genocide resistance in Rwanda, seven students will get the opportunity to conduct graduate-level research through the 2011-12 Mellon Mays… more>
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Understanding Pentecostalism’s Global Impact
July 15, 2011Pentecostalism — a religious movement that began in a warehouse on Azusa Street in Los Angeles in 1906 — has emerged as a fast-growing minority religion in the developing world, gaining popularity in the Southern… more>
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