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The physicist served as dean of USC Dornsife and was science adviser to former President George W. Bush.

The retired professor of international relations taught in USC Dornsife for 37 years and served as director of the USC graduate programs in London and West Germany.

Emeritus professor contributed significantly to the field of philosophy.

Kam Kuwata, a political science alumnus, was one of California's leading Democratic political strategists.

A renowned English professor whose USC College career spanned three decades, Winterowd published widely in the field of rhetoric and founded the College’s doctoral program in rhetoric, linguistics and literature.

Respected historian and longtime faculty member of USC College’s Department of History, Nunis chronicled local history as editor of Southern California Quarterly, the journal of the Historical Society of Southern California.

A linguistics professor in USC College, Vergnaud made major contributions to syntax and phonology. “His work was inspired by a penetrating vision of what the study of language should strive to become,” said Noam Chomsky, Vergnaud's adviser at MIT.

The experimental psychologist's seminal research on the psychobiology of active and inactive memory published in the Psychological Bulletin in 1979 was among dozens of his oft-cited published papers.