Led by USC Dornsife’s Don Arnold and Richard Roberts, a new study published in Neuron explains how scientists for the first…
Housed in USC Dornsife, the Development Portfolio Management Group opens in Arlington, Va. The group works on improving…
Claire Baugher, double major in psychology and political science, helped to transform a storage facility into a small theatre…
USC Dornsife students were among those who spoke during a recent TEDx, a local, independently organized offshoot of the…
After neuroscience and human biology major Erin Walker volunteered assisting in dentistry work in Honduras, she founded the…
The mystery of how dinosaurs first began to fly may have finally been cracked by a USC Dornsife-led team of scientists whose groundbreaking study has been honored by the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology (SVP). The… more>
categories: research, faculty research, graduate research
tags: archaeology, bird flight, evolutionary biology, justin hall, keck school of medicine, michael habib, natural sciences, paleontology
University Professor Hanna Damasio, Dana Dornsife Chair in Neuroscience and professor of psychology and neurology, has received a doctora honoris causa from the prestigious Open University of Catalonia, in Barcelona,… more>
categories: research, faculty research, diversity, faculty diversity
tags: award, cognitive neuroscience, dana and david dornsife cognitive neuroscience imaging center, hanna damasio, natural sciences, neurology, psychology, research
Seven of USC Dornsife’s finest mathematicians have been invited by the American Mathematical Society (AMS) to become inaugural fellows of this prestigious association for their distinguished contributions to… more>
categories: faculty research, diversity
tags: american mathematical society, awards, diversity, eric friedlander, francis bonahon, ko honda, natural sciences, robert guralnick, solomon golomb, susan friedlander, susan montgomery
As Nov. 6 draws nearer, more than just Americans are paying close attention to the presidential race. In Europe, scholars are following the campaign with keen interest, curious how the next president’s administration… more>
categories: faculty research
tags: election 2012, european union, international relations, mai’a davis cross, political science, publication, social sciences
A multinational research team has discovered filamentous bacteria that function as living power cables in order to transmit electrons thousands of cell lengths away. The Desulfobulbus bacterial cells, which are only a few… more>
categories: research, faculty research
tags: biological physics, moh el-naggar, natural sciences, physics, publication
Deborah Harkness remembers the “ah-ha” moment that set her off on her intellectual journey. She was an undergraduate Renaissance studies major at Mount Holyoke College in South Hadley, Mass., when one day in class… more>
categories: faculty research
tags: deborah harkness, history, humanities, mount holyoke college, publications, women of influence
Nearly 300 of USC Dornsife Distinguished Professor George Olah’s colleagues and former students arrived from throughout the world to celebrate the 35th anniversary of the Loker Hydrocarbon Research Institute and… more>
categories: research, faculty research, graduate research
tags: chemistry, george olah, loker hydrocarbon research institute, natural sciences, nobel prize, usc president c. l. max nikias, usc provost elizabeth garrett
Three groups of USC researchers representing chemistry, medicine and chemical engineering are recipients of highly competitive grants from the National Cancer Institute (NCI) at the National Institutes of Health… more>
categories: faculty research
tags: chemical engineering, chemistry, medicine, national cancer institute, national institutes of health, natural sciences, research grant, terry takahashi
The Rev. Cecil “Chip” Murray’s first trial by fire happened in the early 1950s. Then a young U.S. Air Force navigator, Murray was in a warplane when it erupted in flames on the tarmac. The pilot escaped the… more>
categories: faculty research, diversity, faculty diversity, community engagement
tags: c. l. max nikias, cecil “chip” murray, diversity, humanitites, publication, religion, usc cecil murray center for community engagement, usc center for religion and civic culture
Even in the highest levels of United States government, the cause of the demonstrations in the Middle East — and the killing of four Americans in Benghazi, Libya — following the online release of a trailer for a… more>
categories: undergraduate, faculty research
tags: fayez hammad, kevin van bladel, laurie brand, libya, middle east, middle east studies program, philip seib, sherman jackson, social science


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