USC Dornsife News

USC’s alumni, faculty, students and staff have displayed courage, resilience and Trojan spirit over the past 140 years. [7 min read]

How USC Dornsife beat the odds to transform online learning into a vibrant virtual experience with almost unlimited educational potential.

Long considered the world capital of science fiction, L.A. is leaving behind the multiplicity of dystopian fates the genre so often predicted for it, as the city moves toward a different vision of its future — one that’s tapping into its past to create a more user-friendly, sustainable and equitable tomorrow. [9 ¼ min read]

USC Dornsife alumna Tracy Walder parlayed her history degree into a career with the CIA and FBI, where she hunted down international terrorists before returning to her her first love as a history teacher. [10½ min read]

During two 17th-century disease outbreaks, America chose the economic interests of a select few over protecting human health, writes USC Dornsife historian Peter Mancall.

In 1969, an El Nino storm pounded the coast of California, producing epic waves and a legendary winter of surf. USC Dornsife experts weigh in on the past — and future — of riding waves in the Golden State. [5 ½ min read]

Just press play to watch exceptional scholarship, service and achievement in action from this year at the USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences.

Art historian Vanessa Schwartz of the Visual Studies Research Institute explains why these images are iconic. [2¼ min read]

In early American colonies, dissent would often lead to exile, a punishment founders considered as they framed the constitution. [5 min read]