Factors including an emphasis on learning through memorization, helicopter parenting and social media are stifling teenagers, USC Rossier’s Mary Helen Immordino-Yang says.
Telling the history of underdocumented communities is at the heart of Natalia Molina’s work, which earned her a MacArthur Fellowship in 2020.
USC Dornsife’s Michael Messner notes that World War I and subsequent wars incubated generations of veterans committed to preventing such future horrors for their children.
One challenge: a national shortage of mental health professionals. They’re greatly undervalued compared with their colleagues in physical health, particularly when it comes to insurance reimbursement, says Steven Siegel of the Keck School of Medicine of USC.
Watching the story of Till’s brutal 1955 killing can be difficult — but it’s important, says USC Dornsife’s Lanita Jacobs: “There’s also a responsibility on our part to bear witness. These people are no longer here. We need to honor them, say their names, create streets for them, create movies for them. We need to talk about these issues because in many ways they never really did get their due.”
The USC public administration major — a California political insider and power broker for more than a half century and only the second woman elected to the Los Angeles City Council — died late Wednesday at her home in Bel-Air.
Age is just the tip of the iceberg about conflicting opinions on breast screenings, writes breast imaging expert Linda Larsen of the Keck School of Medicine of USC.
USC Dornsife’s Trisha Tucker notes that nearly 1,600 books were targeted last year — the highest number of attempted book bans since tracking began more than 20 years ago.
In an op-ed, USC’s Sid Mohasseb argues that the anti-work phenomenon of “quiet quitting” is encouraging people to withdraw privately and silently, which could create a tendency for self-destruction.
USC researchers followed more than 5,000 entrepreneurs for 14 years. They found that startups were 33% more likely to survive if their founders didn’t quit their jobs right away.
L.A.’s transit chief aims to hit that milestone by mid-2023, while New York’s MTA may not restore its ridership until 2035. USC transportation expert James Moore notes one reason: Many L.A. transit riders don’t have any other option.
Voters were turned off by the tenor of the 2020 debates between Joe Biden and Donald Trump, says USC Annenberg’s Tom Hollihan — who also notes that debates still matter.
LAUSD is an attractive target for cybercriminals because of the large number of people affected when district systems become unavailable, USC Viterbi’s Clifford Neuman says. “This makes the impacted organization potentially more willing to pay a ransom to recover their systems,” he says, “and encourages criminals to seek larger payments.”
“On a scorching Saturday afternoon at a Coliseum rollicking with a rebirth, with players bouncing on the sideline and fans pumping fists through the sweat, an old friend returned with a roar,” writes columnist Bill Plaschke. “USC football feels like USC football again.”
When the wildly popular TV show wrapped up its final season this year, it did so with a storyline that showed one of the lead characters dealing with Alzheimer’s as her adult children disagreed over the type of care she should receive. The storyline was developed in close collaboration with the Hollywood, Health & Society program at the USC Annenberg Norman Lear Center.
High heat and air pollution are each problematic for human health, particularly for vulnerable populations such as older adults. But when they hit at the same time, death rates spike, USC researchers found.
As prison populations ballooned, policymakers questioned how to pay for incarceration costs, says USC Dornsife’s Brittany Friedman: “So, instead of raising taxes, the solution was to shift the cost burden from the state and the taxpayers onto the incarcerated.”
USC sociologist Ann Owens notes that income segregation is growing: Rich families have become richer and more isolated from middle-class and low-income families.
The study is noteworthy for several reasons: its large size, the level of comfort with technology reported by participants, and representation of Black and Hispanic people, says USC internal medicine specialist Matthew Jung.
An analysis by Crosstown, USC’s nonprofit data-driven news outlet, found that hate crimes against Black, transgender and LGBTQ Angelenos this year were all up significantly compared with the first six months of 2021.
In one study, USC Rossier’s Brendesha Tynes found that Black youths experienced more than five discriminatory experiences per day — mostly online racial discrimination.
Among the problems: With the widespread availability of self-testing, the real number of cases greatly exceeds the number of reported cases, notes Jeffrey Klausner of the Keck School of Medicine of USC.
Shoppers who use Amazon more frequently were more likely to be affected by phony ratings, USC Dornsife’s Robert Metcalfe says. You’d expect that more sophisticated participants would be less likely to be duped, but frequent Amazon users shop the platform faster and tend to trust it more, he says.
Cynthia Sanchez of the USC Suzanne Dworak-Peck School of Social Work tries to discourage her patients from using the apps for pregnancy prevention. She believes they give a false sense of security.