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November 24, 2010
Sour Research, Sweet Results
This Thanksgiving, when you nibble the cranberry sauce and the tartness smacks your tongue as hard as that snide comment from your sister, consider the power of sour. Of the five taste sensations — sweet, bitter,… more>
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November 17, 2010 Speed Heals
Both the rate and direction of axon growth in the spinal cord can be controlled, according to new research by USC College's Samantha Butler and her collaborators. The study, "The Bone Morphogenetic Protein Roof Plate… more>
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USC College Magazine's Latest Issue Now Online
November 10, 2010From the Dean, Fall 2010/Winter 2011 View the magazine online You can change the world. We can show you how. We use this phrase to convey to prospective students the… more>
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November 1, 2010HiStory of Santa Monica Aqueous Books / Michael Atwood's (MPW, ’04) collection of short stories is thematically linked by the characters, who are struggling to realize their Hollywood dreams, and the setting —… more>
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Faculty Notes
November 1, 2010Thorsten Becker, associate professor of earth sciences, co-authored “Shaping Mobile Belts by Small-scale Convection,” which appeared in the June 3, 2010, issue of the journal Nature. Becker has been appointed… more>
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November 1, 2010The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake Random House / Professor of English Aimee Bender's new novel tells the story of young Rose Edelstein, who can literally taste the emotions of whoever prepares her food, giving her… more>
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Biodiversity Targets for the Future
October 22, 2010In Sichuan province, China, there is an abundance of orchards but no bees. "Thousands of people are hired to climb fruit trees and hand-pollinate the flowers with small brushes, because natural pollinators like bees have been… more>
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October 15, 2010 Breaking Curveball Too Good to Be True
Curveballs curve and fastballs go really fast, but new research suggests that no pitcher can make a curveball "break" or a fastball "rise." Led by Arthur Shapiro of American University and Zhong-Lin Lu of USC College, the… more>
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Sparkling Drinks Spark Pain Circuits
September 29, 2010You may not think of the fizz in soda as spicy, but your body does. The carbon dioxide in fizzy drinks triggers the same pain sensors in the nasal cavity as mustard and horseradish, though at a lower intensity, according to… more>
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USC Center for Applied Mathematical Sciences Turns 20
August 25, 2010This year marks the 20th anniversary of the USC Center for Applied Mathematical Sciences (CAMS), a research unit housed in USC College's Department of Mathematics. Susan Friedlander, professor of mathematics and CAMS' fourth… more>
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