When COVID-19 sent classes online, the USC Iovine and Young Academy had to adapt on the fly. That included adjusting the senior science fair for a digital audience, a trend they now hope to continue post-pandemic.
Ebony Flowers has already received three fellowships as a postdoctoral fellow at USC, including her latest from the Burroughs Wellcome Fund Postdoctoral Enrichment Program.
A new, USC-led study of more than 1,000 years of North American droughts and global conditions found that forecasting a lack of precipitation is rarely straightforward.
Research funded by USC Sea Grant has found that these increasingly toxic blooms can poison marine mammals and contaminate seafood.
Scientists from the USC Information Sciences Institute are using improvised dialogue as data to build a wittier, more engaging conversational agent.
Artificial intelligence helped uncover new details about congenital adrenal hyperplasia, a genetic condition that affects hormone levels in the body.
USC’s Sook-Lei Liew, Judy Pa and James M. Finley are researching the benefits of virtual reality for patients with Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease or stroke.
From environment, family and transportation to what we’ll eat and how we’ll age, USC faculty share how they think our future world might look.
USC researchers find that applying shock waves can improve fluid mixing in supersonic combustion engines, paving the way for flights at speeds five times the speed of sound.
From the authors of classic literature to ancient astronomers, Earthlings have been captivated by Mars for as long as we can remember. USC experts help dissect our attraction to the red planet.
With the Mars 2020 Perseverance rover about to launch, USC professors explain what we know about the planet already and what this latest mission can teach us.
In two weeks, the USC Viterbi engineering society Theta Tau raised more than $12,000 to support the Black Lives Matter movement.
From lessening the need for human labor to optimizing our day-to-day lives, USC Dornsife professors examine how AI will change the world.
The initiative’s first three projects will focus on major environmental concerns in Southern California: water management, air pollution and testing for nutrients in soil.
Emily Cooperdock, professor of Earth sciences at USC Dornsife, is building a lab aimed at revealing new information about the planet’s history.
USC Dornsife scientists are investigating if a drug that extends the lives of female flies who’ve mated could also have an effect on humans.
Laura Loyola, now with USC Dornsife’s Spatial Sciences Institute, is using geographic information science to help preserve the habitat of the critically endangered Tana River colobus monkey.
USC Viterbi researchers have developed a far more efficient wearable prototype that is powered by magnetic induction.
Travis Mendoza went to La Peñita to build a hotel. When the pandemic struck, he shifted his focus toward building a community.
Researchers from USC and colleagues describe how immune cells help lizards accomplish this incredible feat of regeneration.
In order to bring much-needed educational opportunities to people displaced by war, a team of USC Viterbi students turned to technology.
USC researchers 3D-printed the next-generation of high strength, lightweight structures that can autonomously heal impact damage.
USC alum Viry Martino played a critical role in the construction of the Cross Border Xpress, the first bridge to connect the U.S. to a foreign airport terminal.
Researchers in USC Viterbi’s Department of Biomedical Engineering have created a new nanoparticle that aims to prevent potentially deadly blood clots.