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39 unusual facts about University of Southern California


1939 college football season

The final AP Poll in this era came out before postseason bowl games and, in the 1940 Rose Bowl, the Volunteers were unable to hold everyone scoreless, with the University of Southern California registering two touchdowns and beating them 14-0.

1963 college football season

In the preseason poll for 1963, the University of Southern California Trojans (USC), who had been the 1962 national champions, were #1 with 484 points, followed by the University of Mississippi (Ole Miss) at #2 with 389 points

1972 college football season

The 1972 NCAA University Division football season saw the USC Trojans, coached by John McKay, go undefeated and win the national championship as the unanimous choice of the fifty AP panelists.

Adiabatic quantum computation

Tests performed by researchers at USC, ETH Zurich, and Google show that as of now, there is no evidence of a quantum advantage.

Anneli Ute Gabanyi

Gabanyi studied Philology and Political Science at the University of Cluj, and later at the Université d'Auvergne and the University of Southern California.

Arvid Pardo

From 1972 to 1975 Pardo was coordinator of the ocean studies program at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, D.C. From 1975 to 1990 he was on the USC faculty, teaching political science (1975–81) and international relations (1981–90).

Caffe Luxxe

The company was founded in 2006 by Mark Wain and Gary Chau, who met while attending The Marshall School, University of Southern California where both earned an MBA.

California State Route 47

Early plans also included a north–south freeway on each side of the Los Angeles Central Business District, splitting at the merge of the Harbor Parkway (Harbor Freeway) and Venice Parkway northeast of the University of Southern California, and rejoining at the split between the Arroyo Seco Parkway (Pasadena Freeway) and Riverside Parkway south of Dodger Stadium.

Ellis R. Dungan

He later enrolled at the University of Southern California in 1932 in the newly established Cinema Department.

Fracas

Fracas! Improv Festival, an improvisational theater festival held at the University of Southern California

George Carlin at USC

On Location: George Carlin at USC (aka An Evening with George Carlin at USC) is American comedian George Carlin's first ever HBO special, Recorded during the Summer of 1977 at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles.

IEEE Eric E. Sumner award

2006 - Co-recipients: Robert A. Scholtz, Fred H. Cole Professor, University of Southern California and Moe Z. Win, Associate Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, For pioneering contributions to ultra-wide band communications science and technology.

Jasper D'Ambrosi

He attended University of Southern California on a football scholarship where he studied painting and graduated cum laude.

Jules Langsner

After his stint with ARTnews Langsner went on to teach at the University of Southern California where he taught Art History.

Just Hear It

Just Hear It was founded in 2008 in Los Angeles, California by USC student Nicolae Ivanescu and Emory University student Cosmin Panait.

Karl Bühler

Finally he emigrated to the United States, where he worked from 1940 to 1945 as a professor in Minnesota and from 1945 to 1955 as a professor of psychiatry at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles.

KOSC

The two stations are both branded as "KDFC", and are owned by the University of Southern California, via its Classical Public Radio Network.

Laurence J. Peter

In 1966, Peter moved to California, where he became an Associate Professor of Education, Director of the Evelyn Frieden Centre for Prescriptive Teaching, and Coordinator of Programs for Emotionally Disturbed Children at the University of Southern California.

Lila Karp

She was appointed the co-director of The Institute for the Study of Women and Men at the University of Southern California in 1991.

Louise Tracy

In July 1942, Louise Tracy spoke for the first time on her experience as the mother of a deaf child at the University of Southern California at a banquet for the National Workshop of Social Workers and teachers and Parents of the Hard of Hearing.

In quick succession, she was granted honorary degrees from Northwestern University in Chicago, Illinois, the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, her alma mater Lake Erie College, and MacMurray College in Jacksonville, Illinois.

MMICC

Since its foundation, the competition has welcomed such schools as the London School of Economics, the Wharton School, the University of Southern California, the Copenhagen Business School, and schools from Hong Kong and Singapore.

Otto and Vivika Heino

Discovering clay at this time, she studied at the California School of Fine Arts (now the San Francisco Art Institute), and with Glen Lukens at the University of Southern California.

Pan-Pacific Auditorium

Throughout the following 30 years the Pan-Pacific would host the Ice Capades and the Harlem Globetrotters, serve as home to the Los Angeles Monarchs of the Pacific Coast Hockey League along with UCLA ice hockey, UCLA men's basketball, USC men's basketball, professional tennis, car shows, political rallies and circuses.

Pete Yoder

He served as a running backs coach at the University of Southern California under John McKay before accepting the head coaching position at California State University, Fullerton, where he compiled an 18–15 record in three seasons (1972–1974).

Preston Martin

Preston Martin graduated from the University of Southern California in 1947 and successfully completed an MBA from the same university.

