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2019-2020 • 179 • USC USC • In The Pros All-Time The list below includes all former USC players who had careers in the National Basketball League (1937-49), the American Basketball Associa- tion (1966-76) and the National Basketball Association (1950-present). Dewayne Dedmon PLAYER PROFESSIONAL TEAMS SEASONS Dan Anderson Portland...... 1975-76 Dwight Anderson ...... 1983 ...... 1984 John Lakers...... 1967 San Diego...... 1968-71 ...... 1972 Philadelphia...... 1973 Kansas City-Omaha...... 1973-74 New Orleans...... 1975 ...... 1975-76 David Bluthenthal ...... 2005 Mack Calvin Los Angeles (ABA)...... 1970 Florida (ABA)...... 1971-72 Carolina (ABA)...... 1973-74 (ABA)...... 1975 Virginia (ABA)...... 1976 ...... 1977 San Antonio...... 1977 Denver...... 1977-78 ...... 1980 ...... 1981-83 Sam Clancy ...... 2003 Portland Trailblazers...... 2005-06 Duane Cooper Los Angeles Lakers...... 1993-94 Phoenix...... 1994 Dewayne Dedmon ...... 2014 Philadelphia 76ers...... 2014 Orlando Magic...... 2014-16 San Antonio...... 2017 ...... 2018-19 Sacramento...... 2020 DeMar DeRozan ...... 2009-18 ...... 2019-20 Jerry Dupree Los Angeles...... 2004-05 Earl Evans ...... 1980 Desmon Farmer Indiana...... 2005 ...... 2006-07 San Antonio...... 2008-09 ...... 2009-17 Minnesota...... 2018-19 New York...... 2020 Oshkosh (NBL)...... 1949 Syracuse...... 1950-51 ...... 1952 Rochester...... 1952-54 Milwaukee...... 1955 St. Louis...... 1956 Fort Wayne-St. Louis...... 1957 Bill Hewitt Los Angeles Lakers...... 1969-70 Detroit...... 1970-72 Buffalo...... 1973 Chicago...... 1975 Greg (Bo) Kimble ...... 1990-1992 ...... 1993 John Lambert Cleveland...... 1976-81 Kansas City...... 1981 Dennis Layton Phoenix...... 1972-73 Portland...... 1974 Memphis (ABA)...... 1974 New York...... 1977 San Antonio...... 1978 Steve Malovic Washington...... 1980 Taj Gibson dunks over Dwyane Wade San Diego...... 1980 Jeff Trepagnier Detroit...... 1980 in 2011 NBA playoffs. Jim Marsh Portland...... 1972

2019-2020 • 180 • USC BASKETBALL Trojans in the Pros 2019-2020 USC Trojan Basketball PLAYER PROFESSIONAL TEAMS SEASONS O.J. Mayo Memphis...... 2008-12 Dallas...... 2013 Milwaukee...... 2014-16 Kevin Porter Jr. De'Anthony Melton Phoenix...... 2019 Memphis...... 2020 San Antonio...... 2019-20

Harold Miner Miami...... 1993-95 Cleveland...... 1996 Chris Munk Utah...... 1991 Jack Nichols Washington (Capitols)...... 1949-50 Tri-City (Blackhawks)...... 1950 Milwaukee (Hawks)...... 1952-53 Boston...... 1953-58 Robert Pack Portland...... 1992 Denver...... 1993-95 Washington...... 1996 New Jersey...... 1997 Dallas...... 1997-2000 Denver...... 2001 Minnesota...... 2002 New Orleans...... 2003 New Jersey...... 2004 Dana Pagett Virginia (ABA)...... 1972 Kevin Porter Jr. Cleveland...... 2020

