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Adults With Lazy Eye Can Improve
December 20, 2005New treatment offers promise for previously untreatable amblyopia cases. Seven subjects in a recent exercise improved their overall visual acuity as much as 216 percent, researchers say. By Carl Marziali Young adults… more>
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Marijuana and Depression
December 1, 2005Marijuana smokers are less depressed than those who never smoke, purports the largest-ever study of its kind, co-authored by a USC College psychology researcher. The conclusions surprised even the study’s co-author. … more>
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College Scientist Named Ellison Senior Scholar
December 1, 2005Geneticist Norman Arnheim recognized for work on ‘paternal age effect’ By Laura Sanders December 2005 A mother’s age when she conceives can affect the health of her children. Indeed, one of every 30… more>
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The Chocolate Solution
December 1, 2005Students test their palate and find a moment of cocoa calm in the midst of finals week By Pamela J. Johnson Dec. 2005 Those admitted didn’t need a golden ticket. But USC’s von KleinSmid Memorial Residents Hall… more>
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USC College Scholars Celebrated at Holiday Fête
December 1, 2005Dean expresses gratitude and recognizes outstanding teaching, research efforts at annual reception By Pamela J. Johnson December 2005 In an annual holiday reception, USC College honored its faculty and graduate students for… more>
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Feminism’s Loose Ends
December 1, 2005Streisand Professor explores paradoxes of women’s lives By Katherine Yungmee Kim December 2005 Scholar Sharon Hays explores “the unfinished business of feminism.” The culture, gender and family… more>
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Alums Put Education, Each Other to Work
December 1, 2005The bonds students create at USC extend far beyond the classroom, campus and even graduation — as proof, take the four USC alumni who have launched an online business that they claim will “provide a better way than… more>
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Study Challenges View on Aging Research
November 17, 2005Deleting the ‘anti-aging’ gene from yeast greatly lengthens life span, say USC molecular scientists. By Carl Marziali A counterintuitive experiment has resulted in one of the longest recorded life-span… more>
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Exploring the Biological Unknown
November 1, 2005College geneticist studies yeast for insight into cell growth and cancer By Eva Emerson November 2005 Like Hamlet, eventually all cells must make a fateful decision: To divide or not to divide. And like the melancholy Prince… more>
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Neuroscience Research Institute Launched
November 1, 2005New University Park-focused Institute replaces the Program in Neural, Informational and Behavioral Sciences By Eva Emerson November 2005 Neuroscientists describe learning as a process in which new experiences lead to a… more>
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