Ray A. Robinson

Ray Albert Robinson was born on June 1, 1896, in Los Angeles, California, where he attended the University of Southern California before enlisting in the Marine Corps on May 21, 1917.

Recycling symbol

It was won by Gary Anderson, a 23-year-old college student at the University of Southern California, whose entry was the image now known as the universal recycling symbol.

Rhodes piano

He dropped out of studying at the University of Southern California in 1929 to support his family through the great depression by full-time teaching, and designed a method that combined classical and jazz music.

Robert Anthony Toigo

There he received his BA in Political Science from UCLA and his Law Degree from University of Southern California, he also completed summer internships at the Department of Justice in Washington, D.C.

Rockwell D. Hunt

Rockwell Dennis Hunt (1868–1966) was an eminent California historian, a professor at the University of Southern California and the University of the Pacific, and prolific author.

He taught economics at the University of Southern California starting in 1908, and served as dean of its graduate school from 1920 to his retirement in 1945.

Sigard Adolphus Knopf

After being an instructor in non-English languages in the Los Angeles area he matriculated to the University of Southern California, where he studied during 1884–86.

Suzanne Muchnic

Muchnic was a lecturer on Art History and Criticism at Los Angeles City College, University of Southern California, and the Claremont Graduate School.

Ted Schroeder

Schroeder, however, attended college for 4 years, the first two at the University of Southern California (USC), and the last two at Stanford University, while Kramer, apparently, spent only two years at Rollins College in Winter Park, Florida.

The Long Walk Home

Set in Alabama, it is based on a screenplay about the Montgomery Bus Boycott (1955-1956) by John Cork and a short film by the same name, produced by students at the University of Southern California in 1988.

Thomas W. Benton

After being discharged in 1953, Benton used the G.I. Bill to pay for his tuition for a degree in architecture at the University of Southern California.

University of Michigan School of Kinesiology

The Masters and PhD programs have become highly selective, with 41.4% and 27.8% selectivity rates respectively and is ranked as 5th in the nation with University of Southern California being first.

Vecdi Gönül

He completed a master's degree in Public Administration at the University of Southern California and then returned to a career in public administration in Turkey, eventually becoming Chief of the Directorate of General Security (October 1977 - February 1978) and then governor of Kocaeli, Ankara (during the 1980 Turkish coup d'état) and Istanbul provinces.


1972 College World Series

The Most Outstanding Player was Russ McQueen of the University of Southern California.

Aimee Sun

Sun attended Dominican International School and Taipei American School for elementary school, and studied abroad at the University of Southern California.

Alex Olmedo

George Toley recruited him to play for the University of Southern California (USC), as he wrote in his book "The Golden Age of College Tennis, 2009".

Bernard Judge

He has conducted housing research in a dozen countries around the world, taught design and lectured on environmental design at California State University, Long Beach, California Polytechnic Institute, Pomona, University of California Los Angeles, University of Southern California, Southern California Institute of Architecture, and University of California Berkeley.

Brock Huard

His decision to attend the UW set off a chain reaction in which West Linn, OR quarterback Cade McNown chose to attend UCLA and Westlake Village, CA wide receiver Billy Miller decided to attend USC (he had said if Huard chose to attend UCLA he would follow).

Buff, Smith and Hensman

He studied at Texas A&M University and Pasadena City College before receiving his degree in architecture at the University of Southern California in 1945.

CALO

The available technologies were developed by research teams at SRI International, Carnegie Mellon University, the University of Massachusetts Amherst, the University of Rochester, the Institute for Human and Machine Cognition, Oregon State University, the University of Southern California, and Stanford University.

Charles Maclay

He was the brother of Robert Samuel Maclay, a pioneer missionary to China; and the uncle of Robert Maclay Widney, a founder of the University of Southern California, and of Joseph Widney, the second president of the University of Southern California.

Delmer J. Yoakum

After serving in the United States Navy during World War II, he came to Los Angeles and studied with Henry Lee McFee, Phil Dike, and Rico Lebrun; and at Chouinard Art Institute, Jepson Art Institute, and the University of Southern California's Roski School of Fine Arts.

Dominique Byrd

Byrd went to Southern California where he made a 2004 All-Pac-10 honorable mention, and was best known for catching two one-handed touchdown passes, one of which was in the Orange Bowl victory against University of Oklahoma.

Dora Serviarian Kuhn

Serviarian-Kuhn received her B.A. in Performance from the Eastman School of Music and her M.A. in Piano from the University of Southern California.

Elizabeth Ho

Ho first studied business at the University of Southern California, but left for a year and returned to enroll in the school's theater program, earning a Bachelor of Arts in theater.

