USC Dornsife’s history chair William Deverell explores the birth of a modern metropolis with the organization of an…
Recalling encouragement from his mentor Alice Echols, Sean Little ’06 traces his bachelor’s in English to an M.B.A. to a…
The names of top USC Dornsife students will adorn the wall of Leavey Library in an honor celebrating university-wide students…
The gift creates the Steven and Kathryn Sample Endowment for Ecumenism to support research centered on the foundational…
Howard Wayne Harris proves his 9th grade teacher wrong. Earning his Ph.D. at the USC Dornsife hooding ceremony May 16, he was…
A few thousand miles from home, a dozen freshmen from New York City can’t picture themselves at USC without their posse. “You don’t realize how vital it is to have a support system until you’re… more>
categories: undergraduate, diversity, undergraduate diversity, community engagement
tags: community, george sanchez, high school, new york, posse foundation, usc posse scholars
Beginning in Fall 2010, a small group of students and their faculty adviser, Anthony Kammas, gathered for meetings in a shady corner of the Carolyn Craig Franklin Garden on the north side of the Doheny Memorial Library. In… more>
categories: undergraduate, undergraduate research
tags: humanities, magazine, online, philosophy, political science, publication, social sciences
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>
categories: undergraduate
tags: event, humanities, move-in day, natural sciences, social sciences, welcome picnic
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>
categories: undergraduate, research, undergraduate research
tags: archaeology, history, humanities, problems without passports, pwp, social sciences, travel, turkey
With 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>
categories: undergraduate, undergraduate research
tags: cecilia woloch, creative writing, english, france, humanities, maymester, paris, poem, poetry, travel, writing
Exploring 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>
categories: undergraduate, research, undergraduate research, diversity, undergraduate diversity, faculty diversity
tags: award, fellowship, george sanchez, humanities, lanita jacobs, mellon mays undergraduate fellowship, mentor, natural sciences, social sciences, stephen finlay, veronica terriquez
Two students and two recent graduates of USC Dornsife’s Environmental Studies Program have started a trail-blazing summer interning with the Catalina Island Conservancy, where they are spending eight weeks assisting with… more>
categories: undergraduate, research, undergraduate research
tags: catalina island, catalina island conservancy, environment, environmental studies, internship, natural sciences, usc wrigley institute for environmental studies, usc wrigley marine science center
Wendy Barrios was on the fourth floor of a building at Tokyo International University (TIU) the afternoon of March 11, 2011, when the floor began to tremble. She was taking a break between her classes at TIU, where she was… more>
categories: undergraduate, research, undergraduate research
tags: asia, east asian area studies, humanities, japan, language, los angeles, overseas studies, study abroad, travel
In May, as USC Dornsife graduates boxed up their belongings and left campus for their new ventures, 13 boarded a plane for Africa to make good on a promise. Two years ago, the members of USC Africa Health Initiative (AHI)… more>
categories: undergraduate
tags: africa, agriculture, alumni, community, education, health, mali, travel
The word sustainability doesn’t always roll off the tongues of 10-year-olds. Likewise, the concept of sustainable living — a lifestyle meant to reduce society’s use of the Earth’s natural resources… more>
categories: undergraduate, joint educational project, diversity, undergraduate diversity, community engagement
tags: community, environment, jep, joint educational project, natural sciences, usc young scientists program


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