History Station: A World-Class University
Eminent faculty are the heart of a university’s reputation, and this station introduces some of USC’s most prominent faculty members, past and present. It also describes the important partnership between private benefactors and the academic enterprise they support, with special focus on Nobel laureate George A. Olah and the late patron Katherine B. Loker, who, along with her husband, Donald, provided significant funding and facilities for the chemist’s landmark research on super-acids, which led to cleaner gasolines. Sponsors: Carl M. and Sterling C. Franklin