USC Dornsife News

After weathering Superstorm Sandy, Brooklyn-born Luis Hernandez arrives at USC Dornsife as a freshman in the close-knit USC Posse Scholars Program.

A graduate from the inaugural class of USC Dornsife’s American studies and ethnicity doctoral program, Laura Barraclough ’06 has accepted a tenure-track faculty appointment at Yale University.

USC Dornsife has started a Society for Advancement of Chicanos and Native Americans in Science (SACNAS) chapter on campus to promote diversity in all scientific fields.

Two USC Dornsife Ph.D. graduates will join faculty at Princeton University.

USC Norman Topping scholars in USC Dornsife’s Japan Immersion Program have collected 300 books to donate to Japan’s American studies libraries devastated by the 2011 earthquake and tsunami.

USC's first Posse scholars — half of the dozen from USC Dornsife — together navigate the sometimes difficult transition from high school to college.