Commencement News

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USC Pharmacy’s 115th commencement honors the graduating class of 2022

May 18th, 2022

On March 13, the USC School of Pharmacy marked its 115th commencement before an audience of more than 2,000 family, friends, faculty and staff. Dean Vassilios Papadopoulos, DPharm, PhD, presided over the event in the ... Read More »

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Keck School of Medicine graduates honored as “the class that did the impossible”

May 18th, 2022

Libère Ndacayisaba, now PhD, addressed his fellow graduates at the commencement ceremony. (Photo/Courtesy of the Keck School of Medicine of USC) While the pandemic brought many new, unique challenges to graduate school, missing ... Read More »

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Keck School of Medicine graduates congratulated for choosing to become forces for good

May 18th, 2022

On May 14, more than 150 students of the Keck School of Medicine of USC walked across the stage of the Galen Center to receive their diplomas. All of them had one thing in common: ... Read More »

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Traditional sashes bring a glimpse of home for Native American graduates

May 18th, 2022

On the morning of April 27th, PhD student Cynthia Begay, MPH, passed a set of sashes to Dylan Goodwill, M.Ed., assistant director of undergraduate admission. Made from a handwoven blanket and embellished with cardinal and ... Read More »

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PharmD student earns U.S. Public Health Service award just before graduation

May 12th, 2022

Samara White, a fourth year PharmD student at the USC School of Pharmacy, recently received the 2022 Excellence in Public Health Pharmacy Award from the United States Public Health Service (USPHS) for her work as a ... Read More »

Veteran television journalist Ann Curry to deliver Keck School of Medicine MD commencement address

February 7th, 2022

Emmy Award-winning journalist and photojournalist Ann Curry will deliver the commencement address at the Keck School of Medicine of USC’s 2022 graduation ceremony on May 14. To continue reading this story, click here.

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