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High Schoolers Become 'Summer Trojans'
August 25, 2011Is chronic Lyme disease a myth? How does Botox work? What role does nationalism play in world politics? Do video game designers consider a user’s brain activity? What is the genesis of pop culture? In July, high school… more>
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In Memoriam: USC President Emeritus John Randolph "Jack" Hubbard, 92
August 24, 2011John Randolph “Jack” Hubbard, U.S. ambassador to India from 1988 to 1989 and the eighth president of USC, died Aug. 21 at his home in Rancho Mirage, Calif., following an extended illness. He was 92. “All… more>
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August 18, 2011
A Warm Welcome
Photos by Emily Cavalcanti, Laurie Moore, Nick Pittarides, Ambrosia Viramontes-Brody and Mira Zimet With the comforts of home in tow, USC Dornsife’s newest students arrived on August 17 to move into their new campus… more>
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In Memoriam: Carol Nagy, 72
August 18, 2011Carol Nagy, the first female dean of the Division of Social Sciences and Communication in USC Dornsife and a major force in the creation of the university’s Gender Studies Program, has died. She was 72. Nagy, formerly… more>
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August 16, 2011 Clues from Ancient Antioch
Lynn Swartz Dodd and her students had heard rumblings of a 10th-century cemetery deep in the brush in the Hatay region of Turkey near Antakya, the ancient city of Antioch. But no one had ever translated the inscribed… more>
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Tough Crowd
August 12, 2011Everyone has them. Those moments of complete humiliation when blood rushes to your cheeks and you quickly look around hoping no one noticed. Who would want to relive those moments, much less share them with strangers?… more>
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Race and Cyberspace
August 10, 2011The screen image showed a sādhu — or wandering monk — in India using a large mobile phone, and a fisherman who lives in a hut on a beach near Nagapattinam, India, talking on his cell. Once found only in niche… more>
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Ocean Probes Offer Insight Into Climate Change
August 9, 2011Lisa Collins, environmental studies lecturer at the USC Dana and David Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences, spent four years collecting samples from floating sediment traps in the San Pedro Basin off the Los Angeles… more>
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In Memoriam: John Marburger, 70
August 8, 2011John H. Marburger III, former dean of USC Dornsife and science adviser to President George W. Bush, has died. He was 70. Marburger died at his home in Port Jefferson, N.Y., on July 28, after a four-year bout with… more>
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Three USC Dornsife Professors Named Finalists for 2011 SCIBA Book Awards
August 5, 2011Three professors from USC Dornsife have been named finalists for the 2011 Book Awards presented by the Southern California Independent Booksellers Association (SCIBA). Securing two out of four finalist slots in the fiction… more>
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