An Insider’s Cuba
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. Read More
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Climbing to the Light
USC Dornsife undergraduates traveled to Egypt and Turkey in June to study religion, democracy and civil society for a Problems Without Passports course. They witnessed real-time democratic protests in both countries. Read More
Shaking it up in Morocco
Earth sciences brings USC Dornsife students to Morocco to research the tectonic and geologic history of the land and collect seismometers deployed throughout rural areas. Read More
Twin Cities of China
In a comparative literature Problems Without Passports course, USC Dornsife students visit Hong Kong and Macau to study the two dynamic cities. Their research produced an online collection of cultural travel writing. Read More
Taking the Bull by the Horns
USC Dornsife undergraduate Iñaki Pedroarena-Leal took the initiative and landed a prestigious internship at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama this summer conducting underwater research. Read More
Courage After Genocide
A Problems Without Passports course brings 11 USC Dornsife undergraduates to Rwanda to study the complex task of reconstruction in the wake of the 1994 genocide that claimed 800,000 victims. Read More
Along the River Route
In a canoe, USC Dornsife’s Sarah Feakins and her team negotiated a river through the lush rainforest in Peru. The researchers studied the erosive processes that carry Andean sediments and organic carbon down toward the sea. Read More
The View From Southeast Asia
Led by USC Dornsife’s Saori Katada, the inaugural Maymester trip to Singapore gave students a first-hand opportunity to learn about United States relations with Southeast Asia. Read More
Creating Smiles in Honduras
After neuroscience and human biology major Erin Walker volunteered assisting in dentistry work in Honduras, she founded the USC Global Dental Brigades on campus. Read More
Breaking the Ice in Siberia
Students in a study-tour course traveled to Russia, where they crossed five time zones on the Trans-Siberian Railroad en route from Moscow to Lake Baikal in central Siberia. Read More
