Pete Arbogast is a volunteer in the Providence St. John’s No One Dies Alone program. If a terminally ill patient’s family is not available, or if they have no family, Arbogast is one of about 50 volunteers who might be summoned to their bedside to comfort them.
A weeklong camp at USC Viterbi School of Engineering’s Institute of Engineering Community and Cultural Competence immerses girls ages 11-13 from L.A.-area schools in rocketry and aerospace engineering.
How close are we to silicon-based actors on our screens? USC’s Hao Li is working on that very task.
More millennials are responsible for their parents and grandparents — sometimes derailing careers and family life, according to a report by the USC Edward R. Roybal Institute and UsAgainstAlzheimer’s.
A study by USC’s Rebecca Myerson reports that the number of filled prescriptions for insulin and other diabetes medications rose by up to 40 percent in states that expanded Medicaid eligibility in 2014 and 2015.
Research by USC Price’s Antonio Bento and colleagues found that if the average weight of new vehicles declines, along with a more even distribution of weight across vehicles, fatalities may be reduced.
In The Center Cannot Hold: My Journey through Madness, USC Gould’s Elyn Saks notes that schizophrenia doesn’t preclude achievement and contribution. She knows that firsthand.
When we turn too quickly to boycotts and shunning, USC Gould’s Scott Altman argues in an op-ed, we undermine what little is left of civic engagement and its potential for genuine dialogue and cooperation.
The October event is designed to empower women and LGBTQ people by spotlighting female contributions to animation and exploring solutions to sexual harassment, bias and lack of diversity within the industry and academia.
Among the observations by Suneal Kolluri, a USC doctoral student and former high school social studies teacher: Access to AP programs has been expanding, but gaps in enrollment by race, ethnicity and socioeconomic status remain, between and within schools.
The reason, says USC’s Dowell Myers: Upcoming generations of buyers may not have the financial capacity — or desire — to absorb the large numbers of homes coming to market.
The Ellison Institute for Transformative Medicine of USC will launch in April in an office complex being built on Exposition Boulevard west of Bundy Drive near a light-rail stop.
For many fans of the sport — even English-speaking ones — soccer sounds like the Telemundo commentator’s voice.
“Trump went with a known and reliable insider,” says USC Gould’s Orin Kerr, who — like Kavanaugh — clerked for the retiring Justice Anthony Kennedy.
Habits are key to achieving your goals — but only if you don’t get tired of them, research from USC psychology and business professor Wendy Wood and colleagues suggests.
USC Dornsife’s Pamela Starr notes that Andrés Manuel López Obrador has been labeled populist, leftist and authoritarian — but also a pragmatist and a fiscal conservative. What kind of president is he likely to be? All of the above, Starr argues in an op-ed.
Maria Aranda of the USC Suzanne Dworak-Peck School of Social Work notes millennial caregivers often have more stress than their peers and may see their own health worsen.
In its effort to make the academy more inclusive, it invited a review by USC’s Center for Urban Education, which found that African-American cadets were more likely to be disciplined for the most severe offenses of academy regulations compared to white cadets.
A report by Zhang Chi, a doctoral candidate at the USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism, said issues like affirmative action, unauthorized immigration and data disaggregation received a disproportionate focus on the app.
Jonathan Taplin, director emeritus of USC’s Annenberg Innovation Lab, argues the U.S. should follow Europe’s lead because we are being fooled into handing over details of our lives for the benefit of tech giants.
USC research suggests that people heed negative reviews more than positive ones — despite their questionable credibility.
USC’s Jeffrey Fields, a nuclear policy expert, notes that most nuclear armed states agree that the weapons are only for deterrence — but their devastating power will always provoke fierce debate on their usefulness.
With the USC Gould School of Law now accepting GRE scores from applicants, nearly half of the country’s top 20 law schools have embraced the alternative to the LSAT.
Putting artificial intelligence to work on real-world problems is the vision for the Intelligent Internet of Things Integration Consortium (I3), a new initiative launched by USC, the City of Los Angeles and a number of stakeholders including researchers and industry.