USC Dornsife News

The distinguished professor emeritus, who earned the Order of the Rising Sun from the emperor of Japan, was considered the “godfather” of Japanese studies.

Media personality, activist and USC Dornsife alumna Alexis Jones is empowering a generation of young women through her nonprofit and book I AM THAT GIRL.

USC Dornsife School of International Relations alumnus and political theorist Mahmood Sariolghalam sees positive changes in Iran, his home country.

Pakistan is seen through the eyes of street children in USC Dornsife alumna Valentina Canavesio’s documentary shown at festivals and theatres for the past year. The movie is set to be out on DVD in the coming month.

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.

This holiday season, discover how USC Dornsife views the complex and beautiful snowflake from every angle through psychology, chemistry, poetry, physics, international relations — and more.

The USC Dornsife alumnus was dean of the USC Marshall School of Business for a decade, then became a forward-looking banker.

USC Dornsife’s Jacques Hymans has won the 2014 Grawemeyer Award for Ideas Improving World Order for his book about nuclear ambitions.

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.