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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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New Stars of Yore
January 22, 2013One of the top-20 history departments in the nation just got stronger. USC Dornsife’s Department of History has recruited MacArthur Fellow Jacob Soll from Rutgers University, who is using his innovative talents to… more>
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November 9, 2012
Provost Appoints New Biological Sciences Professor
USC Provost Elizabeth Garrett has announced the appointment of Scott Fraser as Provost Professor of Biological Sciences and Biomedical Engineering and the Director of Science Initiatives. Fraser is a world leader in imaging… more>
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Educate, Enrich and Empower
November 8, 2012In an inspiring installation speech, Dean Steve Kay on Wednesday set the tone for his administration, sharing his mantra as the 21st dean of USC Dornsife: educate, enrich and empower. “We must educate our students to… more>
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Dean Kay Appoints New Economics Professor and Director
November 8, 2012USC Dornsife Dean Steve Kay has announced the appointment of Arie Kapteyn as professor of economics and founding director of the newly established USC Dornsife Center for Economic and Social Research. The new center positions… more>
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Fighting for Inclusion
September 6, 2012Nayan Shah was in South Africa on a Thomas J. Watson Fellowship during the most intense period of struggle against apartheid. Black resistors were being beaten, tortured and murdered. It was 1989, a year before South African… more>
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Dion Dickman Wins Award to Fund Research on Neurobiology of Aging
July 3, 2012Dion Dickman, assistant professor of biological sciences in USC Dornsife, has received a 2012 New Scholar Award in Aging from the Ellison Medical Foundation. Over the next four years, the $400,000 award will fund… more>
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Meet USC Dornsife's New Faculty
September 7, 2011USC Dornsife welcomed 27 new faculty members in the 2011-12 academic year. Hailing from universities around the world, this year’s group of scholars are some of the best and brightest in the nation, bringing with them… more>
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Top Interdisciplinary Scholar in English and Art History Joins USC Dornsife
May 18, 2011Kate Flint has been named Provost Professor of English and Art History in the USC Dana and David Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences. Flint’s appointment as well as Lee Epstein’s as Provost Professor of… more>
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Leading Scholars Join USC Dornsife's School of Philosophy
May 11, 2011The USC Dana and Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences has recruited leading senior philosophers Ralph Wedgwood and Gabriel Uzquiano-Cruz of the University of Oxford as well as a very promising newcomer, Karen Lewis… more>
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