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USC Hires Prepackaged Team - Science Magazine
...in a bold experiment that begins this fall, the University of Southern California (USC) in Los Angeles has hired seven scientists who pitched themselves to the institution as a package.

The appointments by the Wrigley Institute for Environmental Studies (WIES) are part of the university's push to add 100 faculty members to its College of Letters, Arts, and Sciences. Three of the seven WIES hires are genomics experts; the rest specialize in marine biogeochemistry. Together, the septet plans to use gene sequencing as a tool to explore the dynamic relationship between microbial colonies and the ocean's chemical environment...