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

Research News

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  Renaissance Capitalist

  January 21, 2009

  In popular legend, Lucrezia Borgia, Duchess of Ferrara (1480-1519), stands falsely accused of poisoning her second husband. Victor Hugo portrayed her in thinly veiled fiction as a tragic femme fatale. Buffalo Bill named his… more>

  categories: research

  tags: business, history, humanities, italy, machiavelli

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  Deep Down, Life Thrives

  May 1, 2008

  Once considered a barren plain with an odd hydrothermal vent, the seafloor appears to be teeming with microbial life, according to a paper to be published in Nature. “A 60,000-kilometer seam of basalt is exposed along… more>

  categories: research, faculty research, diversity, faculty diversity

  tags: bacteria, biological sciences, earth sciences, katrina edwards, magazine, natural sciences, seafloor

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  Science Stars

  May 1, 2008

  When April 1 rolled around, USC College undergraduates Dallas Shi and Sonya Hanson both knew that Goldwater Scholarship announcements were just around the corner. Shi anxiously checked the honorable mention list first. Not… more>

  categories: undergraduate, research

  tags: goldwater scholars, research

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  Giving Student Scholars a Chance to SOAR

  November 1, 2007

    Earlier this semester, USC College announced a program offering stipends for undergraduate research, called Sophomore Opportunities for Academic Research (SOAR). USC College News recently sat down with Vice Dean Steven… more>

  categories: undergraduate, research

  tags: fund, undergraduate research

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  Evolution’s Gardener

  November 1, 2007

  Rocks collected from ancient seabeds clutter the worktables that dominate the center of paleobiologist David Bottjer’s lab. A grainy, yellowed one records the shape of a giant clam that lived 90 million years ago in… more>

  categories: graduate, research

  tags: extinction, paleobiology

• Innovation & Imagination

  October 1, 2007

  On Oct. 11 and 12, 2007, USC College presented a program of exhibits and events for Trojan Parents Weekend campus visitors. The videos below feature four discussions highlighting the work of College faculty and staff. Helping… more>

  categories: undergraduate, research

  tags: exhibits, parents weekend

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  American Studies and Ethnicity Graduate Earns Dissertation Award

  October 1, 2007

  One of the first graduates of USC College’s new American studies and ethnicity Ph.D. program has received the interdisciplinary field’s highest honor for dissertation excellence. Daniel HoSang’s… more>

  categories: graduate, research

  tags: dissertation, racial discrimination

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  Red Moon Rising

  September 1, 2007

  In the middle of a serene night, young astronomers from USC College lay on their backs on a grassy peak in the San Gabriel Mountains staring at the full moon. The students and their professor Edward Rhodes watched the moon… more>

  categories: undergraduate, research

  tags: lunar eclipse, moon

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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

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  Good For the Goose, Not So Great For the Gander

  February 1, 2007

  In the summer of 2005, USC College molecular biologist John Tower sent an e-mail marked high priority to all of his graduate students and postdoctoral researchers. From now on, he wrote, all experiments must include both… more>

  categories: graduate, research

  tags: biology, life expectancy