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Hire Purpose: Jacob Soll
May 7, 2013You’re at a dinner party and the vichyssoise is a mere memory, the smoked velouté of partridge is gone and you’re deep into the butterscotch budino. What’s the one subject that has not been broached?… more>
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Hire Purpose: Anna Krakus
May 7, 2013As a 5-year-old growing up in Stockholm, Sweden, Anna Krakus learned English by watching The Sound of Music. “I became obsessed with the film,” said Krakus, who has Polish parents and spoke Swedish and Polish at… more>
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Hire Purpose: Gabriel Uzquiano
May 7, 2013Countless have asked, but Gabriel Uzquiano sought to answer: How many angels can dance on the point of a needle? The question asks not what is the case, but rather what can be the case. Some philosophers take what can be the… more>
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Baby, I Love Your Way
May 6, 2013If you like piña coladas and getting caught in the rain, if you're not into yoga, if you have half a brain . . . The lyrics to this popular ’70s song make choosing a mate sound simple. But Wendy Wood knows… more>
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![Marine biologist David Caron examines data picked up by underwater robotic gliders: “Gliders help us wire the ocean, and with this constant surveillance, we are on the verge of being able to predict and mitigate [harmful] events." Photo by Max S. Gerber.](/assets/img/news/listing/1392.jpg "Marine biologist David Caron examines data picked up by underwater robotic gliders: “Gliders help us wire the ocean, and with this constant surveillance, we are on the verge of being able to predict and mitigate [harmful] events.\" Photo by Max S. Gerber.")
Robot Gliders Roam Seas
May 2, 2013It was an unforgettable spring morning in 2011 when residents of King Harbor in Redondo Beach, Calif., awoke to find millions of dead anchovies, sardines and mackerel packed into the marina. The stench was strong enough to… more>
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A Phoenix Rises
May 1, 2013In a recent open house, leading members of the German-speaking community in Los Angeles joined faculty and students to celebrate the official reopening of the USC-Max Kade Institute for Austrian-German-Swiss Studies. Housed… more>
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Finding Their Muse
April 29, 2013When Eric Weintraub's name was announced as first place winner for his short story “La Laguna” at USC’s 2013 Undergraduate Writers' Conference, he turned to the student next to him, “Did they just say… more>
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Fuhrman Elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
April 26, 2013Jed Fuhrman, McCulloch-Crosby Chair of Marine Biology and professor of biological sciences in USC Dornsife, has been elected a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Established in 1780, the academy is among the… more>
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Dishing up Gourmet Philosophy
April 24, 2013“No department has improved more over the last decade than USC’s.” Which discipline could the speaker be describing? Economics? Video gaming? Immunology, or maybe stem cell medicine? All good guesses of top… more>
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What It Means to Be a Trojan
April 24, 2013As a junior, Travis Glynn created the Explore Program through USC Dornsife’s Joint Educational Project (JEP). In the program, JEP volunteers challenge elementary students to look at Los Angeles through a global… more>
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