Community leaders and USC President L. Folt join in celebrating the freshly renovated campus, which includes a USC-run preschool and housing for homeless vets and their families.
EARTH MONTH: USC Viterbi’s Shaama Sharada is working to remove emissions from the atmosphere and converted into useful products such as paint, adhesives, detergents and wastewater treatment chemicals.
EARTH MONTH: Conference features former U.S. Reps. Adam Kinzinger and Val Demings, former White House National Climate Adviser Gina McCarthy and New York Times columnist Bret Stephens.
Amy Schneider and Mattea Roach talk about their time on the popular television game show — and take on some trivia questions, too.
Allard has been USC’s interim vice president for student affairs since 2021.
Some people can’t take statins because of side effects. “If they go home and don’t take it, it’s not doing any benefit,” said cardiologist Eugene DePasquale of the Keck School of Medicine of USC. “It’s really important to have an alternative.”
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A study from the climate change storytelling consultancy Good Energy and USC Annenberg’s Norman Lear Center found less than 3% of the more than 37,000 analyzed movie and TV scripts written between 2016 and 2020 made any reference to climate change. But scenes featuring discussions about climate change or fire control methods, such as raking leaves off a lawn, don’t exactly make for scintillating screen time.
USC Marshall’s Rodney Ramcharan dismissed criticism that the bank reportedly donated millions to Black Lives Matter and similar groups as “trivial and irrelevant,” given the bank had more than $200 billion in assets before it failed. (Los Angeles Times; may require subscription)
The movie and TV series are recognized as the year’s best adaptation of the written word.
USC Annenberg’s Robin Stevens is working with Instagram’s Well-being Creator Collective, a pilot program that trains and educates influencers and content creators on how to create responsible mental health content.
Research conducted by USC’s Matthew Kahn found that L.A. was the fifth-greenest large metropolitan area in the country as measured by carbon emitted by an average household — almost entirely because of relatively mild weather. If L.A. built more housing, there would be less building in areas such as Atlanta or Houston, which have higher greenhouse gas emissions.
An annual report from the USC Annenberg Inclusion Initiative also found that half of the women over 45 who led or co-led a movie were women of color.
“If you go back 30, 40 years, women went on the education committee, or maybe dealt with health care — whatever little bone was thrown their way,” says Sherry Bebitch Jeffe, a retired USC political science professor. “Dianne didn’t follow the typical path. … She didn’t let herself get pigeonholed as a ‘woman’ senator.”
The entertainer is now part of an elite sorority of Black women who’ve been featured on Super Bowl stages. Shaun Harper of the USC Race and Equity Center explains why that’s important: Rihanna and other Black women work in an industry dominated by white executives and by men, few of whom are Black.
USC’s Robert Kozinets and a colleague describe how to bring transparency and accountability to social media.
One challenge: the absence of uplifting hormones. “There are a lot of endorphins and chemical changes that happen in our body when we exercise,” says Jared Vagy, USC assistant professor of physical therapy. “If that’s the only method that some people have to release those chemicals, then you’ve just lost a large part of what makes you complete as a human or satisfied.”
Most community gardens in L.A. are “hobby gardens” for more affluent demographics, says USC Dornsife’s Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo. But this one, she says, is a “healing spot, homeland and economic generator” for a diverse group of immigrants — Indigenous, mestizo and Central American.
New imaging technique developed at the USC Translational Imaging Center promises efficient, high-quality look inside living tissue.
A new grant supports spreading Keck School of Medicine of USC’s successful model to other communities with people who are unsheltered.
TITLE IX: “The concepts that Title IX embodies are really central to our STEM programs at the USC Joint Educational Project,” says Dieuwertje “DJ” Kast of the USC Joint Educational Project.
A World War II hero, an astronaut and a pioneering Air Force general are saluted at the USC military community’s biggest night.
More than 400 students took part in USC’s hackathon for marginalized gender identities, now in its seventh year.
Clinical trial results establish new treatment option that may offer patients better outcomes than traditional therapies.
The program will equip professionals with the knowledge and skills they need to lead across the full spectrum of PR, marketing and advertising functions.
The newly established Middle Eastern North African Student Assembly is making the most of additional resources as the group advocates for more.
In the second of two State of the University speeches, the president outlines robust construction, healthy funding and strong ties to the local community.
Neda Maghsoodi, assistant professor in the USC Viterbi Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering, is equally committed to creating a culture of human flourishing.
Shirley Malcom shares her path to education and science equity at the 44th Pullias Lecture.
Vishal Vaidya joins Professor Deborah Natol for a very unusual class in The Art and Science of Leadership.
“Just hearing about how they overcame people telling them ‘no’ really resonated with me,” says high school student Katharine Rovira.
Multiple ophthalmologists had said Larry Goodall’s vision problem was untreatable, but a consultation with Kimberly Gokoffski at the USC Rossi Eye Institute offered a chance to save his sight.
TITLE IX: Former cancer researcher Amy Ross works to foster an environment where women are empowered to speak out.
The former congresswoman served as deputy secretary of the Cabinet in the Carter administration.
“Our work together matters more than it ever has, and I’m honored to be your president,” she says in the first of her two State of the University addresses.
USC’s 140th commencement ceremony will include the presentation of honorary degrees to three internationally renowned figures: Frances Arnold, Kevin Feige and Dolores Huerta.
USC experts discuss the systemic issues plaguing the U.S. banking system and the regulatory gaps exposed by the financial collapse of Silicon Valley Bank and other institutions.
The one-day festival presents an inclusive safe space that challenges patriarchal oppression in the music industry.
Research into the pandemic experiences of the Navajo Nation and the Klamath Tribes underscores the need for the U.S. to honor tribal water rights legally recognized — but never delivered on — for over a century.
How do primary and secondary school teachers help students explore topics like human rights and gun violence in a politically charged environment? USC Rossier experts are working on it.
TITLE IX: The former METRANS Transportation Consortium director has seen progress toward gender equality since the passage of Title IX, but observes there is still room for improvement.
A recent discovery of nearly 800,000 pounds of the banned toxic pesticide near Santa Catalina Island sparks new research for an institution that has spent five decades helping Southern California manage its coasts.