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Public Diplomacy Students Travel to India
December 15, 2011A team of seven graduate students is taking a two-week research trip to India while reporting on the country's public diplomacy efforts and posting entries on the India: Inside Out blog. The second-year Master’s in… more>
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An Inspirational Look at Poetry
December 14, 2011Like it or not, most people take work home with them. Mary Helen Immordino-Yang, a neuroscientist and educational psychologist at USC, takes inspiration from home to work. Dissecting four poems written by her daughter Nora… more>
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The "Godfather" of Japanese Studies
December 8, 2011Dapper 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>
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USC Mock Trial Team Dominates East Coast Competition
December 1, 2011In 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>
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Twin Study Offers Insight into Antisocial Behavior
November 16, 2011There is good reason students and faculty walking the halls of the Seeley G. Mudd building think they are seeing double — they are. For the past 11 years, hundreds of sets of twins have visited the lab of Laura Baker,… more>
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November 14, 2011
An Uplifting Tale
Is there a general fatigue from an oversaturation of American dream stories? I can’t say (because I don’t know), but I do think we take our parents’ sacrifices and uniquely American opportunities and… more>
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U.S. Air Force Vet Turned Trojan Honors Fallen Soldiers
November 14, 2011Monica Valencia’s parents divorced when she was 12, forcing her mother to raise her and two younger brothers as a single parent. With limited resources and eviction notices following the family from Los Angeles to… more>
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November 7, 2011 Rotary-Dial Politics in an iPhone World
Picture this scene from an episode of the NBC sitcom 30 Rock: Two characters Tracy Jordan and Jenna Maroney face off, both of them fuming. Tracy, a black male, is wearing a woman’s wig and a hot pink blazer, his face… more>
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Not Following the Herd
November 7, 2011A newborn goat, umbilical cord still attached, stumbled across the dusty road, bleating in wonder. From the airplane window a day earlier, eight USC Dornsife undergraduates had watched the Los Angeles sprawl and jammed I-405… more>
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Follow Your Inspiration
November 3, 2011Introduction by Pamela J. JohnsonProfiles by Ambrosia Viramontes-Brody So you’re undecided. That’s OK! Finding your place in the world has just become easier. Launched officially this Fall, First-Year… more>
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