Featured Students

If you would like to be featured next or would like us to highlight a recent accomplishment of yours, please email us at phdacademy@dornsife.usc.edu.

Explore some of our previous student spotlights below.

Kayla Wolf

Political Science and International Relations – Graduating Feature 2025

Magdalene Isabel Marie Smith

Earth Sciences – Graduating Feature 2025

Lina Nie

History – Graduating Student Feature 2024

Goran Giudetti

Chemistry – Graduating Student Feature 2024

Lauryn Higginson

Molecular Biology – Summer 2022

Demetrius Murphy

Sociology – Summer 2022

Yiwei Shang

Marine Biology and Biological Oceanography – Spring 2022

Samuel Teets

English – Spring 2022

Roshni Lulla

Psychology – Fall 2021

Michelle Livings

Population, Health, and Place – Fall 2021