Gabe Pruitt Boston...... 2007-09 Rodrick Rhodes Houston...... 1998 Vancouver/Orlando...... 1999 Ron Riley Kansas City-Omaha...... 1973-74 Houston...... 1974-76 Cliff Robinson New Jersey...... 1980-81 Kansas City...... 1982 Cleveland...... 1982-84 Washington...... 1985-86 Philadelphia ...... 1987-89 Los Angeles Lakers...... 1992 Gene Rock Chicago...... 1948 John Rudometkin New York...... 1963-65 ...... 1965 Brian Scalabrine New Jersey...... 2002-04 Boston...... 2005-10 Chicago...... 2011-12 James Seminoff Chicago...... 1947-48 Boston...... 1949-50 Washington...... 1951 Boston...... 1952-61 L.A Clippers...... 2016 Ron Taylor Washington (ABA)...... 1970 New York (ABA)...... 1970 Virginia (ABA)...... 1971 (ABA)...... 1971 Jeff Trepagnier Cleveland...... 2002 Denver...... 2003-04 Nikola Vucevic Philadelphia...... 2012 Orlando...... 2013-20 Boston...... 1973-75 Phoenix...... 1976-80 Seattle...... 1981 New York...... 1982-83 Phoenix...... 1984-86 Gus Williams Golden State...... 1976-77 Seattle...... 1978-80, 1982-84 Washington...... 1985-86 Atlanta...... 1987 DeMar DeRozan wows at the Nick Young Washington...... 2007-12 L.A. Clippers...... 2012 2011 NBA Dunk Contest Philadelphia...... 2013 L.A. Lakers...... 2014-17 Golden State...... 2018

2019-2020 • 181 • USC BASKETBALL USC • In The NBA ABA The National Basketball Association draft was first conducted in 1947, The American Basketball Association was formed in 1966; it disbanded in but records were not kept until 1952. Below is a list of Trojans selected in the 1976, and four of its teams joined the NBA. Below is a list of Trojans selected NBA draft. From 1953-1966, round number indicates selection by a player’s in the ABA draft. In many instances, round numbers are not available. particular team and does not necessarily correspond to actual round number. In 1989, the NBA draft was cut down to only two rounds. YEAR RND. PICK PLAYER TEAM YEAR RND. PICK PLAYER TEAM 1967 Bob Seagren...... New Orleans 1948 Alex Hannum...... 1968 Bill Hewitt...... Denver 1950 2 Bill Sharman...... Washington 1969 Mack Calvin...... Los Angeles 1950 2 Stan Christie...... Syracuse Ron Taylor...... Oakland 1951 7 Tom Riach...... Baltimore 1971 4 Dennis Layton...... Utah 1952 Dwight Morrison...... 4 Dana Pagett...... Virginia 1953 4 Ken Flowers...... Minneapolis 1972 Paul Westphal...... Denver 6 Don Eby...... Philadelphia Joe Mackey...... Pittsburgh 1954 9 Roy Irvin...... Rochester 1972 (Dispersal Draft) Joe Mackey...... Virginia 1955 12 Dick Welsh...... Milwaukee 1975 1 Gus Williams...... St. Louis 1960 8 John Werhas...... Minneapolis 5 Biff Burrell...... San Diego 14 Jim Hanna...... New York 8 John Lambert...... New York 1962 2 9 John Rudometkin...... New York 3 24 Chris Appel...... 1963 7 Gordie Martin...... Los Angeles Lakers 1966 3 27 John Block...... Los Angeles Lakers 1968 1 11 Bill Hewitt...... Los Angeles Lakers 11 Jim Marsh...... Seattle 1969 2 18 Ron Taylor...... Seattle 9 Steve Jennings...... Phoenix 14 Mack Calvin...... Los Angeles Lakers 15 Ernie Powell...... Seattle 1971 3 Dennis Layton...... Phoenix 11 Dana Pagett...... Philadelphia 12 Chris Schrobilgen...... San Diego 1972 1 10 Paul Westphal...... Boston 3 Ron Riley...... Atlanta 4 Joe Mackey...... Seattle 1974 6 Dan Anderson...... Portland 6 Mark Westra...... Philadelphia 1975 1 15 John Lambert...... Cleveland 2 20 Gus Williams...... Golden State 6 Biff Burrell...... Phoenix 6 Clint Chapman...... Kansas City-Omaha 1977 4 Greg White...... Portland 1979 1 11 Cliff Robinson...... New Jersey 6 Steve Smith...... Chicago 1980 5 94 Don Carfino...... Golden State 1981 3 60 Purvis Miller...... Indiana 10 Barry Brooks...... Golden State 1982 2 41 Dwight Anderson...... Washington 7 Maurice Williams...... Los Angeles Lakers 1983 7 Jacque Hill...... Chicago 1985 5 99 Wayne Carlander...... Los Angeles Clippers 5 106 Clayton Olivier...... San Antonio 1987 2 37 Derrick Dowell...... Washington 1992 1 12 Harold Miner...... Miami 2 36 Duane Cooper...... Los Angeles Lakers 1997 1 24 Rodrick Rhodes...... Houston 2001 2 35 Brian Scalabrine...... New Jersey 2 36 Jeff Trepagnier...... Cleveland 2002 2 45 Sam Clancy...... Philadelphia 2007 1 16 Nick Young...... Washington 2 32 ...... Boston 2008 1 3 O.J. Mayo...... Minnesota (traded to Memphis) 2009 1 9 DeMar DeRozan...... Toronto 1 26 Taj Gibson...... Chicago 2011 1 16 Nikola Vucevic...... Philadelphia 2018 2 46 De'Anthony Melton...... Houston 2 49 Chimezie Metu...... San Antonio 2019 1 30 Kevin Porter Jr...... Cleveland

