Student

USC Dornsife students Amanda Schmitt and Marissa Roy present their ethics research at the 2013 Global Ethics Fellows Conference in New York.

Faculty

No one is left out of the nation’s biggest solar feed-in tariff program after PERE steps in.

Student

USC Dornsife senior Sanjay Kumar Rajpoot is launching a business that could revolutionize the way plants are grown, helping to end world hunger by enabling year-round farming anywhere.

Alumni

Anthony Marra ’08 is longlisted for the National Book Award in fiction for his debut novel, A Constellation of Vital Phenomena, about an orphaned girl and her unlikely saviors against the backdrop of war-torn Chechnya.

Social Impact

‘The effort to preserve memories of survivors of the 1937 Nanjing Massacre is not only a natural step for the USC Shoah Foundation, it’s a responsibility that we all share together,’ said Stephen Smith, executive director of the foundation, based at USC Dornsife.

Student

USC Dornsife’s Alex Young is awarded the American Studies Association’s 2013 Comparative Ethnic Studies Prize for his paper on three contemporary figures he suggests share a vision of personal freedom despite seemingly wildly opposing political views.

Faculty

In his new memoir Trying to Be Cool, USC Dornsife’s Leo Braudy reconstructs his 1950s teenage years when searching for the elusive state of cool.

Student

USC now offers the Law, History and Culture undergraduate degree, an interdisciplinary collaboration between USC Dornsife and USC Gould School of Law.

Faculty

In a ceremony in Stockholm, Sweden, Distinguished Professor Arieh Warshel of USC Dornsife is honored with his Nobel medal, diploma and a document confirming he will receive one-third of a $1.2 million prize.