The evening — featuring music, dance and theatrical presentations, comedy, films and an art exhibition — was a signature event leading up to Friday’s inauguration of Carol L. Folt as USC president.
USC and UCLA researchers seek to better understand urologic chronic pelvic pain syndrome, which affects more than 10 million Americans.
Why are students in an introductory USC Dornsife science course setting cheese puffs on fire? To better understand the fundamentals of biology, of course.
As part of the inauguration of Carol L. Folt, two faculty symposiums highlight innovations, discoveries and potential solutions to the world’s problems.
More and more academic medical centers making groundbreaking changes to address burnout and stress. At the Keck School of Medicine of USC, Dean Laura Mosqueda chose to tie wellness and leadership into an associate dean role.
Leinart, who led the Trojans to a pair of Rose Bowls and was MVP of the 2004 Rose Bowl, is the 25th Trojan player, coach or administrator elected to the Rose Bowl Hall of Fame.
The keyboardist, vocalist, composer and USC Thornton faculty member returns to the Monterey Jazz Festival on Friday. This time, she’s a featured member of the Christian McBride Situation, a funk-powered group that delivers a kaleidoscopic array of African American musical idioms.
Judy Pa is part of a USC team studying the effects of virtual reality on the brain and cognition related to aging. She explained that, unlike 2D games, VR provides a first-person, 3D immersive experience that is critical to spatial memory training.
A study by researchers at USC’s Information Sciences Institute bots and fake accounts enabled by artificial intelligence have become even more skipped at copying human behaviors — and avoidindg detection.
By expanding its menu, the USC Verdugo Hills Hospital has turned its cafeteria into a dinner destination for seniors. “You can come down here and eat cheaper than you’d buy the stuff from the store, and maybe you’ll run into another old senior and have a nice meal,” said diner Phil Downs.
In an op-ed, Gary Painter of the USC Price School of Public Policy argues that there are many common sense planning reforms that could be enacted to bring much needed housing to the market.
Professor Ed Avol of the Keck School of Medicine of USC notes one way to limit the damage: Walk through a neighborhood rather than along a busy thoroughfare.
The program provides paid entry-level jobs to USC School of Cinematic Arts alumni within five years of their graduation. TV producer Aaron Kaplan hatched the idea during a lunch with the school’s dean, Elizabeth M. Daley, and helped launch it.
When you think of habits, you probably think of nail biting, tooth brushing and coffee drinking. USC’s Wendy Wood and a colleague are in an op-ed that voting seems habitual, too: Whether you voted in the past affects whether you’ll turn out for the next election.
In an op-ed, USC doctoral candidate Suzie Mulesky says the human rights group mischaracterized the nature of gun violence here, and that its advisory could be counterproductive.
Advice from USC’s David Schonfeld, director of the National Center for School Crisis and Bereavement: “The last thing you want is for your children to find out about this from someone else, and for them to think you either will not or don’t feel able to tell them important things.”
New USC-led research has found that a protein called OTOP1 serves as a sour-taste receptor in both humans and mice.
The collaboration aims to expand occupational therapy research, education and practice in China.
Thanks in part to the work of dentist James Tom, the American Dental Association has adopted dental anesthesiology as its 10th recognized dental specialty.
Faculty and staff will receive a 50% subsidy on the cost of bus and rail passes, which restores and improves upon the previous benefit.
Portraits of Holocaust survivors appear alongside interactive testimonies in Facing Survival, a USC Fisher Museum of Art and USC Shoah Foundation collaboration open through Dec. 7.
Congress designates Sept. 17 as a day to recognize the value and history of the guiding document.
Faculty symposiums and a student-focused arts showcase are among the events leading up to Friday’s formal installation ceremony.
Testing will be provided at student health centers on both the University Park and Health Sciences campuses, and is available to undergraduate and graduate students.
New research co-led by USC scientists suggests hundreds of thousands of young adults took up vaping between 2017 and 2018.
USC researchers have discovered that corals can pass on their reshuffled symbiotic algae, which may help their progeny withstand climate change.
A team of USC Viterbi undergraduates will bring their underwater wireless communication technology to the finals of a global student competition.
Two apps from a USC Viterbi professor and his team allow users to create digital versions of themselves, an idea that could make waves in health care and entertainment.
Real estate firm FivePoint’s $1 million donation from will help the public policy school attract senior faculty.
The technique involves uncoiling twisty DNA molecules, and it could have a major impact on understanding disease development at a cellular level.
Follow along as one group of first-year Keck School of Medicine students visits the Downtown Women’s Center to serve healthy meals and embrace members of the local community.
A USC Dornsife professor describes how exploring the work of artists and poets can spur us to embrace and protect the environment.
The latest USC Dornsife/L.A. Times national poll also shows Joe Biden holding a steady lead ahead of the third Democratic primary debate, though many voters remain undecided.
When USC mechanical engineering major Judy Loyd discovers a vexing problem, she pursues its solution with stubborn intensity.
He went on to score the first touchdown in American Football League history and also set an NFL kickoff return record.
USC Viterbi alumnus Patrick Fuscoe and his wife, Bonnie, have donated $12 million to advance programs at three USC schools that shaped their lives.
USC and Duke researchers propose the Alzheimer’s Disease Exposome to address gaps in understanding how environmental factors interact with genetics to increase or reduce risk for the disease.
The creature is similar to the largest pterosaurs known. Key characteristics were gleaned from a cache of bones unearthed in Canada.
He replaces Lynn Swann, who resigned after a historic three-year tenure.