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

Maymester News

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  Taking the Plunge

  May 23, 2012

  USC Dornsife students are diving into this year’s Maymester courses. After taking a Spring semester course on the physics, physiology, safety and methodology of scientific diving, 26 undergraduates will dive in the… more>

  categories: undergraduate, graduate, undergraduate research, graduate research, commencement

  tags: catalina island, chemistry, david ginsburg, environmental studies, jim haw, maymester, usc wrigley institute for environmental studies, usc wrigley marine science center

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  Life on the Rez

  February 8, 2012

  In the 1950s in the small village of Ball Club, Minn., a school lunch program created a nasty rift. The area was mostly populated by Indians, recounted David Treuer. Students who resided on tribal land were entitled to a free… more>

  categories: research, faculty research

  tags: author, book, david treuer, english, humanities, language, maymester, native american, writing

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  The Magic of Paris

  July 22, 2011

  With 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>

  categories: undergraduate, undergraduate research

  tags: cecilia woloch, creative writing, english, france, humanities, maymester, paris, poem, poetry, travel, writing