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When Worlds Collide
September 22, 2010What is the legacy of Spanish colonialism in the Americas and how does it still affect Latin America and Latinos in the United States today? This question is raised in the upcoming PBS documentary When Worlds Collide: The… more>
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Antonio Damasio Wins Honda Prize
September 21, 2010The Honda Foundation of Japan has announced that its annual Honda Prize, one of the most important international awards for scientific achievement, will go to Antonio Damasio, David Dornsife Professor of Neuroscience and… more>
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Feelings, Oh, Oh, Oh!
September 8, 2010Even a cognoscente of the written word like Aimee Bender admits the difficulty in communicating feelings. In her new novel, The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake (Random House), the professor of English in USC College… more>
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Meet USC College's New Faculty
August 31, 2010Giorgio Coricelli Assistant Professor of Economics Ph.D., Economics, 2002, The University of Arizona Previous Institution: Institut des Sciences Cognitives, CNRS Giorgio Coricelli studies human behaviors emerging from the… more>
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Brains and Beauty
August 27, 2010Mind first bloomed quietly And no one knows when, Although we know where: Within a brain that lived within a body. Sound heady? It should. This is the introduction to a poem written by neuroscientist Antonio Damasio of USC… more>
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USC Center for Applied Mathematical Sciences Turns 20
August 25, 2010This year marks the 20th anniversary of the USC Center for Applied Mathematical Sciences (CAMS), a research unit housed in USC College's Department of Mathematics. Susan Friedlander, professor of mathematics and CAMS' fourth… more>
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Explosives, Black Holes and Dr. Who
August 17, 2010Nick Warner leans forward in his desk chair, his arms outstretched, hands cupping the air in front of him as if protecting a small flame. "When I was 15, I had something explode right here," he says. For Warner, USC… more>
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August 12, 2010
Cool Science
At the bottom of the Earth — the planet's coldest, driest, windiest place — the sky radiates a lavender-yellow hue in the midnight sun. Whiter than milk, the blanket of ice seems infinite. Amid the… more>
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New Study Examines the Brain's Wiring
August 10, 2010The brain has been mapped to the smallest fold for at least a century, but still no one knows how all the parts talk to each other. A study in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences answers that question for a small… more>
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Microbes on the Menu
July 27, 2010The functioning of marine ecosystems depends on the size and flavor of microbes at the base of the food chain. Changes to the Earth's atmosphere might rearrange that microscopic menu. Microbes that currently are the main… more>
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