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Bright Images in the City of Light

We’ve all heard the phrase “a picture is worth a thousand words” so often that it has begun to lose its meaning. A single image, according to the saying, can [read more]

Brain Has an Innate Sense of Geometry

Despite minimal exposure to the regular geometric objects found in developed countries, African tribal people perceive shapes as well as westerners, according to a new study. The findings, published online [read more]

Saying Si to a New Experience

Sometimes opportunity knocks. Other times, you have to force open the door, which is exactly what Martin Hodis did. Hodis, 19, a USC College sophomore with an undecided major, sought [read more]

USC Leads in Enrollment of International Students

USC enrolled more international students than any other American institution of higher education, according to the annual Open Doors report issued on Nov. 16 by the Institute of International Education. [read more]

A New Generation of Visual Anthropologists

Twenty-six years ago, the first visual research center at USC was founded by Academy Award winner Barbara Myerhoff (Number Our Days). The program thrived and was developed by filmmaker and [read more]

Grants to USC Faculty Top $100 Million

When Congress enacted the economic stimulus package, or the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA), universities around the country cheered the government’s reinvestment in science and the opportunities it presented [read more]

Are There Answers for the Big Questions?

While working on Philosophical Analysis in the Twentieth Century, Volumes 1 and 2, a definitive two-volume history of analytic philosophy, Scott Soames came to a conclusion that a less-reasoned mind [read more]

The Fall of the Wall and Its Legacy

Released on the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, USC College’s Mary Sarotte’s new book examines a year that forever transformed international relations — 1989. In 1989: [read more]

Seeking the Truth of the Khmer Rouge

Born and raised in Prasat, a small village in Cambodia, Kosal Path was a child when the radical Communist Khmer Rouge came into power, igniting a genocide that would end [read more]

Lost Woody Guthrie Recordings Revived

It sounded too good to be true. Pristine metal 78-rpm masters of more than a hundred recordings made by folk musician Woody Guthrie in the mid-1940s, including a few songs [read more]

Meet the Music Man

Song and story. Story and song. In Bob Santelli’s eyes — rather, to his ears — tunes and tales are inextricably linked. “Some of the best songs are narrative. They’re [read more]

Innovator Students Sweep Parents Weekend

In the not-so-distant future, the world may have a new model for carbon offsetting, inexpensive emergency shelters based on the principles of origami and robotic assistants for people with disabilities. [read more]

Higher Education Group Honors Sanchez

George Sanchez, director of diversity and professor of American studies and ethnicity and history at USC College, has been selected as the outstanding Latino/a faculty in higher education research institutions [read more]

Fighting Malaria in Malawi

Mary Ellen Jebbia knows firsthand that the fight against malaria is more complicated than dispensing bed nets. The USC College senior spent three weeks in Malawi fighting malaria this summer [read more]

Prep Student Excels in University Lab

Be on the lookout for possibly USC College’s youngest researcher. He is David Dominguez, a 16-year-old student at Animo Film and Theatre Arts Charter School. The senior at the South [read more]

Science Is Never Geek to Him

You’ve seen him in the blogosphere, you’ve seen him on TV. He’s no reality star or guitar god, but he plays with both stars and strings. Clifford Johnson is not [read more]

In Memoriam: Herbert A. de Vries, 91

Herbert A. de Vries, a professor emeritus of kinesiology at USC College who was known as the father of exercise and aging, has died. He was 91. De Vries died [read more]

Jane Goodall Spreads Message of Hope

Jane Goodall, internationally renowned anthropologist and world conservationist, filled Bovard Auditorium on Oct. 6 with both a capacity crowd and, more importantly, a renewed sense of hope for a world [read more]

Undergrad Research a Priority at College

As a creative writing major, Schaeffer Nelson ’10 did not know what a research project would look like for him and so he sought the advice of his professors before [read more]

Alums Are the Toast of the Campus

Alumni volunteers recently assembled on campus for the eighth annual USC Alumni Leadership Conference, the most ambitious to date. The conference turned two days in September into a celebration of [read more]

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