Dean Aoun with Rev. Chip Murray and students
Senior Faculty Hire Antonio Damasio
Donor Janice Bryant Howroyd and Dean Aoun
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- Refined the undergraduate and graduate curriculum and strengthened leadership in emerging fields of study
- Launched the Tradition & Innovation initiative, which has brought in nearly $200 million to date
- Added 11 endowed chairs and professorships
- Achieved an unprecedented 51 percent increase in the College’s sponsored research
- Increased the diversity and size of the faculty from 350 to 500 through intensive junior hiring and the Senior
Faculty Hiring Initiative
- Completed the construction of two new, cutting-edge research buildings, the Dornsife Cognitive Neuroscience
Imaging Center and the Molecular and Computational Biology Building
- Forged partnerships with nine other USC schools and seven museums and cultural institutions outside USC, leading
to the establishment of new institutes and centers
- Enhanced the College’s financial well-being, upping College fund-raising from an average of $18 million per year
to $40 million in 2005, and leaving substantial cash reserves that will allow continued growth
- Strengthened USC’s community bonds through support of the Joint Educational Project, involvement with Hebrew Union
College, and the creation of the USC Institute for Armenian Studies and the USC Korean Studies Institute
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