By listening and collaborating with trans communities, Keck Medicine of USC is creating the preeminent gender-affirming care program on the West Coast. (Illustration/Terri Po)
Healthcare for All
By listening and collaborating with trans communities, Keck Medicine of USC is creating the preeminent gender-affirming care program on the West Coast.
Don Beckhart ’55 (center) is flanked by current Trojan Marching Band members (from left) Bethany Reid, Ajani Harris, Brian Mendoza and Mari Hupiu.(Photo/Gus Ruelas)
Music is Life
Trojan Marching Band alum Don Beckhart ’55 gets jock jacket — seven decades later.
Our dream Trojan lineup includes artists new and old. (Photo/Courtesy of Pentagram)
Listen Up
OK, it’s not an actual music festival — but we can dream with the help of a USC Viterbi student’s app!
"[Anesthetics are] very resistant to degradation; they stay in that environment for many years,” says Arash Motamed, medical director for Keck Main Perioperative Operations and Keck Medicine of USC Sustainability. (Illustration/iStock)
Saving Lives, Helping the Planet
Keck Medicine of USC is curbing the environmental impacts of anesthesia in operating rooms — and saving money
Set hundreds of years in the future, the sentient robot WALL-E develops a personality and works with humans to save Earth. (Photo/Alamy)
USC experts on loving, fearing and possibly even merging with AI.
AI and other advanced computing technologies are transforming how USC teaches, learns and thinks in innovative ways. (Illustrations by Raymond Biesinger)
From dance to linguistics, drama and law, the power and potential of AI and advanced computing are changing the academic landscape at USC.
USC researcher Yolanda Gil is using AI to help farmers in Ethiopia save their country from famine. (Illustration/Raymond Biesinger)
Farming Data
Artificial Intelligence will integrate and analyze diverse data and models to make farming recommendations for more bountiful harvests in Ethiopia.
The Great Pacific Garbage Patch consists of 1.8 trillion pieces of plastic and has been the subject of scientific research since the 1970s. (Illustrations by Matt Twombly)
Plastic? Fantastic!
At USC, researchers are turning plastic waste into materials we can use as medicine in the future.
The presumptive “George Tirebiter V” is a 26-pound robotic dog who lives in USC Viterbi Professor Quan Nguyen's Dynamic Robotics and Control Laboratory.(Photo/Damon Casarez)
Dog Days
A robotic dog is a paws-itively worthy successor to George Tirebiter.
Together, computer scientists and clinicians are designing AI solutions to improve surgical training and create better patient outcomes. (Illustration/Cornelia Li)
AI for the OR
Together, computer scientists and clinicians are designing AI solutions to improve surgical training and create better patient outcomes.
Patricia Thompson Lee ’97 began serving as a Nevada Supreme Court justice in November 2022. (Photo/Steve Marcus)
Court of Appeal
Patricia Thompson Lee ’97 is a newly appointed Nevada Supreme Court justice.
Our dream Trojan lineup includes artists new and old. (Photo/Courtesy of Pentagram)
Listen Up
OK, it’s not an actual music festival — but we can dream with the help of a USC Viterbi student’s app!
USC’s connection to the White House's Cancer Moonshot is just one of the ways the university and the Keck School of Medicine are leading the charge to improve cancer treatment. (Illustration/Curt Merlo)
Above and Beyond
Powered by an energized cancer-fighting ecosystem at USC, Trojan researchers aim to help the nation achieve its Cancer Moonshot
Carpten's mission is to untangle the role of biology in cancer to improve treatment — particularly to help close the gaps where Black people and other understudied, underserved populations face a greater burden of disease. (Illustration/Curt Merlo)
Serving the Underserved
USC researcher John Carpten strives to decode how genes influence cancer — especially for groups hit hardest by the disease
Nadine Watt is the new president of the USCAA Board of Governors. (Photo/Danny Moloshok)
Lasting Legacy
Meet Nadine Watt, the new president of the USCAA Board of Governors.
In 2014, Peter Kuhn joined USC to become a founding member of the Michelson Center for Convergent Bioscience, a 190,000-square-foot interdisciplinary research facility wholly committed to exploring new frontiers in medicine and health. (Illustration/Curt Merlo)
Beating the Odds
USC researcher Peter Kuhn possesses an unrelenting mission to improve the lives of cancer patients.
Founder Donald Gabard celebrates at the 2022 USC Lambda LGBT Alumni Association Scholarship Gala on April 9, 2022 at USC Town and Gown. (Photo by Will Chiang.)
Three Decades of Progress
As it celebrates its 30th anniversary, the USC Lambda LGBTQ+ Alumni Association seeks to reach new heights.
Keck Medicine of USC's partnership with Methodist Hospital of Southern California in Arcadia, now known as USC Arcadia Hospital, will expand USC’s footprint as a leading provider of health care in Southern California and beyond. (Illustration/Matt Chinworth/iStock)
Eastbound
With the recent USC Arcadia Hospital affiliation, Keck Medicine of USC continues its tradition of innovation, growth and community partnership.
Don Beckhart ’55 (center) is flanked by current Trojan Marching Band members (from left) Bethany Reid, Ajani Harris, Brian Mendoza and Mari Hupiu.(Photo/Gus Ruelas)
Music is Life
Trojan Marching Band alum Don Beckhart ’55 gets jock jacket — seven decades later.
