Led by USC Dornsife’s Don Arnold and Richard Roberts, a new study published in Neuron explains how scientists for the first…
Housed in USC Dornsife, the Development Portfolio Management Group opens in Arlington, Va. The group works on improving…
Claire Baugher, double major in psychology and political science, helped to transform a storage facility into a small theatre…
USC Dornsife students were among those who spoke during a recent TEDx, a local, independently organized offshoot of the…
After neuroscience and human biology major Erin Walker volunteered assisting in dentistry work in Honduras, she founded the…
For some people, rocks are those pesky objects that sometimes find their way into your shoes. But for aspiring geologists, who study how rocks came to be, the aggregate of minerals provide a looking glass into the past. Was… more>
categories: undergraduate, undergraduate research
tags: earth sciences, geology, john platt, maymester, natural sciences, spain
Inside a Taper Hall classroom, USC Dornsife senior Bridget McDonald chatted with classmates, effortlessly transitioning from English to Spanish. The Pasadena, Calif., native’s confidence faltered, however, when native… more>
categories: research, undergraduate research
tags: humanities, language, spain, spanish, travel
What is the legacy of Spanish colonialism in the Americas and how does it still affect Latin America and Latinos in the United States today? This question is raised in the upcoming PBS documentary When Worlds Collide: The… more>
categories: research, faculty research, diversity, faculty diversity
tags: american studies and ethnicity, book, documentary, history, humanities, latin america, maría elena martínez, spain
Maria Elena Martinez's book, Genealogical Fictions: Limpieza de Sangre, Religion, and Gender in Colonial Mexico (Stanford University Press, 2008), the first in-depth study of the purity of blood concept and repercussions, has… more>
categories: research, faculty research, diversity, faculty diversity
tags: american studies and ethnicity, award, book, history, humanities, latin america, mexico, religion, spain
Sometimes opportunity knocks. Other times, you have to force open the door, which is exactly what Martin Hodis did. Hodis, 19, a sophomore with an undecided major in USC College, sought out the Summer Study Abroad program one… more>
categories: undergraduate
tags: department of spanish and portuguese, humanities, spain, study abroad
Summer: time for most undergraduates to look for a part-time job or internship, or maybe just sleep in and get a tan. But if you happen to be a USC College archaeology student, your summer plans are a bit less… more>
categories: undergraduate
tags: archaeology, blog, excavation, peru, social sciences, spain, turkey, web site


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