USC’s Highest First-Round Picks YEAR PLAYER TEAM PICK 2008 O.J. Mayo...... Minnesota (traded to Memphis) 3 2009 DeMar DeRozan...... Toronto 9 1972 Paul Westphal...... Boston 10 1968 Bill Hewitt...... Los Angeles Lakers 11 USC was the only school in the country with a 1979 Cliff Robinson...... New Jersey 11 1992 Harold Miner...... Miami 12 player selected within the first 16 picks in each of 1975 John Lambert...... Cleveland 15 the 2007-09 NBA Drafts. Above left, Taj Gibson was 2011 Nikola Vucevic...... Philadelphia 16 selected No. 26 in 2009, above right, DeMar DeRozan 2007 Nick Young...... Washington 16 1997 Rodrick Rhodes...... Houston 24 was selected No. 9 in 2009 and above, Nick Young 2009 Taj Gibson...... Chicago 26 was selected No. 16 in 2007. 2019 Kevin Porter Jr...... Cleveland 30 1975 Gus Williams...... St. Louis (ABA) --

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VUCEVIC KEEPS IT GOING FOR TROJANS... Nikola Vucevic was selected by Philadelphia as the 16th pick in the 2011 NBA Draft, becoming the fifth Trojan selected in the first round of the draft since 2007. Kevin Porter Jr. was selected 30th by Cleveland in 2019, making is six Trojans taken in the first round since 2007. That number is tied for the 13th-most in the country from 2007-19. USC's three NBA draft selections in the last two drafts are tied for the most among Pac-12 teams and tied for fifth among all programs. Also, only USC and Kansas had had at least one player selected in the top 16 picks in four of the five drafts from 2007-11. USC had more first round selections from 2007-11 than any Big east team and more than perennial power Duke.

2019-2020 • 183 • USC BASKETBALL RECENT GALEN GRADUATES

The Trojans had nine players at 2019-20 NBA preseason camps. Four of the lastest looking to make their mark in the NBA are Chimezie Metu (San Antonio), De'Anthony Melton (Mem- phis), Jordan McLaughlin (Minnesota) and (Detroit).

De'Anthony Melton was traded to the Memphis Griz- zlies by Phoenix this offseason. He averaged 5.0 points his rookie campaign, making 31 starts. He left USC tied for 1st in steals and third in assists on USC's all-time freshman list.

Chimezie Metu split his rookie campaign playing for San Antonio and its G-League affiliate the Austin Spurs. He averaged 1.8 points and 1.2 rebounds in 29 games for the Spurs. Metu left USC ranked 3rd in blocks and 20th in scoring on USC's all-time lists.

2019-2020 • 184 • USC BASKETBALL Jordan McLaughlin signed a two-way contract in the offseason with Minnesota and had a strong sum- mer league season. He left USC ranked 1st in minutes played, 2nd in assists, 3rd in games and steals, 4th in points and 5th in 3-pointers made on USC's all-time list.

Bennie Boatwright was signed as an undrafted free agent after the 2019 NBA Draft by the . He left USC ranked sixth on the school's all-time scoring list and second on its career three- baskets made list.

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2019-20 Team Captains 2019-2020 • 186 • USC BASKETBALL USC • In The Hall Of Fame All-Time (Inducted: Naismith - 1979, NABC - 2006)

Justin “Sam” Barry, USC’s winningest coach ever, started out a three-sport star at Madison (Wisc.) High. After a four-year stint at Knox College, Barry coached Iowa for seven seasons, leading the Hawkeyes to the 1923 Big Ten championship and a share of the 1926 title. He then came to Troy, where he stayed for 18 years, leading the Trojans to a 260-138 won-loss record, a mark that included winning the Pacific Coast Conference in 1930, 1935 and 1940. Under Barry, USC won the Southern Division seven times and finished third in the 1940 NCAA tournament. In 1948, Barry led the USC team to the NCAA title, and served as an assistant football coach. On the administrative side, Barry was a leading advocate of the 10-second rule and the elimination of the jump after each basket.

