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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). PLAYER PROFESSIONAL TEAMS SEASONS Dan Anderson Portland ...... 1975-76

Dwight Anderson New York ...... 1983 ...... 1984

John Lakers ...... 1967 San Diego ...... 1968-71 Milwaukee ...... 1972 Philadelphia ...... 1973 City-Omaha ...... 1973-74 ...... 1975 Chicago ...... 1975-76

David Bluthenthal ...... 2005

Mack Calvin Los Angeles (ABA) ...... 1970 Florida (ABA) ...... 1971-72 Carolina (ABA) ...... 1973-74 Denver (ABA) ...... 1975 Virginia (ABA) ...... 1976 ...... 1977 San Antonio ...... 1977 Denver ...... 1977-78 Utah ...... 1980 Cleveland ...... 1981-83

Sam Clancy ...... 2003 Portland Trailblazers ...... 2005-06

Duane Cooper Los Angeles Lakers ...... 1993-94 Phoenix ...... 1994

Dewayne Dedmon ...... 2014 DDewayneewayne DedmonDedmon Philadelphia 76ers ...... 2014 Orlando Magic ...... 2014-16 Photo courtesy of Jesse D. Garrabrant/NBAE/Getty Images DeMar DeRozan ...... 2009-16

Jerry Dupree Los Angeles ...... 2004-05

Earl Evans Detroit ...... 1980

Desmon Farmer Indiana ...... 2005 ...... 2006-07 San Antonio ...... 2008-09

Taj Gibson ...... 2009-16

Alex Hannum Oshkosh (NBL) ...... 1949 Syracuse ...... 1950-51 Baltimore ...... 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 Washington ...... 1980 TTajaj GGibsonibson ddunksunks ooverver DDwyanewyane WWadeade San Diego ...... 1980 Jeff Trepagnier Detroit ...... 1980 iinn 22011011 NNBABA playoffs.playoffs.

Jim Marsh Portland ...... 1972 2015-2016 • 180 • USC BASKETBALL

Untitled-1 180 11/10/2015 1:12:40 PM Trojans in the Pros 2015-2016 USC Trojan Basketball PLAYER PROFESSIONAL TEAMS SEASONS O.J. Mayo Memphis ...... 2008-12 Dallas ...... 2013 Milwaukee ...... 2014-16

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

Gabe Pruitt Boston ...... 2007-09

Rodrick Rhodes ...... 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 San Francisco ...... 1965

Brian Scalabrine New Jersey ...... 2002-04 Boston ...... 2005-10 Chicago ...... 2011-12

James Seminoff Chicago ...... 1947-48 Boston ...... 1949-50

Bill Sharman Washington ...... 1951 Boston ...... 1952-61

Ron Taylor Washington (ABA) ...... 1970 New York (ABA) ...... 1970 Virginia (ABA) ...... 1971 Pittsburgh (ABA) ...... 1971

Jeff Trepagnier Cleveland ...... 2002 Denver ...... 2003-04

Nikola Vucevic Philadelphia ...... 2012 Orlando ...... 2013-16

Paul Westphal 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 Washington ...... 2007-12 2011 NBA Dunk Contest L.A. Clippers ...... 2012 Philadelphia ...... 2013 L.A. Lakers ...... 2014-16

