USC Dornsife scholars win Goldwater and Astronaut scholarships, and a prestigious fellowship

Two students and one alumnus obtain highly competitive scholarships and a Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute fellowship, supporting work in quantitative biology, physics and environmental policy. By Margaret Crable | July 23, 2024

International student graduates with 4 bachelor’s degrees from USC Dornsife

Sibo “Carl” Zhou earns degrees in applied mathematics, religion, economics and data science, and global studies, and captures a USC Renaissance Scholar Prize in the process.

2024 Fellowship Recipients
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2024 Boren Scholarship Boren Scholarships provide funding for rigorous language study in exchange for a commitment to work in the federal government for at least one year after graduation. Thomas Martynowicz will graduate with a Bachelor of Arts in International Affairs and a minor in Social Sciences. Thomas plans to study Quechua in Peru on the…

Marshall Student Named 2024 Schwarzman Scholar

Senior Amina Shafeek-Horton joins the cohort of elite scholars in China this fall.

USC named a top producer of U.S. Fulbright Scholars, Students

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A ship, and a sailor, reborn

A sailing accident almost kept her off the water forever. Now Jordan Winters ’19 is documenting her own maritime cultural traditions

Undergraduate will use rare, prestigious Truman Scholarship to springboard career as civil rights attorney

History and international relations double major Michael Solomon is “a firm believer in the potential of scholarship and shared knowledge as vehicles for change.”

Salutatorian Liam Tsao continues branching out of his comfort zone to take on new challenges
2023 Salutatorian, Liam Tsao, 21 poses for a picture in front of Doheny Memorial Library, May 3, 2023. (Photo/Gus Ruelas)

COMMENCEMENT 2023: The USC Dornsife senior hopes to use his social policy experience in legislative work or community organizing before going to law school. BY Grayson Schmidt

Salutatorian Carina Robles embraces interdisciplinary opportunities as a transfer student
2023 Salutatorian Carina Robles, 22 , poses for a photograph in front of Doheny Memorial Library, May 3, 2023. (Photo/Gus Ruelas)

COMMENCEMENT 2023: Graduating with a degree in political science and a minor in dance, Robles will be heading to Taiwan as part of the Fulbright U.S. Student Program. BY Grayson Schmidt

Valedictorian Isha Sanghvi targets health inequity post-commencement
2023 Valedictorian Isha Sanghvi, 22 , poses for a photograph in front of Doheny Memorial Library, May 3, 2023. (Photo/Gus Ruelas)

COMMENCEMENT 2023: While at USC, the Bay Area native maintained the nonprofit she founded in high school and co-founded an organization that improves health equity for unhoused people. BY Grayson Schmidt