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Winter 2006
An amazing metal-munching microbe holds out high hopes for an unlikely mix of scientists in hot pursuit of a cold alternative energy source.
By Eric Mankin
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USC researchers are at work refining and miniaturizing a new kind of fuel cell, one that uses biological processes to continuously generate electricity.
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Cosmologists traditionally search for oxygen and hydrogen as the classic signs of life. But a new breed of ‘astrobiologists’ think iron and nitrogen are better candidates.
Like every other sector of American life, universities are “getting the China religion.” Nowhere is this more pronounced than at USC.
By Diane Krieger
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Rigorous social-science research with a policy pay-off. That’s what USC leaders hope to cultivate in the new USC U.S.-China Institute. But that’s not all.
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From missionaries and technocrats to business moguls and government ministers, USC has a distinguished history of preparing China’s movers and shakers.
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Veteran newsman Herb Klein has witnessed first-hand the changes in China. He first beheld Hong Kong in 1950 and then went to Shanghai in 1972 with President Nixon.
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Andrew Bulbrook ‘02 came to USC to study violin. So how come he read the classics, majored in economics, interviewed with Goldman Sachs and still gets to play at Lincoln Center?
By Carolyn S. Ellis
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Music insiders often compare the string quartet to a four-way marriage without the benefits. That the Calder Quartet – now in its eighth year – has endured is a testament to hard work, honesty and creative risk-taking. Meet the other three partners – Trojans all – in this artistic union.
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Who is a Renaissance Scholar? According to USC Professor Warren Bennis, it’s anyone who makes connections between “widely separate, beautifully incongruous fields of study.”
The Trojan Family is alive and thriving in China, where the Board of Trustees met in May.
Western culture has enjoyed a long love affair with lunatics, real and imagined.
Readers weigh in.
Behold the Galen Center: USC basketball and volleyball will never be the same... A new Keck School institute wages high-tech warfare on heart disease.
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Neuroscientists isolate that ping of pleasure when we “get it”; former conjoined twins sleep in separate cribs thanks to a CHLA team of pediatric specialists; and a pharmaceutical scientist finds a new site for battling HIV.
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A woman in pursuit of Genghis Khan; LA publicist moonlights as metropolitan matchmaker; author T.C. Boyle on books, teaching, TV and footwear.
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A tale of titans, visionaries and one lovable cat; American business gets poor marks on work conditions; and a patient’s guide to alternative therapies.
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Breakdancing, a live DJ set, and “spoken word” set the tone for USC’s new Visions and Voices.
Mr. Space Man
Michael Griffin MS ’79
Dangerous Liaisons
Benjamin Sand MA ’04
Gordon Luce
On the cover: The “Chinafication” of USC, complete with classical landscaping, as imagined by illustrator Nancy Stahl.
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