The acclaimed professor emeritus of comparative literature and former chair taught at USC Dornsife for 34 years. A larger-than-life Renaissance figure, his impressive breadth of interests and expertise in Sephardic and Hebrew literature often astonished even his colleagues.
USC Dornsife’s Patrick James bases his new book, The International Relations of Middle-earth, on a course he teaches illustrating the power shifts among nations using J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings as inspiration.
Memory is our brain’s library, the key to our consciousness and identity. Its loss may be triggered by obesity, head injury, even traffic pollution. Can fasting help?
USC Dornsife doctoral student Candy Hwang wins two top NSF awards for a video that dissects the chemistry behind the nitrogenase enzyme that produces ammonia from nitrogen in the atmosphere.
After scoring a goal putting the Trojans back in the game over their crosstown rival in the big match, USC Dornsife senior Michael Rosenthal of the USC men’s water polo team is named the 2012 NCAA tournament's most valuable player.
USC Dornsife chemist G.K. Surya Prakash and his team discover a way to turn a harmful byproduct of Teflon — used on everything from cooking pans to armor-piercing bullets — into material for pharmaceuticals.
USC Dornsife international relations alumna Brittany Berns '08 has led an effort in Benin, Africa, to fund and construct a school building in the village of Toucountouna. She also launched a scholarship program called Rising Stars to help young women there achieve their education goals. She’s just getting started.
USC Dornsife’s Jed Fuhrman will receive part of a $35 million award from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation to conduct high-risk research focusing on how complex marine microbial systems interact and change over time.
Distinguished Professor Arieh Warshel of USC Dornsife has been honored with the 2012 Soft Matter & Biophysical Chemistry Award. He and his research team have pioneered the key models for computer simulations of the functions of biological molecules.
