Doris Sung has designed several energy-saving prototypes that could revolutionize architecture, change the way buildings are built and ultimately reduce the industry’s massive carbon footprint.
Research by Diana Younan of the Keck School of Medicine of USC found that long-term exposure to PM2.5 — tiny particles 30 times smaller than the width of a human hair — dramatically increased delinquent behavior in adolescents.
USC’s Andrew Stolz, the study’s lead author, notes that many of the unregulated supplements contained anabolic steroids that were not included on the labels.
Researchers working with the USC Annenberg Inclusion Initiative found that 16% of artists across 500 top country songs from 2014 to 2018 were women. The women who did find commercial success were also far younger than their male counterparts.
A data-driven USC Annenberg project led by Gabriel Kahn and Mingxuan Yue has identified once and for all which Los Angeles freeway is the slowest. (The correct answer is not “all of them.”)
The problem, of course, is that Wakanda is a fictional place from Marvel’s Black Panther. The finding underscored researchers’ broader conclusion that Africa-related topics rarely saw airtime on U.S. TV screens — and when Africa did receive coverage, it was overwhelmingly negative.
Plenty, writes Holly Willis of the USC School of Cinematic Arts. Films play a key role in a graduate workshop she teaches, which is designed to loosen up PhD students as they begin their dissertations.
In an op-ed, USC’s Dana Goldman and Darius Lakdawalla of the USC Schaeffer Center offer potential benefits to having life insurance providers take an expanded role in health care.
When it rains’s raining, L.A.’s roads are slick. So naturally there’d be more accidents during rush hour, when the roads are full, right? Wrong. Researchers from USC Annenberg’s Crosstown data journalism project found that on rainy days most accidents happen mid-day — when there’s less traffic
Danny Bilson, perhaps best known as a screenwriter (he wrote The Rocketeer) has been in the game business for 20 years. Now he’ll lead USC Games, which is consistently ranked as one of the nation’s top places to study game design. (Los Angeles Times)
USC Marshall’s Anthony Dukes and a colleague found that the more of a hassle it is for customers to seek a refund, the less likely they are to jump through multiple hoops to receive one.
Thirty of the USC School of Cinematic Arts’ influential alumni gather for a photo shoot and some reminiscing, with memories going all the way back to a time when classes were held inside a stable.
In an op-ed, USC’s Matthew Kahn notes that trains running 200 mph can connect people to jobs as much as 100 miles away from where they live, without their needing to suffer intolerably long commutes.
Wayne Peterman, a veteran comedian who teaches standup at USC, makes connections between the way things were in comedy and how they came to be the way they are today.
Imagine speaking to a video image of a genocide survivor and getting answers back as if you’re having a conversation with the real person. That’s now possible thanks to the USC Shoah Foundation project Dimensions in Testimony.
In an op-ed, USC’s John Boudreau and a colleague argue that most organizations are missing the benefits of automation by not spending the time to deeply understand the work they want to automate.
“Religious difference acted as a multiplier of suspiciousness,” writes USC’s Duncan Ryuken Williams, “making it even more difficult for Japanese-Americans to be perceived as anything other than perpetually foreign and potentially dangerous.”
Kristina Lerman of the USC Information Sciences Institute explains why it’s very hard to go viral and how our brains can’t truly process all the information we’re seeing on social media.
About 27 percent of young Californians voted in 2018, up from about 8 percent in 2014, while 36 percent of eligible Latinos voted, up from 17 percent. The numbers come from the California Civic Engagement Project at the USC Price School of Public Policy.
In a series of experiments, participants programmed their self-driving vehicles to act more economically — saving energy and helping the environment — than if they were driving themselves, according to USC researchers and colleagues.
More than 15,000 Twitter accounts identified as robots used the #ivoted hashtag on Election Day, according to a study from USC’s Information Sciences Institute and a Swiss researcher. In virtually every state, more than a fifth of those posting about the elections were robots.
About 40 Crescenta Valley players are part of the unique study that gives doctors a baseline to analyze players’ brains. “We don’t know if adolescent brains are more or less vulnerable to these repeated head impacts,” says USC’s Brad Peterson.
Companies that hike prices significantly in response to market changes represent a small but growing segment of the generic drug market, according to USC research led by Geoffrey Joyce.