USC Dornsife News

Teaching With Technology

Wed, 8 May 2013 14:35:00 -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.

Hire Purpose

Tue, 7 May 2013 15:25:00 -0500

Finding USC Dornsife a destination for entrepreneurial thinking, these newest faculty members are heading in exciting and novel directions.

Hire Purpose: Sami Assaf

Tue, 7 May 2013 15:20:00 -0500

Fearless Symmetry

Hire Purpose: David Treuer

Tue, 7 May 2013 15:15:00 -0500

Great Spirit

Worth Reading

Tue, 23 Apr 2013 12:30:00 -0500

Los Angeles Times Festival of Books held April 20-21 at USC. Photo by Vanessa Preziose." title="Readers of all ages enjoy presentations by novelists, poets, journalists, chefs, musicians and celebrities at the18th annual Los Angeles Times Festival of Books held April 20-21 at USC. Photo by Vanessa Preziose." /> Tens of thousands of people fed their appetites for the written word during the recent annual Los Angeles Times Festival of Books. Among USC Dornsife authors speaking at the two-day event, University Professor Kevin Starr, the John Muir of our times, shared some of his own history.

Lee Epstein Awarded Guggenheim

Mon, 15 Apr 2013 08:55:00 -0500

Epstein, USC Provost Professor of Law and Political Science, has won a Guggenheim Fellowship for her scholarship assessing diversity on the federal bench and the effect of gender, race and religion on judging.

Life, Neolithic Style

Fri, 12 Apr 2013 09:55:00 -0500

In a First Year Investigations seminar, “Human Survival: Learning from the Past,” students start a fire, spin wool and smelt copper the way it was done 8,000 years ago. L.A. Weekly selected that course and another FYI seminar among its "Best of L.A. Classes” for 2012.

Hanna Reisler Celebrated

Tue, 2 Apr 2013 08:45:00 -0500

A Women in Science and Engineering (WiSE) symposium honoring Hanna Reisler showcased the professor of chemistry and research from women scientists and engineers at USC.

The Dawn of Time

Mon, 25 Mar 2013 13:55:00 -0500

USC Dornsife’s Elena Pierpaoli leads team that generates a map revealing the universe’s real age.

The Synergistic Effect

Mon, 11 Mar 2013 09:35:00 -0500

Cell Reports, that shed light on the centromere — the center of the “X” shape of a chromosome. Forsburg's former Ph.D. student, Pao-Chen Li (right), now a postdoctoral researcher at the University of California, San Francisco, was among the co-authors. Photo by Eric O’Connell." title="Susan Forsburg, professor of molecular biology in USC Dornsife (left), led a team in a study recently published in Cell Reports, that shed light on the centromere — the center of the “X” shape of a chromosome. Forsburg's former Ph.D. student, Pao-Chen Li (right), now a postdoctoral researcher at the University of California, San Francisco, was among the co-authors. Photo by Eric O’Connell." /> In a study recently published in Cell Reports, USC Dornsife researchers found that dual systems collaborate to keep chromosomes intact during DNA replication.

Prosecution to Empowerment

Wed, 6 Feb 2013 10:00:00 -0500

USC Dornsife takes a leadership role in finding solutions to human trafficking, beginning with an international conference that drew 200 participants.

Bipedaling Toward Truth

Thu, 31 Jan 2013 14:00:00 -0500

Geology. The study provides insights about the development of hominins and the landscape that herbivores (horses, hippos and antelopes) grazed many million years ago. Photo by Dietmar Quistorf." title="USC Dornsife assistant professor Sarah Feakins served as lead author of a study that recently appeared online in Geology. The study provides insights about the development of hominins and the landscape that herbivores (horses, hippos and antelopes) grazed many million years ago. Photo by Dietmar Quistorf." /> A new geology study recently published online in Geology led by Sarah Feakins, assistant professor of earth sciences in USC Dornsife, raises questions about the environment in which our ancestors took shape and developed bipedalism.

Is The Bachelor on the Right Track?

Fri, 25 Jan 2013 09:20:00 -0500

NeuroImage indicates that the brain works overtime to comprehend and empathize with people who have physical abnormalities. The lead author was Sook-Lei Liew who conducted the research while at USC Dornsife's Brain and Creativity Institute." title="A paper appearing online recently in NeuroImage indicates that the brain works overtime to comprehend and empathize with people who have physical abnormalities. The lead author was Sook-Lei Liew who conducted the research while at USC Dornsife's Brain and Creativity Institute." /> Sook-Lei Liew, who recently earned her Ph.D. in USC Dornsife, is lead author of an online paper in this month’s NeuroImage.

