Year: 2016

Niki and I hope you are having a wonderful holiday season, and send you our very best wishes for a happy new year… Last month, we formally dedicated the new USC Stevens Hall for Neuroimaging, and our local NPR station marked its opening with an excellent story on the pioneering research of Professor Arthur Toga of the USC Stevens Neuroimaging and Informatics Institute… As construction on the new USC Village continues apace, we recently brought an old Trojan tradition to what-will-soon-be the newest addition to our campuses. The USC Village construction workers rang the Victory Bell, which USC has in its possession for the coming year—a special honor following our football win over UCLA….Continue Reading USC Stevens Hall opens; USC Village workers ring the Victory Bell; USC Thornton School of Music ranked among best in the nation

Niki and I hope you had a wonderful Thanksgiving! We continued our tradition of spending the afternoon with USC students… Earlier this month, friends and supporters of the USC Dana and David Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences came together for a special evening to celebrate the five-year anniversary of the naming gift from humanitarians David and Dana Dornsife… The Wall Street Journal recently published an insightful interview with music industry icon Jimmy Iovine, in which he discussed the vision behind the USC Iovine Young Academy….Continue Reading USC Dornsife celebrates fifth anniversary of naming gift; Music icon Jimmy Iovine describes the vision for USC’s Iovine and Young Academy; USC ranked number one for public relations

Everyone at USC is still thrilled by the outstanding news we received earlier this semester: The Wall Street Journal and Times Higher Education released a comprehensive ranking of top colleges and universities in the United States, and USC ranked fifteenth on their national list of public and private universities… Earlier this month, the USC community came together to formally dedicate the majestic, new home for our Kaufman School of Dance… The MacArthur Foundation recently announced the recipients of its coveted “genius” grants, and this year’s list included our longtime faculty member Josh Kun of the USC Annenberg School….Continue Reading USC ranks fifteenth on national list of universities; USC Kaufman dedicates new building; USC professor named MacArthur “genius”

At USC, our academic year is off to an extraordinary start, as our School of Social Work recently celebrated a transformational gift, bringing together more than 1,600 Trojans and supporters outside the school. Mrs. Suzanne Dworak-Peck—a visionary pioneer in the field of social work and a two-time USC alumna—has given $60 million to our university, and her gift will endow and name the USC Suzanne Dworak-Peck School of Social Work… Earlier this month, the USC community came together to formally dedicate Jill and Frank Fertitta Hall, a new home for the undergraduates at our Marshall School of Business….Continue Reading USC Dworak-Peck School of Social Work receives naming gift; Fertitta Hall dedicated at USC Marshall; Currie Residence Hall opens

Earlier this month, Niki and I were thrilled to welcome students back to our campuses, and to start our seventh year as president and first lady of USC… While these extraordinary students began their classes, we were all cheering our 44 Trojan athletes at the Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro… In July, USC once again hosted the Warrior-Scholar Project, a weeklong “boot camp” that helps newly enrolled military veterans acclimate to an academic environment….Continue Reading USC hosts Warrior-Scholar Project for military veterans; Viterbi faculty members praised for pioneering research; 44 Trojan athletes compete at Rio Olympics