USC Dana and David Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences

Alumni News

• Alumni Bookplate

  April 26, 2010

  Woman on a Shaky Bridge by Millicent Borges Accardi Finishing Line Press / Millicent Borges Accardi (MPW, ’93) offers 16 poems, which one reviewer notes “blaze with passion, outrage, wisdom, wit, grief, and… more>

  tags: alumni, book, publication

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  Redemptive Suffering

  April 26, 2010

  On the morning of February 20, 2006, I received a call from my father at 8 a.m. It was a holiday, President’s Day. My father could not speak. He sounded in shock. And he was only able to stutter a few words and my name… more>

  tags: alumni, donald miller, humanities, religion

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  Mindful Giving

  April 26, 2010

  David and Dana Dornsife David and Dana Dornsife continue a family legacy of giving to USC and USC College’s neuroscience program with a lead gift of $6 million for the new Brain and Creativity Institute (BCI) building.… more>

  tags: alumni, brain, brain and creativity institute, donation, natural sciences, neuroscience

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  Image is Everything

  April 26, 2010

  During the course of his career, Alan C. Nelson ’72 has acquired more than 100 technology patents and pioneered 3-D imaging techniques for the detection of cancer. These breakthroughs represent significant steps toward… more>

  categories: research

  tags: alumni, cancer, health, natural sciences, physics, technology

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  Writing to Forgive

  February 23, 2010

  "If I am alive, I am going to write." Holly Payne '97 spoke these words as she lay on the edge of a road beside a cemetery. Seconds earlier, she stopped to assist two stranded cyclists. A passing pickup truck struck all… more>

  categories: graduate, graduate research

  tags: alumni, author, book, english, humanities, master of professional writing, mpw, writer, writing

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  Once Upon a Blog

  February 18, 2010

  Tell me a story. That edict drives journalism, a craft I chose to pursue when I entered USC in the fall of 1982. Good writing is the backbone of the storytelling done in journalism, along with the good reporting that… more>

  tags: alumni, blog, humanities, international relations, journalism, newspaper, writing

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  From Ball Gown to Lab Coat

  February 16, 2010

  At first glance, Kristen "Kristy" Cavinder '09 may appear to be your typical pageant queen. At 21, the Orange County native has a radiant smile, fluid grace, and the natural confidence of someone who knows that others are… more>

  categories: undergraduate, joint educational project

  tags: alumni, ballet, california, joint educational project, miss america, natural sciences, neuroscience, pre-med, scholarship

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  USC College Magazine's Latest Issue Now Online

  February 5, 2010

  View USC College Magazine's Fall 2009/Winter 2010 issue online.   From the Dean Fall 2009/Winter 2010 A new year brings a new edition of our award-winning USC College Magazine. I must confess to a special… more>

  categories: undergraduate

  tags: alumni, article, author, award, book, events, magazine, news, research, usc college magazine

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  The Thrill of Writing in the Trenches

  January 29, 2010

  Walk into any bookstore, make a beeline to The New York Times best-seller section and you will find a political thriller by Brad Thor. The 40-year-old author produces one book a year. To date, he has written eight novels… more>

  tags: alumni, author, book, creative writing, humanties, writer, writing

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  Reading the Mind

  January 27, 2010

  Many budding writers would give anything to get inside the heads of best-selling authors to learn their secrets to success. Crime novelist Jonathan Kellerman ’74 can spare them the trouble. As a trained psychologist,… more>

  tags: alumni, author, book, humanities, psychology, social sciences, writer