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Tommy Trojan Personified
April 10, 2013After graduating from USC Dornsife in 1977, Tom Nolan became . . . Tommy Trojan. Not in a metaphorical sense. “I rode as Tommy Trojan from 1977 to 1980, when I moved to Alaska, and again from 1988 to 1996 after I moved… more>
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Taking the Plunge
May 23, 2012USC 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>
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Students Take on the QuikSCience Challenge
April 17, 2012USC Wrigley Institute for Environmental Studies staff members are busy escorting several hundred students from middle and high schools to the USC Wrigley Marine Science Center on Catalina Island as part of their reward for… more>
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Real-World Classroom for Virtual Classmates
July 28, 2011This summer, students in USC Dornsife’s online graduate programs in geographic information science and technology (GIST) gathered at the USC Wrigley Marine Science Center on Catalina Island to meet their classmates… more>
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A Trail-Blazing Summer Internship
July 15, 2011Two students and two recent graduates of USC Dornsife’s Environmental Studies Program have started a trail-blazing summer interning with the Catalina Island Conservancy, where they are spending eight weeks assisting with… more>
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Spend a "Saturday at the Lab" on Catalina Island
June 2, 2011This summer, the USC Philip K. Wrigley Marine Science Center on Catalina Island welcomes the general public to visit its state-of-the-art research facilities through its “Saturday at the Lab” program, which began… more>
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USC Sea Grant Program Hosts International Course at USC Lab on Catalina Island
May 12, 2011The USC Sea Grant program, part of the USC Wrigley Institute for Environmental Studies based in the USC Dana and David Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences and funded by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric… more>
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Navigating through Kelp and Swimming with the Sharks
July 29, 2010One of the new courses in the summer line-up of USC College's Problems Without Passports program takes students to the USC Wrigley Marine Science Center on Catalina Island and to Guam and Palau in Oceania, a region mostly… more>
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Science Students Earn Trip to Catalina
June 7, 2010Environmental educators at USC have been showing the university's research facilities on Catalina Island to hundreds of students from middle schools and high schools since the conclusion of the 2010 QuikSCience Challenge, a… more>
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The Worth of Water
September 21, 2009In the United States, despite droughts, water is accessible and relatively clean. You can find it in water fountains, sink faucets and store shelves. But what if you had to walk miles for a sip of clean water? Six Gabrielino… more>
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