ALEX HANNUM (Inducted: Naismith - 1998)

A three-year letterman at USC in 1943, 1946-47, Hannum was a captain his final year with the team. Hannum, who had a knack for turning around beleaguered franchises during 16 professional coaching seasons (12 NBA, four ABA), was the first coach in professional basketball history to win an NBA and ABA Championship. He began his coaching career as a player/ coach for the St. Louis Hawks during the 1956-57 season, reaching the NBA Finals. The next year, Hannum began his first season as a full-time and guided St. Louis to the 1958 NBA Championship. He spent three years with the Syracuse Nationals (1960-63), posting a 48-32 record in his final year. Hannum then became coach of a San Francisco Warrior team that had finished fourth in the Western Division the previous year and led them to the NBA Finals. Under Hannum’s guidance in San Francisco, altered his game from offense-oriented to defense-and-team- oriented, a trait that would later help him win an NBA title. Both Hannum and JACK GARDNER Chamberlain were reunited in Philadelphia in the 1966-67 season, winning (Inducted: Naismith -1984, NABC - 2006) the NBA championship with a then-record .840 winning percentage (68-13). Following his stint in Philadelphia, Hannum joined the ABA’s Oakland Oaks, Gardner was a three-year lettermen at USC (1930-32) and was captain turning a last-place team into a title team in 1969. Hannum was named NBA his senior year, playing under legendary coach Sam Barry. He learned well Coach of the Year in 1964 and ABA Coach of the Year in 1969. from Barry and became one of the most successful college coaches ever. Known as “The Fox”, Gardner became the only coach in history to lead two different schools to the Final Four twice each. Gardner achieved this honor by directing both Kansas State (1948 and 1951) and Utah (1961 and 1966) into the Big Dance. In 28 years of coaching at the major college level, Gardner’s teams compiled a 486-235 record (67.4 percent). When (Inducted: Naismith -2015, NABC - 2013) you combine his 10 years (1933-43) of coaching AAU, high school, junior Raveling was the USC men’s basketball head coach from 1987-94 and led college and military ball, his record swells to 649-278, an impressive 70 the Trojans into the post his last four seasons, making the NCAA Tournament percent winning mark. A proponent of fundamental basketball, Gardner in 1991 and 1992 and playing in the NIT Tournament in 1993 and 1994. His was an expert in fast break hoops. 1992 team, featuring USC’s all-time leading scorer Harold Miner, went 24-6 before losing in the second round of the NCAA Tournament to Georgia Tech on a three-pointer at the buzzer. Raveling was a star player at Villanova before getting into coaching as an assistant at Maryland. He served as a head coach at USC, Washington State and Iowa, amassing 337 victories

2019-2020 • 187 • USC BASKETBALL USC • In The Hall Of Fame All-Time (Raveling continued) PAUL WESTPHAL and six NCAA tournament appearances. In 1994 Raveling walked away (Inducted: Naismith - 2019, NABC - 2018) from the coaching profession due to health reasons, but stayed close to basketball as a color commentator for Fox Sports and CBS. He later A prolific scorer for USC from 1969-72, Paul Westphal averaged 16.4 joined Nike and currently holds the title of Director of International Bas- points over his career – the ninth-highest scoring average in program ketball for Nike. Outside of his tremendous record as a coach at several history. He was a two-time All-Pac-8 First Team selection and received different stops, Raveling’s career was socially significant. He was the numerous All-America accolades in 1971 and 1972. Westphal followed first ever African-American head coach in the ACC and the Pac-8 (now his collegiate career with a successful run in the NBA. After being drafted No. 10 overall in 1972 by the , he went on to make five All- Pac-12). Raveling is not only known for making history by breaking down Star Teams and four All-NBA Teams, and was a member of the 1974 NBA racial barriers as a coach, but also was a part of history when on August champion Celtics squad. After finishing his playing career, Westphal held 28, 1963 he received the original copy of the Martin Luther King Jr., “I head coaching positions with Southwestern Baptist Bible, Grand Canyon Have a Dream” speech. and Pepperdine, along with the NBA’s , Seattle SuperSon- ics and Sacramento Kings.

