Residential faculty ready to take on new roles at USC Village
Six faculty members will live among students at new residential colleges.
For Pacific Islanders at USC, PISA provides friendship and family
The student organization, formed in the fall, offers support for students facing cultural barriers and other challenges as they navigate university life.
Once a foster youth, Carmen Noyola succeeds as student and single mom — with plenty of Trojan help
Her long-range plan: Use her USC education to create permanent housing for former foster and probation youth, providing them a base as they enter adulthood.
USC Libraries celebrate students’ scholarly success
Top thinkers are acknowledged at ceremonies honoring Phi Kappa Phi initiates, Polymathic Academy fellows and the newest names on Leavey Library’s Wall of Scholars.
Faces, and stories, in the crowd: Proud parents, Army buddies and more
From the family that flew in from Japan to the first-generation graduate whose girlfriend had to work, there were plenty of stories to share Friday. Here are a few of them.
Cooper Nelson: ‘USC has shaped, inspired and challenged us’
The valedictorian’s commencement address looks at her classmates with admiration, and ahead to the future with wonder.
Adviser’s faith in USC AeroDesign Team pays off with impressive win
The team’s preparation for annual student competition results in narrow victory for its unmanned electric plane.
When Trojans span generations, commencement becomes a family affair
✌ Class of 2017: Brynn Evans is graduating Friday, and her grandfather won’t be far away: As a Half Century Trojan, he’s walking in the ceremony, too.
Valedictorian Cooper Nelson plans to go Hollywood — but can always fall back on law
✌ Class of 2017: Her USC adventure has stretched from cinema to history, with a little Voltron and Bigfoot thrown in for good measure.
Salutatorian Amanda Semler dives into a future in marine science
✌ Class of 2017: Her home state of Minnesota is about as far from the ocean as you can get, but her experiences at USC showed the sea was her true calling.
Salutatorian Jordan Kondo left his Hawaii home and hasn’t stopped traveling — or learning
✌ Class of 2017: He says USC’s interdisciplinary outlook and short-term international programs changed his entire career trajectory.
Globetrotting Trojan proves research isn’t just for grad students
✌ Class of 2017: Johanna Reyes is making an impact from Mexico to Cuba, and intends to do even more.
Students are unlikely housemates at retirement home — and wouldn’t have it any other way
In exchange for helping their elderly neighbors, a group of USC gerontology students gets free room and board — and much more.
Undergraduates help fuel innovative energy research
Work in the USC Loker Hydrocarbon Research Institute may solve one of the world’s biggest challenges — the clean generation and storage of renewable energy.
Graduate students’ festival makes math fun — no, really
Put your ‘math anxiety’ aside: These instructional demonstrations make things like the Pythagorean Theorem entertaining, too.
As final exams approach, here are things you can do to make it through in top shape
USC experts have advice — some of it common sense, some surprising — that will help you conquer the week ahead or any time of stress.
Age-old skills give USC classics students a big win over their contemporaries
What gave the Trojans a leg up in the Classics Olympia competition? Credit the Classics Department’s intimacy — especially small class sizes and student-faculty camaraderie.
Wallis Annenberg, Mark Humayun among honorees at Academic Convocation
The 36th annual event recognizes outstanding students and faculty, as well as the university’s most dedicated supporters.
Alumni help humanities majors bridge the gap from college to career
The leader of USC’s Career Pathways advises students to start early, making mixers, mentorship and elevator pitches part of their job strategy.
Trojan students volunteering in Greece witness refugees’ plight firsthand
Justin Lee, one of nine USC students who spent their spring break working at a refugee camp, shares what he saw: ‘I was kind of stunned.’
Trojan Family invites 8,980 exceptional students for fall 2017 admission
The field of 56,000 applicants is a USC record.
Hollywood Foreign Press Association endows fund for international students
Trojans who receive the funds will be known as HFPA International Scholars at the USC School of Cinematic Arts.
Youngsters get their hands on virtual reality, cellphone microscopes and other engineering marvels
USC Viterbi-hosted EngX attracts students who want to be engineers.
Match Day 2017 unveils big residency news for USC med students
The event brings smiles, tears and opened envelopes to Health Sciences Campus.