With each additional disadvantage — unemployment, poverty, low education, disability, serious psychological distress and heavy drinking — smoking rates climbed.
The director of the USC Michelson Center for Convergent Bioscience and the MESH Academy becomes the university’s second current faculty member in the renowned society.
The MacArthur Fellowship recipient and professor of English is the 34th USC faculty member elected to the prestigious academy.
USC experts offer insight into the catastrophic blaze’s potential impact on religion, art, tourism and history.
USC Dornsife’s Susanna Berger of art history and Robin Coste Lewis of English have been selected from among nearly 3,000 applicants.
The event, held at Town and Gown on the University Park Campus, recognizes that USC is above all else a community of scholars.
The scientists’ new study suggests the deep groundwater could still be active, and in a broader geographical area than previously considered.
USC physical therapy researcher Lori Michener and her team hope to make Tommy John surgery a thing of the past.
USC dentistry Professor Janet Moradian-Oldak is developing a special hydrogel that can promote the growth of an enamel-like surface on teeth and remineralize the dentin.
Anne DeSalvo had never been to the Middle Eastern country before; her experience there was not what she expected — in a good way.
USC experts confirm biological challenges of the time change; if anything, they say we should be on standard time all year.
USC’s Cavan W. Concannon notes that Christian churches in North Africa faced a similar crisis of trust in their leaders — one with implications that lasted for centuries.
Non-surgical procedure could help reduce bacterial growth for patients with dental implants.
USC researchers find that even low concentrations of a single type of antibiotic leads to resistance to multiple classes of antibiotics. What will happen if antibiotics are no longer effective?
Wolf Gruner, founding director of USC Shoah Foundation’s Center for Advanced Genocide Research, began his quest to build a Holocaust library as soon as he arrived at USC a decade ago.
We all don’t react the same way to exercise. USC experts are looking at the reasons for the differences.
The Geriatric Injury Documentation Tool emerged from a new study led by Keck School of Medicine of USC Dean Laura Mosqueda, which confirms the need for improved documentation.
USC study indicates periodic low-calorie diet could help patients with inflammatory bowel disease: A clinical trial shows reduction of inflammation.
At USC Dornsife’s Spatial Sciences Institute, Andrew Marx uses satellites and data such as crowdsourced mapping to analyze and inform human migration and refugee policy.
USC Viterbi researchers have developed 3D-printed rubber materials that can fix themselves, a potential game changer for industries like shoes, tires, soft robotics and even electronics.
The holdup seems to be: “How do we pay for it?” But USC’s Darby Saxbe argues the real question should be: “How do we pay for the lack of parental leave?”
The professors are among the 12 academy members elected from USC Viterbi since 2008.
Bistra Dilkina and her graduate students help to address environmental needs, from predicting where poachers are likely to strike to designing wildlife reserves and preventing the spread of invasive species.
The nation’s death rate is double that of the Nordic countries, which have the next highest rates, and more than 27 times higher than in Italy and Japan.