USC Dornsife News

May Berenbaum, leading entomologist and expert on the evolutionary relationship between insects and plants, has received the 2011 Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement, administered by USC Dornsife.

In April, 189 USC juniors and seniors were inducted into Phi Beta Kappa, the pre-eminent national honor society in the U.S.

USC Spatial Sciences Institute hosts a discussion by Esri Founder and President Jack Dangermond.

Dana and David Dornsife receive a rare honor for their $200 million historic gift to the newly named USC Dana and David Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences.

The Center for Law, History and Culture at USC Gould School of Law and USC College is sponsoring a two-day conference to celebrate 10 years of scholarship and explore the interplay between law and memory.

As a researcher, USC College's Deborah Harkness studies science and magic of the early modern period. As a novelist, she explores the hidden world of modern-day witches, vampires and daemons in her first work of fiction, A Discovery of Witches.

USC College hosts four poetry events, beginning Jan. 31 with California Poet Laureate Carol Muske-Dukes of the College reading poetry while dancers perform in a Visions and Voices extravaganza.