USC Scientists Reveal Clues About Structure of Proteins
- Ian Haworth, left, and Ralf Langen conducted research that reveals clues about the structure of type 2 diabetes.
February 22, 2012 3:10 PM
Research by Keck School of Medicine of USC and USC School of Pharmacy scientists has revealed a new clue about the structure of proteins involved in type 2 diabetes.
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‘White Key’ Poem Set to Music 02/22/12
“White Key,” a poem by California Poet Laureate Carol Muske-Dukes, has been set to music by Yale University composer Reena Esmail and will be performed in San Francisco on March 2, 3 and 4.
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USC Price Peers Into China’s Environmental Future 02/21/12
Matthew Kahn proudly calls himself a “free market environmentalist.” During his recent talk on “China’s Future Green Cities” at Lewis Hall, he explained the moniker as part of the Urban Growth Seminar Series hosted by the USC Sol Price School of Public Policy and the USC Center for Sustainable Cities.
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Olympic Heads Speak at USC Annenberg Conference 02/21/12
An overflow crowd of more than 300 people gathered at Town & Gown on Feb. 15 for back-to-back conversations worthy of the citius, altius, fortius, or "swifter, higher, stronger" Olympic motto.
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The Descendants Ascend With Scripter Win 02/21/12
Author Kaui Hart Hemmings and screenwriters Alexander Payne, Nat Faxon and Jim Rash won the 24th annual USC Libraries Scripter Award for their creative contributions to The Descendants.
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Movies and Memories 02/17/12
Whispers come from the hallway as Margaret Thatcher’s assistants speak about her deteriorating mental condition. As she peeks through a crack in the door, Thatcher eavesdrops and occasionally speaks with her husband, who is eating his breakfast.
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From the Web to the Wall 02/17/12
Trousdale Parkway and Main Street intersect at Our Neighborhoods, Our Stories, a collaboration between the USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism and USC Spectrum.
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SCA Launches the American Film Showcase 02/16/12
More than 50 filmmakers, film experts and diplomats came together at the USC School of Cinematic Arts (SCA) for the first orientation of the American Film Showcase.
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Boeing Grant to Support Hybrid Algebra Lab 02/22/12
Teachers work independently more than 80 percent of the time, which means they often do not have the benefit of receiving feedback or sharing strategies.
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Oscar-nominated Movies Lack Females, USC Study Finds 02/22/12
Women and girls scarcely are present either on screen or behind the scenes in Academy Award-nominated movies, according to a new USC Annenberg study.
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Time Flies When You Enter a Contest 02/21/12
To learn why time moves only forward, one must first understand a fundamental law of physics: the increase of entropy. The law describes the tendency for systems to go from a state of higher organization to disorder.
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APASS Students Visit Washington, D.C. 02/21/12
Four USC students traveled to Washington, D.C., last month to attend the first Asian American and Pacific Islander Youth Leadership Briefing hosted by the Obama administration.
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Zinner Collection Always in Fashion 02/17/12
A pioneering woman in a field once dominated by men, Christa Zinner worked with some of the biggest names in Hollywood, including Grace Kelly, Elizabeth Taylor, Fred Astaire and Katharine Hepburn.
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What Matters to Michael L. Jackson 02/17/12
On a recent Wednesday at Ground Zero Coffeehouse, USC vice president for Student Affairs Michael L. Jackson summarized the things that truly matter to him: home, work, love and peace of mind.
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Ostrow School Celebrates Research Day 02/17/12
The Ostrow School of Dentistry of USC honored its student, resident and faculty researchers during its annual Research Day celebration on Feb. 15 at the Galen Center.
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Astor Chosen as an AERA Fellow 02/16/12
Ron Astor was selected to become a 2012 fellow of the American Educational Research Association.
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The New York Times highlighted the USC Libraries Scripter Awards, noting that “The Descendants” took the prize for the best adapted screenplay of the year. Screenwriters Alexander Payne, Nat Faxon and Jim Rash accepted the award with novelists Kaui Hart Hemmings this past Saturday at USC’s Doheny Memorial Library. Variety reported that USC Libraries Dean Catherine Quinlan served as mistress of ceremonies, feigning dismay over the lack of library-centric films. “Where are all the library movies?” she said. The awards were also covered by United Press International, The Times-Picayune, two Deadline stories (second link here), The Hollywood Reporter, The Wrap, HitFix and World Entertainment News Network.
Los Angeles Business reported that the USC Rossier School’s Center for Higher Education Policy Analysis has been renamed the Earl and Pauline Pullias Center for Higher Education. The story stated that the re-naming comes after a generous undisclosed gift from the Pullias Family estate. “The Pullias Center can now expand its cutting edge research on postsecondary institutions, as well as its critical community outreach work helping underserved students get into college,” said Rossier Dean Karen Symms Gallagher. Earl Pullias was a founding faculty member of USC’s higher education department in 1957. William Tierney of the Rossier School directs the Pullias Center.
NPR’s “Talk of the Nation” interviewed David Treuer of the USC Dornsife College about his new book, “Rez Life: An Indian’s Journey Through Reservation Life.” The book centers around the reservation Treuer grew up on, and how the Native American experience is often depicted in ways that leave out the happy moments. “There’s this great disconnect between ... how we feel and how we seem,” Treuer said. Treuer’s book was also featured by Minnesota Public Radio, Star-Tribune, Appeal-Democrat, The Spectrum, Baltimore City Paper, The Bemidji Pioneer and Brainerd Dispatch.
KCET-TV featured “The Accidental Feminist” by M.G. Lord of the USC Dornsife College, a new book about the ways in which actress Elizabeth Taylor served as an early feminist icon. Lord said that she came to write the book after spending a weekend watching Taylor movies with friends; they found that in many of Taylor’s movies, she offered veiled feminist messages or embraced her own sexual desire while working within the constraints of the Motion Picture Production Code.
China Internet Information Center (China) featured a screening of the documentary “Assignment: China — The Week That Changed the World,” created by the USC U.S.-China Institute. The documentary follows the American journalists reporting on President Nixon’s historic visit to China in 1972. The institute’s Mike Chinoy narrates the documentary.
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Ralph Kirshbaum: The 2012 Piatigorsky Cello Festival
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Excavating in the Archaeology Lab at USC Dornsife
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