USC Trojan Family Magazine - Summer 2001: A Decade of Distinction: Timeline

'91	May 1991 USC University Hospital opens
	September Inauguration of Steven B. Sample, 10th president of USC
	September Strict set of academic standards required of fraternities and sororities
	December USC/California Museum of Science/LAUSD agree to join forces on $36 million Exposition Park science museum school
'92	January 1992 Strategic Planning group is asked to imagine USC as the cover story in Time magazine in 2002
	April Los Angeles is rocked by riots, but USC campus emerges unharmed. Shortly after the riots, President Sample holds press conference to address concerns of parents and students
	July USC University Hospital ushers in new heart-lung transplant program under pioneering surgeon Vaughn Starnes
	August 31 Trojans compete in the Barcelona Olympics, winning 11 medals, including 3 golds
	October $6.5 million W.M. Keck Photonics Research Laboratory and Charles Lee Powell Foundation Photonics Industrial Lab dedicated
'93	February 1993 Trustees approve USC Role and Mission Statement
	June $120 million cash gift from Walter Annenberg to create the USC Annenberg Center for Communication
	August USC begins new Baccalaureate/M.D. program
	May 1993 and 1994 Men’s tennis wins national championship
'94	January 1994 A 6.7 earthquake centered in Northridge hits Southern California
	June Trustees approve USC Strategic Plan, including four strategic priorities: undergraduate education, interdisciplinary work, Southern California-related programs; and internationalization
	June 1994 Tommy Trojan turns 65
	August USC History Project is launched
	September The Thomas and Dorothy Leavey Library, one of the most digitally advanced libraries in the world, opens
	October USC Professor George Olah awarded Nobel Prize for chemistry
	November Good Neighbors Campaign instituted, channeling faculty/staff giving into support of USC-neighborhood partnerships
'95	September 1995 Building on Excellence campaign announced, with a goal of $1 billion by 2000
	September William Wrigley contributes to USC’s establishment of a $60 million environmental studies institute on Santa Catalina Island
	November USC Family of Five Schools formed
	November $15 million gift from Kenneth and Elaine Leventhal names the Leventhal School of Accounting
'96	January 1996 USC football wins Rose Bowl, 41-32 over Northwestern
	January First annual President’s Distinguished Lecture: Norman Schwarzkopf
	May $12.4 million National Science Foundation grant creates USC Integrated Media Systems Center, the national center for multimedia research
	June USC tops $1 billion endowment
	August 36 Trojans compete in the Atlanta Olympics, winning 10 medals, including 7 golds. Mark Schubert, USC men’s and women’s swimming coach, serves as assistant coach of the U.S. women’s swim team
'97	January 1997 Public announcement of a $35 million gift from Gordon S. Marshall to name the USC Marshall School of Business
	March Women’s swimming wins national championship
	April Wrigley Institute for Environmental Studies opens on Catalina Island.
	June The Association of Pacific Rim Universities is formed; Steven B. Sample is president and co-founder
	August Widney Alumni House, the oldest university building and a designated historic landmark, moves to the site of the new university entrance
	September New general undergraduate education program implemented
'98	February 1998 California Science Center opens in Exposition Park
	February $112.5 million gift from Alfred Mann to name Alfred E. Mann Institute for Biomedical Engineering
	June Building on Excellence campaign’s new goal: $1.5 billion by 2000
	June Baseball wins national championship
	July Schools of Public Administration and Urban Planning merge to become new USC School of Policy, Planning, and Development
	September $20 million gift from Barbara and Roger Rossier to name USC Rossier School of Education
	October Trustees approve update of USC Strategic Plan, adding four critical pathways: life sciences, communications, arts initiative, global urbanization
	October Institute for the Study of Jews in American Life (later renamed the Casden Institute) opens
	December Men’s water polo wins national championship
'99	February 1999 Inauguration of USC President’s Distinguished Artist Series
	March $25 million gift from Flora L. Thornton to name USC Thornton School of Music
	May Women’s water polo wins national championship
	August USC is named the Time magazine/ Princeton Review “College of the Year 2000”
	September $110 million gift from Keck Foundation to name Keck School of Medicine of USC and create a neurogenetics institute
	September USC Renaissance Scholar Prizes established, to encourage undergraduate study across separate disciplines
	October Plans for new Campus Events Center announced
	October First Los Angeles Times-USC Health Fair takes place on the University Park campus
	December Doheny Memorial Library closes for a seismic retrofit
'00	February 2000 Building on Excellence campaign extended to $2 billion by 2002
	May First USC Renaissance Scholar Prizes awarded to 14 graduating seniors
	August USC is named by Newsweek/Kaplan Guide one of nine “Hot Schools 2000-2001"
	September Steven B. Sample is featured in a cover story in the Los Angeles Times Magazine
	September USC has highest number of freshmen applications ever (26,351) and highest average SATs and GPAs of entering freshmen ever (1308, 3.89)
	September Ground broken for Neurogenetic Institute on Health Sciences Campus
	September 33 Trojans compete in the Sydney Olympics, winning 15 medals, including 8 golds
	January 2001 USC is one of 16 universities named a "Leadership Institution" by the Association of American Colleges and Universities
	March 2001 Men’s basketball reaches "Elite Eight" of the NCAA tournament

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