Lynn Swartz Dodd and her students had heard rumblings of a 10th-century cemetery deep in the brush in the Hatay region of Turkey near Antakya, the ancient city of Antioch. But no one had ever translated the inscribed… more>
categories: undergraduate, research, undergraduate research
tags: archaeology, history, humanities, problems without passports, pwp, social sciences, travel, turkey
What happens when 24 students take to the ocean to study the fragile ecosystems of Micronesia’s coral reefs? Anyone can soon find out as dispatches from the field are posted to Scientific American’s… more>
categories: undergraduate, undergraduate research
tags: biological sciences, blog, diving, environmental studies, guam, micronesia, natural sciences, ocean, palau, problems without passports, publication
The weary oak carries the burden of a hideous past. Against its trunk, Khmer Rouge soldiers bashed the delicate skulls of infants and small children, tossing their lifeless bodies into open pits. As if weeping, a deep… more>
tags: cambodia, east asian languages and cultures, genocide, history, humanities, international relations, khmer rouge, problems without passports, pwp, usc college magazine, usc shoah foundation institute
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… more>
categories: undergraduate, undergraduate research
tags: blog, catalina island, chemistry, diving, environment, environmental studies, jim haw, natural sciences, problems without passports, summer, usc wrigley marine science center
Born and raised in Prasat, a small village in Cambodia, Kosal Path was not yet one when the radical Communist Khmer Rouge came into power, igniting a genocide that would end in the massacre of nearly 2 million… more>
categories: undergraduate, undergraduate research
tags: cambodia, genocide, international relations, problems without passports, pwp, united nations
The office of the U.S. secretary of state... A cave in southern Belize... A health clinic in central Mexico... This summer, learning at USC College soared beyond the classroom to some surprising places. Undergraduates in… more>
categories: undergraduate
tags: environmental studies, field research, international relations, natural sciences, problems without passports, social science, travel


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