"[Anesthetics are] very resistant to degradation; they stay in that environment for many years,” says Arash Motamed, medical director for Keck Main Perioperative Operations and Keck Medicine of USC Sustainability. (Illustration/iStock)
Saving Lives, Helping the Planet
Keck Medicine of USC is curbing the environmental impacts of anesthesia in operating rooms — and saving money
Scammers have repeatedly harvested information from unwitting users
and created fake profiles of Venmo customers to request money. (Illustration/Josh Cochran)
Somebody's Watching Me
A team led by USC Viterbi researchers has discovered millions of “privacy leaks” on the mobile social payments app.
Since 2019, Lauren Klein has been researching computer science and child development at the USC Interaction Lab. She is developing an automated system to model and support infant-caregiver interactions by detecting signs of toxic stress. (Illustration/Mikyung Lee)
Tech Talk
Doctoral student Lauren Klein is working with a local children’s hospital to help clinicians detect signs of toxic stress in infants
Documentary production workshop participants in Cotonou, Benin. (Photo/Jean-Michel Dissard)
Celluloid Diplomats
How USC and the American Film Showcase are changing the world, one film at a time.
It all started at USC: Michael Ausiello recalls how his days at Annenberg informed his work as a TV journalist. He is portrayed by actor Jim Parsons in the feature film "Spoiler Alert" based on his 2017 memoir. (Photo/Gus Ruelas)
Reel Life
Michael Ausiello wrote a heartbreaking — yet darkly funny — memoir after his husband’s death. It’s now a movie starring Jim Parsons.
Injuries from a car accident resulted in the amputation of Priya Patel’s fingers and thumbs. (Illustration/David Plunkert)
Digit-al Miracle
After a car accident resulted in the amputation of Priya Patel’s fingers and thumbs, a historic surgical milestone performed at Keck Medicine of USC got her life back on track.
Both Chloe and I had autistic friends in high school, and we thought that creating a product that could interpret emotions as vibrations could really help them,” Shannon Brownlee says. (Illustration/Weitong Mai)
Feeling the Vibes
Seniors Shannon Brownlee and Chloe Duckworth’s startup uses software that can detect emotions from speech patterns and translate them into vibrations.
Artist noé olivas is the co-founder of the Crenshaw Dairy Mart art collective and gallery. (Photo/Damon Casarez)
Got Art?
Artist noé olivas, co-founder of the Crenshaw Dairy Mart art collective and gallery, draws on his parents’ work ethic and his USC cohort’s encouragement to bring communities together in Inglewood.
Niki Kawakami – "Us being here today, it’s a very reflective time. I used to share a lot of stories and I think that’s something that should be emphasized more, that connecting with your history, learning from the lessons and seeing how you can be better." (Photo/Damon Casarez)
Peace, Love, and Rocks
USC rock garden, opened in April, creates a contemplative space for Trojan family of 1940s dental student Tadashi “Tad” Ochiai.
Stephens stands before the camera at the White House as an intern for CBS News in July 2019. (Photo/Courtesy of Morgan Stephens)
Healing from long COVID
Morgan Stephens was on track to a dream career in journalism—and then she got COVID.
The renamed Dr. Joseph Medicine Crow Center for International
and Public Affairs Building was unveiled on April 11, 2022. (Photo/Steve Cohn)
Righting History
Renaming a landmark for historian and war chief of the Apsáalooke (Crow) Nation portends a new age for Trojans.
2022 Alumni Awards winners pose with USC administrators: (Left to right) Associate Senior Vice President for Alumni Relations Patrick E. Auerbach, Beth Petak-Aaron, Adam Goldston, Alumni Awards Co-Chair Mary Tee, Ryan Goldston, Ramona Cappello, Mike Nyeholt, Alumni Awards Co-Chair Kevork Zoryan, President Carol Folt, Mary Bono, Jules Buenabenta, President, USC Alumni Association President John Iino. (Photo/Steve Cohn)
Top Trojans
At the 88th annual Alumni Awards gala in April, the Trojan Family celebrated notable leaders who showcase the best of the Trojan spirit. The 2022 USC alumni awards recipients were recognized for bringing distinction to the university.
Who Run the World?
When Title IX—the landmark legislation that prohibits sex discrimination in educational institutions that receive federal funding—was signed into law in 1972, it had an immediate impact at USC.
At Keck Medicine of USC, keeping both organ transplant recipients and their donors healthy is all part of the plan. (Illustration/Simone Noronha)
Medical innovation
The shortage of organs for transplants is an issue for patients. Living donors are one key. Another: Helping them get healthier to ensure successful outcomes for the donor and the patient.
An individual's risk can be a combination of several things, and chemical pollution are high on that list. (Illustration/Jason Holley)
Think Clean
Research at USC is helping define the environment’s impact on the brain. Growing evidence links the long-term effects of dirty air to accelerated cognitive decline and dementia, and USC researchers hope to better understand environmental effects and gene-environment interactions on brain health.
School of Dramatic Arts alumnus and voice actor JP Karliak poses for a photograph outside USC’s Widney Alumni House, where he worked for several years after earning a bachelor's degree in theater from the School of Dramatic Arts at USC, May 4, 2022. (Photo/Gus Ruelas)
Loud and Proud
Actor JP Karliak ’03 founded nonprofit Queer Vox to train LGBTQ+ voiceover actors and help them network and find mainstream roles in animation and video games.
The Cicada synthesizer vibrates in the same way that insects produce a loud and recognizable sound in the wild. (Photo/Federico Chiesa)
Ear Bug
Some people have a flair for playing instruments. Ho-Chun “Herbert” Chang PhD ’23 has a knack for inventing them.