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A Light on Political Thought
September 7, 2011Beginning in Fall 2010, a small group of students and their faculty adviser, Anthony Kammas, gathered for meetings in a shady corner of the Carolyn Craig Franklin Garden on the north side of the Doheny Memorial Library. In… more>
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Undergrads Launch Science Blog
June 2, 2011A group of ingenious USC undergraduates aren’t waiting for that golden opportunity to publish their science articles. They have created their own online science magazine, USCience Review, and are regularly posting… 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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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 12, 2010
Microbial Hair: It's Electric
Some bacteria grow electrical hair that lets them link up in big biological circuits, according to a USC College biophysicist and his collaborators. The finding suggests that microbial colonies may survive, communicate and… 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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Dismantling a Volcanic Puzzle
June 3, 2010If tectonic plate collisions cause volcanic eruptions, as every fifth grader knows, why do some volcanoes erupt far from a plate boundary? A study in Nature suggests that volcanoes and mountains in the Mediterranean can… more>
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USC College Magazine's Latest Issue Now Online
May 5, 2010From the Dean Spring/Summer 2010 View the magazine online George Olah came to USC in 1977 as professor of chemistry and scientific director of the newly formed Hydrocarbon… more>
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Surfs Up on Broadway
April 29, 2010Zachary Wolf, an English senior in USC College, knows his professor's research well because it is also his own. Wolf and David Roman, professor of English and American studies and ethnicity, collaborated on and wrote the lead… more>
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Faculty Notes
April 26, 2010Jody Agius Vallejo, assistant professor of sociology, was featured in Investment Advisor magazine’s February cover story titled “Invest Globally, Advise Locally.” David Albertson, assistant professor of… more>
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