Laura Abrams, prolific youth welfare researcher, named USC social work dean
Abrams joins the USC Suzanne Dworak-Peck School of Social Work after spending more than 30 years documenting and improving the well-being of incarcerated youth and young adults.
First Semester in D.C.’s inaugural cohort reflects on unique beginning to their USC experience
Fifty-seven freshmen spent the fall semester studying at the USC Capital Campus as part of a new program open to students in any major.
Two USC hospitals named Top Teaching Hospitals by national watchdog group
It’s the first time two USC hospitals have simultaneously received this honor from The Leapfrog Group, a nonprofit national watchdog organization.
Biologists discover neurons use physical signals — not electricity — to stabilize communication
A USC Dornsife team shows how synapses rapidly adjust when their receptors fail, revealing a new mechanism of neural resilience.
Three USC professors named fellows of the National Academy of Inventors
USC Viterbi’s S.K. Gupta, Shang-Hua Teng and Massoud Pedram receive the prestigious honor in recognition of their contributions to innovation, invention and technology.
When predicting teen anxiety, two brain scans are better than one
A USC Dornsife study shows that combining imaging methods may help forecast which adolescents are most at risk for developing anxiety disorders years before symptoms appear.
Researchers use AI to study community resilience in the wake of L.A. wildfires
Two interconnected research collaborations spanning four USC schools are combining social science with machine learning to study the positive effects of community resilience.
Have a heart: USC’s Chuck Murry gives third-graders a science lesson that’s either ‘cool’ or ‘eew, gross’
The head of USC’s stem cell program visits Vermont Avenue Elementary with heart in hand — literally.
Tricking tumors into marking themselves for destruction
USC Viterbi research harnesses focused ultrasound to reprogram solid tumors, making them more effective targets for immune cells.
USC researchers develop next-generation CAR T cells that show stronger, safer response
The preclinical study tests a new way to control CAR T cell signaling, with promising early results.
