Top student scholars honored at USC Academic Honors Convocation
The event, held online due to the pandemic, recognizes that USC is above all else a community of scholars. Part 1 on Monday honored faculty members.
USC Academic Honors Convocation honors inspiring faculty
The event recognizes that USC is above all else a community of scholars. Part 1 on Monday honored faculty members; student scholars will be recognized Wednesday.
2 USC faculty members named Guggenheim Fellows
Art historian Lisa Pon is recognized for exploring Renaissance artist Raphael’s collaborations, while composer Nina C. Young is known for her genre-defying work.
5 faculty members named University Professors and Distinguished Professors
The selective awards recognize significant accomplishments by leading scholars in their fields.
Shaun Harper elected to National Academy of Education
The founder of the USC Race and Equity Center joins one of the education field’s most prestigious organizations.
Nomadland and The Queen’s Gambit win USC Libraries Scripter Awards
The prize, in its 33rd year, honors the author and screenwriter of the year’s best adaptation of the printed word into film and episodic television.
2 Trojans’ civic-minded projects win Reimagine Challenge 2020
The competition challenged students to develop proposals to help communities hardest by the pandemic or spark a global movement capable that would spur 1 million people into action.
USC produces more 2020-21 Fulbright students than any other California university
Twenty-five Trojans received the prestigious grant during the 2020-2021 award cycle, making USC one of the top producers of U.S. Fulbright students for the ninth straight year.
2 USC Viterbi professors inducted into the National Academy of Engineering
An optimization expert who harnesses mathematics to improve industries and a leader in astronautical and systems engineering are USC Viterbi’s newest members of the academy.
Associated Press team wins 2021 Selden Ring Award for uncovering exploitation in the palm oil industry
The annual investigative journalism award, which has been presented by USC Annenberg for 32 years, goes to an examination of abusive working conditions on palm oil plantations in Indonesia and Malaysia.
A playwright pays it forward, endowing award for student writers
Alumna Joan Beber creates an award at the USC School of Dramatic Arts for fellow playwrights.
Finalists named for 33rd annual USC Libraries Scripter Awards
The awards honor the year’s most accomplished film and episodic series adaptations, as well as the works on which they are based.
3 USC Viterbi professors named National Academy of Inventors fellows
Keith Chugg, Jay Kuo and Gerald Loeb join this year’s list of 175 distinguished academic inventors.
2 Trojans receive prestigious Schwarzman scholarship to study in Beijing
The accomplished USC duo will learn about Chinese culture and study with top professors as part of a one-year master’s program in global affairs.
6 USC researchers named 2020 AAAS fellows
The USC professors join 40 previously selected faculty members as fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
USC biological imaging innovator Scott Fraser elected to National Academy of Medicine
Provost Professor Fraser is recognized for developing technology that provides “unprecedented views of … live organisms, from embryonic development to old age.”
USC faculty members named University Professors and Distinguished Professors
The very selective awards recognize significant accomplishments by leading scholars in their fields.
Natalia Molina named 2020 MacArthur Fellow
The professor of American studies and ethnicity at USC Dornsife receives the prestigious fellowship in recognition of her work on race and citizenship in the U.S.
NIH honors Maryam Shanechi as a ‘new innovator’
The USC Viterbi assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering is one of only 53 people to receive this year’s award for high-impact researchers.
Broad Foundation brings together stem cell scientists, engineers and physicians at USC and beyond
Strategic initiatives include innovation awards bringing together teams of engineers and scientists and clinical research fellowships for physician-scientists.
USC gerontology school and institute for aging research win prestigious grant
The $4.6 million award from the National Institute on Aging will establish the USC-Buck Nathan Shock Center of Excellence in the Basic Biology of Aging.
Trojan Anna Cockrell named Academic All-America Team Member Of The Year in track
The 2019 NCAA 400-meter hurdles champion — who has a 4.0 GPA in her public policy graduate program — is USC’s only Team Member of the Year honoree since the College Sports Information Directors of America began the award in 1996.
USC scientist awarded for skeletal stem cell research
Postdoctoral fellow Peter Fabian will use the NIH Pathway to Independence Award to help him transition to full-time faculty.
USC dentistry school’s Yang Chai appointed University Professor
The prestigious designation puts him in the company of fewer than 20 faculty members across USC.