On Lugu Lake
Ankur Poseria ’09 executive produces Under One Roof, a National Geographic documentary exploring the impact of modernity on the Moso people of the Tibetan Plateau, one of the last matriarchal societies on Earth. Read More
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Pacific Rim Professor
University Professor Michael Waterman is elected one of the 2014 members of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, a lifelong honor representing China’s highest academic title in science and technology. Read More
No Loss For Words
USC Dornsife senior Evangeline Alva travels to the Amazon as a research assistant of the Desano Language Documentation Project, directed by Dr. Wilson Silva, a linguist at the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT). Dr. Silva’s project, currently funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities’s grant for the Documentation of Endangered Languages (DEL/NEH), aims to document Desano, an indigenous language, spoken in Brazil and Colombia. Read More
Major Gift to Support Scholarships
The $8 million to the USC Dornsife Undergraduate Fellows Fund will go toward sending students on international travel, field research and into the community. Read More
Trojan Globetrotter
Alumnus Bill Altaffer is among the world’s most traveled people. His passion for adventure was inspired by USC Dornsife’s late professor of anthropology Ivan Alexievich Lopatin and fellow alumnus John Goddard. Read More
Peace, Prosperity and Progress
USC Dornsife’s Center for the Study of Immigrant Integration co-hosts an event honoring Hillary Rodham Clinton with an award presented by the Mexican American Leadership Initiative (MALI) and the U.S.-Mexico Foundation. Read More
Echo Effect
An overseas trip to Uganda inspired Molly Beckert to found the nonprofit Echoing Good after her graduation in 2010. Working with residents in Gulu, her group created a farm at a primary school to help feed students — and that was just the start. Read More
They Dug Rome
John Pollini, professor of classical art and archaeology in the Department of Art History, gives a first person account of his recent archaeological excavation trip to Rome with seven undergraduates. Read More
USC Dornsife Rich in Fulbrights
While USC emerges as a top producer of Fulbrights for second straight year, the vast majority of recipients are from USC Dornsife. Read More
Planting Thoughts on Global Health
It takes more than science to treat patients. Students who traveled to Oxford, England, for a Problems Without Passports course in tropical medicine learn cultural context is key. Read More
