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In memoriam: Art Mazmanian, 91, All-American on USC’s 1948 champion team
The second baseman played for six years with the Yankees organization, then returned to L.A.’s Dorsey High to coach baseball and football.
Dental enamel can’t regenerate, right? Think again
USC dentistry Professor Janet Moradian-Oldak is developing a special hydrogel that can promote the growth of an enamel-like surface on teeth and remineralize the dentin.
Hundreds remember the life of USC student Victor McElhaney
Family, friends and fellow musicians remember the talented percussionist who touched so many lives during his time as a Trojan.
Carol L. Folt to become USC’s 12th president
USC Board of Trustees selects internationally recognized biologist and former University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill chancellor to lead the university into new era.
The Wall Street Journal
Health care’s killer app: life insurance
In an op-ed, USC’s Dana Goldman and Darius Lakdawalla of the USC Schaeffer Center offer potential benefits to having life insurance providers take an expanded role in health care.
LAist
The worst time to drive in the rain is not when you think
When it rains’s raining, L.A.’s roads are slick. So naturally there’d be more accidents during rush hour, when the roads are full, right? Wrong. Researchers from USC Annenberg’s Crosstown data journalism project found that on rainy days most accidents happen mid-day — when there’s less traffic
Los Angeles Times
Don’t peg the new USC Games chief as just a film guy
Danny Bilson, perhaps best known as a screenwriter (he wrote The Rocketeer) has been in the game business for 20 years. Now he’ll lead USC Games, which is consistently ranked as one of the nation’s top places to study game design. (Los Angeles Times)
Harvard Business Review
Why is customer service so bad? Because it’s profitable
USC Marshall’s Anthony Dukes and a colleague found that the more of a hassle it is for customers to seek a refund, the less likely they are to jump through multiple hoops to receive one.
The Hollywood Reporter
As USC film school turns 90, famous alums share memories
Thirty of the USC School of Cinematic Arts’ influential alumni gather for a photo shoot and some reminiscing, with memories going all the way back to a time when classes were held inside a stable.
Bloomberg
How high-speed rail can solve housing shortages
In an op-ed, USC’s Matthew Kahn notes that trains running 200 mph can connect people to jobs as much as 100 miles away from where they live, without their needing to suffer intolerably long commutes.
Forbes
Learning the history of standup comedy
Wayne Peterman, a veteran comedian who teaches standup at USC, makes connections between the way things were in comedy and how they came to be the way they are today.
Voice of America
Tech enables holocaust survivors to engage in conversations beyond the grave
Imagine speaking to a video image of a genocide survivor and getting answers back as if you’re having a conversation with the real person. That’s now possible thanks to the USC Shoah Foundation project Dimensions in Testimony.
Harvard Business Review
How to break down work into tasks that can be automated
In an op-ed, USC’s John Boudreau and a colleague argue that most organizations are missing the benefits of automation by not spending the time to deeply understand the work they want to automate.
Smithsonian
The complex role faith played for Japanese-Americans incarcerated during World War II
“Religious difference acted as a multiplier of suspiciousness,” writes USC’s Duncan Ryuken Williams, “making it even more difficult for Japanese-Americans to be perceived as anything other than perpetually foreign and potentially dangerous.”
PC Magazine
Sorry, very few things actually ‘break the internet’
Kristina Lerman of the USC Information Sciences Institute explains why it’s very hard to go viral and how our brains can’t truly process all the information we’re seeing on social media.
NBC News
California youth and Latino vote jumped last year
About 27 percent of young Californians voted in 2018, up from about 8 percent in 2014, while 36 percent of eligible Latinos voted, up from 17 percent. The numbers come from the California Civic Engagement Project at the USC Price School of Public Policy.
USC leaders visit Rape Treatment Center where survivors direct the care
At Santa Monica center, USC leadership hear from national leaders on trauma-informed care for sexual assault survivors.
Professor’s acting class in an unexpected locale — Saudi Arabia — allows for cultural exchange
Anne DeSalvo had never been to the Middle Eastern country before; her experience there was not what she expected — in a good way.
USC delegation meets with lawmakers in D.C.
Group including president, provost and trustees advocates for a host of key national priorities that directly impact the university’s faculty, researchers and students.
USC named one of nation’s top producers of Fulbright students for 2018-19
Fourteen USC students received grants through the program to conduct research, teach or study abroad.
USC honors military at 10th annual Veterans and ROTC Gala
The event recognizes hundreds of USC veterans and their spouses and ROTC cadets and their officers.
Is year-round daylight saving time a good idea? Maybe not
USC experts confirm biological challenges of the time change; if anything, they say we should be on standard time all year.
Mindfulness could be a key to recovering from substance abuse, USC experts say
Initial studies with young adults show dramatic drops in stress, cravings, impulsivity and risk of relapse after practicing mindfulness.
Graduating medical students learn where they’re headed on Match Day
Fourth-year med students at the Keck School of Medicine of USC find out where they’ll be completing their residencies.
Lessons the clergy sex abuse crisis can draw from a fourth-century church schism
USC’s Cavan W. Concannon notes that Christian churches in North Africa faced a similar crisis of trust in their leaders — one with implications that lasted for centuries.
Llama Drama: Latest in fotonovela series heightens hypertension awareness
Comic-style booklet is 10th in a USC School of Pharmacy series aimed at increasing health literacy.
Antimicrobial film could revolutionize common dental procedures
Non-surgical procedure could help reduce bacterial growth for patients with dental implants.
Students learn more than writing working alongside former prisoners
A special section of Writing 150 — a course required of freshmen — gives eye-opening perspectives to everyone in the class.
How wastewater treatment plants spread antibiotic resistance — with potentially dire consequences
USC researchers find that even low concentrations of a single type of antibiotic leads to resistance to multiple classes of antibiotics. What will happen if antibiotics are no longer effective?
Researchers develop algorithm through which robot learns to walk
The work opens exciting possibilities for understanding human movement, creating responsive prosthetics and developing robots that adapt to complex and changing environments.
USC’s Holocaust, genocide studies collection goes from nonexistent to one of best in U.S.
Wolf Gruner, founding director of USC Shoah Foundation’s Center for Advanced Genocide Research, began his quest to build a Holocaust library as soon as he arrived at USC a decade ago.
USC to award seven honorary degrees at 2019 commencement
Recipients include a groundbreaking U.S. Congress member, a world-renowned dancer, extraordinary humanitarians and philanthropists, a pioneering statistician and a USC music icon.
How the ideas of engineers can help the homeless
A provider of homeless services in Los Angeles has an unlikely new partner: the USC Viterbi School of Engineering.
Students see ‘behind the veil’ of public health policy
It’s the ultimate field trip for public health policy students: visiting the state capital to meet with lawmakers.
Gift endows first-generation program at USC Gould School of Law
The $3 million gift from alumnus John Molina endows the C. David Molina First Generation Professionals Program, named in honor of John Molina’s father, and a scholarship fund.
New gift strengthens USC Schaeffer Center’s influence in health policy
USC Trustee Leonard D. Schaeffer and his wife, Pamela, donate $17 million to the center they founded a decade ago to support rigorous research addressing health policy challenges.
Hate exercise? It could be genetic
We all don’t react the same way to exercise. USC experts are looking at the reasons for the differences, from our brains to cultural issues and more.
New tool tracks injuries in older adults, helps in fighting elder abuse
The Geriatric Injury Documentation Tool emerged from a new study led by Keck School of Medicine of USC Dean Laura Mosqueda, which confirms the need for improved documentation.