Main USC news site published by the University Public Relations office. http://uscnews.usc.edu/ en-us Thu, 09 Feb 2012 07:52:46 -0800 The U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals overturned Proposition 8, California’s ban on gay marriage this week in an opinion that closely follows a line of analysis put forward by USC Gould School of Law professor Rebecca Brown in June 2010. An issue brief written by Brown for the American]]> http://uscnews.usc.edu/university/professors_analysis_followed_in_court_ruling_on_prop_8.html http://uscnews.usc.edu/university/professors_analysis_followed_in_court_ruling_on_prop_8.html#72674 Thu, 09 Feb 2012 07:36:09 -0800 http://uscnews.usc.edu/university/msw_student_takes_leadership_role.html http://uscnews.usc.edu/university/msw_student_takes_leadership_role.html#72672 Wed, 08 Feb 2012 15:02:20 -0800 In architect Doris Kim Sung’s ideal future, buildings automatically will respond to changes in the environment. “For a long time, my work has examined why architecture is static and nonresponsive, and why it can’t be more flexible like clothing,” said Sung, assistant professor of architecture at the USC School of]]> http://uscnews.usc.edu/university/its_the_smart_thing_to_do.html http://uscnews.usc.edu/university/its_the_smart_thing_to_do.html#72668 Wed, 08 Feb 2012 14:45:19 -0800 When thousands of workers filed lawsuits against employers in search of asbestos injury compensation, Congress planned to create a national social insurance program for asbestos claims but failed. A new book written by USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences professor Jeb Barnes unscrambles the complexities of the congressional]]> http://uscnews.usc.edu/inprint/what_lies_beneath_the_asbestos_crisis.html http://uscnews.usc.edu/inprint/what_lies_beneath_the_asbestos_crisis.html#72667 Wed, 08 Feb 2012 11:01:16 -0800 After spending his first year at USC calling basketball and baseball games on the radio for KXSC 1560-AM, Conrad Wilton noticed the station was missing a very important element: news. "I thought I could fill a niche," said Wilton, who transferred from the University of California, Santa Barbara, in 2009.]]> http://uscnews.usc.edu/university/journalism_major_finds_his_corner_of_usc.html http://uscnews.usc.edu/university/journalism_major_finds_his_corner_of_usc.html#72659 Tue, 07 Feb 2012 09:34:55 -0800 Marleen Pugach, the new holder of the Robert A. Naslund Chair in Curriculum Theory at the USC Rossier School of Education, has spent her career advocating for the reform of teacher education, namely, its inclusion of special education issues within the wider context of diversity. “If we want students with]]> http://uscnews.usc.edu/university/professor_strives_to_expand_diversity_in_teacher_education.html http://uscnews.usc.edu/university/professor_strives_to_expand_diversity_in_teacher_education.html#72634 Thu, 02 Feb 2012 17:24:29 -0800 USC president C.L. Max Nikias often has said, “The ties between USC and its surrounding communities are both profound and deep, and long ago the Trojan Family realized that USC’s strength as a great university depends on its ability to be a good neighbor.” Nikias recently renewed ties to the]]> http://uscnews.usc.edu/university/president_nikias_revisits_usc_family_of_schools.html http://uscnews.usc.edu/university/president_nikias_revisits_usc_family_of_schools.html#72541 Thu, 02 Feb 2012 16:50:00 -0800 USC trustee Verna B. Dauterive ME ’49, EdD ’66 has committed her $30 million gift to name the first interdisciplinary social sciences building on the USC campus. Verna and Peter Dauterive Hall will serve as a center for research and teaching for the USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and]]> http://uscnews.usc.edu/university/dauterives_gift_to_name_uscs_first_interdisciplinary_social_sciences_building.html http://uscnews.usc.edu/university/dauterives_gift_to_name_uscs_first_interdisciplinary_social_sciences_building.html#72573 Thu, 02 Feb 2012 08:54:12 -0800 A new Web-based application system will make it easier to apply for the USC Neighborhood Outreach (UNO) grant. The deadline is Feb. 24. When UNO accepted its first request for proposals in 1995, multiple hardcopy forms were required from each of the potential grant recipients. Staff members then had to]]> http://uscnews.usc.edu/university/uno_application_deadline_set_for_feb_24.html http://uscnews.usc.edu/university/uno_application_deadline_set_for_feb_24.html#72567 Thu, 02 Feb 2012 08:46:49 -0800 Carmen Rad started her business, CRA Custom Banner, out of her home in 1993. By 2009, her banner printing enterprise had grown enough for her move into a 25,000-square-feet building not far from the University Park campus. Rad attributes part of her company’s success to the USC local vendor program.]]> http://uscnews.usc.edu/university/small_business_big_plans.html http://uscnews.usc.edu/university/small_business_big_plans.html#72566 Wed, 01 Feb 2012 13:33:05 -0800 After losing most of her family members to four years of napalm attacks and artillery strikes during the four-year reign of Khmer Rouge, You Taing Kouot fled Cambodia for South Los Angeles. As Kouot struggled to make a new life and start a family, she was determined to see her]]> http://uscnews.usc.edu/university/former_nai_scholars_return_to_inspire_others.html http://uscnews.usc.edu/university/former_nai_scholars_return_to_inspire_others.html#72553 Mon, 30 Jan 2012 14:29:27 -0800 Maryalice Jordan-Marsh, associate professor at the USC School of Social Work, has received the Book of the Year Award from the American Journal of Nursing for Health Technology Literacy: A Transdisciplinary Framework for Consumer-Oriented Practice. Jordan-Marsh received her award in the category of information technology, which recognizes a book that]]> http://uscnews.usc.edu/university/jordan-marsh_wins_book_of_the_year_award.html http://uscnews.usc.edu/university/jordan-marsh_wins_book_of_the_year_award.html#72507 Fri, 27 Jan 2012 13:28:14 -0800 On the first night of the year, Los Angeles residents were on edge. For four straight nights, a serial arsonist had been on a rampage that resulted in millions of dollars in property damage. Authorities were on edge, too, and dozens of officers from multiple fire and law enforcement agencies]]> http://uscnews.usc.edu/university/reluctant_hero_steps_into_the_spotlight.html http://uscnews.usc.edu/university/reluctant_hero_steps_into_the_spotlight.html#72468 Thu, 26 Jan 2012 14:23:00 -0800 Thomas C. Cox, associate professor emeritus of history at the USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences and a leading historian in African-American studies and American intellectual and social history, has died. He was 72. Cox died at home in Pasadena on Dec. 9 from heart and pulmonary complications,]]> http://uscnews.usc.edu/university/in_memoriam_thomas_c_cox_72.html http://uscnews.usc.edu/university/in_memoriam_thomas_c_cox_72.html#72456 Wed, 25 Jan 2012 10:09:20 -0800 USC trustee Ronald D. Sugar and his wife, Valerie Sugar MS ’72, have endowed the Valerie and Ronald Sugar Dean’s Chair of the USC Libraries. The $5 million gift is the first to support a named chair in the libraries and the largest to endow a dean’s chair in the]]> http://uscnews.usc.edu/university/sugars_donate_5_million_to_the_usc_libraries.html http://uscnews.usc.edu/university/sugars_donate_5_million_to_the_usc_libraries.html#72437