A Day for Remembrance
On World AIDS Day Friday, USC hosted a commemoration featuring panels from the original AIDS Memorial Quilt. The event, held in McCarthy Quad on the University Park Campus, also featured speakers and guest performers including the Gay Men’s Chorus of Los Angeles and members of the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence.
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23 for ’23: The Year in Review
This year has been one of groundbreaking accomplishments, ambitious launches and moving moments for the Trojan Family. Here’s a sampling of the year’s top stories; check out all 23.
Home of USC track and field team renamed Allyson Felix Field
The decorated USC alumna and Olympic standout inspires Trojans to be “champions on and off the field.”
USC establishes new campus in the heart of Washington, D.C.
The campus will serve as a coast-to-coast bridge for interdisciplinary study where students and faculty will collaborate with global opinion leaders.
For the first time in 21 years, Trojan triplets go their separate ways
Ireland, Kala and Smith Shute have rarely been apart. That changed after commencement, marking a bittersweet milestone in the triplets’ journey.
With fanfare and festivity, USC Mann School marks a new era
The USC Alfred E. Mann School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences celebrates its new name, its namesake and its expanding role in L.A. in health sciences, research and development.
USC study reveals the key reason why fake news spreads on social media
The USC-led study of more than 2,400 Facebook users suggests that platforms — more than individual users — have a larger role to play in stopping the spread of misinformation online.
Top Headlines
The recognition comes from The Leapfrog Group, a respected national hospital watchdog organization.
Steele brings a global perspective to the practical and academic study of architecture.
USC experts have developed an AI tool that could help homeless service agencies avoid potential biases in housing allocation.
Classes use the venue as a living laboratory. Students explore the stadium’s rich past and current operations, and envision its future.
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USC Competes
USC President Carol Folt’s “moonshot” initiatives aim to make USC the international standard-bearer for preeminence at scale, building on the convergence between the opportunities and challenges faced by our world and USC’s unique strengths as a big, great, fast and connected university.
The USC Competes moonshot aims to make the university the destination of choice that attracts the best and brightest, and where faculty, staff and students can thrive and achieve their dreams.
Around the University
Choral Winter Gala
The USC Thornton School of Music and its Choral and Sacred Music Department present their annual winter gala. Celebrate the holidays in elegant style with “Sounds of the Season,” a scholarship gala that features 250 singers and instrumentalists ringing in the season with carols and songs in an evening of pageantry for the entire community to enjoy while providing support for student scholarships. Admission is free and open to the public.
Dec. 9, 7:30 p.m.
Campus Blood Drive
This holiday season head to USC Village to give a donation that could save a life. Find the mobile donation bus and be sure to bring your photo ID with proof of age or parental consent form. All donors will receive a $10 In-N-Out Burger gift card while supplies last and will be entered into a sweepstakes for a pair of Taylor Swift concert tickets.
Dec. 14, 9 a.m.-4 p,m.
