Trojan sisters establish education scholarships


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USC Rossier alumnae and sisters Patricia (Patti) Poon and Candace (Candy) Yee and their husbands established last week two endowed scholarships for Rossier students: the James and Candace Chan Yee Endowed Scholarship and the Dudley and Patricia Poon Endowed Scholarship. The sisters both graduated from the USC Rossier School of Education and went on to […]

Weekend Box Office: ‘Lego Movie’ assembles awesome opening weekend


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Much like the aggressively catchy theme song featured in The Lego Movie, everything was awesome at the box office this weekend for the toy adaptation. The film managed a phenomenal $69.1M, the second largest February opening ever behind 2004’s The Passion of the Christ ($83.85M), and displaced Ride Along’s three-week hold on the No. 1 […]

Rohit Varma named chair of the Department of Ophthalmology


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On Wednesday, Feb. 5, Rohit Varma, M.D., M.P.H. was named as the chair of the Department of Ophthalmology and the director of the USC Eye Institute. Varma was previously a professor at the Keck School of USC, as well as a director of the clinical trials unit, the glaucoma service, and ocular epidemiology. Varma will […]

Weekend Box Office: Ride Along to new January record


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January is proving to be its own blockbuster month. Just last week, the Afghan war drama Lone Survivor nearly broke Cloverfield’s January record of $40M. This week, Ride Along actually broke the record, with a $41.5M three-day opening and a massive $48.6M over the four-day MLK weekend, becoming the largest January opening. The cop comedy, […]

Troy Meets World: This week on Trojan Vision


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Trojan Vision is USC’s student run television station. We keep you up to date on everything student related ranging from USC events, Hollywood happenings, student well-being and relevant issues in the greater Los Angeles area. Tune in to a live stream of our broadcasts at trojanvision.com or catch us on television channel 8.1. The Morning Brew (Monday […]