According to USC’s ongoing coronavirus study, the pandemic has increased the perceived value of a college education among students of color while also likely reducing their course loads.
With support from three schools on two campuses, children from Keck Medicine-affiliated families — and from university-adjacent neighborhoods — are being tutored by USC students living around the world.
Kymia Freeman and 25 of her peers all logged on every weekday to learn from USC Annenberg faculty and alumni via the school’s newly virtual summer program.
Population testing will begin next week to help identify, isolate, contact trace and contain new infections (check your USC email to see if you are recommended to participate in testing).
Artist Richelle Gribble is leading the collection of materials that could help future generations understand the impact of this global pandemic. The capsule will be sent to the moon by 2022.
Two assistant professors from USC Marshall are part of the team assembled by the Greek government to build an AI-based project that will help the country safely reopen to tourism.
With safety measures in place to protect against COVID-19, the USC Heroes United campaign collected a goal-surpassing 192 units of blood over two days.
The Quarantunes Student Music Competition gave USC Thornton students a fresh opportunity to get creative during the pandemic.
Six Trojans — current students and recent graduates — are using their diverse backgrounds, talents and life experiences to tell touching and important stories.
In the first of a series of video conversations with USC leaders, President Carol L. Folt sits down with USC Rossier Dean Pedro Noguera. Find out about his advice for K-12 schools and their ideas on how educators can explain racial justice to students.
Jose Ruiz started CultivaLA to develop urban gardens and increase access to healthy food. When the pandemic hit, he scaled up to focus on his neighbors in need.
Travis Mendoza went to La Peñita to build a hotel. When the pandemic struck, he shifted his focus toward building a community.
Treatments for COVID-19 would deliver up to $106 billion in gains by the end of 2021, a new analysis from the USC Schaeffer Center finds.
The tool, created by a team at the Gehr Family Center for Health Systems Science and Innovation, found that only 20% of users reported symptoms that required immediate medical attention.
Keck Medicine of USC physicians are enrolling patients as part of an international clinical trial to evaluate the drug DAS181 as a treatment for hospitalized patients with severe COVID-19.
The price is more than just sadness, notes USC Dornsife’s Emily Smith-Greenaway: Family members might also come away with lasting health and economic consequences themselves.
As part of USC’s Project Restart, many researchers have been allowed to return to their labs. Now, they’re figuring out how to conduct research in the COVID-19 era.
USC professors and their colleagues agree: Listening to students and understanding their learning environments can go a long way.
USC graduates, friends and family celebrate at home to Fight On against the coronavirus.
The USC Thornton School of Music saw COVID-19 and stay-at-home orders as an opportunity to show students how the music industry really works — remotely.
The university’s six-team research task force brings together experts from across USC to better understand what COVID-19 is and how to treat it.
Are lockdowns unnecessary? Are we already in the second wave? Geoffrey Joyce of the USC Schaeffer Center for Health Policy & Economics sets the facts straight.
They disinfect hospital rooms and feed neighbors in need. These members of the Trojan Family take action in times of crisis.
When the virus started hitting Angelenos, these Keck Medicine of USC professionals rose to the challenge.