New gift ensures hundreds more L.A. children will embrace reading
USC’s Kinder 2 College program helps children from surrounding neighborhoods to become proficient in reading and writing by the end of third grade.
Latest count shows number of L.A.-area homeless up 23 percent in one year
USC researchers provide key analysis of the data gathered annually by the county and city, as part of the university’s Initiative to Eliminate Homelessness.
USC TRiO programs mark 40 years of helping low-income pupils get ready for college
The programs have been life-changing for students like Jorge Campos, who was homeless at the start of high school but will be attending Harvard in the fall.
USC’s groundbreaking Neighborhood Academic Initiative honors 60 newest graduates
Joining in the festivities is actor Mark Hamill, a longtime supporter of the intense college-prep program that helps students living near the USC campuses.
With support from loved ones and imaginary dragons, a little girl copes with cancer
When a family friend took on the battle of her young life, a PhD student made her the hero of a children’s book.
High school students present their visions for a better East L.A.
Teens propose ways to boost public safety and build local pride in their neighborhood at USC Price urban planning event.
Book ’em: Fans, families flock to nation’s largest literary festival
USC’s University Park Campus hosts some 150,000 visitors to the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books.
USC hosts Los Angeles Times Festival of Books this weekend
With 500 authors, celebrities, musicians, artists and chefs and more than 150,000 attendees, it’s the largest literary and cultural festival in the nation.
Dinos and drumbeats: KUSC brings Kids Discovery Day to the Natural History Museum
First-ever event combines arts, science and learning — and a dose of dinosaurs.
Young minds meet new technology at STEM-focused after-school program
USC’s Joint Educational Project introduces fourth- and fifth-graders to virtual reality, 3-D printing and drones.
Kids get hands-on time with some of USC Viterbi’s favorite robots
The annual Robotics Open House gives visiting schoolchildren a chance to see how the next generation of robots will change the world.
Teen journalists make Boyle Heights their beat
With support from USC’s Good Neighbors Campaign, reporters and editors bring the Boyle Heights Beat newspaper — and the community — to life.
Community artists get helping hand with USC Fisher residency, exhibit
Participants in Art Division, a Westlake nonprofit, took lessons with some of USC’s top artists, then displayed their own work.
Youngsters get their hands on virtual reality, cellphone microscopes and other engineering marvels
USC Viterbi-hosted EngX attracts students who want to be engineers.
Housing clinic at USC helps renters find affordable homes
The community resource serves as translator, legal adviser and advocate at no charge for people with housing issues.
Future dentists, hygienists hit the road with mobile dental clinic
Listen in as students and faculty from the Herman Ostrow School serve more than 100 kids in Pasadena. For many of the kids, it was their first time in a dentist’s chair.
College Access Day shows students how they can make the leap to higher ed
Local high school students receive college knowledge from USC leaders.
Stem Cell Day of Discovery introduces students to USC scientists
Middle and high school students visit labs and tour USC’s stem cell research center, cancer center and Keck Hospital of USC.
Fit Families program has healthy focus, from exercise routines to eating right
For participants in the free, USC-sponsored weekly sessions, payoffs include a positive outlook and some impressive weight loss.
USC Dornsife, nonprofit help youngsters boost their literacy skills
Fifth-grade students accept the challenge to read from a Harry Potter book in front of a large crowd at the Galen Center.
USC Dornsife instructors help former prisoners write about their own transformations
USC Dornsife instructors explain how the project has been meaningful for them.
Former prisoners find their voice — with help from writing workshops
Creative writing course is part of a larger effort to help individuals reintegrate into society.
Students welcome costumed kids to campus for Spirits at Troy event
The annual party gives neighborhood youngsters a special place to celebrate Halloween.
Alum encourages local teenagers to think big
USC civic engagement coordinator raised in South Los Angeles reaches out to nearby high schools.