Yuri Genyk, professor of clinical surgery at the Keck School of Medicine of USC and surgeon at the USC Transplant Institute, discusses the causes of liver cancer and what to do if you’re at risk.
The USC Marshall School of Business tops Forbes’ 2019 ranking, thanks largely to overwhelmingly positive alumni satisfaction rates.
Scientists have created two time travel illusions that show how the brain processes information to make sense of conflicting stimuli. Take a look.
USC’s Peter C. Mancall find that Columbus’s views were far from abnormal: For centuries, European intellectuals had imagined a world beyond their borders populated by “monstrous races” — dog-headed people, cyclops and more.
USC researchers discuss a pilot project in which participating senior citizens received unlimited free Lyft rides. The impact on the participants’ lives was significant.
The conceptual artist and USC professor shares her thoughts on protest movements of the moment, inequality in the art world and where she finds hope.
The eye-opening moment for USC’s Noam Wasserman: seeing business students successfully apply the tenets of entrepreneurial thinking to all manner of career decisions and even to their marriages.
The All Souls trilogy — USC Professor of History Deborah Harkness’ historical fantasy about a vampire scientist, a history professor who discovers she’s a witch and an enchanted manuscript — were sparked by an odd vacation moment.
USC’s Travis Longcore visits the ”Bowtie Parcel,” once one of Southern California’s most important railroad yards, and finds the unexpected: nature.
In her first television interview since taking over as interim USC president, Wanda M. Austin said the university is “making some course corrections.”
Eileen Decker, a former U.S. attorney and deputy mayor, has been nominated by Mayor Eric Garcetti. Decker was the U.S. attorney for the Central District of California, which includes Los Angeles and several surrounding counties.
Says USC’s Manuel Pastor, one of the report’s authors: “If you are making sure that people can re-enter from the prison system and actually get into employment; if you’re making sure that immigrants can start new businesses and be welcomed; if you are closing the wage gaps, you are generating economic growth.”
In an op-ed, USC’s Sam Erman describes the 120-year epic tragedy of Puerto Rico as a tale of two hurricanes: Maria, last year, and San Ciriaco in 1899, which devastated the island just after it became part of the U.S.
USC Marshall research suggests that, in general, colorful devices do tend to make us enjoy a product a tiny bit more over time than the traditional black, beige or silver.
Most veterans looking to enter the workforce in a leadership role are older than the typical MBA student (the average age of an MBV student is 35), so the USC team developed a yearlong program with classes on Fridays and Saturdays, staffed with professors who also served in the military.
Milton Curry, dean of the USC School of Architecture, believes big issues like race, gentrification, and housing can be tackled through planning and design. “I think we need to have the courage as architects to put ourselves in the middle of some of these debates,” he says.
The remarkable Earth Works: Mapping the Anthropocene, a joint exhibition between the USC Fisher Museum of Art and the Natural History Museum of L.A. County, focuses on the current geologic age, the impact of humans on the planet and climate change.
Desalination produces drinkable water, but most methods leave behind a concentrated brine about twice as salty as regular ocean water — brine that usually gets dumped back in the sea. That worries USC researcher Amy Childress.
Astronaut Garrett Reisman, who joined the USC Viterbi School of Engineering faculty this summer, describes his first experience in the classroom: “It went well, but it was exhausting.”
In an op-ed, USC’s Glenn Melnick argues that a little-known set of regulations allows emergency rooms to charge basically whatever they want.
USC’s Safiya Noble argues that search engines aren’t neutral; they’re made by humans who have preferences, opinions and blind spots.
USC Marshall’s John Boudreau and a colleague provide a roadmap on preparing and getting the best out of the increasing trend toward automation and AI. Remember, ATMs didn’t wipe out bank tellers.
USC Viterbi’s Eva Kanso and colleagues have developed a new way to use artificial intelligence to track submarines, inspired by harbor seals’ behavior.
USC has had a campus facility dog since 2016. The black golden doodle known as Professor Beauregard Tirebiter — you can call him “Beau” — has office hours at the student health center.