“This is like finding evidence of a very green ranch in the middle of Death Valley,” says Essam Heggy of the USC Arid Climate and Water Research Center.
Middle East
As director of Tariq Bin Ziad School, Maha Al Romaihi champions a bilingual curriculum that balances English language skills with a celebration of the Arabic language and Qatar’s culture.
Jessica Marglin, associate professor of religion and history at USC Dornsife, provides insight into an oft-misunderstood aspect of Muslim culture.
Two USC Dornsife scholars with expertise on the region give their insights into the harrowing situation unfolding after the Taliban seized power.
The rapid filling of a giant dam at the source of the world’s longest river could reduce the water supplies going to Egypt and increase tensions with Ethiopia, a new USC study finds.
What went wrong? And is there still reason to hope that the democracy movement might finally take hold?
A group of 24 public health and social work grad students are assisting the county with its pandemic-centric needs and gaining real-world experience in the process.
Eli Bosnoyan recalls the remarkable circumstances that brought him from Aleppo to Los Angeles and shaped him into a grad of USC’s stem cell master’s program.
Hanna Reisler joins luminaries including civil rights attorney Kimberlé Crenshaw, neurosurgeon and CNN correspondent Sanjay Gupta and Oprah Winfrey in being elected to the academy’s Class of 2021.