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USC • Trojan Pride DID YOU KNOW … that USC is among the most highly selective DID YOU KNOW … that USC has produced more Olympians, universities in the country and that 85% of this year’s admitted stu- more Olympic medalists and more Olympic gold medalists than dents had standardized test scores at or above the 95th percentile? any other American university? • Since 1904, 451 Trojans have competed in the Olympic DID YOU KNOW … that USC has one of the most diverse col- Games and earned 309 medals, 144 of them gold. lege campuses in the country? • The university has one of the nation’s highest enrollments of DID YOU KNOW … that USC Faculty numbers more than 4,000 international students among institutions of higher education. scholars and includes About one in fe USC undergraduates is a frst-generation Nobel laureates; winners of the National Medal of Arts, National college student. Medal of Sciences, National Medal of Technology and Innova- tion, Turing Prize and Pritzker Prize; MacArthur fellows; and DID YOU KNOW … that a comprehensive survey from The members of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering Wall Street Journal and Times Higher Education ranked USC 15th and Medicine? among more than 1,000 public and private universities in the U.S? • More than 200 faculty members have received prestigious • Among California universities, only USC, Stanford, Caltech academic and professional awards from organizations such as and UCLA are in the top 25. the National Institutes of Health, National Science Foundation, • USC ranks third among 150 colleges and universities in the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, National Endowment for the Hu- western United States. manities, John Simon Guggenheim Foundation and Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. DID YOU KNOW … that the USC generates $8 billion annually in economic impact for Los Angeles County and California? DID YOU KNOW … that USC ranks among the top 10 private • The university supports more than 42,300 jobs in the county universities in federally supported research, with more than $764 and more than 53,400 statewide. million in annual research expenditures? • USC is the largest private employer in the city of Los Angeles. DID YOU KNOW … that USC is home to 22 academic schools DID YOU KNOW … USC Village, the university’s largest-ever and units, in addition to the USC DornsiFe College oF Letters, Arts building project, is also the most expansive development project and Sciences, which encompasses 35 academic departments in the history of South Los Angeles? and programs? • Completed in August 2017, USC Village offers a comprehen- sive learning and living environment for students and is a retail DID YOU KNOW … that USC is part of a worldwide network of hub for the community. educational institutions and international organizations? • The project is a $700 million investment, bringing new busi- • USC collaborates with leading global institutions to forge nesses and jobs to the neighborhood. meaningFul research, educational and service partnerships through offces in Beiing, Hong ong, London Mexico City, DID YOU KNOW … that USC is celebrating a century of partner- Mumbai, New York, San Francisco, São Paulo, Seoul, Shanghai, ing with the U.S. military? Taipei and Washington, DC. • In 2016, the largest U.S. Army-sponsored university research outpost in the nation launched at the USC Institute for Creative DID YOU KNOW … that USC hosts the annual Los Angeles Technologies. Times Festival oF Books, the country’s largest public literary • USC offers a host of academic and support programs for festival? veterans, including USC Marshall School of Business’ Master of • Now in its eighth year at USC, the festival attracted more Business for Veterans degree. than 150,000 visitors to the University Park Campus in April. DID YOU KNOW … that USC researchers are working to restore DID YOU KNOW … that Classical KUSC is the largest and vision to blind people? most listened to public radio and nonproft classical music sta- • Physician and scientist Mark Humayun helped develop the tion in the country? Argus II retinal prosthesis system, which was approved for use in the U.S. by the Food and Drug Administration. In 2016, President DID YOU KNOW … that Visions & Voices, USC’s campus-wide Obama awarded Humayun with the prestigious National Medal of arts and humanities initiative, brings some of the world’s best Technology and Innovation, the nation’s highest award For technol- writers, performers, musicians and artists to USC? ogy achievement. DID YOU KNOW that USC was the frst uniersity in the DID YOU KNOW … USC is a world leader in digital media and country to offer a Bachelor of Arts in flm communication? • USC School of Cinematic Arts has graduated entertainment USC is also leading the way in felds ranging from artifcial giants such as Will Ferrell, Ron Howard, George Lucas, Shonda intelligence and game design to genomics and neuroscience. L. Rhimes and Robert Zemeckis. • Nearly every year since 1973, a USC alumnus has received DID YOU KNOW … that USC Shoah Foundation — The In- a nomination for an Academy Award. stitute for Visual History and Education has digitally preserved about 55,000 testimonies From survivors and other witnesses DID YOU KNOW … that the Princeton Review has ranked USC from the Holocaust, the Rwandan and Armenian genocides and as the nation’s No. 1 university For game design nearly every year the Nanjing Massacre? since the ranking began in 2009? • The Visual History Archive contains about 115,000 hours of video testimony in 41 languages, representing 62 countries, DID YOU KNOW … that the U.S. Department of Homeland making it the largest archive of its kind in the world. Security selected USC as the site of its frst uniersity-based • As part of its 20th anniversary in 2014, the institute launched Homeland Security Center of Excellence? the Center for Advanced Genocide Research, which studies the causes of genocide with the goal of stopping future instances of mass violence. 2018-2019 • 190 • USC BASKETBALL UsC Trojan Pride 2018-2019 UsC Trojan BaskeTBall 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 Pacifc 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- Pacifc 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 fght 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 frst 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 frst • USC students, faculty members and staff members devote truly national program in the profession. more than 650,000 hours in serice to local schools, nonprofts The school’s military social work program is the frst of its and small businesses each year. kind at a ciilian research uniersity and the frst to use irtual • 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.