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Hire Purpose: Sami Assaf
May 7, 2013Sami Assaf sometimes uses a Rubik’s cube to demonstrate symmetry, among the most crucial ideas in mathematics. Twist the face of a Rubik’s cube and the cube keeps its symmetry — all sides are the mirror… more>
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Hire Purpose: David Treuer
May 7, 2013Born to an Austrian Jewish father and American Indian mother, David Treuer is an Ojibwe Indian from Leech Lake Reservation in northern Minnesota. His siblings range from a brother who has straight, jet black hair and dark… 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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Just Breathe
April 17, 2013During recess, Sally pushed you. Your teacher gave you a frowny face on the spelling test and you must write “incredible” 100 times on the blackboard. On top of all that, your front tooth is loose. “OK… more>
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Hard Work Meets Glamour
April 15, 2013A Southern California native whose father is Nigerian, Otana Jakpor visited Nigeria for the first time last Christmas. In addition to spending time with cousins and extended family she didn’t before know existed, the… more>
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Frankly Speaking
April 5, 2013Sen. Al Franken (D-Minn.) began his lecture at USC before a crowd of more than 500 with, “Today I’d like to talk about three Jews: A printing salesman, a rabbi and a professor. “This, mind you, is not a set… more>
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Narratives of Integrity
April 3, 2013Did you know that in the post-Emancipation Reconstruction era — and only seven years after the abolition of slavery — seven African Americans had seats in the United States Congress? All were from formerly… more>
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Hanna Reisler Celebrated
April 2, 2013Speaking at a recent symposium held in her honor, USC Dornsife’s Hanna Reisler recalled the early days of USC’s Women in Science and Engineering (WiSE) program. At the time, women with tenured or tenure-track… more>
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Unlimited, Unbounded, Infinite
March 28, 2013Growing up in Delaware, Rebecca Braun felt like “a lemon tree in a pot several sizes too small” — there was so much she wanted to see and do, but her world somehow seemed narrow. So she chose to attend USC… more>
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The Dawn of Time
March 25, 2013The universe is 80 million years older and is expanding more slowly than previously believed, according to new findings that still appear to confirm the standard model of cosmology. The data was gathered by the European Space… more>
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