The University of Southern California (USC or SC) is a private research university located in Los Angeles, California.
 Founded in 1880, it is the oldest private research university in California.
 USC has historically educated a large number of the region's business leaders and professionals.
 In recent decades, the university has also leveraged its location in Los Angeles to establish relationships with research and cultural institutions throughout Asia and the Pacific Rim.
 An engine for economic activity, USC contributes $8 billion annually to the economy of the Los Angeles metropolitan area and California.
Norman Pearson is an American orchestral tuba player who is most known as the tubist with the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra since 1993.
 Prior to his appointment with the Los Angeles Philharmonic Norman Pearson was a freelance musician in the Los Angeles area and performed regularly with the Pacific Symphony, Joffrey Ballet, Los Angeles Music Center Opera and the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra.
 He attended the University of Southern California, studying under Tommy Johnson, where he received a bachelor's degree in music.
 He also has recorded for most of the major Hollywood motion picture and television studios.
 He currently teaches at the Colburn School and the University of Southern California.
Paul Pescador (born in 1983) is a contemporary artist who works in film, photography, and performance.
 Pescador was born in Indio, CA, he now lives and works in Los Angeles, CA.
 Pescador received his B.A. in 2005 from the University of Southern California and his M.F.A. in 2012 from the University of California Irvine.
 He is best known for his playful photographic use of color and composition, and for his short film narratives that follow both personal experience and fiction.
 Pescador has shown widely in Los Angeles and California, including exhibitions at the University of California Los Angeles, the REDCAT theater at California Institute for the Arts, and University of California Berkeley.
 His films have screened at Machine Project, Human Resources, Echo Park Film Center in Los Angeles, and Durham Studio Theater at UC Berkeley.
 Pescador also works in curation and has organized shows at the Hammer Museum and The Pit in Los Angeles.
 In 2015 he was the grant recipient of the California Community Foundation's Emerging Category.
Charles Lee (born November 18, 1977) in Nashville, TN, raised in Pacoima of Los Angeles, CA was an American sprinting athlete.
 He was a four-time All-American short sprinter at the University of Southern California in the late nineteen-nineties.
 Lee, a Cleveland High School (Los Angeles, California) graduate and Los Angeles Valley College Alum is the record holder in both the 100 meters and 200 meters at both schools.
 Lee went on to the University of Southern California (coached by John Henry Johnson & Ron Allice) where he ranked as a top 50 sprinter in the world and earned All-American status 6 times as both a solo sprinter and relay runner throughout his college career.
 Lee graduated from USC in 1999.
 As a youth, Lee was a member of the North Valley Golden Bears Track Club and Los Angeles Jets Track Club.
The Southern California Regional Occupational Center or SoCal ROC is located in the South Bay suburbs of Los Angeles of Torrance, California.
 It is a Joint Powers Authority serving 6 school districts (Inglewood, Manhattan Beach, Palos Verdes Peninsula, Redondo Beach, El Segundo, and Torrance).
 SoCal ROC serves an area encompassing 14 cities and certain unincorporated areas of Los Angeles County.
 The total population of this community is approximately 721,000.
 SoCal ROC is fully accredited by the Western Association of Schools and Colleges.
 All courses are certified by California State Department of Education.
 Instructors are credentialed by the State of California.
 SoCal ROC is nationally recognized as an Exemplary Career-Oriented Secondary School.
 Admission is open to high school and adult students throughout Southern California.
 High school students from the participating districts have priority for enrollment.
 SoCal ROC is located at 2300 Crenshaw Boulevard in Torrance, California.
The University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) is a public research university in the Westwood district of Los Angeles, California, United States.
 It became the Southern Branch of the University of California in 1919, making it the second-oldest undergraduate campus of the ten-campus University of California system.
 It offers 337 undergraduate and graduate degree programs in a wide range of disciplines.
 UCLA enrolls about 31,000 undergraduate and 13,000 graduate students, and had 119,000 applicants for Fall 2016, including transfer applicants, the most applicants for any American university.
The Exposition Park neighborhood of Los Angeles is the neighborhood park and adjacent district in the south region of Los Angeles, California, United States.
 The neighborhood includes Exposition Park itself, which includes the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, Exposition Rose Garden and three museums: the California African American Museum, the California Science Center and the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County.
 It is also home to a Science Center Academy.
 The University of Southern California campus is located just alongside the neighborhood's eastern borders.
 Opening in March of 2018 and currently undergoing construction in Exposition Park, the Banc of California Stadium will be the home of the new Los Angeles FC Major League Soccer team.
 Also currently under construction is the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art which will open in Exposition Park in 2021.
The Italian American Museum of Los Angeles (Italian: ""Museo Italo Americano di Los Angeles"" and abbreviated IAMLA) is a museum located in downtown Los Angeles, California, California, United States and is part of the El Pueblo de Los Ángeles Historical Monument.
 It is dedicated to the history, experience and continuing contributions of Italian Americans and Italians in Southern California and the United States, and is the first such museum in Southern California.
 The museum opened in 2016 and to date, the IAMLA has presented historical exhibits on Italians in Los Angeles, including "Sunshine and Struggle" and a variety of educational and cultural events.
George Tirebiter was the nickname initially given to a dog at the University of Southern California in the 1940s who was the unofficial mascot of the school before becoming the official mascot on October 22, 1947.
 The nickname was passed on to George Tirebiter's subsequent successors after the original Tirebiter's death in 1950.
 The original Tirebiter was a nationally known figure and beloved canine of the University of Southern California.
 He would lead the marching band out at home football games and once even entered in an armored car.
 Tirebiter was kidnapped, or thought to have been kidnapped, multiple times by the University of Southern California's rival the University of California, Los Angeles, USC student politicians for publicity, and once possibly by a newspaper.
 The line of Tirebiters lasted through 1961 when the legacy of the Tirebiter mascots was replaced with Traveler, the white Andalusian horse ridden by a Trojan rider at USC home football games and various other university events.
Banc of California Stadium is a soccer-specific stadium under construction in the Exposition Park neighborhood of Los Angeles, California.
 It is the first open-air stadium built in the City of Los Angeles since 1962 and will be the home of the expansion Major League Soccer team Los Angeles FC.
 Being constructed on the site of the former Los Angeles Memorial Sports Arena, it is located next to the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum and just south of the main campus of the University of Southern California.
 Los Angeles FC subleases the site from the University which has a master lease with the LA Memorial Coliseum Commission for operating and managing the Coliseum and Sports Arena properties

Question: Is the University of California, Los Angeles, the same school as University of Southern California?
Answer: no