The five students’ stories touch on diverse opportunities, life-changing faculty and creative collaborations, and look confidently toward a future in music.

Faye Demetriou looks back at an unforgettable day in the historic stadium when the Class of 1948 celebrated commencement.

TaBee, a ride-hailing app that boosts sustainability, comes from a petroleum engineer with the environment on his mind.

Many people fear the places Hector Jimenez needs to be. He relies on his battlefield experience — and his studies at USC, where he has earned two graduate degrees — almost every day.

Inspired by Mesoamerican art and culture, Sterling Rios takes a ballgame back to its ancient roots in Pelota.

Lilly Nie is graduating this month with a bachelor’s in urban studies and planning and master’s of urban planning through the school’s progressive degree curriculum. She completed the accelerated program in just four years.

In addition to starting Haute Magazine, graduating senior Diana Fonte has worked for Annenberg Media, been a mentor to first-year students and had a variety of internships. Next, she’s headed back to France, where she studied for a semester.

You might find a hangover cure, protection against Alzheimer’s and much more in nature’s bounty.

Ten years of work and millions of dollars in scholarships have pulled in students whose stories may have otherwise gone untold.

Though she didn’t set foot on campus until orientation, Shaw-Wakeman quickly got involved in causes aimed at leaving the university — and the world — a little better for the next generation and beyond.