KEVIN STARR, USC history professor, can discuss Ronald Reagan’s legacy, communication style, popularity, governorship and presidency. Contact: (213) 821-2595 (office), (415) 563-3313 (home) or kstarr@usc.edu. BILL BOYARSKY, USC adjunct journalism professor, can discuss Reagan’s role in California politics and his ascension to the presidency. He is author of The Rise of Ronald Reagan, which looks […]
TOM LYON, USC law professor, is an expert on child abuse and molestation, evidence in criminal cases and credibility of children’s testimony. Lyon is president of the American Psychological Association’s Section on Child Maltreatment and has conducted research on factors that influence children’s honesty and credibility when questioned about abuse. Contact: (213) 740-0142 (office) or […]
The deadline for turning in signatures for ballot measures in California is Friday, April 16. Several propositions have qualified for the Nov. 2 ballot, including a bond measure to finance high-speed passenger trains; a constitutional amendment providing greater access to government information; and a measure relating to healthcare coverage requirements. More than 40 other proposed […]
ELIZABETH GARRETT, director of the USC-Caltech Center for the Study of Law and Politics and a USC law professor, can discuss the presidential primary and the candidates’ political strategies. She can also discuss Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s proposed remedies for the state’s fiscal crisis – Prop. 57 and Prop. 58. Contact: (213) 821-5438 (office), (310) 968-5398 […]
ELIZABETH GARRETT, director of the USC-Caltech Center for the Study of Law and Politics and a USC law professor, can discuss Schwarzenegger’s proposed bond measures, California’s fiscal health, the use of initiatives as a way to govern and proposed spending cuts. Contact: (213) 821-5438 (office), (310) 968-5398 (cell) or egarrett@law.usc.edu. MARTIN KAPLAN, director of USC’s […]
Researchers combine two types of imaging methods to give doctors a clearer picture of the inside of living bodies August 13, 2012 — Scientists from USC and Washington University in St. Louis have developed a new type of medical imaging that gives doctors a new look at live internal organs. The imaging combines two existing […]
WHAT: USC will host a groundbreaking for its new Uytengsu Aquatics Center, funded in part by a generous $8 million gift by former USC swim team captain Fred Uytengsu, ’83. The gift is the largest ever made to the USC athletic department by a former student-athlete. USC’s McDonald’s Olympic Swim Stadium was opened in 1983 […]
You don’t have to penetrate a Microsoft bunker in Redmond, Wash. to find out what may be coming after Apple’s iPad, or to learn about the newest trends in 3D graphics, serious games and smartphones. WHAT: The second annual Annenberg Graduate Fellow Symposium, presenting multimedia research and development from USC’s most talented graduate students in […]
THOMAS HENYEY, USC earth sciences professor and former director of the Southern California Earthquake Center, is an expert on the San Andreas fault and earthquake hazards and predictions. Contact: (213) 740-5832 or henyey@usc.edu. JAMES DOLAN, USC associate professor of earth sciences, is an expert in the geology of major fault systems around the world. Contact: […]
