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Saying Si to a New Experience
Sometimes opportunity knocks. Other times, you have to force open the door, which is exactly what Martin Hodis did. Hodis, 19, a USC College sophomore with an undecided major, sought out the Summer Study Abroad program one day while in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese. He wanted to become
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USC Leads in Enrollment of International Students
USC enrolled more international students than any other American institution of higher education, according to the annual Open Doors report issued on Nov. 16 by the Institute of International Education. USC hosted 7,482 international students in the 2008-09 academic year, according to the institute. New York University was listed in
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The Fall of the Wall and Its Legacy
Released on the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, USC College’s Mary Sarotte’s new book examines a year that forever transformed international relations — 1989. In 1989: The Struggle to Create Post-Cold War Europe (Princeton University Press, 2009), the professor of international relations investigates how then-West German
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Planning Saved Lives in Samoan Tsunami
Community-based education and awareness programs minimized the death toll from the recent Samoan tsunami, though there are still ways to improve the warning and evacuation process, according to a team of researchers that traveled to Samoa last month. Professor Costas Synolakis of the USC Viterbi School of Engineering’s Astani Department
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USC Annenberg Magazine Goes Global
Impact, the award-winning television newsmagazine produced at the USC Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism, is going global. Distributor Global Broadcasting has picked up the series to run in several countries throughout Europe. “It’s a wonderful notch on our students’ belts to say that they are part of something that