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Untitled-1 181 11/10/2015 1:12:41 PM USC • In The NBA ABA The National Basketball Association draft was fi rst 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. YEAR RND. PICK PLAYER TEAM In 1989, the NBA draft was cut down to only two rounds. 1967 Bob Seagren ...... New Orleans YEAR RND. PICK PLAYER TEAM 1968 Bill Hewitt ...... Denver 1948 ...... Indianapolis 1969 ...... Los Angeles 1950 2 ...... Washington Ron Taylor ...... Oakland 1950 2 Stan Christie ...... Syracuse 1971 4 Dennis Layton ...... Utah 1951 7 Tom Riach ...... Baltimore 4 Dana Pagett ...... Virginia 1952 Dwight Morrison ...... Minneapolis 1972 ...... Denver 1953 4 Ken Flowers ...... Minneapolis Joe Mackey ...... Pittsburgh 6 Don Eby ...... Philadelphia 1972 (Dispersal Draft) Joe Mackey ...... Virginia 1954 9 Roy Irvin ...... Rochester 1975 1 Gus Williams ...... St. Louis 1955 12 Dick Welsh ...... Milwaukee 5 Biff Burrell ...... San Diego 1960 8 John Werhas ...... Minneapolis 8 John Lambert ...... New York 14 Jim Hanna ...... New York 1962 2 9 John Rudometkin ...... New York 3 24 Chris Appel ...... Cincinnati 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 Carfi no ...... 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 ...... Los Angeles Clippers 5 106 Clayton Olivier ...... San Antonio 1987 2 37 Derrick Dowell ...... Washington 1992 1 12 ...... Miami 2 36 ...... Los Angeles Lakers 1997 1 24 Rodrick Rhodes ...... Houston 2001 2 35 ...... 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 ...... Chicago 2011 1 16 Nikola Vucevic ...... Philadelphia

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 USC was the only school in the country with a 1968 Bill Hewitt ...... Los Angeles Lakers 11 player selected within the fi rst 16 picks in each of 1979 Cliff Robinson ...... New Jersey 11 1992 Harold Miner ...... Miami 12 the 2007-09 NBA Drafts. Above left, Taj Gibson was 1975 John Lambert ...... Cleveland 15 selected No. 26 in 2009, above right, DeMar DeRozan 2011 Nikola Vucevic ...... Philadelphia 16 was selected No. 9 in 2009 and above, Nick Young 2007 Nick Young ...... Washington 16 1997 Rodrick Rhodes ...... Houston 24 was selected No. 16 in 2007. 2009 Taj Gibson ...... Chicago 26 1975 Gus Williams ...... St. Louis (ABA) -- 2015-2016 • 182 • USC BASKETBALL

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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 fi fth Trojan selected in the fi rst round of the draft since 2007. That number was tied for the ninth- most in the country from 2007-14. Also, only USC and Kansas had had at least one player selected in the top 16 picks in four of the fi ve drafts from 2007-11. USC had more fi rst round selections from 2007-11 than any Big east team and more than perennial Duke.

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Untitled-1 183 11/10/2015 1:12:42 PM 2007 NBA Draft selection and former Trojan Nick Young (2005-07) has returned home to Los Angeles to play with and the Lakers. An Emory University study in 2013 listed USC and Wash- ington as the top Pac-12 schools in converting talent into NBA Draft picks.

