The USC alum will speak on May 13 at the Shrine Auditorium. Insecure writer-director-EP Prentice Penny will receive its Mary Pickford Alumni Award.
“When I look at Twitter, I don’t see a social network, I see an information network,” says USC Annenberg’s Karen North. “It’s a network of people who are communicators, either journalists or people who act like journalists conveying information to their audiences.”
Russian embassies around the world are prolifically using Facebook, Twitter and other platforms to undermine the international coalition supporting Ukraine. “They must know better, but that’s what it’s like living in and working for a totalitarian regime,” said Nicholas Cull, a USC professor who studies diplomacy and propaganda.
Trojan Ethan Ward reports on homelessness for KPCC-FM. It’s topic into which he has special insight: Before attending USC or becoming a reporter, he lived in his car.
Rising housing costs in Los Angeles County and the Bay Area are chasing away both California natives and immigrants, USC Dornsife Professor Manuel Pastor says.
Recovering from a lifetime of toxic masculinity requires men to be mindful of the ways we have been socialized to handle anger in interactions with other men, women and genderqueer persons, Executive Director Shaun Harper of the USC Race and Equity Center notes in an op-ed.
An increase in COVID cases in 2022 should be entirely different from one in 2020, says Jeffrey Klausner of the Keck School of Medicine of USC: “We’re kind of more in the realm right now of what a typical influenza season might look like.”
Longer, more creative titles can be intimidating to some viewers and unnecessary for others, says Associate Professor J.D. Connor of the USC School of Cinematic Arts. And adding numbers to the end of sequels can discourage viewers who haven’t already seen the previous movies.
One tip: “Schedule a ‘worry time’ — a period of time outside of the bedroom, outside of sleep, to worry about the things that naturally creep in your mind at night,” says USC sleep specialist Raj Dasgupta of the Keck School of Medicine of USC.
Perhaps the biggest issue is the plant’s power supply, said USC Viterbi Professor Najmedin Meshkati: If off-site power is cut off, the plant could be forced to rely on unreliable emergency generators that could fail or run out of fuel. That could result in a blackout that would stop the water circulation needed to cool the spent fuel pool.
The Center for the Political Future at the USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences will join the Los Angeles Times and Fox affiliate KTTV-TV in hosting the March 22 event at Bovard Auditorium. KTTV’s Elex Michaelson and Times columnist Erika D. Smith will moderate.
Not everyone experiences inflation the same way, notes USC Marshall Professor Rodney Ramcharan: Higher-income Americans can scale back more easily, but if you’re already shopping at Walmart or Dollar General, there may not be a cheaper alternative.
Perhaps the biggest issue is the plant’s power supply, said USC Viterbi Professor Najmedin Meshkati: If off-site power is cut off, the plant could be forced to rely on unreliable emergency generators that could fail or run out of fuel. That could result in a blackout that would stop the water circulation needed to cool the spent fuel pool.
USC student Sasha Hederstrom has been composting in university housing, and shares her tips.
Not everyone experiences inflation the same way, notes USC Marshall Professor Rodney Ramcharan: Higher-income Americans can scale back more easily, but if you’re already shopping at Walmart or Dollar General, there may not be a cheaper alternative.
A cutoff of Russian natural gas could force European countries to turn to petroleum-based fuels. That could send gasoline prices up another 10%, says USC Marshall Associate Professor Shon Hiatt.
Some experts think that student fathers’ graduation problems are cultural. Families often pressure men — especially young dads — to be providers, says Adrian Huerta, a USC Rossier assistant professor: “That’s where education becomes a second or third or fourth priority to everything else.”
History shows that anti-porn laws become weapons against LGBTQ Americans, feminists and others, writes USC Dornsife doctoral candidate Quinn Anex-Ries. (The Washington Post)
The staggering increase highlights the shifting dynamics and focus of the opioid crisis, long considered a white, rural issue. A key contributor is the rise of fentanyl as a replacement for heroin in most of the nation’s largest drug markets, notes Ricky Bluthenthal of the Keck School of Medicine of USC.
Hip-hop finally came to the Super Bowl on Sunday when USC Iovine and Young Academy co-founder Andre “Dr. Dre” Young led a team of his closest collaborators in a festive, funky, thoroughly trunk-rattling halftime show.
Moves to ban oil and gas extraction in the city and county are welcomed by researchers such as USC’s Jill Johnston. Her work shows that people living near oil operations suffer high rates of asthma, wheezing, eye irritation and sore throats.
Most tsunamis that strike California’s coast — 150 since 1880 — come from earthquakes, not volcanic eruptions like the one on Jan. 15. The waves that eruption generated may have come from the sonic boom of the blast — a new pheomenon, USC coastal engineer Patrick Lynett notes.
Children love the song for the same reason parents hate it: the repetition. “Parents get sick and tired of it, but [kids] don’t,” USC Thornton’s Beatriz Ilari says.
The health effects from secondhand vapor are similar to those associated with cigarettes, USC’s Talat Islam says — and the effects were much greater for people who don’t vape or smoke.