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Kate Flint, Provost Professor of English and Art History and chair of art history in USC Dornsife, arrived in 2011 from Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. An expert on the art and culture of the Victorian era and the early 20th century, she has also taught at Bristol and Oxford universities. Photo by Dietmar Quistorf.

In Like Flint

January 30, 2013

Growing up in the United Kingdom, Kate Flint became fascinated with all things Victorian from an early age. For her, the inescapable presence of the Victorian world lived on in the country’s cities, buildings,… more>

categories: graduate, faculty research, graduate research

tags: art history, graduate, kate flint, painting, photography, victorian literature

Image of the Maya sun god as shark man, one of his several guises found on the frieze of the Temple of the Night Sun at El Zotz, Guatemala. Photo by Edwin Román, reproduced courtesy of Proyecto Arqueologico El Zotz.

Digging for Knowledge

January 30, 2013

Evening is falling on the ancient Maya kingdom of El Zotz deep in the dense undergrowth of the Guatemalan jungle. A dark tide of bats flows out of a large cave in the nearby mountainside as the last rays of the setting sun… more>

categories: research, faculty research, undergraduate research

tags: anthropology, excavation research, geographic information systems (gis), guatemala, mayans, thomas garrison, undergraduate

USC Dornsife Professor of History and Accounting Jacob Soll (left) and Nathan Perl-Rosenthal, assistant professor of history, are approaching their research in innovative ways. Soll photo by Geraldine Bruneel, Paris. Perl-Rosenthal photo by Ben Pack.

New Stars of Yore

January 22, 2013

One of the top-20 history departments in the nation just got stronger. USC Dornsife’s Department of History has recruited MacArthur Fellow Jacob Soll from Rutgers University, who is using his innovative talents to… more>

categories: faculty research, new faculty

tags: history, jacob soll, nathan perl-rosenthal, new faculty, usc leventhal

Macarena Gómez-Barris studies representations of politics and culture in the wake of Chile's dictatorship under Gen. Augusto Pinochet through the lens of memories. Photo by John Livzey.

Shadows & Symbols

January 9, 2013

At Villa Grimaldi in Santiago, Chile, the majority of buildings that stood on the grounds between 1974 and 1977 have been demolished. There are no known photographs or historical registers that capture what transpired during… more>

categories: faculty research, diversity, faculty diversity, usc dornsife magazine

tags: american studies and ethnicity, chile, humanities, macarena gómez-barris, memory, pinochet, publication, social sciences, sociology, usc dornsife magazine

G. Alexander Moore, professor of anthropology in USC Dornsife, explains why so many people got the Mayan calendar wrong.

Disappointed the World Didn’t End?

January 2, 2013

USC Dornsife’s G. Alexander Moore wasn’t surprised to wake up on Dec. 22. The professor of anthropology knew better. An expert on Mayan civilization and mythology, Moore said the much-hyped alleged Mayan… more>

categories: faculty research

tags: alexander moore, anthropology, apocalypse, mayans, social sciences

Every person has perhaps billions of bytes of information stored in long-term memory. Babies develop long-term memories for past experiences beginning at the age of about six months or even earlier.

Mind Games

December 18, 2012

As a child, how many of you memorized the planet names and order with this little ditty: My very elegant mother just sat upon nine porcupines. Although the demotion of Pluto to a dwarf planet renders this particular mnemonic… more>

categories: research, faculty research, undergraduate diversity, usc dornsife magazine

tags: alzheimers, cancer, fasting, memory, natural sciences, pollution, psychology, stephen madigan, university professor emeritus richard thompson, usc dornsife magazine

G.K. Prakash, Professor and George A. and Judith A. Olah Nobel Laureate Chair in Hydrocarbon Chemistry in USC Dornsife, who has spent decades researching flourine reagents is also working on a methanol economy concept. Here, he holds up a methanol fuel cell, which is powering a fan. Photo by Philip Channing.

One Man’s Trash, Another Man’s Treasure

December 11, 2012

A team of USC Dornsife chemists has developed a way to transform a hitherto useless ozone-destroying greenhouse gas that is the byproduct of Teflon manufacture into reagents for producing pharmaceuticals. The discovery was… more>

categories: research, faculty research

tags: chemistry, g.k. surya prakash, george olah, loker hydrocarbon research institute, natural sciences, research, usc loker hydrocarbon research institute

New Marine Microbiology Initiative Investigator Jed Fuhrman, McCulloch-Crosby Chair of Marine Biology in USC Dornsife, will hire full-time personnel needed to handle the expected avalanche of new data that will be generated. Photo by Philip Channing.

Marine Biologist Takes Risks

December 5, 2012

Jed Fuhrman, McCulloch-Crosby Chair of Marine Biology in USC Dornsife, has been honored with a prestigious Marine Microbiology Initiative Investigator Award from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation. Fuhrman is one of 16… more>

categories: faculty research, awards

tags: award, gordon and betty moore foundation, marine biology, natural sciences, usc wrigley institute for environmental studies jed fuhrman

Arieh Warshel, Distinguished Professor of USC Dornsife (left), receives his 2012 Soft Matter & Biophysical Chemistry Award from the Royal Society of Chemistry's Faraday Division Council President Graham Hutchings during a recent three-day symposium in England. Photo courtesy of the Royal Society of Chemistry.

Warshel Fêted by Royal Society of Chemistry

December 4, 2012

In 1963, a burning question kept invading the mind of a young kibbutznik studying chemistry at the Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, in Haifa. Arieh Warshel had to know: just how do enzymes speed up chemical… more>

categories: faculty research, awards

tags: arieh warshel, award, chemistry, natural sciences

The 13 professors honored by the American Association for the Advancement of Science bring the number of USC Dornsife AAAS fellows to 47.

Lucky Thirteen

November 30, 2012

Chosen by their peers in recognition of their research that significantly raises the bar of our understanding of science worldwide, an unprecedented 13 scientists from USC Dornsife have been elected fellows of the 2012… more>

categories: faculty research, diversity, faculty diversity, awards

tags: aaas fellows, alan watts, american association for the advancement of science, anna krylov, arieh warshel, awards, daniel lidar, engineering, faculty, fengzhu sun, hanna reisler, john mcardle, margaret gatz, mark thompson, natural sciences, norman arnheim, science, susan friedlander, susan montgomery, thomas jordan

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