USC President Carol Folt: In Full Bloom
After six years of visionary leadership, Carol Folt is retiring as USC’s 12th president. The bold “moonshots” and initiatives she’s introduced have positioned USC as a leader in research, technology, health, athletics, innovation and more.
Can AI understand when it’s breaking the law?
USC Viterbi’s Information Sciences Institute is exploring how large language models like ChatGPT understand — and sometimes violate — legal frameworks.
In memoriam: Gerd Bergmann, 86, physicist who probed the wavy motions of electrons
The USC Dornsife Professor Emeritus discovered “weak localization,” a quantum effect that reveals how electrons move through thin, disordered materials.
In USC’s newest residential colleges, it took a village
As USC Village’s inaugural faculty in residence wrap up their final year in the complex’s residential colleges, they reflect on the community they helped build during their eight-year tenure.
People like renewable energy — but not necessarily the power lines that come with it
USC Price’s Wändi Bruine de Bruin presents findings to the National Academy of Sciences and calls for research to better understand and address Americans’ concerns about new energy infrastructure.
After gold mining in the Amazon, why aren’t rainforests making a comeback?
A USC-led team led by USC Dornsife researchers has uncovered a hidden culprit behind the Amazon rainforests’ slow recovery: water loss caused by reshaped terrain.
Giving community members center stage after disasters: Santina Contreras
The USC Price assistant professor has spent the last 15 years helping voices of community members be heard in the wake of disasters.
Battling forever chemicals in the environment: Vaia Lida Chatzi and Max Aung
Chatzi and Aung’s work evolved from treating patients to preventing disease entirely.
‘Greening’ the operating room: Arash Motamed
As the medical director of sustainability at Keck Medicine of USC, Associate Professor Arash Motamed is working to reduce the harmful effects of clinical operations on the environment.
Keck Medical Center of USC chef wins national award for plant-based tamale recipe
STORY AND VIDEOS: Executive Chef Luis Santos’ deconstructed Honduran tamale was chosen from five finalists. Read the backstory — and learn how to make this delicious dish.
