New dean of Levanthal announced


USC recently named Professor William H. Holder as the next dean of the Leventhal School of Accounting. He will replace Randolph Beatty as dean of the school starting on July 1. Holder is currently the Ernst & Young Professor of Accounting, and has taught at USC since 1979. He also serves as the director of […]

Not your everyday business school


USC’s Marshall School of Business’s research efforts expand well beyond the practical application of a business education.

Taking the next step


A push for the transformation of certain departments could hold the key to USC’s ultimate goals.

USC looks to transform research in the digital age


The path to a permanent place in the ivory tower has traditionally consisted of long, solitary nights spent poring over books or data or code, looking for a pattern no one else has spotted before, hoping — maybe even praying — that the days, weeks and months of painstaking research will culminate in publication in […]

Film festival comes to Los Angeles


The Los Angeles United Film Festival, which promotes art and creativity through the screening of independent and classic films, is back in town. The festival will open with a screening of 2001: A Space Odyssey at the Vista Theatre. Their lineup includes films such as Ferris Bueller’s Day Off and Close Encounters of the Third […]

American Idiot says goodbye to Broadway


On April 24, the cast of the Broadway production of Green Day’s American Idiot took the stage for the last time. Joined by Green Day frontman Billie Joe Armstrong who had reprised his role of Saint Jimmy for the past three weeks, the play’s successful Broadway run is now complete after 421 performances, 27 previews, […]