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Winter 2007
Last year, USC unveiled Visions and Voices, a no-holds-barred effort to move culture to the front and center of campus life. A year later, students still can't get enough of it.
By Diane Krieger
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Is it like spinach? Wholesome, if not always appetizing? Or like cupcakes? Sinful empty calories?
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Do the arts and humanities have a place in the education of future engineers, scientists and physicians?
It took an economist to answer that question. Ironically, it took the world another 30 years to listen.
By Elizabeth Segal
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In 1970, Richard Easterlin sifted through numerous surveys asking Americans how happy they were.
Genomic psychiatrists Carlos and Michele Pato have spent the last 20 years combing the Azores for the key to two deeply misunderstood diseases: bipolar disorder and schizophrenia. They're about to hit pay dirt.
By Carl Marziali
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The key to schizophrenia's genetic roots lies in new tools that let scientists zoom in on discrete neighborhoods within DNA.
USC has seen a dramatic infusion of new leadership in the past two years.
See if you can put names to the "philological foundlings" in our nursery of misbegotten words.
Observations and opinions from our 200,000 readers (well, not all of them).
A new $58 million home for the arts and humanities; six houses sail 26 miles across the sea; and Doheny Library kicks off its diamond jubilee year.
A USC paleobiologist who specializes in studying mass extinction events; alumnus Barney Rosenzweig on his groundbreaking TV series Cagney & Lacey; and an interview with film noir scholar Drew Casper.
Do bacteria affect aging? A USC scientist finds that scrubbing fruit flies clean of bacteria does not extend their life spans.
Three vivid stories are braided into one in Marianne Wiggins' latest novel.
Doheny Library marks the 50th anniversary of the death of composer Erich Wolfgang Korngold, a legend in the world of film scoring.
The original squad of seven Song Girls in 1967 could not have known, but it began a 40-year tradition.
Royal Welcome
Jacqueline D. Bowens ‘81
Tenacious Twosome
Andrew and Michael Ritter ‘05
Fast-Track Discoveries
Raymond Stevens PhD ‘88
Chip Stuart ‘83
J. Tillman Hall MA ‘47, PhD ‘52
On the cover: Performance artist, writer and playwright Denise Uyehara at the Visions and Voices Spark! multimedia showcase in August. Photograph by Mark Berndt
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