Global Leaders
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, shown below with President Max Nikias and trustee Ratan Tata during their meeting on Feb. 23, is one of the most transforming figures in modern India’s short history. As...
View ArticleYou Can Hear the Cricket Late at Night
With 1,600 Indian students attending USC, you can be sure that there is considerable interest on campus for the 2011 Cricket World Cup, currently being co-hosted by India. In response, Student Affairs...
View ArticleThe Ties that Bind
“A strong relationship with India is very beneficial to our students in America,” President Nikias said in a feature article in the Financial Chronicle of India. The article noted that the president...
View ArticleA Trojan Family Portrait … From Bangalore
Bangalore is often referred to as the Silicon Valley of South Asia. Numerous technology companies and innovators are based there. (The head of one such company – Infosys, a USC partner – inspired the...
View ArticleDedicated to the Future
Sudha Kumar, director of USC’s Bangalore office and member of the USC Viterbi staff, performs the traditional lamp-lighting ceremony on Friday, Feb. 25, as part of a traditional Indian dedication...
View ArticleA Spotlight on Excellence
In this photo, President Nikias asks acclaimed Indian playwright Girish Karnad, who will receive an honorary USC doctorate in Los Angeles in May, to share a few words at the opening of the new...
View ArticleAn End … And a Beginning
The USC delegation’s marathon tour through India concluded with a special panel, the USC Forum on Globalization and Innovation, arranged by the USC Viterbi School of Engineering, examining issues...
View Article“Top U.S. School” in the News
“It’s one of the world’s leading private research universities, and is the most popular American university among Indian students,” the Education Mail of New Delhi wrote in a major feature story about...
View ArticleMemoranda of Global Understanding
Leaders of the USC India delegation kept pens handy for signing ceremonies that formalized academic partnerships between the university and top Indian academic institutions. On the second day of the...
View ArticleKnowledge without Borders
“Geographic boundaries have been levelled by the Internet and globalization,” President Nikias said in a feature story about USC in the India Times’ Education Times section. “So a diverse and...
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