USC Dornsife’s history chair William Deverell explores the birth of a modern metropolis with the organization of an…
Recalling encouragement from his mentor Alice Echols, Sean Little ’06 traces his bachelor’s in English to an M.B.A. to a…
The names of top USC Dornsife students will adorn the wall of Leavey Library in an honor celebrating university-wide students…
The gift creates the Steven and Kathryn Sample Endowment for Ecumenism to support research centered on the foundational…
Howard Wayne Harris proves his 9th grade teacher wrong. Earning his Ph.D. at the USC Dornsife hooding ceremony May 16, he was…
Skylab astronaut and USC alumnus Jerry Carr presented USC Dornsife student Simca Bouma with a $10,000 scholarship from the Astronaut Scholarship Foundation (ASF) during a public presentation and ceremony. The event was held… more>
categories: undergraduate, undergraduate research
tags: astronaut, astronaut scholarship foundation, award, event, mathematics, natural sciences, physics, physics and astronomy, scholarship, space
Incoming undergraduates, would you like an engraved invitation to visit your professors during their office hours? Now you have one. Designated as Dornsife Faculty Fellows, 27 professors in USC Dornsife are building… more>
categories: research, faculty research, undergraduate research, diversity, undergraduate diversity, faculty diversity
tags: dornsife faculty fellows, first-year investigations, fyi, humanities, natural sciences, social sciences
Beginning in Fall 2010, a small group of students and their faculty adviser, Anthony Kammas, gathered for meetings in a shady corner of the Carolyn Craig Franklin Garden on the north side of the Doheny Memorial Library. In… more>
categories: undergraduate, undergraduate research
tags: humanities, magazine, online, philosophy, political science, publication, social sciences
Lynn Swartz Dodd and her students had heard rumblings of a 10th-century cemetery deep in the brush in the Hatay region of Turkey near Antakya, the ancient city of Antioch. But no one had ever translated the inscribed… more>
categories: undergraduate, research, undergraduate research
tags: archaeology, history, humanities, problems without passports, pwp, social sciences, travel, turkey
With the Eiffel Tower as her backdrop, USC Dornsife alumna Corey Arterian felt at one with those writers who came before her, penning poem after poem about the City of Light. Paris, she came to understand, incites emotions… more>
categories: undergraduate, undergraduate research
tags: cecilia woloch, creative writing, english, france, humanities, maymester, paris, poem, poetry, travel, writing
Exploring topics ranging from the social impact of black stand-up comedy to genocide resistance in Rwanda, seven students will get the opportunity to conduct graduate-level research through the 2011-12 Mellon Mays… more>
categories: undergraduate, research, undergraduate research, diversity, undergraduate diversity, faculty diversity
tags: award, fellowship, george sanchez, humanities, lanita jacobs, mellon mays undergraduate fellowship, mentor, natural sciences, social sciences, stephen finlay, veronica terriquez
Two students and two recent graduates of USC Dornsife’s Environmental Studies Program have started a trail-blazing summer interning with the Catalina Island Conservancy, where they are spending eight weeks assisting with… more>
categories: undergraduate, research, undergraduate research
tags: catalina island, catalina island conservancy, environment, environmental studies, internship, natural sciences, usc wrigley institute for environmental studies, usc wrigley marine science center
Wendy Barrios was on the fourth floor of a building at Tokyo International University (TIU) the afternoon of March 11, 2011, when the floor began to tremble. She was taking a break between her classes at TIU, where she was… more>
categories: undergraduate, research, undergraduate research
tags: asia, east asian area studies, humanities, japan, language, los angeles, overseas studies, study abroad, travel
After earning her bachelor’s in international relations from USC Dornsife in 2007, Elizabeth Barreras kept in touch with her adviser and professor Steven Lamy. Barreras went on to earn her master’s at the School… more>
categories: undergraduate, research, undergraduate research
tags: africa, agriculture, alumni, community, education, ghana, international relations, social sciences, summer undergraduate research fund, surf, travel
A group of ingenious USC undergraduates aren’t waiting for that golden opportunity to publish their science articles. They have created their own online science magazine, USCience Review, and are regularly posting… more>
categories: undergraduate, research, undergraduate research
tags: biochemistry, biological sciences, biology, magazine, natural sciences, neuroscience, physics and astronomy, publication


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