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JACK GARDNER (Inducted April 30, 1984) Gardner was a three-year lettermen at USC (1930-32) and was captain his senior year, playing under legendary coach (Inducted Aug. 13, 2011) . He learned well from Barry and became one of the most successful college coaches ever. Known as “The Fox”, USC basketball player and guru of the Fred Gardner became the only coach in history to lead two different "Tex" Winter played at USC during the 1947 after a year schools to the Final Four twice each. Gardner achieved this at Compton College. He earned the fi rst USC Most Inspirational honor by directing both Kansas State (1948 and 1951) and Utah Player Award and his teammates on the 1947 team included (1961 and 1966) into the Big Dance. In 28 years of coaching at Hall of Famers Alex Hannum and Bill Sharman. Winter was the major college level, Gardner’s teams compiled a 486-235 also one of the nation's top pole vaulters when he lettered record (67.4 percent). When you combine his 10 years (1933- in track at USC in 1946. Winter was a coach and assistant 43) of coaching AAU, high school, junior college and military coach for nearly 60 years at the collegiate and NBA levels, ball, his record swells to 649-278, an impressive 70 percent gaining his widest acclaim as the architect of the very suc- winning mark. A proponent of fundamental basketball, Gardner cessful triangle offense which helped the Chicago Bulls and Los Angeles Lakers win nine NBA titles. Winter won six NBA was an expert in hoops. titles as 's lieutenant with the Bulls in the 1990s as well as three more with the Lakers (2000-02). After leaving SAM BARRY USC, Winter went on to be an assistant coach at Kansas State (Inducted April 28, 1979) (1948-51). He helped lead the Wildcats to three league titles and to the1951 NCAA title game against Kentucky. He earned Justin “Sam” Barry, USC’s winningest coach ever, started out his fi rst head coaching job at Marquette where he guided the a three-sport star at Madison (Wisc.) High. After a four-year Warriors to a 25-25 record in two seasons. Current USC head stint at Knox College, Barry coached Iowa for seven seasons, coach Kevin O'Neill also got his fi rst Division I NCAA head leading the Hawkeyes to the 1923 Big Ten championship and a coaching job at Marquette. Winter then returned to Kansas share of the 1926 title. He then came to Troy, where he stayed State as for 15 seasons (1954-68) and guided them for 18 years, leading the Trojans to a 260-138 won-loss record, to eight league titles and six NCAA Tournament appearances. a mark that included winning the Pacifi c Coast Conference His Kansas State teams twice reached the Final Four, losing in 1930, 1935 and 1940. Under Barry, USC won the Southern to Seattle and in the 1958 semifi nals and falling Division seven times and fi nished third in the 1940 NCAA to UCLA and in the 1964 semifi nals. In 1958 tournament. In 1948, Barry led the USC team to the he became the youngest coach in history NCAA title, and served as an assistant football coach. On to be named UPI Coach of the Year. Winter is a member of the administrative side, Barry was a leading advocate of the several halls of fame, including the USC Athletic Hall of Fame, 10-second rule and the elimination of the jump after the Pac-10 Hall of Honor, the Kansas Sports Hall of Fame and each basket. the National Collegiate Basketball Hall of Fame, and he was awarded the Award for lifetime achievement from the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame. In June 2010 he was given the Lifetime Achievement Award by the NBA Coaches Association. 2015-2016 • 185 • USC BASKETBALL

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BILL SHARMAN ALEX HANNUM (Inducted April 26, 1976 as player, April 5, 2004 as coach) (Inducted October 2, 1998)

Bill Sharman, who brought a disciplined work ethic to basketball A three-year letterman at USC in 1943, 1946-47, Hannum was a with a willingness to spend countless hours in the gymnasium captain his fi nal year with the team. Hannum, who had a knack perfecting his skills, was a 15-letter athlete at Porterville (Calif.) for turning around beleaguered franchises during 16 profes- High before coming to USC. A four-year letterwinner at Troy sional coaching seasons (12 NBA, four ABA), was the fi rst (1947-50), Sharman was named All-America in 1950 and was a coach in professional basketball history to win an NBA and ABA two-time All-Pacifi c Coast Conference selection and conference Championship. He began his coaching career as a player/coach MVP. He’s still 21st on USC’s all-time scoring list (1,108). Shar- for the St. Louis Hawks during the 1956-57 season, reaching man, known as “Bullseye Bill” for his marksmanship at the the NBA Finals. The next year, Hannum began his fi rst season line, played briefl y in the Dodger organization before as a full-time head coach and guided St. Louis to the 1958 NBA his basketball career took off. Sharman spent 1951 with the Championship. He spent three years with the Syracuse Nation- NBA’s Washington Capitals before they folded. He joined Boston als (1960-63), posting a 48-32 record in his fi nal year. Hannum a year later and became a Celtic mainstay. In 10 seasons with then became coach of a San Francisco Warrior team that had the Celtics, Sharman was named All-NBA First Team four times fi nished fourth in the Western Division the previous year and and played in eight All-Star Games, earning MVP honors in the led them to the NBA Finals. Under Hannum’s guidance in San 1955 tilt. Sharman teamed with to form one of the Francisco, altered his game from offense- NBA’s most formidable backcourt duos, and the pair landed oriented to defense-and-team-oriented, a trait that would later Boston four NBA championships (1957, 1959, 1960, 1961). He help him win an NBA title. Both Hannum and Chamberlain were directed the Los Angeles Lakers to their fi rst NBA title in 1972 reunited in Philadelphia in the 1966-67 season, winning the and was awarded Coach of the Year honors. That season, the NBA championship with a then-record .840 winning percentage Lakers fi nished with an amazing 69-13 regular season record, (68-13). Following his stint in Philadelphia, Hannum joined the including 33 straight victories, both NBA single-season records. ABA’s Oakland Oaks, turning a last-place team into a title team By winning titles in the ABL (Cleveland Pipers, 1962), ABA (Utah in 1969. Hannum was named NBA Coach of the Year in 1964 Stars, 1971), and NBA (Los Angeles Lakers, 1972), Sharman and ABA Coach of the Year in 1969. became the fi rst coach to win championships in three different pro leagues. Sharman joins John Wooden and as the only members enshrined as a player and a coach.

