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Autumn 2007
Adventures in learning – some across the street, some across the international dateline, one 35,000 feet above the Gulf of Mexico.
By Pamela J. Johnson
Robbert Flick’s photography, which on one level unapologetically documents the city he loves, has been likened to the fiction of Jorge Luis Borges, whimsy masquerading as science.
By Diane Krieger
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"Everyone knows that if you take a class with Robbert Flick, it's a journey."
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Taking a picture is simple, says Robbert Flick. It’s making a picture that is hard.
USC law professor Elyn Saks, one of the world’s most respected scholars in mental health law, reveals another aspect of her life: her continuing struggle with schizophrenia.
By Melinda Vaughn
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What is the standard for determining whether a person should be forced into treatment for mental or psychological diseases?
“At USC, we want all of our students to have life-changing experiences.”
USC’s signature color – not “red,” but “cardinal” – is just one of many colorfully named hues.
From readers, comments, opinions, a few pats and a few pans.
It happens every year, but each one is distinctive. A look at USC’s 2007 Commencement.
Highlights from the past few months at USC, a little research, a couple of buildings, some pretty special people.
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Moshe Lazar, “a one-man humanities department,” gears up for his magnum opus; and biographer Ed Cray reflects on Woody Guthrie (among others).
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A major new Cardiovascular Thoracic Institute is unveiled, and in a “triumph for pests,” the life-expectancy of the fruit fly is extended. Are people next?
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Baby boomers undermine their own interests by shunning immigrants, says demographer Dowell Myers.
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Miss Lonelyhearts, a new opera based on Nathanael West’s dark classic, has its West Coast premiere at USC, part of a trend of universities staging new works.
Hand-held dredges and plankton nets were all emerita professor of biology Irene A. McCulloch needed to begin marine research at USC in 1924.
Full Court Press
Cynthia Cooper ‘86
Paul E. Hadley
On the cover: Painter Karen Chu, one of many USC students expanding their educations beyond the classroom, takes photographs at the ocean. Photograph by Roger Snider.
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