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…
Three professors from USC Dornsife were awarded the 2013 Provost’s Prize for Teaching With Technology at the seventh annual Teaching With Technology conference held on May 6 at the Davidson Continuing Education… more>
categories: diversity, faculty diversity, awards
tags: beth meyerowitz, david ginsburg, james haw, provost’s prize for teaching with technology, technology, viet nguyen
These nine intellectual innovators are some of our newest professors and assistant professors. They selected USC Dornsife for the freedom it provides them to think creatively and explore unchartered territory. Take Jacob… more>
categories: faculty research, new faculty, diversity, faculty diversity, usc dornsife magazine
Sami 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>
categories: faculty research, new faculty, diversity, faculty diversity, usc dornsife magazine
tags: faculty diversity, mathematics, new faculty, sami assaf, usc dornsife magazine
Born 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>
categories: faculty research, new faculty, diversity, faculty diversity, usc dornsife magazine
tags: creative writing, david treuer, english, faculty diversity, new faculty, usc dornsife magazine
At this year’s Los Angeles Times Festival of Books held at USC, as many as 150,000 readers of various ages mingled with more than 500 authors. On April 20 and 21, authors, artists, chefs, musicians and celebrities… more>
categories: writing program, faculty research, faculty diversity, community engagement
tags: david treuer, dinah lenney, kevin starr, leo braudy, los angeles times festival of books, m.g. lord, panel discussions, sandra tsing loh, william deverell
USC Provost Professor Lee Epstein, a nationally renowned law and politics scholar, has been awarded a coveted fellowship by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Recognized for “achievement and exceptional… more>
categories: faculty research, faculty diversity, awards
tags: award, elizabeth garrett, guggenheim fellowship, law and politics, lee epstein
With expert movement, chemistry major Storm Nylen weaved together three long, thin strands of cotton to form a braid. Stationed at a counter in the USC Archaeology Research Center laboratory, she concentrated intently on her… more>
categories: undergraduate, faculty diversity
tags: archaeology, first-year investigations, lynn swartz dodd, neolithic period, usc archaeology research center
Speaking 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>
categories: research, faculty research, diversity, faculty diversity
tags: biological sciences, charles mckenna, chemistry, elizabeth garrett, hanna reisler, judith hirsch, leana golubchik, michael quick, women in science and engineering
The 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>
categories: faculty research, diversity, faculty diversity
tags: cosmology, elena pierpaoli, european space agency, physics and astronomy
USC Dornsife scientists have discovered how two different structural apparatuses collaborate to protect repetitive DNA when it is at its most vulnerable — while it is being unzipped for replication. The centromere… more>
categories: faculty research, graduate research, graduate diversity, faculty diversity
tags: dna, pao-chen li, publication, susan forsburg


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