Main USC news site published by the University Public Relations office. http://uscnews.usc.edu/ en-us Wed, 04 Nov 2009 14:48:02 -0800 Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Los Angeles) introduced legislation that USC School of Social Work students developed that mandates federal agencies reprioritize their funding to help keep homeless children housed with their parents whenever possible. The resolution affirms that children should not be denied the right to be housed together with their]]> http://uscnews.usc.edu/politics_society/students_draft_homeless_children_bill.html http://uscnews.usc.edu/politics_society/students_draft_homeless_children_bill.html#15270 Wed, 04 Nov 2009 11:06:38 -0800 Each day in metro areas such as Southern California, millions of motorists steer onto the region’s roadways. Tens of thousands of other people take to the skies from one of the region’s airports. Others roll across the region aboard trains. Simultaneously, another little transportation drama is playing on the region’s]]> http://uscnews.usc.edu/politics_society/getting_the_goods_on_a_thorny_dilemma.html http://uscnews.usc.edu/politics_society/getting_the_goods_on_a_thorny_dilemma.html#15257 Wed, 04 Nov 2009 09:57:40 -0800 USC College and the Los Angeles Times today announced a jointly sponsored series of six statewide public opinion polls beginning Nov. 8 and continuing throughout California’s 2010 elections for governor and U.S. Senate. This is the first such cooperative venture of this magnitude between a major newspaper and a major]]> http://uscnews.usc.edu/politics_society/usc_college_la_times_team_on_state_poll.html http://uscnews.usc.edu/politics_society/usc_college_la_times_team_on_state_poll.html#15251 Mon, 02 Nov 2009 15:00:28 -0800 USC School of Policy, Planning, and Development alumna Anupama Mann recently received the Gill-Chin Lim Award for the best dissertation on international planning for her thesis “A Megaproject Matrix: Ideology, Discourse and Regulation in the Delhi Metro Rail.” The award, which recognizes superior scholarship in a doctoral dissertation, is given]]> http://uscnews.usc.edu/politics_society/sppd_grad_wins_award_for_best_dissertation.html http://uscnews.usc.edu/politics_society/sppd_grad_wins_award_for_best_dissertation.html#15226 Wed, 28 Oct 2009 07:56:09 -0800 The USC Center for Economic Development was awarded a two-year $750,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Economic Development Administration to broaden the scope of the center’s applied research and outreach initiatives. The center is housed at the School of Policy, Planning, and Development. Established in 1996, the center]]> http://uscnews.usc.edu/politics_society/center_for_economic_development_gets_grant.html http://uscnews.usc.edu/politics_society/center_for_economic_development_gets_grant.html#15135 Mon, 26 Oct 2009 14:45:09 -0800 Twenty years ago, it was an impossibility. But on Oct. 22-23, about 50 federally funded, professionally trained social work investigators from around the country gathered at the Davidson Conference Center for the Los Angeles Conference on Intervention Research in Social Work. Decades ago, it was rare for social workers to]]> http://uscnews.usc.edu/politics_society/conference_focuses_on_intervention_research.html http://uscnews.usc.edu/politics_society/conference_focuses_on_intervention_research.html#15057 Wed, 30 Sep 2009 07:48:00 -0800 The National Football League will return to Los Angeles to play in a plush and innovative new stadium located in the City of Industry for the 2013 season, Majestic Realty Co. chairman and CEO Edward Roski Jr. and colleague John Semcken boldly proclaimed Sept. 22 as part of the USC]]> http://uscnews.usc.edu/politics_society/roski_discusses_nfl_stadium_plans.html http://uscnews.usc.edu/politics_society/roski_discusses_nfl_stadium_plans.html#14135 Tue, 29 Sep 2009 07:38:59 -0800 In the United States, despite droughts, water is accessible and relatively clean. You can find it in