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.
In Fall 2011, international student Songyu Zhu came to USC Dornsife from China to study history. Since then, her life “is broader and more brilliant.”
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.
University Professor Michael Waterman is elected one of the 2014 members of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, a lifelong honor representing China’s highest academic title in science and technology.
USC Dornsife senior Evangeline Alva travels to the Amazon as a research assistant of the Desano Language Documentation Project, directed by Dr. Wilson Silva, a linguist at the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT). Dr. Silva’s project, currently funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities’s grant for the Documentation of Endangered Languages (DEL/NEH), aims to document Desano, an indigenous language, spoken in Brazil and Colombia.
The $8 million to the USC Dornsife Undergraduate Fellows Fund will go toward sending students on international travel, field research and into the community.
Alumnus Bill Altaffer is among the world’s most traveled people. His passion for adventure was inspired by USC Dornsife’s late professor of anthropology Ivan Alexievich Lopatin and fellow alumnus John Goddard.
USC Dornsife’s Center for the Study of Immigrant Integration co-hosts an event honoring Hillary Rodham Clinton with an award presented by the Mexican American Leadership Initiative (MALI) and the U.S.-Mexico Foundation.
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.
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