The 18 students in “Case Studies in Modern Leadership” sat with rapt attention listening to Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa as he shared his philosophy for overcoming adversity — a challenge he… more>
categories: undergraduate, graduate
tags: antonio villaraigosa, california, class, dan schnur, event, government, jesse m. unruh institute of politics, los angeles, political science, politics, social sciences
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>
categories: graduate, research, graduate research
tags: brain and creativity institute, glenn fox, history, holocaust, natural sciences, neuroscience, oskar schindler, psychology, social sciences, usc shoah foundation institute
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>
categories: undergraduate, graduate, undergraduate research, graduate research
tags: health, health care, medicine, mental illness, mexico, psychology, social sciences, social work, travel
Sometimes it takes just one person’s support to set you on the right track. As a USC Dornsife undergraduate, Shweta Namjoshi knew she wanted to become a physician. She took her time and underwent a lot of… more>
categories: undergraduate, graduate
tags: advising, humanities, natural sciences, social sciences, undecided, usc dornsife advising
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>
categories: graduate, graduate research
tags: blog, india, international relations, public diplomacy, social sciences
The United States’ turbulent relationship with North Korea spans decades with points of contention historically centered on the communist state’s nuclear programs and missile development, said Robert King, U.S.… more>
categories: undergraduate, graduate
tags: david kang, event, korean studies institute, north korea
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>
categories: graduate, graduate research
tags: comparative literature, comparative studies in literature and culture, french and italian, humanities, slavic languages and literatures, social sciences, spanish and portuguese
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… more>
categories: graduate, research, faculty research, graduate research
tags: andrew gracey, biological sciences, biology, kwasi connor, natural sciences, ocean, proceedings of the national academy of sciences, publication, tide
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>
categories: graduate, graduate research
tags: anthropology, documentary, event, film, master of arts in visual anthropology, movie, mva
Everyone has them. Those moments of complete humiliation when blood rushes to your cheeks and you quickly look around hoping no one noticed. Who would want to relive those moments, much less share them with strangers?… more>
categories: graduate
tags: aster of professional writing program, humanities, mpw, prince gomolvilas, shelley berman, writing


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