Can a retinal implant reverse macular degeneration?
USC researchers are launching a clinical trial examining whether specially bioengineered stem cells might restore eyesight.
How researchers are learning what makes a police stop feel respectful
USC Dornsife led an effort to analyze bodycam footage from 1,000 traffic stops across Los Angeles — data now helping train AI tools aimed at improving safety, accountability and respectful treatment during stops.
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.
