The National Science Foundation has awarded an innovation grant to researchers at the USC Ginsburg Institute and the USC Roski Eye Institute to advance efforts to slow down or reverse retinal degeneration.
Now in its fourth year, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Week offers more than 70 sessions designed to bring USC communities closer together.
Allyson Felix is the most decorated female track and field star in history. She’s also become an activist, fighting for gender and racial equality in the sports world and beyond.
Senior Connie Machuca studies corals and anemones to understand how they respond to rising temperatures, acidification and other ocean-related issues linked to climate change.
University officials offer new guidance regarding international travel as the situation continues to evolve.
A first-of-its-kind study of skateboarding culture found the sport improves mental health, fosters community and encourages diversity and resilience.
You probably wouldn’t want to wear this heavy, smelly invention by Aroussiak Gabrielian of the USC School of Architecture. It’s aimed at getting people to think harder about the future of food production and waste.
Crosstown, a nonprofit research project based at the USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism, tallied up accident reports from LAPD and came up with a list of the 20 most dangerous intersections.
A four-person team funded by the Keck School of Medicine of USC finds its patients where they live — and treats them there, too.
Tony Herrera is one of the few living donors in the country who has donated two different organs. He hopes his story will inspire others to do the same.
USC sleep expert Raj Dasgupta stays away from his cellphone: “Once I open my phone, I’m suddenly answering emails, checking my Instagram and watching The Mandalorian on Disney Plus.”
Valentine’s Day has been big business since the mid-19th century, but USC’s Lisa Bitel notes that few people realize the holiday began as a Christian feast day commemorating an ancient martyr named Valentinus.
USC’s Laura Isabel Serna notes that Hollywood is constantly trying to expand into foreign markets, particularly the tightly regulated Chinese market. That means the academy has a vested interest in giving those countries’ governments some control over their Oscar submissions.
Start by doing your research, says Nada Elbuluk of the Keck School of Medicine of USC: It’s a good idea to find out what types of products — like strong exfoliating acids — the treatment includes.
USC Annenberg’s Nicholas Cull points out that modern technology confounds our efforts to tell fact from fiction.
“Universities are often the most global and we are often on the front lines of these situations,” said Sarah Van Orman, chief health officer for USC Student Health. With more than 6,600 students from the China, USC has the second-largest such population of students in the U.S.
USC’s Jon-Patrick Allem notes that bots are designed to behave online like people — so if researchers are interested in studying public attitudes, they have to make sure the day they’re collecting on social media is actually from people.
According to scientists at the Keck School of Medicine of USC, the chemical alterations in people who vape are similar to those found in cigarette smokers.
Ready, Set, Food! — which is staffed in part by USC Marshall alumni — impressed the famed investor so much that he put $350,000 into the company.
A USC law professor investigates which counties are more likely to participate in immigration detention and what those counties all have in common.
You Chung Hong fought to repeal the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 and helped thousands of immigrants reunite with their families, becoming the nation’s foremost Chinese attorney.
Leaders from USC and the Los Angeles Police Department came together at their annual brunch to celebrate Martin Luther King Jr.
The eighth annual USC Latinx Student Empowerment Conference gave more than 100 students and alumni an opportunity to discuss their place within the university.
By their late 40s, nearly two-thirds of women in sub-Saharan Africa have lost a child, according to a USC study. Researchers are increasingly recognizing bereavement as a public health threat.
Fourteen USC students received the prestigious grant to study and conduct research overseas.
USC Viterbi freshman Jovani Esparza, a first-generation scholarship student, was inspired by his parents and brother to become an engineer and give back to those in need.
The annual PACE/USC Rossier poll also finds voters questioning the fairness of the college admissions process.
For more than 20 years, “The Mayor” has been a fixture at USC. Now, he’s tackling a new challenge: helping to change the university’s culture.
Inspired by the USC Shoah Foundation’s video interviews, two Pulitzer Prize-winning journalists are documenting the stories of mass shooting survivors while also teaching young reporters how to cover traumatic events.
Social work graduates and USC staffers Layan Kaileh and Nicole Wilson describe how they helped conduct the 2020 Greater Los Angeles Homeless Count.
Beginning on March 13, the renowned festival will bring the world’s leading cellists back to USC.
Keck School of Medicine of USC is launching a large clinical trial that targets amyloid plaques in the brain. The goal: to see whether a drug can clear or slow this plaque in people who have early Alzheimer’s or who appear clinically normal.
Ted Lumpkin Jr. overcame segregation and served honorably during World War II, even bringing some of the lessons he learned to his post-war career in social work.
The newly developed method is called SEER, which USC researchers say works up to 67 times faster and provides far greater definition than current techniques.
He was the first African American quarterback in Pac-12 history and played on the winning team in the first two Super Bowls.
At USC’s first ITEC College Exploration Day, Native American students and their families were introduced to a bevy of higher education opportunities.
Between childhood and adulthood, young people with cancer may feel ignored and misunderstood — but USC researchers won’t let them be forgotten.
The gift will be used to create an endowment fund that will further collaborations between the dance school and the USC Thornton School of Music.
A USC Dornsife anthropologist says that the increasing acumen of artificial intelligence — along with new knowledge of plant and animal behavior — are challenging how we perceive the concept of being human.
The USC Roski School of Art and Design invites the public to visit the new home of its three graduate programs.
Hannah Garry addressed the Appeals Chamber of the International Criminal Court last month on behalf of victims of alleged war crimes in Afghanistan.