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]

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]

USC Dornsife graduate Autumn Gupta and Bryanna Wallace, a USC Marshall School graduate, created and shared a guide for people to educate themselves about racism and white privilege. It went viral, and now “Justice in June” is a comprehensive website. [8 min read]

Chinese alumni procured and donated thousands of surgical masks to USC health workers on the frontlines of the coronavirus pandemic. [3 min read]

Eric Hoyeon Song, who earned a bachelor’s degree in biochemistry from USC Dornsife, is one of 30 scholars to receive the 2020 Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowship for New Americans. [2½ min read]

Alumna Laura Loyola, now with USC Dornsife’s Spatial Sciences Institute, is using geographic information science to help preserve the habitat of the critically endangered Tana River colobus monkey. [5 ¼ min read]

Early stints on ‘Jeopardy!’ and ‘Who Wants to Be a Millionaire’ fed alumnus Ken Basin’s love for Hollywood, where he now oversees business affairs for Paramount Television Studios. [6 min read]

Fourteen USC students received the prestigious grant to study and conduct research overseas, and 10 of those were USC Dornsife students. [4 ¼ min read]

Combining Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony awards and nominations garnered by alumni and faculty, USC Dornsife is close to a complete “EGOT.” [4¾ min read]