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The View From Southeast Asia

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. Read More

Saving an Endangered Language

Through USC Dornsife’s Problems Without Passports, students travel to the mountains of Taiwan to document and preserve the fast-fading language and culture of the Atayal tribe of Taiwanese aborigines. Read More

It’s An Ad World

Supported by USC Dornsife’s Summer Undergraduate Research Fund (SURF), two students embark on an independent research project in China and the United States exploring how culture influences one’s reactions to environmental advertisements. Read More

Vast Waters of the South Pacific

The March 2012 issue of Poetry magazine will feature the poem "Sleep Log" written by Alain Borer and translated into English by Mark Irwin. Over the course of their friendship, the two USC Dornsife professors have translated each other's poetry into French and English. Read More

Mexico Program Targets Care for Mentally Ill

USC Dornsife’s Steven Lopez helps train future researchers who will address disparities in health care for Latinos with mental illness in the United States. The deadline to apply for the summer program that takes place in Mexico is Feb. 1. Read More

A Romance Language Perfected

USC undergraduate students embraced Spanish in the vibrant country of Spain during the inaugural Valencia Summer Program offered by USC Dornsife’s Department of Spanish and Portuguese and School of International Relations. Read More

Not Following the Herd

"The world would be a better place if everyone was required to spend time in a radically different country than their own." — Robert Rosencrans '13, research fellow in Ghana. Read More

Clues from Ancient Antioch

The first students in USC Dornsife’s Problems Without Passports’ archaeology course in Turkey look for castle ruins, gravestones and much more. In all, they discover 14 ancient sites. Read More