USC Dornsife News

Participants from throughout the Western Hemisphere exchange perspectives on and discuss solutions to immigration issues. [2¾ min read]

Senior Betty Thai earned a fellowship that could lead to a job as a U.S. diplomat, an ideal fit for the first-generation college student who wants to help solve global challenges. [3 min read]

Betty Grebenschikoff and Ana María Wahrenberg hadn’t seen each other since their families fled Berlin as the Nazis gained power. More than 80 years later, astute work by a foundation archivist brought them back together. [4¾ min read]

Carolina Cortez hopes her time with the State Department will allow her to pursue her dream of being a diplomat to a Latin American country. [3¾ min read]

The COVID-19 pandemic hasn’t stopped students in Kamy Akhavan’s class “Doing Good” from bettering the world. [4¾ min read]

Through a three-day “Mapathon,” students help plot out the geography of some of the world’s most remote, unmapped regions to improve humanitarian efforts following disasters. [4¼ min read]

Wayétu Moore ’09 pens a memoir that explores her escape from Liberia’s civil war and her immigrant experience in America. [8¼ min read]

Salpi Ghazarian, director of the USC Dornsife Institute of Armenian Studies, answers six questions about the current violence between Azerbaijani and Armenian forces in a war that, while far from America, has directly impacted the Trojan Armenian community. [6 min read]