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Students Take on the QuikSCience Challenge
April 17, 2012USC Wrigley Institute for Environmental Studies staff members are busy escorting several hundred students from middle and high schools to the USC Wrigley Marine Science Center on Catalina Island as part of their reward for… more>
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Time Flies
February 17, 2012To learn why time moves only forward one must first understand a fundamental law of physics: the increase of entropy. The law describes the tendency for systems to go from a state of higher organization to disorder. Consider… more>
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USC Mock Trial Team Dominates East Coast Competition
December 1, 2011In a Philadelphia courtroom, USC Mock Trial Team member Lauren Ige confidently stood before a judge and argued that a man who drove with a blood alcohol level higher than the legal limit of .08 and crashed his car killing a… more>
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It Happened One Night (in the Lab)
September 20, 2011Envision a romantic comedy with a science-based plot. The leading roles are biologists, let’s say, working in the same lab, using Schizoaccharomyces pombe to find a cure for cancer. Love ensues, followed by some… more>
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First Place? Check.
March 3, 2011One recent Sunday, while most people were blissfully soaking in the remainder of their weekends, Danyul Lawrence spent 11 hours focusing his concentration on a chess board. Split between two matches — one five hours… more>
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USC Team Excels at Math Competition
May 4, 2010A team comprised of seven undergraduate students from USC College and the USC Viterbi School of Engineering placed 84th out of 546 teams in the 2009 William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition. Sophomore Junda Chen placed… more>
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USC Mock Trial Team Sweeps Regional Competition
February 1, 2007Students from USC’s Mock Trial Team recently won first, second, third and fifth places and were named tournament champions at the American Mock Trial Association’s Great Western Regional Tournament held Feb.… more>
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USC College Dean’s Prize Winners Announced
April 1, 2006What do students think would make for a better USC College? That’s the question at the heart of the USC College Dean’s Prize for the Enrichment of Student Academic Life. This year’s winning proposals,… more>
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- Castle in the Clouds May 7, 2013
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