The report from the Department of Public Safety Community Advisory Board recommends steps aimed at strengthening trust between the university, DPS and the broader community and making security more equitable.
After a one-year delay due to COVID-19, the Tokyo Olympics kicked off last week. USC experts discuss the Games’ public perception and possible health ramifications for their host city.
Residents of the California Institution for Women joined a class on memoir writing alongside USC students, facilitating empathy and new perspectives on prison.
Learn more about the Trojan Olympians we’re all cheering for this year and get details on how and when you can watch (all events are being livestreamed online):
Isaiah Jewett, who will be a part of the men’s track and field team in Tokyo, is earning his online degree in project management to pursue another career goal: working in the anime industry.
Kelly Claes and her partner, Sarah Sponcil, have already made history as the youngest duo to represent the U.S. in beach volleyball. Now, they’re ready to show the world why they deserve their spot.
Brad Luck and Fernando Hurtado talk about the differing paths that took them from USC Annenberg to Tokyo.
In its history, USC has sent more athletes to the Olympics and won more medals and gold medals than any other U.S. university, with a Trojan winning a gold in every Summer Olympics since 1912.
Learn more about Nia Ali, Jeff Float, Katinka Hosszu, Felix Sanchez and Louis Zamperini, all of whom call USC Dornsife their academic home.
A USC professor of classics thinks they’d find it absurd: The ancient Olympics were never solely about the athletes, but about an experience shared by all who attended.
Some social media veterans have been at their jobs for 15 years at this point and have unprecedented sway. “These jobs are way beyond entry-level positions now,” says USC Annenberg’s Daniela Baroffio.
Among vaccinated people, symptoms of a common cold and COVID-19 are similar, notes Anjali Mahoney of the Keck School of Medicine of USC: “So even if you have symptoms, mild symptoms, I wouldn’t assume that it’s a cold. I would assume you need to get tested and quarantine.”
“Customization and personalization is how HR will evolve now and in the future,” says USC Bovard College’s Solange Charas. “Organizations that aren’t actively embracing an employee-centric business model will soon find that their competitive advantage will erode.”
Nearly 1 in 4 people said the benefits they received at retirement were substantially different than what they expected — usually dramatically less, notes Maria Prados of the USC Dornsife Center for Economic and Social Research.
Wealthy individuals use debt as a financial strategy, which USC Gould’s Edward McCaffery says runs counter to how nearly everyone else thinks about it: “They’ve been trained since birth, they’ve been trained in the womb, ‘Never a borrower nor a lender be, debt is bad, debt will cripple you.’ ”
“Many of us suspect there’s a lot more going on that we are not privy to,” USC’s Madhu Thangavelu says of the U.S. government’s recent report on UFOs.
USC’s Sharon Orrange notes that blood thinners like aspirin keep blood from clotting easily or quickly. That allows for more blood to leak out, making it appear as if you have larger bruises.
Many young adults are forgoing COVID-19 vaccines for a complex mix of reasons. “For the younger generation, we now really have to build the case for them to be vaccinated,” said Sarah Van Orman, USC Student Health’s chief health officer. “I think we have a long ways to go for that.”
“Obviously it was something wrong,” USC Viterbi’s Henry Koffman said, “especially if that engineer came out two years ago and said that there are problems and it just wasn’t properly addressed.”
More than any other country, the U.S. has a long history of both requiring CEO pay disclosure and trying to effect change around dramatic pay ratios. But USC Marshall’s Kevin Murphy notes that those attempts have all done more harm than good.
The sun can be more damaging to the eyes than many realize — and the damage adds up, says Assistant Professor Annie Nguyen, an ophthalmologist with the USC Roski Eye Institute.
Big brands roll out Pride-related merchandise each June — but USC Dornsife’s Karen Tongson says that needs to be backed up with substantive action. Otherwise, Tongson says, “it’s not going to make any difference because people are still going to suffer the same injustices.”
The NSF Artificial Intelligence Institute for Advances in Optimization will fuse AI and mathematics to tackle tough challenges, such as food security, supply chain operations and hardware design.
USC Dornsife researchers use geospatial modeling and psychological experimentation to predict “extreme behavioral expressions of prejudice” — malicious acts motivated by hate or bigotry.
The pandemic has upended lives around the world. USC experts consider: Where do we go from here?
USC researchers have been awarded a new NASA grant to make air travel cleaner, greener and more adaptable.
It’s USC’s first medal in this year’s Games and the first Olympic medal in Condorelli’s career.
Jian Xu hopes to better understand the mechanisms behind environmental toxins increasing the occurrence of birth defects in order to develop new treatments or even prevent craniofacial birth defects.
The USC Gould alum and first female CEO in NFL history now finds herself raising formal objections on CBS Sports.
USC alum Amelia Brodka will be in the thick of things when skateboarding makes its first appearance as an Olympic sport.
Private sector influence plus a market demand for mandates will likely overcome state laws that have limited vaccine requirements thus far, a USC study finds.
As executive board president of the Mexican American Bar Foundation, employment attorney Nina Huerta has taken on the charge to help diversify the law profession.
USC researchers are investigating how a popular antidepressant interacts with pregnant women’s genes to cause craniofacial birth defects.
Though the study of racially diverse Medicaid patients indicated disproportionate risk among Latinos, USC researchers say it can’t be explained by higher rates of poverty or underlying health factors like obesity.
Inspired by California’s vibrant food scene while at USC, alumna Shriya Naheta now delivers fresh, organic produce to thousands of customers across India.
USC is now requiring masking indoors for all individuals in university facilities, including vaccinated and unvaccinated individuals.
With a $2.3 million NIH award, USC researchers will study how cilia behavior and structure impact their function, a key in improving diagnostics and treatments for lung illnesses like COVID-19.
Created by USC Dornsife fellow Jonathan Leal and producer Charlie Vela, the album celebrates the musical traditions of the Texas borderlands — and warns of the potential impact of climate change.
A focus on others and on being of service has shaped and determined the careers of Sheryl Gordon McCloud and Ellen Biben.
To detect leaks and promote sustainability, the university is installing ultrasonic submeters on dozens of older buildings and cooling towers.
During an internship with the ACLU, undergraduate Alyssa Matias successfully worked for dietary improvements for incarcerated people in county jails, gaining real-world legal skills in the process.
Long a leader at USC Price, Goldman has served as interim dean since last year. He’ll head the school as rapid change creates pressing demands for public policy research and scholars.
The university’s convergent spirit and cultural transformation are commended, along with a commitment to transparency and affordability.
A team of USC researchers is helping AI envision the unseen, a technique that could lead to new medicines and increased autonomous vehicle safety.
USC policy and drama students join forces to illustrate “restorative justice,” a model that encourages survivors and formerly incarcerated people to move past the most difficult chapters of their lives.
The rapid filling of a giant dam at the source of the world’s longest river could reduce the water supplies going to Egypt and increase tensions with Ethiopia, a new USC study finds.