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USC • The University The University of Southern California is a research institution of international distinction. Founded in 1880, it is the oldest and largest private research university in the western half of the United States. The university enrolls about 29,000 students annually on two campuses, the 155-acre University Park Campus in Exposition Park and the 31-acre Health Sciences Campus, three miles to the north- east of downtown Los Angeles. Some facts of significance about the university include the fol- lowing: • USC is a member of the Association of American Universities, a select group of 63 public and private universities in the U.S. and Canada that, together, perform about two-thirds of all federally funded academic research and development. • Enrollment stands at 28,600, including 15,500 undergraduates and 13,100 graduate and professional students. • In basic research, USC is nationally and internationally promi- nent. Currently, USC ranks among the top 10 private universities re- ceiving federal funds for research and development support and in the top 20 among all universities. • USC professor George A. Olah was the sole recipient of the 1994 Nobel Prize in chemistry. • USC was TIME/Princeton Review College Guide's "College of the Year 2000," one of Newsweek/Kaplan College Guide's "Hot Schools of 2001" and an Association of American Colleges and Uni- BOVARD ADMINISTRATION BUILDING versities "Leadership Institution of 2001." • Many of USC's academic programs rank in the top 10 nation- ON THE UNIVERSITY PARK CAMPUS ally. • USC has 53 faculty members who are members of prestigious USC ADMINISTRATION national academies, including seven in the National Academy of Sci- ences, 22 in the National Academy of Engineering, and nine in the PRESIDENT: Steven B. Sample Institute of Medicine. Membership in these academies, created by PROVOST AND SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT FOR ACADEMIC Congress, is by election only and is based on distinguished and con- AFFAIRS: Lloyd Armstrong, Jr. SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT FOR ADMINISTRATION: tinuing achievements. Dennis F. Dougherty • The University is the home of 16 professional schools, in addi- SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT FOR EXTERNAL RELATIONS: tion to the College of Letters, Arts and Sciences and the Graduate Martha Harris School. These schools train specialists in fields ranging from medi- SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT FOR UNIVERSITY ADVANCEMENT: Alan Kreditor cine and law to architecture, theatre, education and business. SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT FOR MEDICAL AFFAIRS: • USC’s schools of Cinema-Television, Social Work and Interna- Stephen J. Ryan tional Relations are among the oldest such schools in the country. • USC is home to the USC/Norris Comprehensive Cancer Cen- DEANS ter, one of only 35 designated by the National Cancer Institute to lead College of Letters, Arts & Sciences: Joseph Aoun School of Architecture: Robert Timme the nation in cancer research, prevention and care. USC Marshall School of Business: Randolph W. Westerfield • Among USC’s distinguished alumni are musicians Herb Alpert, School of Cinema-Television: Elizabeth M. Daley Lionel Hampton and Patrice Rushen; astronauts Neil Armstrong and USC Annenberg School for Communication: Geoffrey Cowan Charles Bolden; columnist Art Buchwald; sportscaster Frank Gifford; School of Dentistry: Harold C. Slavkin USC Rossier School of Education: Karen Gallagher architects Frank Gehry, Jon Jerde and Carey K. Jenkins; opera star School of Engineering: Max Nikias Marilyn Horne; directors George Lucas, John Singleton, Ron Howard School of Fine Arts: Ruth Weisberg and Paul Mazursky; Gen. Norman Schwarzkopf; former U.S. Secre- The Leonard Davis School of Gerontology: Edward L. Schneider tary of State Warren Christopher; retired California Supreme Court School of Law: Matthew L. Spitzer Chief Justice Malcolm Lucas and Associate Justice Joyce L. Kennard; School of Medicine: Stephen J. Ryan USC Thornton School of Music: TBA former U.S. Ambassador to Australia, South Africa and the United School of Pharmacy: Timothy F. Chan Nations Edward Perkins; actors John Ritter, Tom Selleck, and the School of Social Work: Marilyn Flynn late John Wayne and Michael Landon; actresses Marlo Thomas and School of Theatre: TBA Ally Sheedy; symphony conductor Michael Tilson Thomas; and pro- School of Policy, Planning and Development: Daniel A. Mazmanian ducers David L. Wolper and Barney Rosenzweig. University Libraries: Jerry D. Campbell 2002-2003 • 149 • USC BASKETBALL USC • Trojan Pride DID YOU KNOW...that USC is one of the top 4 private universities in the DID YOU KNOW...that USC has the largest number of international western half of the United States? alumni of any university in the United States? • USC, Caltech, Stanford and Rice are the only private univer- sities west of