USC Dornsife News

Led by Ivette Gomez of Spanish and Portuguese, a group of 21 USC undergraduates from diverse majors spent two weeks exploring the island nation.

Johanna Reyes is making an impact from Mexico to Cuba, and intends to do even more after graduating this year with a degree in international relations and the global economy.

USC Dornsife’s Pamela Starr said the research trip to Cuba immersed her students in politics, art, music, culture and architecture. “It’s a country somewhat frozen in time,” she said.

In a Problems Without Passports research trip, USC Dornsife students find Cuba to be a country of contradictions.

First student, athlete and physician — now hero — William Stetson ’82 brings arthroscopic surgery to Third World countries.