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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 ...... ...... Seattle Super Sonics

Fred (Tex) Winter ......

PAUL WESTPHAL MACK CALVIN ALEX HANNUM In his fi rst 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 fi rst NBA num went on to coach fi ve different league’s best record and their fi rst 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.

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DID YOU KNOW … that USC is among the most highly selec- • The Visual History Archive contains 107,000 hours of video tive universities in the country and that 75% of admitted freshman testimony in 34 languages, representing 58 countries, making it have standardized test scores at or above the 95th percentile? the largest archive of its kind in the world. • As part of its 20th anniversary, the institute launched the DID YOU KNOW … that USC has one of the most diverse Center for Advanced Genocide Research, which will study the college campuses in the country? causes of genocide with the goal of stopping future instances of • The university enrolls more international students than any mass violence. other American institution of higher education. • More than one in eight USC freshmen are the fi rst in their DID YOU KNOW … that USC has produced more Olympians, families to attend college. more Olympic medalists and more Olympic gold medalists than any other American university? DID YOU KNOW … that music industry icons Jimmy Iovine • Since 1904, 418 Trojans have competed in the Olympic and Dr. Dre (Andre Young) gave $70 million to establish a fi rst- Games and earned 287 medals, 135 of them gold. of-its-kind program at USC? • The USC Jimmy Iovine and Andre Young Academy for Arts, DID YOU KNOW… that USC—the largest private-sector em- Technology and the Business of Innovation welcomed its fi rst ployer in the city of Los Angeles—is responsible for $5 billion an- class of 31 students to campus this fall. nually in economic activity in the Los Angeles region and beyond?

DID YOU KNOW … that the USC Glorya Kaufman School of DID YOU KNOW … that USC faculty numbers nearly 3,600 Dance is the fi rst new school to be established at the university scholars and includes in 40 years? Nobel laureates, as well as National Medal of Arts, National • Established through a transformative gift from Los Angeles Humanities Medal, National Medal of Science, Turing Prize and philanthropist Glorya Kaufman, the USC Kaufman School joins Pritzker Prize winners, MacArthur fellows, and National Academy the university’s fi ve arts schools—in architecture, art and design, members? cinematic arts, dramatic arts, and music—which comprise one • More than 200 faculty members have received prestigious of the strongest arts offerings in the United States. academic and professional awards from organizations such as the National Institutes of Health, National Science Foundation, DID YOU KNOW … USC recently broke ground on the largest Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, National Endowment for the Hu- economic project in South Los Angeles history? manities, John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, and Academy • USC Village will transform the area around the University of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Park Campus, creating a comprehensive learning and living environment for students. DID YOU KNOW … that USC ranks among the top 10 private • The project will also return over $1 billion in economic universities in federally supported research, with more than $650 impact, bringing new businesses and thousands of jobs to the million in annual research expenditures? neighborhood. DID YOU KNOW … that USC is home to 21 academic schools DID YOU KNOW … that USC will invest at least $70 million to and units, in addition to the Dornsife College of Letters, Arts improve the historic Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum? and Sciences which encompasses 37 academic departments and programs? DID YOU KNOW … that USC researchers are working to restore vision to blind people? DID YOU KNOW … that USC is part of a worldwide network of • Dr. Mark Humayun helped develop the Argus II retinal educational institutions and international organizations? prosthesis system, which was recently approved for use in the • USC collaborates with leading global institutions to forge U.S. by the Food and Drug Administration. meaningful research, educational, and service partnerships with offi ces in Beijing, Hong Kong, Mexico City, Mumbai, São Paulo, DID YOU KNOW … that through distance education, USC Seoul, Shanghai, Taipei, New York, Washington, D.C., and San reaches nearly 8,000 graduate and professional education Francisco. students in 40 nations? • USC has been a leader in distance education since 1972, DID YOU KNOW … that USC hosts the annual Los Angeles and has built the fi rst online education model that is both aca- Times Festival of Books, the country’s largest public literary demically and fi nancially viable. festival? • The model is academically rigorous, maintaining the same • In its fourth year at USC, the festival attracted nearly 150,000 criteria for on-campus admission, and generates nearly $140 visitors to the University Park Campus this past April. million in annual revenue. DID YOU KNOW … that Classical KUSC is the largest and DID YOU KNOW … USC is a world leader in digital media most listened to public radio and nonprofi t classical music sta- and communication? tion in the country? • USC is leading the way in fi elds ranging from artifi cial intelligence and game design to genomics and brain mapping, DID YOU KNOW … that Visions and Voices, USC’s campus- and has the largest computer science research program among wide arts and humanities initiative, brings some of the world’s American universities. best writers, performers, musicians, and artists to USC?

