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Visitors are invited to tour the USC Shoah Foundation Institute. This wall display maps out the institute's history preserving nearly 52,000 video testimonies of Holocaust survivors and other witnesses. Photo by Kim Fox.

A Look Behind the Visual History Archive

July 24, 2012

Cool air filtered through the videotape processing room of the USC Shoah Foundation Institute, housed in USC Dornsife. A group of visitors studied the bulky tape decks that lined the walls as a steady mechanical hum whirred… more>

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tags: holocaust, humanities, iwitness, social sciences, steven spielberg, testamony, usc shoah foundation institute, witness

Lee Crystal (MLS '12) shakes hands with Jim Kincaid (right), Aerol Arnold Chair in English and Professor of English, and chair of the MLS Faculty Board in USC Dornsife, after Crystal presented his research at the international symposium. Nita Kincaid looks on. Photo by Emily Loynachan.

USC Dornsife’s Master of Liberal Studies Program Hosts International Symposium

July 16, 2012

Under an umbrella in the Ronald Tutor Campus Center courtyard, students from USC Dornsife’s Master of Liberal Studies (MLS) program traded spirited ideas about Friedrich Nietzsche’s “God is Dead”… more>

categories: graduate, research, faculty research, graduate research, alumni

tags: alumni, edwin mccann, english, humanities, jim kincaid, master of liberal studies, mls, nietzsche, philosophy, susan kamai, symposium

Steve Kay, incoming dean of USC Dornsife, is one of the world’s top experts on genes and circadian rhythms. He has published more than 200 papers and has been cited in <em>Science</em> magazine's “Breakthroughs of the Year” three times since 1997. Photo by Emily Cavalcanti.

Resetting Your Biological Clock

July 12, 2012

Led by Steve Kay, incoming dean of the USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences, biologists at UC San Diego have discovered a chemical that offers a completely new and promising direction for the development of drugs… more>

categories: research, faculty research

tags: biology, cryptochrome, dean steve kay, diabetes, kl001, natural science, science magazine

A high school student watches Holocaust survivor Roman Kent's testimony about his experience in Poland during World War II on IWitness. The educational resource provides educators and students with more than 1,000 video testimonies of eyewitnesses of the Holocaust to be used in classroom lessons. Photo by Melissa Jacobs.

IWITNESS Wins National Honor

June 29, 2012

IWitness, an Internet resource developed by the USC Shoah Foundation Institute, has been recognized by the American Association of School Librarians (AASL) as one of the 2012 Top Web sites for Teaching and Learning. IWitness… more>

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tags: aasl, american association of school librarians, award, holocaust, humanities, iwitness, kori street, social sciences, steven spielberg, testamony, usc shoah foundation institute, witness

A testimony being processed for digital preservation. Photo by Kim Fox.

USC Shoah Foundation Institute Completes Preservation of Holocaust Testimonies

June 29, 2012

The USC Shoah Foundation Institute has completed a multiyear, multimillion-dollar project to digitally preserve the video interviews in its visual history archive. The archive contains testimony from nearly 52,000 Holocaust… more>

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tags: holocaust, humanities, memory, sam gustman, social sciences, stephen d. smith, steven spielberg, usc shoah foundation institute, witness

The interviews of nearly 52,000 Holocaust survivors and other witnesses will be available at the Israeli university located on historic Mount Carmel.

Israel to Benefit from USC Shoah Foundation Institute Archives

June 26, 2012

The University of Haifa has become the first university in Israel with access to the USC Shoah Foundation Institute for Visual History and Education’s archive, a searchable repository of nearly 52,000 video interviews… more>

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tags: holocaust, humanities, social studies, stephen d. smith, university of haifa, usc shoah foundation institute for visual history and education, witness

Robert A. Iger, chairman and CEO of The Walt Disney Company (center), earns the USC Shoah Foundation Institute's highest honor, the Ambassador for Humanity Award. From left, Berit Francis, Michael Francis, Willow Bay, Iger, Steven Spielberg, Niki Nikias and C. L. Max Nikias. Photo by Michael Kovac/Getty Images.

Disney’s Robert A. Iger Receives Ambassador for Humanity Award

June 14, 2012

Steven Spielberg, founder of the USC Shoah Foundation Institute for Visual History and Education, housed in USC Dornsife, presented Chairman and CEO of The Walt Disney Company Robert A. Iger with the institute’s highest… more>

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tags: award, c. l. max nikias, robert a. iger, social sciences, steven spielberg, testimonies, usc shoah foundation institute for visual history and education

Matthew Pratt, assistant professor of chemistry and biological sciences in USC Dornsife, has been named a 2012 Damon Runyon-Rachleff Innovator for his discovery of a possible link between metabolism and protein modification in cancer. Pratt's focuses on understanding how chemical modification affects the function and expands the diversity of proteins, which participate in nearly all operations in a cell. Photo by Ben Pack.

Risk and Reward

June 8, 2012

The Damon Runyon Cancer Foundation supports young scientists with creative, groundbreaking ideas leading to the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of cancer. Unlike many larger organizations, it funds research in its earliest… more>

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tags: award, biological sciences, cancer research, chemistry, matthew pratt, natural sciences

Missionary Rudolf Fisch captured this photograph, part of the International Mission Photography Archive, in early 20th-century Ghana. Photo courtesy of the Basel Mission Image Archive.

USC Historical Photography Project Gets Boost from NEH

May 22, 2012

Since 2002, USC Dornsife’s Center for Religion and Civic Culture (CRCC) and the USC Libraries have partnered with archives around the world to digitize more than 82,000 historical photographs by Christian missionaries… more>

categories: research, faculty research, undergraduate research, graduate research

tags: center for religion and civic culture, crcc, digital library, grant, impa, international mission photography archive, jon miller, national endownment for the humanities, neh, sociology

The Fulbright Scholarship was established to increase the mutual understanding between the United States and other countries. USC Dornsife students and alumni who are 2012-13 Fulbright Scholars will study and teach throughout the world. Clockwise is Caitlin Bradbury: Mexico; Sarah Goodrum: Germany; Huibin Amelia Chew: the Philippines; Nina Gordon-Kirsch: Israel; Nelly Chávez: Spain; and Daniel Paly: Brazil.

That’s Right, You Earned a Fulbright

May 22, 2012

Six USC Dornsife students and alumni have been selected for the prestigious Fulbright Fellowship awarding them for academic achievement and commitment to cultural engagement. Established in 1946 and sponsored by the United… more>

categories: undergraduate, graduate, research, undergraduate research, graduate research, alumni, undergraduate diversity, community engagement

tags: american studies and ethnicity, art history, caitlin bradbury, economics, environmental studies, french, fulbright scholarship, humanities, international relations, latin american studies, natural sciences, overseas studies, social sciences

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