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USC students traveling to India, standing, from left, are Aparajitha Vadlamannati, Maya Babla, Jessica Castillo and Hend Alhinnawi. Seated, from left, Mona El Hamdani, Jerry Edling and Anna Dawson.

Public Diplomacy Students Travel to India

December 15, 2011

A team of seven graduate students is taking a two-week research trip to India while reporting on the country's public diplomacy efforts and posting entries on the India: Inside Out blog. The second-year Master’s in… more>

categories: graduate, graduate research

tags: blog, india, international relations, public diplomacy, social sciences

USC College junior Arin Ghosh was presented with the State of Maryland Governor’s Citation in January for his on-going collaboration with the Maryland Interagency Strategic Council to strengthen Indo-U.S. relations. Photo credit Jie Gu.

Creating His Own Path

February 1, 2011

It’s Monday at 6 a.m. and Arin Ghosh’s phone is already ringing. After all, while the day is just beginning in Los Angeles, for his business contacts in New Delhi, India, it’s 7:30 p.m. and they are eager for… more>

categories: undergraduate

tags: award, india, maryland, political science, politics, trade

USC College sophomore Greg Woodburn is the founder of the nonprofit organization Give Running, which collects and refurbishes used athletic shoes and distributes them to underprivileged children.

Running Toward the Future

June 2, 2010

When injuries prevented Greg Woodburn from continuing to run track during high school, he never lost his passion for the sport. Instead he directed that energy toward founding a nonprofit organization called Give Running,… more>

categories: undergraduate

tags: award, charity, community, environment, history, india, mali, nonprofit, running, sports

James McHugh of USC College has been offered a Society Fellowship at Cornell University’s Society for the Humanities to complete his book about scent in medieval India. Photo credit Steve Cohn.

The Sweet Smell of Success

February 9, 2010

Imagine a figure wrapped in fine silk, dripping with diamonds and bathed in a cloud of exotic perfume. Is this a celebrity, a diva, the ghost of Liberace? According to James McHugh, assistant professor of religion in USC… more>

categories: research, faculty research

tags: culture, fellowship, history, humanities, india, james mchugh, perfume, religion, scent