All posts tagged "usc"

  • FILE - In this Monday, Oct. 27, 2014 file photo, Javier Bolden reacts as he is convicted of first-degree murder at Los Angeles Superior Court. Bolden was found guilty of two counts of first-degree murder for the killings of a pair of USC graduate students from China, during a robbery on April 11, 2012 in Los Angeles. Bolden was sentenced to two life terms in prison without possibility of parole for the killings Monday, Nov. 17, 2014. (AP Photo/Nick Ut,File)
    Man sentenced to life in prison for murder of 2 Chinese USC students

    By ELIZABETH MARCELLINO LOS ANGELES (CNS) – A man convicted of murdering two USC graduate students from China during a robbery was sentenced today to life in prison without parole. Javier Bolden, 22, was convicted Oct. 27 of two...

    • Posted November 17, 2014
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  • Former Arirang President Sohn Jie-Ae speaks inside the University of Southern California's Annenberg School for Communications & Journalism. (Cosmo Scharf)
    Former Arirang president: K-pop is fueling Korea

    By Tae Hong “When I was young, we’d tell people we were Japanese, because it was cool to be Japanese at the time,” the former president of South Korea’s only English-language government-affiliated network, Arirang TV, told a...

    • Posted November 13, 2014
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    UCLA tops USC in graduating athletes

    LOS ANGELES (CNS) – Eighty-seven percent of the UCLA athletes who entered the university between 2004 and 2007 graduated within six years of their enrollments, compared to 80 percent who entered cross-town rival USC during the same period, according to...

    • Posted October 29, 2014
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  • Elaine Kim, associate director of the Korean Studies Institute at USC, explains "Comrade Kim Goes Flying" during the Korean Film Festival Saturday.
    North Korea given spotlight at USC’s Korean Film Festival

    Five films about North Korea were screened at the University of Southern California’s Korean Film Festival on Saturday and Sunday, with about 300 in attendance. Hosted by the USC Korean Studies Institute and USC Cinematic Arts and...

    • Posted September 9, 2014
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  • 4 in custody in killing of Chinese USC student

    (CNS) – Two men and two juveniles were behind bars today in connection with the beating death of a Chinese USC graduate student who was attacked while walking home and was found hours later inside his apartment. Jonathan DelCarmen,...

    • Posted July 28, 2014
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    GOOD 4 U

    Four cups of coffee reduces risk of liver cancer by 42 percent  A new study shows that daily consumption of four cups of coffee reduces risk of liver cancer by 42 percent. Conducted by the American Association...

    • Posted April 11, 2014
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    USC says 2014 entering class is most accomplished it has ever seen

    Accepted about 18 percent of 51,800 applicants 26 percent were of Asian descent (CNS) – About 18 percent of the 51,800 high school seniors who applied to USC were admitted, and among the 9,225 who got in,...

    • Posted April 8, 2014
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