July 2024

USC & USC Dornsife News Stories

• LA County faces dual challenge: food insecurity and nutrition insecurity
  Kayla de la Haye
• Three USC Dornsife professors’ books named among best of the 21st century
  Percival Everett, Maggie Nelson, Viet Thanh Nguyen and Dana Johnson
• Physician researcher mixes AI, immunology and analytics to free patients from food allergies
  Inderpal Randhawa (alumnus)
• When it comes to butterflies, people prefer pretty ones. That’s a problem for scientists.
  Laura Melissa Guzman
• USC Dornsife scholars win Goldwater and Astronaut scholarships, and a prestigious fellowship
  Peter Kuhn, Stephan Haas, Brandon Ye (student), Miguel Mercado (student) and Giancarlo Ceja (alumnus)
• From witnessing oppression to investigating resistance
  Wolf Gruner and Martha Stroud
• Watch USC Dornsife athletes at the 2024 Paris Olympics
  Various students and alumni competing
• Think you’re funny? ChatGPT might be funnier
  Norbert Schwarz and Drew Gorenz (PhD student)
• Can policy decisions reduce our appetite for meat?
  Wändi Bruine de Bruin and Kayla de la Haye
• Paris 2024: Geopolitics and the Olympics
  Robert English, Gregory Treverton and Jonathan Aronson
• New program welcomes USC transfer student veterans
  Alisa Sanchez and Daniel Pecchenino

Conversation Articles / Op-eds

• Bugs thrive in urban Los Angeles – volunteers’ traps reveal biodiversity hot spots for city insects and spiders
  By: Laura Melissa Guzman, Charles Lehnen, and Teagan Baiotto – The Conversation, Phys.org, Yahoo News, HeadTopics, Metropolitan Digital, Business Mirror andYahoo News New Zealand
• Supreme Court ruling may put presidents above the law – but even kings never were
  By: Jay Rubenstein – The Conversation, Metropolitan Digital, Yahoo News, Minnesota Lawyer, and the Caledonian Record
• Moms think more about household chores − and this cognitive burden hurts their mental health
  By: Darby Saxbe and Lizzie Aviv – The Conversation, Yahoo News Malaysia, Health Reporter, Earth, Foreign Affairs, Tolerance Canada, Metropolitan Digital, and KOAM News
• Philippines and Vietnam’s South China Sea strategies have failed
  By: Derek Grossman – Nikkei Asia
• The Ruthless Politicization of Science Funding
  By: Anna I. Krylov – The Chronicle of Higher Education

E-newsletters

• Jul. 18: Alumni Newsletter
• Jul. 19: Faculty and Staff Newsletter
• Jul. 23: Parent Newsletter

Videos

• USC Alumna Wows on Shark Tank: Inventer of Flaus Electric Flosser
  Samantha Coxe (alumnus)
• Which Health Hacks Are Worth It?
  USC Dornsife Magazine
• Ph.D. Academy Provides Students Edge Over Competition
  Jasmine Yu, Steven Finkel, Darby Saxbe, Victoria Chonn Ching (Post Doc), Inger Flem (PhD Student), Tolulope Babalola (PhD Student)
• Doctor Who’s Two Hearts, Explained
  Emily Anderson, Amelia Marvit (alumnus)
• USC Alumna’s Olympic Story from 1984 Volunteer to 2024 Judge
  Cheryl Russell (alumnus)
• Meet USC Prof. Helping USA Track and Field Olympians in Paris
  Jill McNitt-Gray
• Is ChatGPT Funnier Than Humans?
  Drew Gorenz (PhD Student)

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