On Leadership: University, health care system are partners, Austin says

USC Interim President Wanda Austin, PhD, spoke recently at USC Verdugo Hills Hospital with health care leaders from Keck Medicine of USC and Children’s Hospital Los Angeles (CHLA) about leadership, change, and inspiring the next generation. On January 11, she Read More »

January 28th, 2019|Announcements, Keck Net Intranet|

On Leadership: USC Interim President talks challenges, values

USC Interim President Wanda Austin, PhD, spoke recently at USC Verdugo Hills Hospital with health care leaders from Keck Medicine of USC and Children’s Hospital Los Angeles (CHLA) about leadership, change, and inspiring the next generation. On January 11, she Read More »

January 25th, 2019|Announcements, Keck Net Intranet|

Does air pollution make teens eat fattening foods?

Could air pollution be making us fat?

A new USC study suggests that exposure to traffic pollution during childhood makes adolescents 34 percent more likely to eat foods high in unhealthy trans fats — regardless of household income, parent education level Read More »

January 25th, 2019|Announcements, Keck Net Intranet|

Cancer has a biological clock and this drug may keep it from ticking

A new drug shows potential to halt cancer cells’ growth by stunting the cells’ biological clock.

The findings from scientists at the USC Michelson Center for Convergent Bioscience and Nagoya University’s Institute of Transformative BioMolecules (ITbM) advance a burgeoning area Read More »

January 25th, 2019|Announcements, Keck Net Intranet|

Commencement 2019: Keck School announces speaker for MD ceremony

Jimmy Kimmel, late-night talk show host and comedian, will be the featured speaker at the Keck School of Medicine of USC class of 2019 commencement ceremony on Saturday, May 11, at the Galen Center, on USC’s University Park Campus. Kimmel Read More »

January 24th, 2019|Announcements, Commencement, Commencement19, Keck Net Intranet, Press Page|