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USC military social work center launches first county-wide veterans survey

Gen. David Petraeus urges local military community to help shape veteran policy
The University of Southern California School of Social Work has launched the most comprehensive survey to date to gauge the diverse needs of Los Angeles County’s military community, including families and service providers.

The Los Angeles Veterans Survey (www.lavetsurvey.org), developed by the Center for Innovation and Research on Veterans & Military Families at the USC School of Social Work, will poll 3,000 active service members and veterans; 1,000 spouses and partners; and 500 service providers to help identify the opportunities for program development, public policy and community collaboration.

“People would always […]

Petraeus leads a surge across campus

By Merrill Balassone

Retired Gen. David Petraeus officially became “Professor Petraeus” to USC students last week — lecturing on energy and the U.S. economy, meeting with student veterans and cheering the football team to a win in the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum.

Petraeus, whose current interests include how energy, information technology, life sciences and manufacturing revolutions will spur the North American economy, was impressed with the latest Trojan technology — robotic fingers that give machines a humanlike touch and the testimony of Holocaust survivors brought to life through 3-D technology.

Petraeus, who constructed the counterinsurgency doctrine that stabilized Iraq under U.S. and allied […]