USC-led study finds that, although the total number of high schoolers who were dabbing was low, those adolescents had nearly six times the likelihood of continuing to use concentrates.
A USC health economist notes how smoking among U.S. adults plunged after policy changes led to tactics including education, cigarette taxes and smoke-free public spaces.
USC Student Health now offers virtual consults, which means physicians can send photos of students’ skin issues to a dermatologist and speed up care considerably.
Health experts offer information and advice regarding the ongoing situation.
According to research from the USC Schaeffer Center, emergency department visits for mental health reasons have grown substantially since 2009, primarily in patients between 10 and 25 years old.
Frank Cruz always told other people’s stories. Now, the USC trustee tells all in his memoir about his days as a reporter, Telemundo co-founder and everything in between.
USC’s Julie Albright notes TikTok users sometimes see things they like (which provides a dopamine hit in the brain) and sometimes they don’t. Getting this occasional stimulation — similar to the sporadic payoffs on a slot machine — is key to its addictive power and success.
A new study led by USC’s Elizabeth Sowell shows that two factors — lead exposure and poverty — may be interacting to further impair cognition and brain development in children.
USC’s Gary Painter notes that California cities are experiencing an exodus of workers who can’t afford to live close to available jobs. “Newly-graduated college graduates who are looking to work in growing sectors are actually making decisions, now, to live elsewhere,” he says.
A Keck School of Medicine of USC study of more than 11,000 people suggests an association between feeling burned out, and having an irregular heartbeat — which could lead to blood clots, stroke, heart attack and other potentially fatal cardiac complications.
It’s not just a modern problem: Airborne toxins may have shaped our DNA over millions of years. But USC’s Caleb Finch and a colleague speculate that our evolutionary legacy may have increased our vulnerability to diseases linked to air pollution.
USC Dornsife international relations expert Ben Graham discusses why Immigrants could be the key to staying ahead of China.
“Adaptive therapy” uses principles of evolution to try to manage cancer as a chronic condition. “It really is a radically different way of approaching things,” says USC’s David Agus.
After a 41-year career with the Los Angeles Police Department, Paysinger joined the university as its vice president of civic engagement, strengthening community outreach and involvement in USC’s neighborhoods.
USC’s Diane Winston says it’s no surprise that young people have lost trust in religious institutions: “Their scandals, the sexuality improprieties, these problems of … pedophilia, of sexism, of misogyny. Why would you want to give your time and money to an institution that countenances or protects people who do these kinds of things?”
USC’s Norman Lear Center for Media found female immigrants in every racial group are underrepresented, immigrants are often overrepresented as criminals and immigrant characters are frequently portrayed as less educated on TV than they are in reality.
Baby boomers are already entering retirement. USC’s Dowell Myers explains what will happen as they pass away in large numbers and their homes flood the housing market. Could be too many people selling homes and not enough buyers?
Parents and graduating students from South and East L.A. shared breakfast and reminisced about their seven-year path through USC’s premier college prep program.
A new USC Viterbi study projecting climate change-driven migration has found that 13 million people could be forced to relocate inland by 2100.
Paleoclimatology data — which contains the details of our climate history — can be messy. That’s why USC’s scientists and AI experts have teamed up on a new platform to standardize it for research, analysis and prognostication.
Juan Pablo de los Rios grew up on both the Mexican and American sides of the Rio Grande, which became a dumping ground for toxic waste. As a chemistry grad student at USC Dornsife, he hopes to one day clean that river and others like it.
Randi Burley went from struggling student to community artist to aspiring engineer at USC Viterbi. The L.A. native shares her story, in her own words.
Research from the Keck School of Medicine of USC has found that readmission to a hospital where surgeons perform a high volume of brain surgeries can increase a patient’s odds of staying alive and avoiding complications.
The Herman Ostrow School of Dentistry of USC has reshaped its dental hygiene program to focus more on collaboration, adapt to new technology and better prepare graduates for an ever-evolving world.
Eddie Barojas was confined to a bed for years after developing a severe lymphedema. Today — thanks to a team of physical therapists, occupational therapists, urologists and wound-care specialists — he’s back on his feet and ready to return to comedy.
Students, faculty and staff gather to remember the civil rights leader and consider the impact his work has had on the nation.
Language changes as culture changes, and in the 2010s pronouns were the words on center stage. A doctoral student in linguistics at USC Dornsife examines how that came to be.
Two decades after billions were spent to fix the Y2K bug, that same fervor has not been directed toward solving climate change. That said, USC Dornsife professors believe lessons can still be learned from the panic of 1999.
A USC expert in international relations notes that the two nations have had a difficult relationship going back to 1953, when the U.S. helped overthrow Iran’s democracy-minded prime minister.
Lineup features six home games in the Coliseum, with visits from Notre Dame, Washington, Arizona State, California, Colorado and New Mexico.
The University Professor and Wallis Annenberg Chair in Communication Technology and Society will oversee policymaking and funding for Spain’s 50 public universities.
What USC researchers have uncovered about sea star locomotion could help scientists design simpler decentralized systems for all sorts of devices.
María Aranda will bring her expertise as a researcher and a social worker to Gov. Gavin Newsom’s Task Force on Alzheimer’s Prevention and Preparedness.
Patient Richard Johannesen shares how USC physical therapist Daniel Kirages helped him deal with the effects of cancer therapy.
She joins USC in April from her current post as dean of the University of South Carolina’s College of Social Work.
The grant will allow Ellis Meng and Dong Song to create cutting edge polymer electrodes for better brain signal monitoring, paving the way for devices that could restore human memory.
USC researchers have created virtual environments to test how certain design features could increase safety in the event of a mass shooting.
University leaders greeted incoming students at what’s become a USC tradition.
As the landscape of dramatic arts changes, USC’s acting, design, technical direction and musical theatre programs evolve along with it.
The ACT Together residency uses the arts to give a revitalizing voice to burned-out doctors, nurses and medical staff.