Seventeen sports equaled or exceeded their previous scores. A team’s Academic Progress Rate accounts for eligibility, retention and graduation to generate a measure of academic performance.
Environmental studies and international relations double major Kayla Soren is recognized for founding a nonprofit that aims to raise awareness about global climate issues.
The university is among just 16 institutions in the U.S. to produce multiple students and faculty receiving Fulbright recognition.
The Los Angeles chapter of the American Institute of Architects recognized two USC School of Architecture students for their work.
The American Academy of Family Physicians will honor the Keck School of Medicine of USC’s Family Medicine Interest Group on July 27 for its outstanding outreach and leadership.
Three USC School of Architecture students won the first Julius Shulman Emerging Talent Award.
Two stars of the USC Loker Hydrocarbon Research Institute have been recognized for their ongoing achievements with elections to academic societies.
Three USC Price School of Public Policy graduates will spend their upcoming year working toward a healthier future for people and the planet thanks to the Clinton-Orfalea Fellowships.
Three members of the USC Price School of Public Policy’s class of 2012 will put theory into practice in new positions at departments within the federal government.
Presidential Scholar Karen Pham, a junior at the USC Roski School of Fine Arts, was selected for the highly competitive Fulbright Summer Institute at Nottingham Trent University.
Dorian Traube, an assistant professor at the USC School of Social Work, has received a USC Mellon Mentoring Award for her exemplary work with graduate students.
Eleven current and recently graduated Trojans have been selected for the prestigious Fulbright Fellowship on the basis of academic achievement and commitment to cultural engagement.
Five students from the USC Graduate School received the PhD Achievement Award this month in recognition of their outstanding academic profiles. New this year, the award highlights the most exceptional PhD candidates of the academic year.
A ceremony in Leavey Library on May 10 honored more than 60 exceptional students whose names soon will be etched in glass on the Wall of Scholars.
At USC’s 129th Commencement ceremony on May 11, acclaimed journalist Christiane Amanpour told graduates that while times may be tough, their education has prepared them to face the challenge and thrive.
As part of USC’s 129th Commencement ceremonies, the USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism celebrated the conferral of bachelor’s, master’s and doctoral degrees to 872 students today.
Seventy years after the forced internment of Japanese-American citizens and Japanese nationals during World War II interrupted their studies, USC’s Nisei (a term used to describe first-generation Japanese Americans) were awarded honorary degrees at a special reception following Commencement today.
More or less dragged by his wife, Krishna Narayanamurti dutifully placed a foot on a step that led up a mountain to the Tirumala Temple in India. He looked at the number on the step: 100. Only 3,900 more to go.
Mariah Gill and her two sisters were infants the first time their father took them surfing. Living in Southern California for the past four years, the 21-year-old USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences senior has made surfing into a regular activity.
Emir Estrada opened an envelope she had just picked up from her campus mailbox. The return address said the University of Connecticut.
William G. Hayter is like a kid on Christmas morning. “I got my cap and gown and took it to be pressed,” said the 68-year-old alumnus, “and I am as excited as can be to join my daughter at my beloved USC’s Commencement ceremonies.”
USC provost and senior vice president for academic affairs Elizabeth Garrett announced the incoming cohort of the Provost’s Postdoctoral Scholars in the Humanities.
Karissa Hodges remembers playing doctor as a child. She didn’t use toys but real stethoscopes, blood-pressure pumps and other common medical instruments that physicians and nurses at the USC Norris Cancer Hospital showed her how to use.
USC graduate student Andrew Woodham won first prize in the eighth annual USC Libraries Wonderland Award competition for “Queen Victoria of Hearts.”