DID YOU KNOW … that the USC Shoah Foundation Institute DID YOU KNOW … that USC is the nation’s top school in has digitally preserved nearly 52,000 testimonies from survivors health economics research funding? and other witnesses from the Holocaust and the Rwandan Genocide?

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DID YOU KNOW … that USC was the fi rst university in the DID YOU KNOW … that approximately 50 percent of phar- country to offer a Bachelor of Arts degree in fi lm? macists in Southern are graduates of the USC School • USC School of Cinematic Arts has graduated entertainment of Pharmacy? giants such as Will Ferrell, George Lucas, Ron Howard, Shonda L. Rhimes, and Robert Zemeckis. DID YOU KNOW … that the USC Division of Biokinesiology • Since 1973, not a year has passed without a USC alumnus and Physical Therapy graduate program has ranked No. 1 in receiving a nomination for an Academy Award. the country since 2004?

DID YOU KNOW … that the U.S. Department of Homeland DID YOU KNOW … that the USC School of Architecture helps Security selected USC as the site of its fi rst university-based preserve local landmarks? Homeland Security Center of Excellence? • The school operates Frank Lloyd Wright’s Freeman House and Greene and Greene’s Gamble House, using the latest con- DID YOU KNOW … that two museums are part of the USC servation technologies to preserve these architectural gems. community? • The USC Pacifi c Asia Museum of Pasadena, Calif., has a DID YOU KNOW … that “Fight On,” USC’s fi ght song, was collection of more than 17,000 items from across Asia and the written in 1922 by dentistry student Milo Sweet? Pacifi c Islands, spanning more than 5,000 years. • The USC Fisher Museum of Art, located on the University DID YOU KNOW … that the Herman Ostrow School of Park Campus, is one of just a few university museums accredited Dentistry operates community clinics that serve 65,000 patients by the Association of American Museums. each year?

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DID YOU KNOW … that the USC Viterbi School of Engineer- ing, founded in 1925, is consistently ranked among the top engineering schools 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.

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DID YOU KNOW … that in one year, USC faculty physicians treat more than a million patients? • With more than 70 medical specialties, the Keck School of Medicine advances innovative clinical care and research in cancer, urology, neuroscience, genetics, stem cell/regenerative medicine, and preventive medicine.

