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USC Dornsife alumna Sarah Greene, who earned a Ph.D. in geological studies in 2011, and Rowan Martindale, a doctoral candidate in earth sciences, contributed to a recent study that looks at geological records for evidence that mass extinction events may have been caused by ocean acidification.

Earth's Past Is Warning for the Future

March 6, 2012

When the Earth’s carbon dioxide level increased at a rapid rate during the Triassic-Jurassic period 200 million years ago, nearly half the ocean’s marine life became extinct. USC Dornsife geologists contributed to… more>

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tags: alumni, biological sciences, carbon dioxide, david bottjer, earth sciences, fossils, geology, natural sciences, ocean, publication, rowan martindale, sarah greene, study, travel

"We want undergraduates, graduates and colleagues not to take their visual surroundings for granted. And to think intelligently and questioningly about what use we make of images. And, in a sense, the use that images make of us." - Kate Flint, Provost Professor of English and Art History, leader of the USC Dornsife 2020 research cluster “Seeing 20/20: The USC Visual Studies Research Institute.”

The Future...Not What It Used to Be

January 31, 2012

A New American Narrative The year is 2042. If you are white and living in the United States, you are a minority, according to Census Bureau projections. “By 2042, the U.S. is going to look completely different in terms… more>

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tags: american studies and ethnicity, ange-marie hancock, antonio damasio, art history, business, english, humanities, kate flint, manuel pastor, natural sciences, political science, psychology, social sciences, usc dornsife 2020, usc dornsife magazine, wendy wood

Oskar Schindler (second from right) puts a face on good human conduct, a theme explored in Glenn Fox's research on gratitude. The research of USC Dornsife's Fox has earned him an award from the Oskar Schindler Humanities Foundation. Schinder, who outwitted Hitler and the Nazis to save more Jews from the gas chambers than any other during World War II, is pictured here in Munich, Germany in 1946 with some of the people he rescued. Copyright © United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, D.C./Leopold Page Photographic Collection.

From the Bottom of My Heart

January 20, 2012

Put yourself in the position of a Jew during World War II who escapes to France penniless and is forced to beg on the streets. A passerby gives you roasted peanuts — your first morsel of food in several days. You are… more>

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tags: brain and creativity institute, glenn fox, history, holocaust, natural sciences, neuroscience, oskar schindler, psychology, social sciences, usc shoah foundation institute

Steven Lopez, professor of psychology in USC Dornsife, addresses a group of promotoras and family members of relatives who are mentally ill at a Casa de Salud private home in Puebla, Mexico. Photo by Ava Casados.

Mexico Program Targets Care for Mentally Ill

January 19, 2012

In a neighborhood in Puebla, Mexico, a dozen promotoras — health care workers who screen ill people to determine what level of doctor care they need — gathered at a private home for a platica — or chat… more>

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tags: health, health care, medicine, mental illness, mexico, psychology, social sciences, social work, travel

USC students traveling to India, standing, from left, are Aparajitha Vadlamannati, Maya Babla, Jessica Castillo and Hend Alhinnawi. Seated, from left, Mona El Hamdani, Jerry Edling and Anna Dawson.

Public Diplomacy Students Travel to India

December 15, 2011

A team of seven graduate students is taking a two-week research trip to India while reporting on the country's public diplomacy efforts and posting entries on the India: Inside Out blog. The second-year Master’s in… more>

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tags: blog, india, international relations, public diplomacy, social sciences

Comparative Studies: The Next Generation

October 14, 2011

Poetry, subjectivity and political violence in the neoliberal age. Italian artists books in conceptual arts. House, library, field — the aesthetic of saturation. In the new Comparative Studies in Literature and Culture… more>

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tags: comparative literature, comparative studies in literature and culture, french and italian, humanities, slavic languages and literatures, social sciences, spanish and portuguese

Kwasi Connor: Sampling Mussels off Catalina Island

The Importance of Life's Day/Night Cycle

September 14, 2011

USC researchers were surprised recently to discover just how much the rising and setting of the sun drives life on Earth — even in unexpected places. The findings, which appear this month in the Proceedings of the… more>

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tags: andrew gracey, biological sciences, biology, kwasi connor, natural sciences, ocean, proceedings of the national academy of sciences, publication, tide

Emma Roll shoots footage for her ethnographic film "They Come in Waves." The documentary explores how surf tourism is affecting beach communities throughout Latin America.

Reel Life

September 12, 2011

A year of hard work came to an exciting culmination Friday, Sept. 9, as nine students in the Master of Arts in Visual Anthropology (MVA) program in USC Dornsife debuted the ethnographic documentary films they spent the past 12… more>

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tags: anthropology, documentary, event, film, master of arts in visual anthropology, movie, mva

Isaiah Mack (M.S., geography, ’03), center, gives a presentation on global positioning systems to students studying geographic information science and technology at the USC Wrigley Marine Science Center on Catalina Island. Photo by Su Jin Lee.

Real-World Classroom for Virtual Classmates

July 28, 2011

This summer, students in USC Dornsife’s online graduate programs in geographic information science and technology (GIST) gathered at the USC Wrigley Marine Science Center on Catalina Island to meet their classmates… more>

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tags: catalina island, geographic information science and technology, gist, john wilson, social sciences, sociology, spatial sciences institute, usc wrigley marine science center

Maytha Alhassen, a doctoral candidate in USC Dornsife's Department of American Studies and Ethnicity, focuses on African-American and Arab relations.

USC Fellow to Host Al Jazeera Program

July 8, 2011

Maytha Alhassen, a member of the Provost's Ph.D. Fellowship Program, will interrupt her travels across North Africa and the Middle East to host Al Jazeera’s The Stream, a live TV program covering current events through… more>

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tags: al jazeera, american studies and ethnicity, humanities, news, television, travel

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