USC Dornsife News

Reflecting on the past year, each writer in the USC Dornsife Communication Office sorted through his or her stories to choose the one he or she most enjoyed producing in 2015.

Here we highlight the five videos most viewed on the USC Dornsife YouTube channel in 2015.

Outstanding students, exceptional alumni, prestigious scholarships and new leadership top the list of subjects our readers found most intriguing this past year. As we say goodbye to 2015, we look back at the 10 most read USC Dornsife stories from the past 12 months.

USC Dornsife psychologist John Monterosso describes the common pitfalls in keeping New Year’s resolutions — and makes a case for why you might want to rethink the well-intentioned ones that sap pleasure from your life.

USC Dornsife scholars give insight into the influence of online political activism on society and on participants’ individual psyches.

Postdoctoral scholar Andrew Petkus of psychology studied Swedish twins data and found that anxiety may be a significant factor in memory loss — even more than depression.

With a new movie, a comic book series and Krampus-based festivities debuting in many American cities, it looks like the legendary figure has gained a firm foothold (though whether human or cloven is unclear). USC Dornsife’s Britta Bothe explores the mythology surrounding this previously little-known Christmas figure from Alpine folklore and why it’s gaining in popularity.

A contestant on the 16th season of the CBS competitive reality TV show “Survivor,” Alexis Jones ’05, ’06 used the media interest around her participation to launch her nonprofit I AM THAT GIRL.

Julien Emile-Geay of earth sciences at USC Dornsife finds clues to the fundamental physics of El Niño in millennia-old corals and clams.