USC Dana and David Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences

Undergraduate News

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  On Your Mark, Get Set, GO!

  November 1, 2007

  Combine a philanthropic husband and wife who love neuroscience with world-renowned neuroscience researchers who are also a husband and wife team — the result: a partnership leading to cutting-edge research in how the… more>

  categories: undergraduate, graduate

  tags: antonio damasio, brain and creativity institute, donation, dornsife, hanna damasio, natural sciences, neuroscience, usc brain and creativity institute

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  Giving Student Scholars a Chance to SOAR

  November 1, 2007

    Earlier this semester, USC College announced a program offering stipends for undergraduate research, called Sophomore Opportunities for Academic Research (SOAR). USC College News recently sat down with Vice Dean Steven… more>

  categories: undergraduate, research

  tags: fund, undergraduate research

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  Parents Recognize Professors’ Dedication

  November 1, 2007

  Parents of college students may not sit in lecture halls or discussion groups with their offspring, but they do hear about the teachers that make a difference in their children’s lives. That led the USC Parents… more>

  categories: undergraduate, graduate

  tags: lecture, parents association, teaching and mentoring awards

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  USC Shoah Foundation Institute Announces New Web Site

  November 1, 2007

  This week the USC Shoah Foundation Institute, part of the USC College of Letters, Arts & Sciences, launched a new Web site at college.usc.edu/vhi. The institute’s visual history archive contains nearly 52,000… more>

  categories: undergraduate, graduate

  tags: archive, history, holocaust, usc shoah foundation institute, web site

• Innovation & Imagination

  October 1, 2007

  On Oct. 11 and 12, 2007, USC College presented a program of exhibits and events for Trojan Parents Weekend campus visitors. The videos below feature four discussions highlighting the work of College faculty and staff. Helping… more>

  categories: undergraduate, research

  tags: exhibits, parents weekend

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  Howard Gillman Installed by President Sample as the 20th Dean of USC College

  September 1, 2007

  In an installation speech that was both soaring and down-to-earth, Dean Howard Gillman Monday set the tone for his administration, extolling the virtues of a liberal arts research college as “a wonder-filled… more>

  categories: undergraduate, graduate

  tags: liberal arts, research college

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  Building a Better College

  September 1, 2007

  USC College has unveiled four major initiatives aimed at advancing research and instruction at the university’s largest academic hub. These new programs promise to bolster faculty development, graduate student… more>

  categories: undergraduate, graduate

  tags: funding, initiatives

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  Red Moon Rising

  September 1, 2007

  In the middle of a serene night, young astronomers from USC College lay on their backs on a grassy peak in the San Gabriel Mountains staring at the full moon. The students and their professor Edward Rhodes watched the moon… more>

  categories: undergraduate, research

  tags: lunar eclipse, moon

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  USC College Welcomes New Students

  August 1, 2007

  During a welcome picnic Friday for entering freshman, USC College Dean Howard Gillman urged the newcomers to begin their academic careers with an “open mind, grateful heart and fierce determination to… more>

  categories: undergraduate

  tags: dean, freshmen

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  New Leadership Team Named at USC College

  August 1, 2007

  The USC College of Letters, Arts & Sciences begins this academic year with a new dean, who chose five university colleagues to serve as his deputies and brain trust. Howard Gillman, professor of political science and… more>

  categories: undergraduate, graduate

  tags: administration, dean, supervision