Letters to the Editor

Single-Minded Professors
I really appreciate the College magazine, especially in so far as it gives me insight into the research programs and motivations of USC faculty.

I would commend your attention to faculty who are very productive, but perhaps in more specialized fields, so that others can get a feel for the scholarly life as it is actually lived. Why would someone like Joan Piggott spend her life worrying about early Japanese history? What makes Susan Montgomery do her work on Hopf algebras?

—Martin Krieger
Professor of Planning, USC

We hope you will enjoy our new feature, Hot Topics, premiering in this issue’s College Commons section. Each issue, we will highlight a different professor and his or her unusual work.

Identity Crisis
Your new publication is a masterpiece. Lovely writing, fine layout, clever copy-fitting. Congratulations. One tiny suggestion: Put a caption under every photo. As a non-USCer, I wondered when I read the “Q&A With the President” in the Autumn 2002 issue what his name was.

—John Wilkes
Director of Science Writing Program, UC Santa Cruz

Thank you for your caption comment. We have taken your advice, and hopefully each image in our magazine—whether people, place or thing—now is easily identifiable.

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