Missouri boasting membership in the Association DID YOU KNOW...that USC's current fundraising campaign, "Building of American Universities, the premier teaching and research on Excellence," with a goal of $2 billion, is the third largest of any university institutions of North America? in history? • USC is the oldest and largest private research university in the • During its fundraising campaign, USC received 5 naming gifts- western half of the United States. The university was founded -for the Leventhal School of Accounting, the Marshall School of in 1880 with 53 students; today, USC enrolls about 29,000 Business, the Rossier School of Education, the Thornton School students in its College of Letters, Arts and Sciences and 18 top- of Music, and the Keck School of Medicine. At the time they ranked professional schools. were pledged, they were the largest gifts to schools of their kind in the history of American higher education. DID YOU KNOW...that USC is among the nation’s most highly-selective universities? DID YOU KNOW...that USC is the only university in the nation to have • USC’s entering freshman class is among the strongest in the received 3 nine-figure gifts? country, boasting an average GPA of over 3.9 and an average • Those gifts: $120 million from Walter Annenberg (1993) to SAT score of 1308. The majority of entering freshmen come to establish the USC Annenberg School for Communication; $112.5 USC from the top 10% of their high school graduating class. million from biomedical industry entrepreneur Alfred Mann • Also, USC is among the top 10 schools in the nation in the (1998) to establish the Alfred E. Mann Institute for Biomedical enrollment of National Merit Scholars. Engineering; and $110 million from the W.M. Keck Foundation • USC was named 1 of 9 "hot schools" in the country by the 2001 (1999) to USC's medical school, the largest gift to a medical Newsweek/Kaplan How to Get into College Guide, signifying school in history. USC's popularity among the nation's best high school students. DID YOU KNOW...that USC’s Ethel Percy Andrus Gerontology Center DID YOU KNOW...the 235 students entering USC’s Thematic Option is considered to be the nation’s premier program for studies of aging? Honors Program boasted an average SAT score of 1431 and an average • The Leonard Davis School of Gerontology, founded in 1975, GPA of 4.14? was the nation’s first school in this critical, emerging field. DID YOU KNOW...that USC is among the top 1% of all colleges and DID YOU KNOW...that USC physicians serve more than 1 million universities in the western half of the nation in the number of Rhodes patients each year through the Health Sciences Campus and 14 affiliated Scholars produced? hospitals? • USC has had 8 Rhodes Scholars, including 2 in the last • Three USC-affiliated hospitals are ranked by U.S. News & decade. World Report as among the Top 10 in the nation in their specialty: Childrens Hospital Los Angeles, Doheny Eye Insti- DID YOU KNOW...that USC offers more than 100 minors, the broadest tute, and Rancho Los Amigos National Rehabilitation Center. array of any university in the country? More than 130 doctors of USC are listed in the book, "The Best Doctors in America," published by Naifeh and Smith. DID YOU KNOW...that more than 10,000 USC undergraduates partici- pate in community service each year? DID YOU KNOW...that the Southern California Earthquake Center is based at USC? DID YOU KNOW...that Nobel laureate George Olah helped pave the • The SCEC was established by the federal government in 1991 way for high-octane gasoline and a number of advances in our daily life? to coordinate geological research relating to earthquakes. • Professor Olah, who has been at USC for 2 decades, has transformed the field of chemistry through his pioneering work DID YOU KNOW...that USC is home to the world’s largest university- with hydrocarbons, work which has led to less polluting gaso- based research effort in photonics technology? line, more effective oil refining and many modern drugs. For his • This light-based technology is believed by many people to hold research, Professor Olah received the 1994 Nobel Prize in the key to the next major advance in information processing and chemistry. control. DID YOU KNOW...that USC’s crime rate is comparable to or lower than DID YOU KNOW...that USC's Integrated Media Systems Center, which that of most other large research universities located in or near major does research in multimedia, is the only one of its kind to be funded by the cities? National Science Foundation? • Statistics show USC’s crime rate based on the federally- mandated reporting standards is comparable to that of Stanford DID YOU KNOW...that USC’s Museum Studies Program is the only and lower (one-third less) than that of UCLA. USC’s overall master’s degree program of its kind in the western United States? crime rate is one-eighth that of the nation as a whole. • 98% of the graduates from this program have been placed in professional museum careers.