In a canoe, USC Dornsife’s Sarah Feakins and her team negotiated a river through the lush rainforest in Peru. The researchers studied the erosive processes that carry Andean sediments and organic carbon down toward the sea.
Led by USC Dornsife’s Saori Katada, the inaugural Maymester trip to Singapore gave students a first-hand opportunity to learn about United States relations with Southeast Asia.
After neuroscience and human biology major Erin Walker volunteered assisting in dentistry work in Honduras, she founded the USC Global Dental Brigades on campus.
Students in a study-tour course traveled to Russia, where they crossed five time zones on the Trans-Siberian Railroad en route from Moscow to Lake Baikal in central Siberia.
Research the role of port life in the ancient town of Ostia, Rome, during an archaeological excavation course in Italy this summer. Application deadline is Feb. 15.
The USC Shoah Foundation — The Institute for Visual History and Education offers a perspective on genocides that have occurred throughout the world. Preserving these memories helps ensure that for generations to come these stories will be a compelling voice for education and action.
The University of Haifa will integrate the institute’s nearly 52,000 video testimony from Holocaust survivors and other survivors into its new multidisciplinary, international master’s program in Holocaust studies.
The inaugural class of scholars will receive $10,000 prizes to be used for graduate or professional school studies.
USC Dornsife’s Center for Religion and Civic Culture utilizes its $6.9 million grant to research the world’s fastest growing religious movements: charismatic and Pentecostal Christianity.
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