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Champion for Education
August 5, 2011Celia C. Ayala discovered her life’s passion at an early age. With a quest to contribute to her community, she knew what she wanted to do; it was the how that remained a mystery. In her eighth floor office, Chief… more>
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The Magic of Paris
July 22, 2011With the Eiffel Tower as her backdrop, USC Dornsife alumna Corey Arterian felt at one with those writers who came before her, penning poem after poem about the City of Light. Paris, she came to understand, incites emotions… more>
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Mellon Mays Program Mentors Minority Students
July 19, 2011Exploring topics ranging from the social impact of black stand-up comedy to genocide resistance in Rwanda, seven students will get the opportunity to conduct graduate-level research through the 2011-12 Mellon Mays… more>
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Understanding Pentecostalism’s Global Impact
July 15, 2011Pentecostalism — a religious movement that began in a warehouse on Azusa Street in Los Angeles in 1906 — has emerged as a fast-growing minority religion in the developing world, gaining popularity in the Southern… more>
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USC Fellow to Host Al Jazeera Program
July 8, 2011Maytha Alhassen, a member of the Provost's Ph.D. Fellowship Program, will interrupt her travels across North Africa and the Middle East to host Al Jazeera’s The Stream, a live TV program covering current events through… more>
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On Writing and Redemption
July 7, 2011Mark Richard didn’t intend to write his latest book. He had originally set out to explore the death of Nat Turner, an early 19th-century slave insurrectionist in Southampton County, Va., where Richard lived as a boy.… more>
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In Memoriam: John Hospers, 93
June 29, 2011John Hospers, emeritus professor of philosophy in USC Dornsife and the Libertarian Party’s first presidential nominee has died. He was 93. Hospers died in Los Angeles, Calif., on June 12. Hospers is widely known for… more>
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Land of the Rising Sun in the City of Angels
June 28, 2011Wendy Barrios was on the fourth floor of a building at Tokyo International University (TIU) the afternoon of March 11, 2011, when the floor began to tremble. She was taking a break between her classes at TIU, where she was… more>
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Pillar of Empowerment
June 23, 2011In 1968, Mark Ridley-Thomas was a seventh grader at George Washington Carver Middle School in southeast Los Angeles. At Victory Baptist Church near his school campus, the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. often preached and… more>
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Devoted to the City of Roses
June 13, 2011Bill Deverell has spent his academic career exploring the history and culture of California. With research interests including the American West after the Civil War and the environmental history of Los Angeles, and as the… more>
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