University of Southern California

No one can precisely predict when an earthquake is to happen. Since the 1994 6.7-magnitude Northridge earthquake in Los Angeles County that caused 72 deaths, 9,000 injuries and $25 billion in damages, Southern California has been…

Carolyn C. Meltzer, MD, dean of the Keck School of Medicine of USC, has been appointed to the board overseeing the California Institute of Regenerative Medicine (CIRM). CIRM is the voter-created agency that funds stem cell research…

Just 2.5 miles from USC’s University Park Campus, in the West Adams neighborhood next to Los Angeles’s bustling I-10 freeway, lies an unexpected sight: a thriving one-acre edible garden at the heart of a public elementary school. On a…

A molecular biologist at the USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences may have found a new “rule of biology.” A rule of biology, sometimes called a biological law, describes a recognized pattern or truism among living…

Nearly three-quarters of the United States population receives drinking water that contains fluoride, a practice that began in 1945 to help prevent tooth decay. But recent studies suggest that fluoride exposure can cause harm to a fetus if…

USC Leonard Davis School of Gerontology Associate Professor Bérénice Benayoun has received the 2024 Vincent Cristofalo Rising Star in Aging Research Award from the American Federation for Aging Research (AFAR), a national non-profit…

Hajar Yazdiha, assistant professor of sociology at the USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences, has been named a 2024 Andrew Carnegie Fellow, one of just 28 scholars, authors, journalists and public intellectuals in the United…

Academia can be a competitive landscape, but for two doctoral candidates completing their PhD studies in May 2024 at the USC Suzanne Dworak-Peck School of Social Work, it has been an opportunity to lift each other up. The educational…

Keck Medicine of USC hospitals and USC Student Health, part of Keck Medicine, received the ‘LGBTQ+ Healthcare Equality Leader’ designation in the Human Rights Campaign Foundation’s 2024 Healthcare Equality Index (HEI). HEI is the leading…

Four students from the USC Sol Price School of Public Policy won first place and $5,000 at this year’s Sunstone Economic Development Challenge, a competition that tasks students with helping local governments create jobs in their…