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America's Money Advocate
August 26, 2011David Bach lets the HARPO Studio’s greenroom door close behind him and waits backstage for his final cue. The top button of his blue oxford shirt open and classic black suit perfectly tailored, he’s ready. This is… more>
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High Schoolers Become 'Summer Trojans'
August 25, 2011Is chronic Lyme disease a myth? How does Botox work? What role does nationalism play in world politics? Do video game designers consider a user’s brain activity? What is the genesis of pop culture? In July, high school… more>
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August 18, 2011
A Warm Welcome
Photos by Emily Cavalcanti, Laurie Moore, Nick Pittarides, Ambrosia Viramontes-Brody and Mira Zimet With the comforts of home in tow, USC Dornsife’s newest students arrived on August 17 to move into their new campus… more>
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August 16, 2011 Clues from Ancient Antioch
Lynn Swartz Dodd and her students had heard rumblings of a 10th-century cemetery deep in the brush in the Hatay region of Turkey near Antakya, the ancient city of Antioch. But no one had ever translated the inscribed… more>
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Race and Cyberspace
August 10, 2011The screen image showed a sādhu — or wandering monk — in India using a large mobile phone, and a fisherman who lives in a hut on a beach near Nagapattinam, India, talking on his cell. Once found only in niche… more>
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Champion for Education
August 5, 2011Celia C. Ayala discovered her life’s passion at an early age. With a quest to contribute to her community, she knew what she wanted to do; it was the how that remained a mystery. In her eighth floor office, Chief… more>
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USC Dornsife Professors Receive Honorary Degrees
July 29, 2011Waterman Presented Honorary Doctorate by Ambrosia Viramontes-Brody Michael Waterman, widely regarded as the founding father of computational biology, openly admits he has never taken a biology course. There was however a… 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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In Memoriam: Gunnar Nielsson, 77
July 20, 2011Gunnar Nielsson, retired professor in USC Dornsife’s School of International Relations and expert in European integration, has died. He was 77. Nielsson died July 10 at a nursing facility in Seal Beach, Calif., after… more>
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Mellon Mays Program Mentors Minority Students
July 19, 2011Exploring topics ranging from the social impact of black stand-up comedy to genocide resistance in Rwanda, seven students will get the opportunity to conduct graduate-level research through the 2011-12 Mellon Mays… more>
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