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The University of zkopf; Olympic medalists Louis Zamperini, Allyson Felix, and Rebecca Soni; former U.S. Secretary of State Warren Christo- • Founded in 1880, the University of Southern California pher; retired California Supreme Court Chief Justice Malcolm is the oldest private research university in the western United Lucas and Associate Justice Joyce L. Kennard; former U.S. States. Ambassador to Australia, South Africa, Liberia, and the United • There are more than 350,000 living alumni in the Trojan Nations Edward Perkins; former South Korean Prime Minister Family. USC alumni can be found in positions of leadership all Kang Young-Hoon; rocket scientist Yvonne Brill; fi lm compos- over the world. ers Jerry Goldsmith and James Horner; Indian novelist and • USC is home to 21 academic schools and units, in addition journalist Raj Kamal Jha; AARP founder Ethel Percy Andrus; to the USC Dana and David Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and business leaders Wanda Austin of Aerospace Corp., Dan and Sciences and the Graduate School. These schools train Bane of Trader Joe’s, Marc Benioff of Salesforce.com, Jerry specialists in fi elds spanning from medicine to music, business Buss of the L.A. Lakers, Rick Caruso of Caruso Affi liated, Y. to communication, engineering to law. H. Cho of Korea Air, Cogent founder Ming Hsieh, B. Wayne • An anchor institution in Los Angeles, USC has two main Hughes of Public Storage, and Andrew Viterbi of Qualcomm. campuses: the University Park Campus, located near Exposi- tion Park, a center of world-class museums and recreational USC Administration parks; and the Health Sciences Campus, three miles northeast PRESIDENT: C. L. Max Nikias (213-740-2111) of . PROVOST AND SENIOR VP, ACADEMIC AFFAIRS: • USC also has programs and centers in Marina Del Rey, Elizabeth Garrett Alhambra, Orange County, Catalina Island, and other Southern SENIOR VP, FINANCE, AND CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER: California locations, as well as in Sacramento, Washington, Robert Abeles D.C., San Francisco, and New York. USC also has international SENIOR VP, UNIVERSITY ADVANCEMENT: offi ces in Beijing, Hong Kong, Mexico City, Mumbai, São Paulo, Albert R. Checcio Seoul, Shanghai, and Taipei. SENIOR VP, ADMINISTRATION: Todd R. Dickey • The university’s fall enrollment was more than 39,000, SENIOR VP AND CEO FOR USC HEALTH: including 18,000 undergraduates and 15,000 on-campus Thomas E. Jackiewicz graduate and professional students, as well as 7,000 online SENIOR VP, UNIVERSITY RELATIONS: Thomas S. Sayles professional and executive education students. GENERAL COUNSEL AND SECRETARY OF THE UNIVER- • Diversity is a hallmark of the USC student community. SITY: Carol Mauch Amir USC students come from all 50 states, fi ve territories, and 115 ATHLETIC DIRECTOR: Patrick C. Haden countries. CHIEF INVESTMENT OFFICER: Lisa Mazzocco • For 12 consecutive years, USC has been at the top of CHIEF OF STAFF AND DIRECTOR OF PROTOCOL: U.S. universities in terms of international enrollment. During the Dennis Cornell 2012-13 academic year, USC’s student body included 9,800 international students on its campuses. • USC offers bachelor’s degrees in 172 undergraduate majors and has developed 155 different academic and profes- sional minors—the broadest selection of any U.S. university to encourage students to study subjects across widely separated fi elds. • Since 1969, USC has been a member of the Associa- tion of American Universities, the elective body that unites 62 premier public and private research universities in the United States and Canada. • With more than $650 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 nearly 3,600 full-time faculty members. Chil- dren’s Hospital Los Angeles, one of the nation’s top ranked hospitals for pediatric medicine, is a premier teaching hospital entirely staffed and supervised by USC faculty physicians. • USC’s faculty include Nobel laureates, Murray Gell-Mann, Daniel McFadden, George A. Olah, and Arieh Warshel; National Medal of Arts winner Morten Lauridsen; National Humanities Medal winner Kevin Starr; National Medal of Science winners Solomon Golomb and Andrew Viterbi; Turing Prize winner Leonard Adleman; Pritzker Prize winner Frank Gehry; MacAr- thur fellows Luis Alfaro, Jacob Soll, and Elyn Saks; musical art- ists Glenn Dicterow, Midori Goto, and Michael Tilson Thomas; and poet and former National Endowment for the Arts Chair Dana Gioia. • USC’s faculty includes members of the National Acad- emy of Sciences (14), National Academy of Engineering (27), National Academy of Education (2), Institute of Medicine (16), and American Academy of Arts and Sciences (26). • Among USC’s distinguished alumni are astronauts Neil Armstrong and Charles Bolden; 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 Forest Whitaker; four-star U.S. General H. Norman Schwar-

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