Latest USC Dornsife News in the Topic Catalina Island http://dornsife.usc.edu/news/topics/792/catalina-island/ Tom Nolan, who went on to become an Earth explorer for NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) after graduating from USC Dornife, is the epitome of Trojan spirit.]]> Wed, 10 Apr 2013 11:25:00 -0500 During a Maymester course, 26 mostly environmental studies students in USC Dornsife who completed a Spring class teaching them how to dive are now headed to Guam and Palau.]]> Wed, 23 May 2012 14:55:00 -0500 Santa Monica High School’s team won first place in the ninth annual QuikSCience Challenge. More than 400 middle and high school students from around the world submitted 74 science project entries.]]> Tue, 17 Apr 2012 14:56:00 -0500 Catalina Island serves as a training ground for students from USC Dornsife's online graduate degree programs in geographic information science and technology.]]> Thu, 28 Jul 2011 09:20:00 -0500 Students get hands-on field training in Catalina Island ecology.]]> Fri, 15 Jul 2011 11:24:00 -0500 This summer, the USC Philip K. Wrigley Marine Science Center on Catalina Island welcomes the general public to visit its state-of-the-art research facilities through its “Saturday at the Lab” program, which began on...]]> Thu, 2 Jun 2011 13:25:00 -0500 The USC Sea Grant program, part of the USC Wrigley Institute for Environmental Studies based in the USC Dana and David Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences and funded by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric...]]> Thu, 12 May 2011 17:21:00 -0500 One of the new courses in the summer line-up of USC College's Problems Without Passports program takes students to the USC Wrigley Marine Science Center on Catalina Island and to Guam and Palau in Oceania, a region mostly...]]> Thu, 29 Jul 2010 15:39:00 -0500 Environmental educators at USC have been showing the university's research facilities on Catalina Island to hundreds of students from middle schools and high schools since the conclusion of the 2010 QuikSCience Challenge, a team...]]> Mon, 7 Jun 2010 09:00:00 -0500 For the second consecutive year, Gabrielino High School placed first in the 2009 Edison Challenge, a partnership between Edison International and USC College of Letters, Arts & Sciences’ Wrigley Institute for Environmental Studies.]]> Mon, 21 Sep 2009 12:55:00 -0500 Sycamore Canyon Middle School placed first for a project involving recycling batteries. The environmental science contest is a partnership with USC College’s Wrigley Institute for Environmental Studies.]]> Mon, 21 Sep 2009 12:38:00 -0500 Mon, 13 Apr 2009 10:20:00 -0500