USC Dornsife News

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.

A Paradigm Shift in Understanding Chemical Reactions

Thu, 22 Mar 2012 13:38:00 -0500

Scientists at USC and Lawrence Berkeley National Lab have discovered a new route by which a proton (a hydrogen atom that lost its electron) can move from one molecule to another — a basic component of countless ...

Time Flies

Fri, 17 Feb 2012 17:03:00 -0500

Time, which explains why times moves forward and never back. Shown here is Salvador Dali's 1931 melting clock painting, The Persistence of Memory. Image © 2007 Salvador Dalí, Gala-Salvador Dalí Foundation/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York." title="In USC's inaugural science-themed filmmaking competition, USC Dornsife's Kevin Le and USC School of Cinematic Arts' Edward Saavedra, sophomores, took top prize for their short movie, Time, which explains why times moves forward and never back. Shown here is Salvador Dali's 1931 melting clock painting, The Persistence of Memory. Image © 2007 Salvador Dalí, Gala-Salvador Dalí Foundation/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York." /> USC Dornsife's Kevin Le and USC School of Cinematic Arts' Edward Saavedra, both sophomores, took the top prize in the inaugural science-themed filmmaking competition for their short movie Time. USC Dornsife students also won an honorable mention.

It Happened One Night (in the Lab)

Tue, 20 Sep 2011 08:13:00 -0500

It Happened One Night?" title="In USC’s first filmmaking competition centered on the sciences, Clifford Johnson and Anna Krylov of USC Dornsife envision entries on any kind of film genre imaginable. What if Clark Gable and Claudette Colbert were scientists in the classic romantic comedy It Happened One Night?" /> Physicist Clifford Johnson and chemist Anna Krylov of USC Dornsife launch USC’s first filmmaking competition focusing on science themes.