John Pollini, professor of classical art and archaeology in the Department of Art History, gives a first person account of his recent archaeological excavation trip to Rome with seven undergraduates.
While USC emerges as a top producer of Fulbrights for second straight year, the vast majority of recipients are from USC Dornsife.
It takes more than science to treat patients. Students who traveled to Oxford, England, for a Problems Without Passports course in tropical medicine learn cultural context is key.
USC Dornsife’s Pamela Starr said the research trip to Cuba immersed her students in politics, art, music, culture and architecture. “It’s a country somewhat frozen in time,” she said.
USC Dornsife undergraduates traveled to Egypt and Turkey in June to study religion, democracy and civil society for a Problems Without Passports course. They witnessed real-time democratic protests in both countries.
Earth sciences brings USC Dornsife students to Morocco to research the tectonic and geologic history of the land and collect seismometers deployed throughout rural areas.
In a comparative literature Problems Without Passports course, USC Dornsife students visit Hong Kong and Macau to study the two dynamic cities. Their research produced an online collection of cultural travel writing.
USC Dornsife undergraduate Iñaki Pedroarena-Leal took the initiative and landed a prestigious internship at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama this summer conducting underwater research.
A Problems Without Passports course brings 11 USC Dornsife undergraduates to Rwanda to study the complex task of reconstruction in the wake of the 1994 genocide that claimed 800,000 victims.
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