BILL SHARMAN (Inducted: Naismith - 1976 (player), 2004 (coach), NABC - 2006) (Inducted: Naismith - 2011, NABC - 2010) USC basketball player and guru of the Fred "Tex" Winter Bill Sharman, who brought a disciplined work ethic to basketball with a played at USC during the 1947 season after a year at Compton College. willingness to spend countless hours in the gymnasium perfecting his He earned the first USC Most Inspirational Player Award and his teammates skills, was a 15-letter athlete at Porterville (Calif.) High before coming to on the 1947 team included Hall of Famers Alex Hannum and Bill Sharman. USC. A four-year letterwinner at Troy (1947-50), Sharman was named All- Winter was also one of the nation's top pole vaulters when he lettered in America in 1950 and was a two-time All-Pacific Coast Conference selection track at USC in 1946. Winter was a coach and assistant coach for nearly 60 years at the collegiate and NBA levels, gaining his widest acclaim as and conference MVP. He’s still 21st on USC’s all-time scoring list (1,108). the architect of the very successful triangle offense which helped the Sharman, known as “Bullseye Bill” for his marksmanship at the foul line, Chicago Bulls and Los Angeles Lakers win nine NBA titles. Winter won six played briefly in the Dodger organization before his basketball NBA titles as 's lieutenant with the Bulls in the 1990s as well career took off. Sharman spent 1951 with the NBA’s Washington Capitals as three more with the Lakers (2000-02). After leaving USC, Winter went before they folded. He joined Boston a year later and became a Celtic on to be an assistant coach at Kansas State (1948-51). He helped lead mainstay. In 10 seasons with the Celtics, Sharman was named All-NBA the Wildcats to three league titles and to the1951 NCAA title game against First Team four times and played in eight All-Star Games, earning MVP Kentucky. He earned his first head coaching job at Marquette where he honors in the 1955 tilt. Sharman teamed with to form one of the guided the Warriors to a 25-25 record in two seasons. Current USC head NBA’s most formidable backcourt duos, and the pair landed Boston four coach Kevin O'Neill also got his first Division I NCAA head coaching job at Marquette. Winter then returned to Kansas State as head coach for 15 NBA championships (1957, 1959, 1960, 1961). He directed the Los Angeles seasons (1954-68) and guided them to eight league titles and six NCAA Lakers to their first NBA title in 1972 and was awarded Coach of the Year Tournament appearances. His Kansas State teams twice reached the Final honors. That season, the Lakers finished with an amazing 69-13 regular Four, losing to Seattle and in the 1958 semifinals and falling season record, including 33 straight victories, both NBA single-season to UCLA and in the 1964 semifinals. In 1958 he became the records. By winning titles in the ABL (Cleveland Pipers, 1962), ABA (Utah youngest coach in history to be named UPI Coach of Stars, 1971), and NBA (Los Angeles Lakers, 1972), Sharman became the the Year. Winter is a member of several halls of fame, including the USC first coach to win championships in three different pro leagues. Sharman Athletic Hall of Fame, the Pac-10 Hall of Honor, the Kansas Sports Hall joins John Wooden and as the only members enshrined of Fame and the National Collegiate Basketball Hall of Fame, and he was awarded the Award for lifetime achievement from the Naismith as a player and a coach. Basketball Hall of Fame. In June 2010 he was given the Lifetime Achievement Award by the NBA Coaches Association.

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Trojans Who Were Head Coaches in the NBA

Bill Sharman...... San Francisco Warriors ...... Los Angeles Lakers

Alex Hannum...... St. Louis Hawks ...... Syracuse Nationals ...... San Francisco Warriors ...... Philadelphia 76ers ...... San Diego Rockets

Bob Kloppenburg ...... ...... Seattle SuperSonics

Mack Calvin...... Los Angeles Clippers

Paul Westphal...... Phoenix Suns ...... Seattle Super Sonics

Fred (Tex) Winter......

PAUL WESTPHAL MACK CALVIN ALEX HANNUM In his first year as a head coach Mack Calvin was an All- After starring at USC and playing in the NBA, Paul Westphal guided Conference performer at USC eight years in the NBA, Alex Han- the 1992-93 Phoenix Suns to the in 1969 and got his first NBA num went on to coach five different league’s best record and their first head coaching job with the Los NBA teams. berth in a NBA Final since 1976. Angeles Clippers. Westphal was also a member of that 1975-76 Suns team as a player. He was named head coach of the Seattle SuperSonics after the 1998 season.

