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SURF Students Wave Hello to Top Award
November 3, 2009
USC College's Summer Undergraduate Research Fund (SURF) has made a splashy entrance. After the program's second official year, research produced by SURF students has won a top honor from the Association of Pacific Coast… more>

categories: undergraduate, undergraduate research
tags: air pollution, award, geography, surf
Higher Education Group Honors Sanchez
October 29, 2009
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 by the American… more>

categories: research, faculty research
tags: american studies and ethnicity, award, history, humanities
No Myths, Just Monk: The Story of a Musical Legend
October 27, 2009
Every day for almost a year, Robin D. G. Kelley dug through junk to find a man. In a storage facility stacked to the ceiling with overflowing bags and boxes, Kelley donned a dust mask and spent hours sorting through the… more>

categories: research, faculty research
tags: american studies and ethnicity, biography, book, history, humanities, jazz, music, piano
Legends Asch and Myerhoff Inspire A New Generation of Visual Anthropologists
October 23, 2009
Twenty-six years ago the first visual research center at USC within the College of Letters, Arts & Sciences was founded by Academy award winner Barbara Myerhoff ("Number Our Days"). The program thrived and was further… more>

categories: graduate, graduate research
tags: anthropology, center for visual anthropology, germany, master's degree, media, peru, social sciences
Seeking the Truth of the Khmer Rouge
October 22, 2009
Born and raised in Prasat, a small village in Cambodia, Kosal Path was not yet one when the radical Communist Khmer Rouge came into power, igniting a genocide that would end in the massacre of nearly 2 million… more>

categories: undergraduate, undergraduate research
tags: cambodia, genocide, international relations, problems without passports, pwp, united nations
Ph.D. Candidate Catherine E. Clark Awarded Bourse Chateaubriand Fellowship
October 20, 2009
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 tell a story better than mere text. So how many words is an entire… more>

categories: graduate, graduate research
tags: archive, art, europe, france, history, humanities, paris, photography

Event Calendar

Human Time, Geological Time: The Tour
November 7, 2009: 9am - 11pm
The College Commons Signature Event
Multiple Locations Greater Los Angeles Area
Black, White, South African, African
November 9, 2009: 12pm - 11pm
The Transformation of Political Identity in South Africa
University Park Campus Tyler Pavilion
Faculty Book Party
November 9, 2009: 4pm - 6pm

University Park Campus Doheny Memorial Library Intellectual Commons, Room 233
Asian Religions in Transnational Perspective
November 10, 2009: 12pm - 11pm
The College Commons: Transnational Charisma and Traveling Spirits
University Park Campus University Club
Sacred Language, Spoken Language
November 12, 2009: 7pm - 11pm
Visions and Voices: The USC Arts & Humanities Initiative
University Park Campus School of Cinematic Arts 108
Jewish Values, Identity and Ideals, from South Florida to Capitol Hill
November 15, 2009: 4pm - 7pm
Eleventh Annual Carmen and Louis Distinguished Lecture
University Park Campus Davidson Conference Center Embassy Room