Every year USC Annenberg becomes home to not only the incoming freshman class, but also to students who declare double majors or minors in communication, journalism, or public relations. The variety of resources available at USC Annenberg can help each student with their academic and professional development.

Here are several stories featuring USC Annenberg's fresh faces. Their...

Dr. Stacy L. Smith, Associate Professor and Founder and Director of the Media, Diversity, & Social Change Initiative, interviews members of the Systemic Change Project, formed by Women in Film Los Angeles and Sundance Institute to address inequality in the film industry. Actor/Producer Maria Bello (Lights Out, McFarland, USA, Coyote Ugly, A History of Violence), producer Cassian Elwes (Elvis & Nixon, Dallas Buyer’s Club, Lee Daniels’ The Butler), and other guests discuss the unprecedented work the group is doing to reach their peers in entertainment and move the needle for women in Hollywood for the first time in decades.

This week in "Quoted": Professor Sandy Tolan continues his reports from Standing Rock on the Dakota Access Pipline, U.S.-China Institute director Clayton Dube on what Trump's victory could mean for China, professor Mike Ananny on how to prepare future journalists in the changing political climate, and more.

The spotlight was on two USC Annenberg students Sunday night at Staples Center, where they were presented with the 2016 Chick Hearn Memorial Scholarship in a ceremony at center court. Keely Eure (B.A. Broadcast Journalism, '17) and Jodee Storm Sullivan (B.A. Broadcast and Digital Journalism, '18) received the award from the Hearn family and Annenberg Dean Ernest J. Wilson III during half-time at the Lakers vs. Hawks game, which fell on what would have been the late legendary announcer's 100th birthday.

Someday a perfect storm will hit the Gulf Coast city of Houston. We don’t know when it will arrive. But we do know that, when it finally does hit the country’s fourth largest city, it could result in thousands of lives lost, millions of dollars in damages and a paralyzed American economy—and little is being done to prepare for it.

David Hockney, Ed Ruscha and Frank Stella are some of the artists who sought the distinctive Gemini G.E.L. printmaking process. To celebrate half a century of formidable output, our Master of Arts Journalism class went to "The Serial Impulse at Gemini G.E.L.," at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art—an apt location considering the very first Gemini G.E.L. edition, a series of prints by Josef Albers, went on display at LACMA in 1966.

The USC Master of Public Diplomacy program celebrates ten years of Canadian Fulbrights and 70 years of the Fulbright in Canada program. Secretly negotiated trade deals like TPP, TTIP and ACTA are the exact opposite of "public diplomacy:" smoke-filled rooms where bureaucrats and industry figures negotiate binding private law that affects the lives of hundreds of millions of people without any legislative scrutiny, let alone public participation. But across the world, netroots activists have found that their common interest in fundamental justice, their common expertise in technology and their common presence in virtual spaces provides for a surprisingly effective check against these offensives run by the most powerful multinational corporations in the history of the world.