2019-2020 • 189 • USC BASKETBALL USC • Trojan Pride

DID YOU KNOW … that USC has produced more Olympians, DID YOU KNOW … that USC has one of the most diverse col- more Olympic medalists and more Olympic gold medalists than lege campuses in the country? any other American university? • The university has one of the nation’s highest enrollments of • Since 1904, 451 Trojans have competed in the Olympic international students among institutions of higher education. Games and earned 309 medals, 144 of them gold. • About one in five USC undergraduates is a first-generation college student. DID YOU KNOW … that USC faculty numbers more than • More than a quarter of this year’s admitted students is from 4,45000 scholars and includes underrepresented minority backgrounds . Nobel laureates; winners of the National Medal of Arts, National Medal of Sciences, National Medal of Technology and Innova- DID YOU KNOW … that a comprehensive survey from The tion, Turing Prize and Pritzker Prize; MacArthur fellows; and Wall Street Journal and Times Higher Education ranked USC 15th members of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering among more than 1,000 public and private universities in the U.S.? and Medicine? • Among universities, only USC, Caltech and Stan- • More than 200 faculty members have received prestigious ford, Caltech and UCLA are in the top 25. academic and professional awards from organizations such as • USC ranks third among 150 colleges and universities in the the National Institutes of Health, National Science Foundation, western . Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, National Endowment for the Hu- manities, John Simon Guggenheim Foundation and Academy DID YOU KNOW … that the USC generates $8 billion annu- of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. ally in economic impact for Los Angeles County and California? • The university supports more than 42,300 jobs in the county DID YOU KNOW … that USC ranks among the top 10 private and more than 53,400 statewide. universities in federally supported research, with more than • USC is the largest private employer in the city of Los Angeles. $764889 million in annual research expenditures?

DID YOU KNOW … USC Village, the university’s largest-ever DID YOU KNOW … that USC is home to 22 academic schools building project, is also the most expansive development project and units, in addition to the USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts in the history of South Los Angeles? and Sciences, which encompasses 35 academic departments • Completed in August 2017, USC Village offers a comprehen- and programs? sive learning and living environment for students and is a retail hub for the community. DID YOU KNOW … that USC is part of a worldwide network of • The project is a $700 million investment, bringing new busi- educational institutions and international organizations? nesses and jobs to the neighborhood. • USC collaborates with leading global institutions to forge meaningful research, educational and service partnerships DID YOU KNOW … that USC is celebrating a century of partner- through offices in Beijing, Hong Kong, London, Mexico City, ing with the U.S. military? Mumbai, New York, San Francisco, São Paulo, Seoul, Shanghai, • In 2016, the largest U.S. Army-sponsored university research Taipei and Washington, DC. outpost in the nation launched at the USC Institute for Creative Technologies. DID YOU KNOW … that USC hosts the annual Los Angeles • USC offers a host of academic and support programs for Times Festival of Books, the country’s largest public literary veterans, including USC Marshall School of Business’ the Master festival? of Business for Veterans degree at the USC Marshall School of • Now in its eighthninth year at USC, the festival attracted Business. more than 150,000 visitors to the University Park Campus in April. DID YOU KNOW … that USC researchers are working to restore vision to blind people? DID YOU KNOW … that Classical KUSC is the largest and • Physician and scientist Mark Humayun helped develop the most listened to public radio and nonprofit classical music sta- Argus II retinal prosthesis system, which was approved for use in tion in the country? the U.S. by the Food and Drug Administration. In 2016, President Obama awarded Humayun with the prestigious National Medal of DID YOU KNOW … that Visions & Voices, USC’s campus-wide Technology and Innovation, the nation’s highest award for technol- arts and humanities initiative, brings some of the world’s best ogy achievement. writers, performers, musicians and artists to USC?

DID YOU KNOW … USC is a world leader in digital media and DID YOU KNOW … that USC was the first university in the communication? country to offer a Bachelor of Arts in film? • USC is also leading the way in fields ranging from artificial • USC School of Cinematic Arts has graduated entertainment intelligence and game design to genomics and neuroscience. giants such as Will Ferrell, Ron Howard, George Lucas, Shonda L. Rhimes and Robert Zemeckis. DID YOU KNOW … that USC Shoah Foundation — The Institute • Nearly every year since 1973, a USC alumnus has received for Visual History and Education has digitally preserved about a nomination for an Academy Award. 55,000 testimonies from survivors and other witnesses fromof the Holocaust, the Rwandan and Armenian genocides and the DID YOU KNOW … that the Princeton Review has ranked USC Nanjing Massacre? as the nation’s No. 1 university for game design nearly every year • The Visual History Archive contains about 115,000 hours since the ranking began in 2009? of video testimony in 41 languages, representing 62 countries, making it the largest archive of its kind in the world. DID YOU KNOW … that the U.S. Department of Homeland • As part of its 20th anniversary in 2014, the institute launched Security selected USC as the site of its first university-based the Center for Advanced Genocide Research, which studies the Homeland Security Center of Excellence? causes of genocide with the goal of stopping future instances of mass violence.

