Spring 2011
Features
Reaching Toward the Biomedical Future
Thanks to nanoscale electronics, there’s a revolution under way in the medical sciences. A new USC program joins engineering and medical students in the quest for miraculous devices to improve human health.
Deep Play
Three communications scholars hew through a thicket of misconceptions to show how online games, far from corrupting our youth, may help salvage our failing schools, take the guesswork out of economics and even bust up drug cartels.
Trojan Beat
Stem Cell Celebration
With its grand opening, the Eli and Edythe Broad CIRM Center offers new hope for a disease-free future.
A Postdoctoral Bonanza
USC becomes one of a few elite institutions that funds its own humanities postdocs.
Producing New Talent
The American songwriter with the most No.1 hits finds inspiration eaves-dropping in restaurants, watching soap operas and listening to the birds.
Stories Set in Stone
USC College researchers explore English cliffs to search for “beefy” clues from an ancient ocean crisis.
Hairy Science
From fighting tooth decay to growing fuel cells, microbial hair holds out lustrous possibilities.
Behind the Golden Gate
Quintessential California historian Kevin Starr retraces the birth, life and legacy of a timeless San Francisco landmark.
Taking It to the Food Bank
Clarke and Evans offer lessons for social service innovations from their 20 years of experience.
USC Doctors
Family Ties
Great Numbers: 50, 25 and 10
Reunion Weekend 2010 brings three generations of Trojans together for tours, talks and long-lost history.
