The horrifying statistics demonstrate the need for a greater global commitment to saving millions of new-born lives lost unnecessarily.

BBC: Baby deaths 'could be halved'

It has more international students on its books than any other American university, and, after the recent launch of the USC Schwarzenegger Institute for State and Global Policy, one particularly notable foreign-born professor.

ECONOMIST: As public universities struggle, some private ones thrive

It was 1993 and China was bidding for the 2000 Olympics. with the country brimming with confidence, a Chinese-born Harvard mathematician figured this was the time to ask China to host another global event held every four years.

FORBES: Plugging a Math Gap