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A new open access, peer-reviewed journal dedicated to the growing movement of empirical legal studies – the use of quantitative data and other information gathering methods to understand the law – has just launched under the leadership of…

A groundbreaking study led by the USC Leonard Davis School of Gerontology in collaboration with Dominican University of California explores how small molecules derived from sea sponges affect energy production in mitochondria and details…

Los Angeles business leader Nadine Watt has been named one of the newest members of USC’s Board of Trustees. Watt brings decades of leadership experience from the real estate field, in addition to years of volunteering with…

The USC Board of Trustees has appointed philanthropist Alia Tutor as one of its newest members. A graduate of Columbia Law School and longtime supporter of USC, Tutor is the president of the Alia Tutor Family Foundation Inc.,…

USC alumnus Joseph Ucuzoglu, Deloitte Global CEO, has been named one of the newest members of the USC Board of Trustees. “I’m pleased to welcome Joe Ucuzoglu to USC’s Board of Trustees,” USC President Carol Folt said. “He’s…

As a part of a clinical trial for a promising eye treatment that could restore vision to those suffering from age-related macular degeneration, USC Rossier Associate Professor Kendrick Davis, in partnership with the USC Race and Equity…

USC scientists have proven that the Earth’s inner core is backtracking — slowing down — in relation to the planet’s surface, as shown in new research published Wednesday in Nature. Movement of the inner core has been debated by the…

For the first time in its history, students attending the USC School of Dramatic Arts to receive their Masters in Fine Arts (MFA) in the acting and dramatic writing programs will be attending the university tuition-free starting in…

Parenting makes the heart grow fonder, and the brain grow … smaller? Several studies have revealed that the brain loses volume across the transition to parenthood. But researchers like me are still figuring out what these changes mean for…

The ocean has a hidden talent, honed over millennia: the ability to capture and store vast quantities of carbon dioxide, a key driver of climate change. However, the ocean’s natural carbon capture cycles, which take hundreds…