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DID YOU KNOW … that two museums are part of the USC DID YOU KNOW … that the USC School of Architecture helps community? preserve local landmarks? • The USC Pacific Asia Museum in Pasadena, Calif., has a • The school operates Frank Lloyd Wright’s Freeman House collection of more than 15,000 items from across Asia and the and Greene and Greene’s Gamble House, using the latest con- Pacific Islands, spanning more than 4,000 years. servation technologies to preserve these architectural gems. • The USC Fisher Museum of Art, located on the University Park Campus, is one of just a few university museums accredited DID YOU KNOW … that “Fight On,” USC’s fight song, was by the Association of American Museums. written in 1922 by dentistry student Milo Sweet?

DID YOU KNOW … that the USC Rossier School of Educa- DID YOU KNOW … that the Herman Ostrow School of Den- tion prepares more great teachers every year than Stanford and tistry of USC operates community clinics that serve more than Harvard combined? 71,000 patients each year? • The school’s online MAT, launched in 2009, was the coun- try’s first online Master of Arts in Teaching program from an elite DID YOU KNOW … that USC is committed to being a good research university. neighbor? • USC has adopted 15 neighborhood elementary, middle and DID YOU KNOW … that the USC Suzanne Dworak-Peck high schools as part of its USC Family of Schools program, shar- School of Social Work educates one of every 20 social workers ing with these schools its students and educational resources. in the United States today? • USC has more than 3,000 children in college-access pro- • With the launch of its web-based Master of Social Work grams and more than 500 children in preschool programs. degree program (MSW@USC) in 2010, it has become the first • USC students, faculty members and staff members devote truly national program in the profession. more than 650,000 hours in service to local schools, nonprofits • The school’s military social work program is the first of its and small businesses each year. kind at a civilian research university and the first to use virtual • The USC Good Neighbors Campaign raises more than patients to train future social workers. $1.5 million every year for community programs through staff and faculty donations. DID YOU KNOW … that the USC Price School of Public Policy got its new name in 2011? DID YOU KNOW … that USC’s 375,000 living alumni are • The $50 million naming gift from the Price Family Charitable truly “lifelong and worldwide” and can be found living around Fund also established the Sol Price Center for Social Innovation, the globe? which advances strategies that enhance the quality of life for people in urban communities.

DID YOU KNOW … that the USC Viterbi School of Engineer- ing, founded in 1925, is consistently ranked among the top engineering schools and has one of the top online graduate engineering programs in the United States? • USC engineers invented the signal codes used in CDs, interplanetary communications, cell phones and the domain name system that translates .com, .gov and other names into Internet Protocol addresses worldwide.

DID YOU KNOW … that USC students can earn three degrees from three universi¬ties on three continents? • The World Bachelor in Business degree program unites the USC Marshall School of Business, the Hong Kong University The University of Southern California of Science and Technology and Università Bocconi in Milan, enabling students to receive degrees from all three institutions.

DID YOU KNOW … that in one year, USC faculty physicians and residents treat more than 1.5 million patients? • The Keck School of Medicine of USC trains more than 900 resident physicians in more than 50 specialty or subspecialty programs and is the largest educator of physicians practicing in Southern California. • In 2019, U.S. News & World Report ranked Keck Medical Center of USC among the top 30 hospitals in the United States in ophthalmology, cancer, neurology and neurosurgery, ortho- pedics, urology and geriatric care.

DID YOU KNOW … that the Eli and Edythe Broad Center for Regenerative Medicine and Stem Cell Research at USC advances science that may someday slow or even reverse cancer, diabetes, heart disease, stroke and Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s diseases?

DID YOU KNOW … that about 50 percent of pharmacists in Southern California are graduates of the USC School of Pharmacy?

DID YOU KNOW … that the USC Division of Biokinesiology and Physical Therapy graduate program has ranked No. 1 in the country since 2004?