Georg Eisler

Eisler lectured at various universities including the Berlin University of the Arts (Udk), HFBK Hamburg, Stanford University, the University of New Mexico, and the University of Southern California.

J. Max Bond, Sr.

Bond was born in Nashville, Tennessee, the son of a Congregational minister, and attended Roosevelt College in Chicago, the University of Pittsburgh, and the University of Southern California.

Jay Kordich

After three years in the United States Navy, he won a football scholarship to the University of Southern California and in 1949 was drafted by the Green Bay Packers.

Jeff Cravath

He graduated from Santa Ana High School in Santa Ana, California, and entered the University of Southern California, starring as a center on the football team from 1924 to 1926; among his teammates was a young John Wayne and Ward Bond.

Leonard McCoy

USC Literature Professor Henry Jenkins cited Dr. McCoy's "He's dead, Jim" line as an example of fans actively participating in the creation of an underground culture in which they derive pleasure by repeating memorable lines as part of constructing new mythologies and alternative social communities.

Lycée Rochambeau

As of the 2012-2013 school year, students have gone on to attend McGill University, the University of British Columbia, University of Toronto, University of Pennsylvania, Johns Hopkins University, Princeton University, Sciences Po Paris, Stanford University, USC, University of Michigan, University College London, various faculties at the University of Paris and elsewhere.

Maui Cluster Scheduler

Its development was made possible by the support of Cluster Resources, Inc. (now Adaptive Computing) and the contributions of many individuals and sites including the U.S. Department of Energy, PNNL, the Center for High Performance Computing at the University of Utah (CHPC), Ohio Supercomputer Center (OSC), University of Southern California (USC), SDSC, MHPCC, BYU, NCSA, and many others.

Michael Devitt

In addition to his tenured or tenure-track positions, Michael Devitt has held numerous non-tenured positions at the University of Nottingham, Macquarie University, Australian National University, Victoria University of Wellington, University of Michigan, University of Southern California, Tokyo Metropolitan University, Harvard University, and Sydney University’s Women’s College.

Michael Floyd

As a true freshman at Notre Dame, Floyd played in 11 of Notre Dame's 13 games on the year, only missing the final two games of the regular season (Syracuse and USC) due to an injury sustained early (third play of the game) against Navy.

Michaela Shiloh

After graduating high school Mickey moved to Los Angeles and worked with major artists like Jennifer Lopez, Shontelle, Britney Spears, Pitbull (rapper), Ray J and many others, all while attending the University of Southern California.

Nicolas Chumachenco

Nicolas left Argentina to study in the United States at the University of Southern California with Jascha Heifetz and later at the Curtis Institute in Philadelphia with Efrem Zimbalist and won awards at the International Tchaikovsky Competition and the Queen Elisabeth Music Competition.

Paul Dee

He oversaw the investigation into the University of Southern California's improper relationship with Reggie Bush.

Personal Genetics Education Project

pgEd is working with Sandra de Castro Buffington and Hollywood, Health & Society at the Norman Lear Center, University of Southern California (USC) Annenberg School for Communication, to advance awareness about personal genetics through television.

Peter Applebome

Tara McPherson, a professor of popular culture at the University of Southern California, calls Applebome a "prominent liberal journalist".

Rao Machiraju

He has an interdisciplinary educational background: Masters in Public Health (M.P.H. from California State University, Northridge), General Systems and Information Networks (Certificate from United Nations Institute for Training and Research, University of Stockholm and UCLA), and Ed.D in Instructional Technology (Doctorate from University of Southern California).

Rick Majerus

On December 15, 2004, Majerus was hired as coach of the University of Southern California basketball team; he was to replace interim coach Jim Saia, who was replacing fired coach Henry Bibby, with Majerus taking over effective April 1, 2005.

Sandy Thorburn

He is also one of a very few Canadian academics who have studied with notable film composers Jerry Goldsmith, John Williams, Bruce Broughton, Henry Mancini and Buddy Baker at the University of Southern California Thornton School of Music in composition for motion pictures and television.

Suzanne Scotchmer

Scotchmer has held visiting and teaching positions at Harvard University, University of Auckland, Cergy-Pontoise University, Tel Aviv University, Pantheon-Sorbonne University, the University of Toronto Law School, University of Southern California, New School of Economics, Moscow, and the Stockholm School of Economics.

Vigilant Eagle

The University of Southern California reported in a study funded by the Federal Emergency Management Agency that “the capability of MANPADS to reach targets at altitudes of up to or beyond 15,000 feet allow these weapons to be used at a radius of 50 miles or more from most airports, making perimeter facility control largely ineffective.” Northrop Grumman has also estimated that "the zone of vulnerability around the airport is 300 square miles."

Warren J. Ferguson

Upon return, he earned his J.D. from University of Southern California in 1949.