water fountains, sink faucets and store shelves. But what if you had to walk miles for a sip of clean water? Six Gabrielino High School students and teacher Michael Winters considered this question]]> http://uscnews.usc.edu/politics_society/the_worth_of_water.html http://uscnews.usc.edu/politics_society/the_worth_of_water.html#14105 Wed, 23 Sep 2009 07:57:58 -0800 While many have argued that media freedom is integral to a functioning democracy and respect for human rights, a new study is the first to examine the effects of media freedom in countries that lack democratic institutions. “We would expect to find most free media in democratic states and most]]> http://uscnews.usc.edu/politics_society/free_media_does_not_guarantee_fairness.html http://uscnews.usc.edu/politics_society/free_media_does_not_guarantee_fairness.html#13969 Fri, 18 Sep 2009 08:12:15 -0800 In its continuing effort to be green, USC has partnered with the city of Los Angeles and Zipcar to expand car sharing in the University Park neighborhood. USC and UCLA, which will add six cars to the streets around Westwood, are the places one can find Zipcars in Los Angeles.]]> http://uscnews.usc.edu/politics_society/usc_adds_zip_to_university_park_neighborhood.html http://uscnews.usc.edu/politics_society/usc_adds_zip_to_university_park_neighborhood.html#13837 Wed, 16 Sep 2009 13:49:13 -0800 The USC School of Policy, Planning, and Development hosted members of the Greater San Antonio Chamber of Commerce this summer in the first stop of the Texas delegation’s three-day Los Angeles tour aimed at exchanging information with local civic leaders and experts. During a morning meeting at Lewis Hall, the]]> http://uscnews.usc.edu/politics_society/sppd_hosts_san_antonio_chamber_of_commerce.html http://uscnews.usc.edu/politics_society/sppd_hosts_san_antonio_chamber_of_commerce.html#13771 Wed, 16 Sep 2009 09:10:54 -0800 Erroll Southers ’98, who regularly teaches a class at USC on homeland security issues, has been nominated by the Obama administration to run the Transportation Security Administration. The department oversees the screening of passengers and luggage with the aim of preventing terrorists from boarding planes and to avoid the transportation]]> http://uscnews.usc.edu/politics_society/southers_nominated_to_oversee_security.html http://uscnews.usc.edu/politics_society/southers_nominated_to_oversee_security.html#13705 Wed, 09 Sep 2009 13:43:19 -0800 Richard Callahan, associate dean and director of leadership programs at the USC School of Policy, Planning, and Development, has been appointed to a newly formed advisory board for the California Environmental Protection Agency’s Department of Toxic Substances Control. The department is responsible for protecting California residents and the environment from]]> http://uscnews.usc.edu/politics_society/callahan_named_to_epa_advisory_panel.html http://uscnews.usc.edu/politics_society/callahan_named_to_epa_advisory_panel.html#13502 Fri, 14 Aug 2009 10:39:36 -0800 Elizabeth Garrett, USC vice president for academic planning and budget, has been appointed as a commissioner to the Fair Political Practices Commission, California’s independent political watchdog. Garrett, the Sydney M. Irmas Professor of Public Interest Law, Legal Ethics, Political Science, and Policy, Planning, and Development, succeeds former commissioner Eugene Huguenin,]]> http://uscnews.usc.edu/politics_society/garrett_named_to_fair_practices_post.html http://uscnews.usc.edu/politics_society/garrett_named_to_fair_practices_post.html#12991 Thu, 13 Aug 2009 08:17:57 -0800 Henry B. Clark II, professor emeritus of religion at USC College and champion of social justice, has died. He was 78. Clark had spent two weeks in July at a lakeside cabin in Vermont with his children and grandchildren. He was returning from a subsequent visit to friends in Nova]]> http://uscnews.usc.edu/obituaries/in_memoriam_henry_b_clark_ii_78.html http://uscnews.usc.edu/obituaries/in_memoriam_henry_b_clark_ii_78.html#12961