Latest USC Dornsife News in the Category Graduate Diversity http://dornsife.usc.edu/news/categories/16/graduate-diversity/ 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 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 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 USC Dornsife lecturer and alumnus Anthony Sparks (Ph.D. ‘12) scripted Walt Disney EPCOT’s first African American art and history exhibit, “Re-Discovering America: Family Treasures from the Kinsey Collection.”]]> Wed, 3 Apr 2013 14:45:00 -0500 Johanna Holm, a Ph.D. candidate in USC Dornsife, collaborates on a “dynamic book” about a science-minded boy who goes to the beach to collect flotsam — anything floating washed ashore. Holm and her team turn his discoveries into a digital experience.]]> Wed, 20 Mar 2013 15:00:00 -0500 In a study recently published in Cell Reports, USC Dornsife researchers found that dual systems collaborate to keep chromosomes intact during DNA replication.]]> Mon, 11 Mar 2013 09:35:00 -0500 A paid summer research internship program created by professors in USC Dornsife’s chemistry department is proving successful in motivating academically at risk community college students to major in STEM subjects at four-year universities.]]> Fri, 8 Mar 2013 13:05:00 -0500 A graduate from the inaugural class of USC Dornsife’s American studies and ethnicity doctoral program, Laura Barraclough ’06 has accepted a tenure-track faculty appointment at Yale University.]]> Fri, 1 Mar 2013 09:25:00 -0500 Chimps use touches and noisy gestures when trying to get another chimp's attention, finds Maureen McCarthy, a USC Dornsife graduate student conducting research in Uganda. Her research explores self-awareness in great apes.]]> Thu, 24 Jan 2013 15:20:00 -0500 USC Dornsife doctoral student Candy Hwang wins two top NSF awards for a video that dissects the chemistry behind the nitrogenase enzyme that produces ammonia from nitrogen in the atmosphere.]]> Wed, 12 Dec 2012 10:50:00 -0500 USC Dornsife has started a Society for Advancement of Chicanos and Native Americans in Science (SACNAS) chapter on campus to promote diversity in all scientific fields.]]> Wed, 31 Oct 2012 15:20:00 -0500 Rather than explain in writing the science behind her research, USC Dornsife chemistry doctoral candidate Candy Hwang has used animation in a National Science Foundation contest.]]> Mon, 29 Oct 2012 11:25:00 -0500 Maureen McCarthy, a USC Dornsife Ph.D. student, blogs about her yearlong research trip to Africa to study endangered chimpanzees and their shrinking habitat in fragmented forests.]]> Mon, 8 Oct 2012 12:40:00 -0500 Two USC Dornsife Ph.D. graduates will join faculty at Princeton University.]]> Mon, 30 Jul 2012 08:25:00 -0500 Wed, 14 Sep 2011 09:16:00 -0500 Faculty and graduate students from the USC College Department of Earth Sciences explore the cliffs of England to search for evidence of an ancient ocean crisis.]]> Wed, 19 Jan 2011 09:57:00 -0500 Two USC College biologists have received support from the National Science Foundation to examine the conditions that lead to the synthesis of B vitamins in the marine environment and the influence of those vitamins on marine...]]> Thu, 21 Oct 2010 11:03:00 -0500 USC College’s new Young Researchers Summer Program turns an aspiring filmmaker into a scientist.]]> Tue, 6 Oct 2009 11:08:00 -0500