Attracting and supporting diverse students is just the start, says Dean Elizabeth Daley of the USC School of Cinematic Arts. The school’s efforts include a ”first jobs” program that helps graduates land their first paid jobs in the entertainment industry.
It’s hard to know for sure whether the TikTok algorithm is biased against people of color, USC Marshall’s Kalinda Ukanwa said — but the perception persists.
Zhao Wei was the Reese Witherspoon of China before she was censored by the Communist Party. “Zhao Wei is like a poster child for what the Communist Party sees as what’s wrong with celebrity culture in China,” USC Dornsife’s Stanley Rosen says. “It’s a demonstration that no one, no matter how wealthy or popular, is too big to pursue.”
The early 1990s were a turning point, notes USC Dornsife’s Dennis Chong: In the years since, college-educated and young people have become markedly less tolerant of hate speech pertaining to race, gender and social identity.
The Danish company Maersk has ordered eight vessels that will run on methanol. But one key to the carbon-neutral strategy is ensuring that the methanol used is sustainable. As USC Dornsife’s Surya Prakash notes, China makes a lot of methanol from coal.
Vegetation across the country responded immediately to the change in conditions, a study by USC Dornsife’s John P. Wilson and colleagues found. It indicates that short-term changes in human activity can have a rapid ecological impact.
The MTA is considering eliminating fares, but would that increase ridership? “Unfortunately there’s not a lot of evidence that people will get out of their cars and into transit even if it were free,” says USC Price’s Genevieve Giuliano. “A trip by car often takes half the time it takes by transit.”
Prices are rising across the board, says USC Marshall’s Nick Vyas: “We are buying more and more and more. And that creates this perfect storm for inflation.”
Health care providers who come in contact with patients have an ethical responsibility to protect those patents — and their own colleagues — from COVID-19, says Brad Spellberg, chief medical officer at Los Angeles County+USC Medical Center.
“This is a pattern we’ve seen for 150 years of medical scapegoating, of medical racism in which we blame disease outbreaks on immigrants in place of really looking at other factors — our own behaviors,” notes USC Dornsife’s Natalia Molina.
About 80% of water used in the state goes toward agriculture, says USC Viterbi’s Kelly Sanders. The rest is urban usage, split roughly in half between indoor and outdoor use. So when we talk about shorter showers and turning off the tap when you brush your teeth, you’re playing with a pretty small slice of the pie.
Cockrell’s brother, Ross, is a cornerback for the team. On Monday, the Buccaneers took a break from training to watch her advance to the 400-meter hurdle finals.
Some social media veterans have been at their jobs for 15 years at this point and have unprecedented sway. “These jobs are way beyond entry-level positions now,” says USC Annenberg’s Daniela Baroffio.
Among vaccinated people, symptoms of a common cold and COVID-19 are similar, notes Anjali Mahoney of the Keck School of Medicine of USC: “So even if you have symptoms, mild symptoms, I wouldn’t assume that it’s a cold. I would assume you need to get tested and quarantine.”
“Customization and personalization is how HR will evolve now and in the future,” says USC Bovard College’s Solange Charas. “Organizations that aren’t actively embracing an employee-centric business model will soon find that their competitive advantage will erode.”
Nearly 1 in 4 people said the benefits they received at retirement were substantially different than what they expected — usually dramatically less, notes Maria Prados of the USC Dornsife Center for Economic and Social Research.
Wealthy individuals use debt as a financial strategy, which USC Gould’s Edward McCaffery says runs counter to how nearly everyone else thinks about it: “They’ve been trained since birth, they’ve been trained in the womb, ‘Never a borrower nor a lender be, debt is bad, debt will cripple you.’ ”
“Many of us suspect there’s a lot more going on that we are not privy to,” USC’s Madhu Thangavelu says of the U.S. government’s recent report on UFOs.
USC’s Sharon Orrange notes that blood thinners like aspirin keep blood from clotting easily or quickly. That allows for more blood to leak out, making it appear as if you have larger bruises.
Many young adults are forgoing COVID-19 vaccines for a complex mix of reasons. “For the younger generation, we now really have to build the case for them to be vaccinated,” said Sarah Van Orman, USC Student Health’s chief health officer. “I think we have a long ways to go for that.”
“Obviously it was something wrong,” USC Viterbi’s Henry Koffman said, “especially if that engineer came out two years ago and said that there are problems and it just wasn’t properly addressed.”
More than any other country, the U.S. has a long history of both requiring CEO pay disclosure and trying to effect change around dramatic pay ratios. But USC Marshall’s Kevin Murphy notes that those attempts have all done more harm than good.