The larger-than-life saga of Olympian, war hero and Trojan legend Louis Zamperini ’40 - now a published autobiography and soon to be a feature film - has it all: danger, folly, romance, courage, pathos and absolution.

USC announced on Feb. 26 that it raised $2.8B in cash and pledges during its nine-year fundraising drive. This nearly triples its initial goal and concludes the most successful fundraising campaign in the history of American higher education.

Robert Ellwood's new book mixes religion with history, politics and culture. He says they're inseparable.

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The work recognized by the Nobel Prize committee was his creation of “superacids” – substances billions of times more acidic than even the strongest conventional acids – and his pioneering use of them in exploring chemical reactions that involve hydrocarbons.