Lauren Evashenk
Stories by Lauren Evashenk:
Doctoral student targets neurological disorders
The first step is to build a model of selected brain circuits to study multiple sclerosis.

Students to bike across America to feed hungry children in China
USC graduate students reflect new wave of social-media-spurred philanthropy in Asia.
World Autism Day seen through a microscope
A doctoral student attempts to pinpoint the role of a specific protein in neurodevelopmental disorders.
New autism website to launch Sept. 28

Interacting With Autism, a video-based website, will be unveiled at the USC School of Cinematic Arts.
Adapting fiction

In the eyes of Provost Fellow Edward Gauvin ’98, translation is a creative activity. A busy translator of French literature for the past five years, he sees the task as more an exercise in adaptation.
Six students win PhD Achievement Award

The USC Graduate School has announced that six students will receive this year’s PhD Achievement Award in recognition of their outstanding academic research.
USC Graduate School honors two-time Trojan with Hunt Award

Kenisha Strong ’09 remembers the first time she visited the USC campus.
Gifted musician joins USC Thornton’s composition program

Georgi Dimitrov loves the contrabass clarinet and the uniqueness of a really high contrabassoon.
USC architecture student fights to save Chinatown

USC architecture student Rosalind Sagara is the recipient of this year’s American Express Aspire Award Recognizing Emerging Leaders in Historic Preservation.
Doctoral student earns STEM fellowship

USC doctoral student Elena Ferri is the recipient of the Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics Chateaubriand Fellowship.
Doctoral student provides animated research for NSF contest

Candy Hwang, a second-year doctoral candidate in chemistry, has presented her research in an offbeat manner this fall.
Doctoral student attends annual meetings of Nobel Prize winners

Not every PhD student has a chance to spend quality time with Nobel laureates, but doctoral candidate Nicholas Chancellor did just that over the summer.