Imagine outsinging the Phantom of the Opera and then freeing your friends by distracting a pack of trolls.
No, this isn’t the plot of a new fantasy video game; instead, it’s an innovative method to deliver speech therapy.
The game, called Amplify, uses … Read More »
Katherine Greenwood and Thomas Kosakowski were announced Jan. 29 as the university ombuds. Here is a Q&A with them on the new USC Office of the Ombuds and their roles.
Q. What is an ombuds?
A: An ombuds, or ombudsperson, is an … Read More »
USC leaders want to stop sexual assault and relationship violence before it even starts.
That focus on prevention is at the heart of a renewed outreach and education effort led by experts from Relationship and Sexual Violence Prevention and Services (RSVP), … Read More »
USC has launched a new Office of the Ombuds to provide independent, confidential and impartial support for the university community.
After a national search, Katherine Greenwood, JD, PhD, will be the university ombuds at the University Park Campus and Thomas Kosakowski, … Read More »
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 »
Interim USC President Wanda M. Austin has appointed Keck School of Medicine of USC professors Maja J. Matarić and Andrew P. McMahon as Distinguished Professor and University Professor, respectively. The two are joined by USC Davis School of Gerontology Professor Kelvin J. … Read More »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
A grant from the National Cancer Institute will advance researchers from the Keck School of Medicine of USC and the USC Viterbi School of Engineering in their fight against colorectal cancer.
Stacey Finley, PhD, holder of the … Read More »
Global dignitaries, activists and leaders spoke at USC’s University Park Campus as part of a public symposium, followed by a youth summit at City Hall, on Human Rights Day, Dec. 10.
In celebration of the 70th anniversary of the … Read More »
When it comes to sorting cells or other small particles, there’s no better place to do so than USC. The university’s Flow Cytometry Facility recently acquired two top-of-the-line cell sorters, the BD FACSymphony and the BioRad S3e, thanks to generous … Read More »
What causes joints to age, lose their regenerative capacity and succumb to arthritis, and how can we slow this process? To address these questions, the National Institutes of Health have awarded a $1.69 million research project grant to investigator … Read More »
Leaky capillaries in the brain portend early onset of Alzheimer’s disease as they signal cognitive impairment before hallmark toxic proteins appear, new USC research shows.
The findings, which appear in the Jan. 14 issue of Nature … Read More »
New USC physician Vladimir Ayvazyan brings his internal medicine expertise to USC Student Health as its newest physician.
His compassion for helping others and giving back to the community is what inspired him to be a doctor. Disease prevention and treating … Read More »
Bone marrow transplants, which involve transplanting healthy blood stem cells, offer the best treatment for many types of cancers, blood disorders and immune diseases. Even though 22,000 of these procedures are performed each year in the U.S., much remains to … Read More »
Ricky Bluthenthal, PhD, has been appointed associate dean for social justice at the Keck School of Medicine of USC, effective Jan. 1. Bluthenthal, who is a professor in the Department of Preventive Medicine and a member of the Institute for … Read More »
Two groundbreaking discoveries by USC researchers could lead to medications and a vaccine to treat or prevent a hemorrhagic fever, transmitted by a new tick species, before it spreads across the United States.
In the Jan. 7 Nature Microbiology, … Read More »