Melissa Gerald was never encouraged to attend college.
“People like us do not go to college,” her father would tell her. “College is for the rich, the privileged. Where we come from, people just work to survive.”
In fact, all that Gerald’s … Read More »
A researcher at the Keck School of Medicine of USC has been awarded two grants totaling more than $4 million to support osteoarthritis research. A $3.4 million R01 grant from the National Institutes of Health will fund … Read More »
Researchers at the USC Mark and Mary Stevens Neuroimaging and Informatics Institute are one step closer to understanding how autism affects the human brain across the lifespan. One of the largest-ever brain morphometry studies of autism, led by the … Read More »
I’m one of those people who always wanted to be a doctor, but fell into software engineering in high school because I was good at it. In college, I got an internship at Google in the mid-2000s, which turned into … Read More »
Anders Ericsson, PhD, Conradi Eminent Scholar and Professor of Psychology at Florida State University, has spent his career studying how people from musicians to chess champions to athletes achieve superior performance in their chosen fields. His most recent book, Peak: … Read More »