On an ordinary February day, 18-year-old Khashayar Pirouzmand was breezing through the physics questions on an important exam at his high school in Iran, excited because doing well could help him get into a top university.

Two hours in, without warning, his … Read More »

The Keck School of Medicine of USC’s Rene Pak was announced as the new chief of staff for the office of the president of the University of Southern California in a recent memo from USC President-Elect Carol L. Folt.

Pak will … Read More »

Achieving lead authorship on a peer-reviewed publication — which Shaina Sta. Cruz did for the first time in May — is a milestone for any aspiring researcher. Her study of automatic error correction in brain scan data, which she conducted … Read More »

On May 16, during Stroke Awareness Month, USC Verdugo Hills Hospital (USC-VHH) held its second annual Strokes for Strokes event for stroke survivors and their caretakers. This event is free to the public and draws on research that painting may … Read More »

A cancer diagnosis is a lesson in living with uncertainty. Patients and survivors know that feeling, that loss of control, very well — it becomes their daily life.

For Casey O’Connell, MD, a clinical cancer researcher at the USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer … Read More »