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President Suzanne Keen’s Empathy and Reading Now Available from Routledge
“As people, it’s in our nature to relate to one another’s stories,” Keen explains. “When we read novels with a sense of empathy, we come away with an improved sense of other people’s perspectives and experiences that are quite different from our own.”
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In the Media: Kim-Trang Tran’s Artwork Featured in New USC Pacific Asia Museum Exhibition, Pasadena Now Reports
The exhibition celebrates women of color’s role in shaping social change.
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Corina Silverstein ’25 Uses Research to Expand Chicanx and Latinx Art Representation
Silverstein is helping expand the collection of Chicanx and Latinx art at the El Paso Museum of Art, with a focus on the representation of women and queer artists.
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In the Media: Gabby Giffords ’93 Discusses Gun Control Progress in TIME Magazine
Giffords discussed the progress that the gun safety movement has made over the past decade in an op-ed for TIME magazine.
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DeMethra LaSha Bradley Appointed Vice President for Student Affairs and Dean of Students
Bradley possesses nearly 20 years of higher education experience in student and academic affairs across public and private institutions.
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Louise Tench Willard ’97 Named CIO at Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco
Willard, who has worked at the San Francisco Fed since 1997, will be the first woman CIO in the bank’s history and will lead the bank’s largest employee team.
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In the Media: Washington Post, CBS Profile Gabby Giffords ’93’s Political Career, Gun Control Activism
“Even though I wasn’t able to speak more than a few words at a time, still I knew I had to use my voice to fight for change,” she wrote.
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Katie Purvis-Roberts Receives Third Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Grant
“The APEC grant allows my students and me to analyze real-world data and apply it to environmental policies, while working with international collaborators at the same time,” Purvis-Roberts explains.
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In the Media: Washington Post Reviews Documentary on Gabby Giffords ’93’s Career and Advocacy
The Post calls the documentary a “moving arc of courage and perseverance” that features the “bright light of her personality.”
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In the Media: Gabby Giffords ’93 Receives Medal of Freedom from President Biden, Per Los Angeles Times, CNN, and Washington Post
President Joe Biden introduced Giffords as “one of the most courageous people I have ever known,” the Times reported.
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