Latest USC Dornsife News http://dornsife.usc.edu/news/ USC Dornsife’s history chair William Deverell explores the birth of a modern metropolis with the organization of an innovative digital exhibition of photographs drawn from the Southern California Edison archive.]]> Thu, 23 May 2013 11:50:00 -0500 Recalling encouragement from his mentor Alice Echols, Sean Little ’06 traces his bachelor’s in English to an M.B.A. to a position as vice president of marketing at a job placement startup company.]]> Thu, 23 May 2013 11:05:00 -0500 The names of top USC Dornsife students will adorn the wall of Leavey Library in an honor celebrating university-wide students awarded a national or international scholarship.]]> Tue, 21 May 2013 13:25:00 -0500 The gift creates the Steven and Kathryn Sample Endowment for Ecumenism to support research centered on the foundational beliefs that all Christians share, and to help address the differences that still exist.]]> Tue, 21 May 2013 11:05:00 -0500 Howard Wayne Harris proves his 9th grade teacher wrong. Earning his Ph.D. at the USC Dornsife hooding ceremony May 16, he was lead author on several scientific papers including in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.]]> Fri, 17 May 2013 17:45:00 -0500 USC Dornsife issued more than 2,500 degrees during Commencement 2013: 1,959 bachelor’s, 326 master's, 81 graduate certificates and 168 Ph.Ds. Here are five stories from our cadre of shining grads.]]> Fri, 17 May 2013 17:00:00 -0500 USC Dornsife students win top prizes at the 15th Annual Undergraduate Symposium for Scholarly and Creative Work. In humanities, Vellore Adithi placed first for research.]]> Wed, 15 May 2013 16:35:00 -0500 USC valedictorian Katherine Fu and salutatorians Alexander Fullman and Julia Sabo Mangione — all in USC Dornsife — will represent the Class of 2013 on May 17.]]> Wed, 15 May 2013 15:40:00 -0500 Introducing the 2013 Dornsife Scholars. The six winners will each receive $10,000 to be used for graduate or professional school studies.]]> Wed, 15 May 2013 15:05:00 -0500 At a recent Los Angeles City Council meeting, Councilman and USC Dornsife alumnus Paul Krekorian presented a resolution passed by the council honoring USC Dornsife’s Joint Educational Project (JEP).]]> Wed, 15 May 2013 10:15:00 -0500 Hailed as an icon of Christian scholarship, the professor emeritus of philosophy was a best-selling author and beloved teacher whose work at USC Dornsife spanned nearly a half century.]]> Fri, 10 May 2013 17:10:00 -0500 Congratulations to the 10 USC Dornsife students who won 2013 Fulbright Scholarships. The award will take them to India, Laos, South Korea, Vietnam, Thailand, Portugal, Italy, Switzerland and Mexico.]]> Fri, 10 May 2013 15:45:00 -0500 USC Dornsife alumni are honored at the USC Alumni Awards gala, celebrating its 80th year.]]> Thu, 9 May 2013 16:40:00 -0500 American studies and ethnicity doctoral student Priscilla Leiva has earned a coveted Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowship. She is studying the complex relationship between sports stadiums and their surrounding communities.]]> Thu, 9 May 2013 15:35:00 -0500 The fellowship award will promote Professor of Physics and Astronomy Nicholas Warner’s efforts to “rewrite the book” on black holes.]]> Wed, 8 May 2013 14:55:00 -0500 USC Dornsife professors each take a 2013 Provost’s Prize for Teaching With Technology for research in which their students use diving computers and easily accessible technologies such as YouTube, WordPress and video.]]> Wed, 8 May 2013 14:35:00 -0500 USC Dornsife faculty and students were among those honored during the recent 32nd annual Academic Honors Convocation recognizing top research, teaching and service.]]> Wed, 8 May 2013 11:35:00 -0500 In The Croods, the new box-office hit from DreamWorks Animation, Kirk DeMicco ’91 has created an endearingly dysfunctional prehistoric family who must learn to evolve … or die.]]> Tue, 7 May 2013 18:00:00 -0500 Writing fiction gives Deborah Harkness license to explore where her inner historian would not dare to tread.]]> Tue, 7 May 2013 17:55:00 -0500 In a university-wide effort, USC Dornsife undergraduates teach civic engagement and entrepreneurship to elementary schoolchildren — who learn that every penny counts.]]> Tue, 7 May 2013 17:55:00 -0500 Big City Ways]]> Tue, 7 May 2013 17:55:00 -0500 Experience an fMRI scan with a USC Dornsife undergraduate as she participates in a project studying people’s neuropsychological and physiological reactions to narratives in cross-cultural settings.]]> Tue, 7 May 2013 15:30:00 -0500 In a stratospheric leap for neuroscience, researchers at the Brain and Creativity Institute (BCI) are limited only by their imaginations.]]> Tue, 7 May 2013 15:30:00 -0500 Tue, 7 May 2013 15:25:00 -0500 Speaking on Tongues]]> Tue, 7 May 2013 15:20:00 -0500