A benign brain tumor was pressing against a young woman’s optic nerve. She faced a medical Catch-22: remove the tumor via a complicated surgery with a high likelihood of destroying the nerve, or closely monitor the tumor… more>
tags: alumni, mathematics, medicine, natural sciences, technology
Scientists have taken the next major step toward quantum computing, which will use quantum mechanics to revolutionize the way information is processed. Quantum computers will capitalize on the mind-bending properties of … more>
categories: research, faculty research
tags: chemistry, computers, natural sciences, nature, publication, quantum computing, quantum mechanics, technology
Bill Celis, associate professor of journalism at the USC Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism, and Anne McKnight, assistant professor of East Asian languages and literatures and comparative literature in USC… more>
categories: research, faculty research
tags: anne mcknight, award, blog, comparative literature, east asian languages and literatures, event, humanities, technology
Alisa Rogers finished 10th grade and was already headed to Syracuse University. But before leaving her Baltimore high school, she met her future husband and business partner. Philip Rogers was a brilliant young student who… more>
tags: alumni, chemistry, energy, natural sciences, technology, wind
Jack Dangermond, founder of Esri, the world’s largest and most successful geographic information system (GIS) software company, spoke of his vision for spatial sciences at the inaugural USC Spatial Sciences Institute… more>
tags: event, geographic information system, john wilson, social sciences, sociology, spatial sciences institute, technology
USC College faculty Colin Keaveney, assistant professor in the Department of French and Italian, and Charles McKenna, professor in the Department of Chemistry, were awarded the Provost’s Prize for Teaching With… more>
categories: research, faculty research
tags: award, charles mckenna, chemistry, colin keaveney, conference, event, french and italian, technology
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
An hour into a lecture on notions of the origin of species, historian Philippa Levine instructs her students to take out their clickers. As students retrieve from their bags small, remote control-like devices, the following… more>
tags: history, technology, writing


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