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The University of Southern California Korean Prime Minister Kang Young-Hoon; rocket scientist Yvonne Brill; film composers Jerry Goldsmith and James • Founded in 1880, the University of Southern California Horner; producers Barney Rosenzweig and David L. Wolper; is the oldest private research university in the western United retired aerospace executive Wanda Austin; Indian novelist and States. journalist Raj Kamal Jha; AARP founder Ethel Percy Andrus; • There are more than 375,000 living alumni in the Trojan and business leaders Dan Bane of Trader Joe’s, Marc Benioff Family. USC alumni can be found in positions of leadership of Salesforce.com, of the Los Angeles Lakers, Rick around the world. Caruso of Caruso Affiliated, Y. H. Cho of Korea Air, Cogent • An anchor institution in Los Angeles, USC has two main founder Ming Hsieh, B. Wayne Hughes of Public Storage, and campuses: the University Park Campus, located near Exposi- Andrew Viterbi of Qualcomm. tion Park, a center of world-class museums and recreational parks; and the Health Sciences Campus, three miles northeast of downtown Los Angeles. • USC also has programs and centers in Alhambra, Catalina Island, Marina Del Rey, Orange County and other Southern California locations, as well as in New York, Sacramento, San Francisco, Boston and Washington, DC. USC also has inter- USC Administration national offices in Beijing, Hong Kong, London, Mexico City, Mumbai, São Paulo, Seoul, Shanghai and Taipei. PRESIDENT: Carol L. Folt (213-740-2111) • The university’s 2018–19 fall enrollment was 47,500, INTERIM PROVOST AND SENIOR VP, ACADEMIC AFFAIRS: including 20,000 undergraduates and 27,500 graduate and Elizabeth Graddy professional students. SENIOR VP, UNIVERSITY ADVANCEMENT: Albert R. Checcio • Diversity is a hallmark of the USC student community. SENIOR VP, ADMINISTRATION: David W. Wright USC students have come from all 50 states, five territories SENIOR VP, CEO, KECK MEDICINE OF USC: and more than 130 countries. Thomas E. Jackiewicz • With more than 11,300 international students on its SENIOR VP, CHIEF COMMUNICATIONS OFFICER: Glenn Osaki campuses, USC has enrolled more students from outside the SENIOR VP, FINANCE, AND CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER: United States than nearly any other university or college in the James M. Staten country. INTERIM ATHLETIC DIRECTOR: David M. Roberts • The university provides more than $556 million in finan- CHIEF INVESTMENT OFFICER: Lisa Mazzocco cial aid to support its students — one of the largest pools of SENIOR VP, HUMAN RESOURCES: Felicia A. Washington university-funded financial aid of any private university in the country. Nearly two thirds of the undergraduate student popula- tion attend college on some form of need-based financial aid. • Since 1969, USC has been a member of the Association of American Universities, the elective body that unites 62 leading public and private research universities in the United States and . • With more than $889 million in annual research expen- ditures, USC is one of a small number of premier research institutions upon which the United States depends for a steady stream of new knowledge, art and technology. • USC has more than 4,450 full-time faculty members. • Children’s Hospital Los Angeles, one of the world’s finest pediatric academic medical centers, has been associated with Keck Medicine of USC for more than 85 years, sharing a com- mon mission to improve the health and well-being of children in our community. • USC’s faculty includes Nobel laureates Angus Deaton, James Heckman, Murray Gell-Mann, Daniel McFadden and Arieh Warshel; National Medal of Arts winner Morten Lauridsen; National Medal of Technology and Innovation winner Mark Humayun; Turing Prize winner Leonard Adleman; Pritzker Prize winner Frank Gehry; MacArthur fellows Luis Alfaro, Josh Kun, Elyn Saks, Jacob Soll and Viet Thanh Nguyen; musical artists Glenn Dicterow and Michael Tilson Thomas; world-renowned artist Mary Kelly; and poet and former National Endowment for the Arts Chair Dana Gioia. • Among USC’s distinguished alumni are astronauts Neil Armstrong and Charles Bolden Jr.; musicians Herb Alpert and Lee Ritenour; opera star Marilyn Horne; architects Frank Gehry, Jon Jerde, Thom Mayne and Paul Revere Williams; sports-medicine pioneer Robert Kerlan; entertainment icons Will Ferrell, Ron Howard, George Lucas, John Wayne and For- est Whitaker; four-star U.S. General H. Norman Schwarzkopf; Olympic medalists Louis Zamperini, Janet Evans, , John Naber, Allyson Felix and Rebecca Soni; former U.S. Sec- retary of State Warren Christopher; California Supreme Court Chief Justice Malcolm Lucas and Associate Justice Joyce L. Kennard; former U.S. Ambassador to , South Africa, Liberia and the United Nations Edward Perkins; former South

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