Physician, health care entrepreneur and longtime USC volunteer Mitchell W. Lew ’83, MD ’87 has been elected to the USC Board of Trustees.

As a 19-year-old refugee from Ethiopia, Tadious Odissu was very specific when officials at a Turkish refugee camp questioned him about future plans. Odissu astonished them by saying he wanted to go to film school in California.

John Mork, founder and CEO of Denver-based Energy Corporation of America, has been elected chair of the USC Board of Trustees. He replaces Edward P. Roski Jr., who has chaired the board since June 2008.

As an international relations major at USC Dornsife, actress America Ferrera had a worldly perspective when she recently embarked on several lengthy discussions with Helen Chávez.

Michael Fritschner, who majored in international relations at the USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences, rose from his wheelchair.