USC Dornsife international relations alumna Brittany Berns '08 has led an effort in Benin, Africa, to fund and construct a school building in the village of Toucountouna. She also launched a scholarship program called Rising Stars to help young women there achieve their education goals. She’s just getting started.
Maureen McCarthy, a USC Dornsife Ph.D. student, blogs about her yearlong research trip to Africa to study endangered chimpanzees and their shrinking habitat in fragmented forests.
"The world would be a better place if everyone was required to spend time in a radically different country than their own." — Robert Rosencrans '13, research fellow in Ghana.
With USC Dornsife alumni at the helm, a bridge essential to villagers in Sikoro, Mali, moves closer to completion.
Eight USC Dornsife undergraduates have traveled to Ghana for five weeks of research aimed at helping rural farmers. Follow their research and read their impressions posted on their blog.
As a couple, Alex Peterson and Jennifer McCard are making careers out of service to the U.S. and the environment, around the world.
USC College alumna Divinity Matovu was recognized by Glamour magazine for her leadership at Ugandan nonprofit Amagezi Gemaanyi Youth Association, which she co-founded in 2008.
Conservation scientists Laurie Marker and Stuart Pimm earn the 2010 Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement. The most important global recognition in environmental advancement is administered through USC, headquartered in USC College.
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