Shadows & Symbols

Wed, 9 Jan 2013 09:45:00 -0500

For Macarena Gómez-Barris, associate professor of sociology and American studies and ethnicity, memories weave a complex chronicle of culture and power in South America.

Lucky Thirteen

Fri, 30 Nov 2012 09:05:00 -0500

An unprecedented 13 USC Dornsife professors are honored as AAAS fellows by their peers for 2012. The organization seeks to advance science and engineering innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all people.

Mutant Cells Dig in Their Heels

Tue, 20 Nov 2012 16:00:00 -0500

Combining genetic tools, drug treatment and state-of-the-art imaging, USC Dornsife’s Susan Forsburg and her researchers have found that some cancer cells continue to replicate even after treatment.

Oceanographer Makes Waves

Fri, 16 Nov 2012 11:30:00 -0500

Director of the Center for Dark Energy Biosphere Investigations, USC Dornsife’s Katrina Edwards has received the prestigious A.G. Huntsman Award presented annually by the Royal Society of Canada.

A Little Bird Told Me

Fri, 9 Nov 2012 09:30:00 -0500

Sarah Bottjer of neurobiology and psychology and her team are the first to locate the neural circuit in the songbird brain that encodes a representation of learned vocal sounds.

Damasio Celebrated in Spain

Fri, 2 Nov 2012 13:20:00 -0500

The Open University of Catalonia presents USC Dornsife’s Hanna Damasio with its highest honor for her digital imaging brain research.

Tested By Fire

Thu, 18 Oct 2012 09:25:00 -0500

The Rev. Cecil “Chip” Murray of USC Dornsife is honored for his passionate community engagement and new book in an event hosted by USC President C. L. Max Nikias.

L.A.’s Vernacular Landscapes

Mon, 8 Oct 2012 12:35:00 -0500

A People's Guide to Los Angeles. Photo by Laura Paisley." title="USC Dornsife's Laura Pulido stands near the gravesite of Owen Brown in the hills of Altadena, Calif., one of the sites in her new guidebook, A People's Guide to Los Angeles. Photo by Laura Paisley." /> Laura Pulido’s new book A People’s Guide to Los Angeles takes readers to 115 little-known sites in the City of Angels where struggles related to race, class, gender and sexuality have occurred.

Detecting Life Beyond Earth

Fri, 21 Sep 2012 08:45:00 -0500

Led by Jan Amend of earth sciences and biological sciences, a team of USC Dornsife researchers will study life in Earth’s subsurface biosphere with a $6 million grant from the NASA Astrobiology Institute.

Fighting for Inclusion

Thu, 6 Sep 2012 14:20:00 -0500

USC Dornsife’s Nayan Shah has recently won the 2012 Norris and Carol Hundley Prize for his second book, Stranger Intimacy.

Barrios to Burbs

Wed, 5 Sep 2012 12:00:00 -0500

Barrios to Burbs: The Making of the Mexican American Middle Class by USC Dornsife's Jody Agius Vallejo shoots down myths about Mexican Americans in the United States. Portrait of Vallejo by Scott Hankinson." title="Barrios to Burbs: The Making of the Mexican American Middle Class by USC Dornsife's Jody Agius Vallejo shoots down myths about Mexican Americans in the United States. Portrait of Vallejo by Scott Hankinson." /> A new book by USC Dornsife’s Jody Agius Vallejo examines middle-class Mexican Americans, revealing the factors that lead to educational and economic success.

Feminism Goes Gaga

Thu, 9 Aug 2012 17:00:00 -0500

Gaga Feminism: Sex, Gender and the End of Normal, due out this September from Beacon Press. Photo of Halberstam by Assaf Evron." title="USC Dornsife's Jack Halberstam explores society's evolving gender roles in his book, Gaga Feminism: Sex, Gender and the End of Normal, due out this September from Beacon Press. Photo of Halberstam by Assaf Evron." /> Jack Halberstam, professor of American studies and ethnicity, and gender studies in USC Dornsife, has written a new book, Gaga Feminism: Sex, Gender and the End of Normal, to be published by Beacon Press in September.