USC Dana and David Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences

Graduate News

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  Gillman Named Dean of USC College

  May 1, 2007

  On behalf of President Steven B. Sample, Provost C. L. Max Nikias has announced the appointment of USC professor Howard Gillman as dean of USC College. The appointment, effective June 1, is for a five-year term. Gillman, a… more>

  categories: undergraduate, graduate

  tags: dean, howard gillman

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  Building a Diverse College

  May 1, 2007

  USC College has successfully increased the hiring of women and minority faculty members in recent years, with the goal of enriching the university’s educational environment. In a key recruiting initiative shared by the… more>

  categories: undergraduate, graduate, diversity, faculty diversity

  tags: diversity, faculty, hiring

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  Blooms of Diversity

  May 1, 2007

  On the first day of Hernan Ramirez’s field research into the workplace culture of immigrant gardeners, an enraged Westwood homeowner stormed from his house, unleashed a litany of expletives and threatened to sue. His… more>

  categories: graduate

  tags: diversity, sociology, study

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  2007 USC MPW One-Act Play Festival Award is going, going… Gone…

  May 1, 2007

  In the play, “Gone…,” the character Sarah reminds her protesting mother, a recent stroke victim, why she was moved to an assisted-living facility. Ethel: Why! Why can’t I go to the house? I… more>

  categories: graduate

  tags: play, writing program

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  USC Shoah Foundation Institute Looks To Broaden Mission

  May 1, 2007

  The USC Shoah Foundation Institute for Visual History and Education is moving forward with its plan to expand beyond the Holocaust and document survivor memories from other acts of genocide and oppression. Calling the move an… more>

  categories: undergraduate, graduate

  tags: genocide, history, holocaust, survivors, usc shoah foundation institute

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  Mentoring: ‘A Practice Framed By Love’

  April 1, 2007

  As a doctoral student in physics at USC College, Amy Cassidy noticed there are few women graduates in her field. So she and classmate Katie Mussack found a way to mentor young women considering careers in physics. The pair… more>

  categories: graduate

  tags: mellon awards, mentorship

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  USC College Student Wins Wonderland Award

  April 1, 2007

  A surreal romp through the Texas countryside has won top honors in the USC Libraries’ third annual Wonderland Award, a competition for creative scholarship based on the work of English logician, mathematician,… more>

  categories: graduate

  tags: doctoral student, english, libraries competition

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  What Do You Call 10 Lawyers at the Bottom of the Ocean?

  April 1, 2007

  Singing to the tune of Frank Sinatra’s “Love and Marriage,” Jonathan Shapiro warbled:   “Law and eth-ics, law and eth-ics — they go together like nurture and gen-e-tics.” Shapiro was a… more>

  categories: undergraduate, graduate

  tags: legal ethics, usc levan institute for humanities and ethics

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  Women in Physics Find Common Ground

  March 1, 2007

  Young female scientists from the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom gathered at USC earlier this year for the second annual Conference for Undergraduate Women in Physics. Following the success of last year’s… more>

  categories: graduate

  tags: conference, physics, women

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  Pinochet’s Past Is Still Present for Professor

  February 1, 2007

  As a child, Macarena Gómez-Barris fled Chile for Northern California with her family, exiles escaping the brutal rule of Augusto Pinochet Ugarte. Now, as a faculty member in USC College, Gómez-Barris is plumbing… more>

  categories: graduate, research

  tags: atrocities, latin america