USC Thornton alum Suraj Partha (BM ’19) hosts new Classical California KUSC radio program spotlighting Thornton concerts and the students, alumni and faculty behind them.… Read More »Spotlight: Professor Emeritus Peter Erskine & Professor Emeritus Frank Ticheli
May 30, 1923 – December 20, 2022 A truly amazing Renaissance man, Dr. Douglas Constantine Basil, passed away at his home surrounded by his family… Read More »Dr. Douglas C. Basil, Ph.D.
At the recent Annual Retiree Community Holiday Breakfast, RFA President Jerry Walker was presented with the Robert P. Biller Award for service to USC. The… Read More »Spotlight: RFA President Jerry Walker
Mr. Dick Martin is a current member and Treasurer of the USC Staff Retirement Association. In 1957, Martin graduated from Stanford University with a degree… Read More »Spotlight: SRA Treasurer Dick Martin
During my time at USC, I was fortunate to have been promoted from tenured Associate to Full and then Chaired Professor. USC has allowed me to be a productive research scholar.
It is incredibly difficult for an avant garde artist to be recognized by the mainstream. As is the nature of the practice, they are often on the edge of innovation within their medium. This is the case for Stan Brakhage.
Louise Ball retired from USC and went on to run her own business managing non-profit medical associations dedicated to advancing continuing medical education for physicians.
Although he was ready to retire from the university after 40 years as a full-time faculty member, Dr. George Bekey continues to be active in his community and in his profession.
Dr. Joy Garrison Cauffman served three U.S. presidents: Consultant, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Council on Physical Fitness; Consultant, John F. Kennedy’s Council on Physical Fitness; and Member, Richard M. Nixon’s Committee on Health Education.
Virginia Tufte, Distinguished Emerita Professor of English, retired from USC in 1989.
After retiring from USC in 1996, Hal Hendrick spent 10 years operating a private consulting firm in Industrial and Organizational Psychology and Human Factors and Ergonomics.
After 31 years in various positions at USC, Mike retired in 1997 as Associate Vice President for Government Affairs.
John E. Wills, Jr, “Jack” (deceased January 13, 2017) to all his friends and colleagues, was Professor Emeritus of History at USC. He continues scholarly activity, with two important edited volumes published since retirement, and scholarly papers given from Barbados to Tuebingen to Athens to Hong Kong.
Dr. Curren W. Warf retired from the Division of Adolescent Medicine Childrens Hospital Los Angeles to take a position as Head of the Division of Adolescent Medicine at BC Children’s Hospital in Vancouver, Canada.
Ron Violette worked at the Southern California Safety Institute in Torrance, CA, for four years after retiring from USC.
Worked for the USC News Service/USC Public Relations as the staff photographer for the faculty/staff weekly, USC Chronicle, from 1987 to 2002. I
Robert B. Kaplan is Emeritus Professor of Applied Linguistics in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Southern California. He was the founding editor of the Annual Review of Applied Linguistics and has served as an editor of the applied linguistics entries for both the first and second editions of the International Encyclopedia of Linguistics.
Dr. Robert Tranquada came to USC in 1959 as Assistant Professor of Medicine and Fellow in Endocrinology and Diabetes at the School of Medicine working his way up to the position of Medical Director of the Los Angeles County/USC Medical Center and Associate Dean where he remained from 1969 to 1976.
Professor Frances Lomas Feldman joined the USC faculty as a full-time faculty member at the School of Social Work in 1954 where she remained until her retirement in 1982.
Dr. Bill Crookston, Professor of Clinical Entrepreneurship, Lloyd Greif Center for Entrepreneurial Studies, University of Southern California