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USC Rossier Receives $1M Grant to Propel Criminal Justice Prevention Research
Today, the University of Southern California (USC) Rossier School of Education announced it has been awarded a $1 million grant to expand its criminal justice prevention research and practice efforts. The project is titled “Expanding…
Groundbreaking Study Indicates ‘Transcendent’ Thinking May Stimulate Brain Growth in…
Scientists at the University of Southern California Rossier School of Education’s Center for Affective Neuroscience, Development, Learning and Education (CANDLE), have shown for the first time that a type of thinking, that has been…
Four USC Faculty Members Recognized as Fellows of Prestigious Science Organization AAAS
The council of the American Association for the Advancement of Science has elected USC faculty members Pinchas Cohen, Andrea Hodge, Jay Lieberman and Gaurav Sukhatme to the ranks of AAAS fellows.
The honor, which recognizes…
USC Fans Witness Big Ten Trojans in Action at Spring Football Game
Ever since the conference expanded to 12 teams in 2011, the Pac-12 logo has adorned the 25-yard-line at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum for all USC home football games. The logo has emblazoned the front of the Trojan…
University of Southern California: L.A. Times Book Prize Winners Honored at Bovard Auditorium…
The annual Los Angeles Times Book Prize winners were announced Friday night in a ceremony at Bovard Auditorium on the USC University Campus. The ceremony serves as a kickoff to Saturday and Sunday’s L.A. Times Festival of Books at USC, the…
University of Southern California: L.A. Times Festival of Books Attracts Large Crowds to USC…
For SoCal book lovers, there was only one place to be this weekend: the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books at USC.
The two-day event — the largest literary and cultural festival in the nation — was expected to draw more than 155,000…
University of Southern California Receives $4 Million Gift to Launch New Climate and Carbon…
The USC Wrigley Institute for Environment and Sustainability, part of the USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences, has received a $4 million commitment from Ballmer Group to launch a new initiative focused on climate and…
Advancing the Social Justice Impact of Climate Change Initiatives
Many people think of sustainability as only being about the environment and natural resource preservation. In fact, most probably do not think social work and climate change belong in the same sentence. But the increase in…
Study from USC Schaeffer Center Reveals Limited Promotion of Potentially Predatory Medical Payment…
Fifty million Americans are on a financing plan to pay off medical or dental bills, with one-quarter of those bearing some interest. Increasingly, medical payment products (MPPs) – which include credit cards and loans administered by…
Kyushu University Hosts Digital Humanities International Symposium ‘Connecting Humanities
On March 13th, at the Jonathan KS Choi Cultural Center of Japan on Kyushu University's Ito Campus, Kyushu University's Faculty of Humanities and Japan’s International Institute for Digital Humanities jointly hosted an…