USC Dornsife’s history chair William Deverell explores the birth of a modern metropolis with the organization of an…
Recalling encouragement from his mentor Alice Echols, Sean Little ’06 traces his bachelor’s in English to an M.B.A. to a…
The names of top USC Dornsife students will adorn the wall of Leavey Library in an honor celebrating university-wide students…
The gift creates the Steven and Kathryn Sample Endowment for Ecumenism to support research centered on the foundational…
Howard Wayne Harris proves his 9th grade teacher wrong. Earning his Ph.D. at the USC Dornsife hooding ceremony May 16, he was…
Three USC Dornsife professors have been named fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), recognizing their contributions to science and technology. AAAS — known colloquially as… more>
categories: research, faculty research
tags: american association for the advancement of science, anthony michaels, award, biological sciences, donal manahan, honor, mathew mccubbins, natural sciences, political science, social sciences
In 1993, in a small, dingy apartment in Berkeley, Calif., Warner Bros. Records producer Rob Cavallo sat on an overturned bucket. He listened, rapt, while a punk band of three scruffy 20-somethings belted out their latest… more>
tags: alumni, award, creative writing, english, english literature, grammy award, green day, humanities, music, rob cavallo, warner bros. records, writing
Dapper in a formal tailcoat, Peter Berton stood between American and Japanese flags as he accepted the Order of the Rising Sun. The Japanese government honored the Distinguished Professor Emeritus of International Relations… more>
tags: alumni, award, humanities, japan, music, peter berton, politics, social sciences
In a Philadelphia courtroom, USC Mock Trial Team member Lauren Ige confidently stood before a judge and argued that a man who drove with a blood alcohol level higher than the legal limit of .08 and crashed his car killing a… more>
categories: undergraduate
tags: award, competition, event, law, mock trial team, political science, social sciences, trail, usc mock trial team
On a humid August day in Rio de Janeiro, USC Dornsife alumna Dawn Powell boarded an un-air-conditioned bus bound for Luís Eduardo Magalhães, an agribusiness town in western Bahia. An hour into the trip, the… more>
tags: alumni, award, brazil, china, economics, humanities, international relations, social sciences fulbright, spanish
Let’s Talk About Cancer. This is a recent post title from 25-year-old Danielle McLaughlin’s blog, Cancer Ate My Foot. “Cancer put me through the ringer,” McLaughlin blogs. “I came out of it… more>
tags: amputee, athlete, athletics, award, beijing, cancer, international relations, staff
University Professors Antonio and Hanna Damasio — who together have challenged dominant 20th-century views about brain function and demonstrated how emotions play a critical role in high-level cognition — have been… more>
categories: research, faculty research
tags: antonio damasio, award, brain, brain creativity institute, hanna damasio, honorary degree, natural sciences, neuroscience, psychology
USC Dornsife junior David Horacio Hernandez couldn’t believe what he was reading. Poor grammar and misplaced punctuation signaled a hastily written essay. A first-generation transfer student from Santa Monica City… more>
categories: undergraduate, undergraduate research, diversity, undergraduate diversity, community engagement
tags: american studies and ethnicity, award, education, humanities, political science, politics, social sciences, washington d.c.
Skylab astronaut and USC alumnus Jerry Carr presented USC Dornsife student Simca Bouma with a $10,000 scholarship from the Astronaut Scholarship Foundation (ASF) during a public presentation and ceremony. The event was held… more>
categories: undergraduate, undergraduate research
tags: astronaut, astronaut scholarship foundation, award, event, mathematics, natural sciences, physics, physics and astronomy, scholarship, space
The USC Shoah Foundation Institute for Visual History and Education awarded stipends to three professors in USC Dornsife to support integrating video testimony from Holocaust survivors and other witnesses into their courses… more>
categories: research, faculty research
tags: alison dundes renteln, anthropology, award, classics, comparative literature, course, holocaust, jewish studies, political science, stephen d. smith, usc shoah foundation institute, vincent farenga


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