USC Dornsife Office of Communication

November 2024

USC & USC Dornsife News Stories

Restricting sugar before birth and in early childhood greatly reduces risk of chronic disease later in life
Tadeja Gracner
How to handle controversial topics in the classroom? New research is evaluating one approach
Anna Saavedra and Amie Rapaport
Over a million US children scarred by drug overdoses
Emily Smith-Greenaway
A tree grows in LA: Urban Trees Initiative achieves its first planting
Kate Weber and Public Exchange
Gifted young authors get career boost through new endowment honoring fellow writer
David Román
USC Dornsife’s Percival Everett wins National Book Award for ‘James’
Percival Everett, Viet Thanh Nguyen and Maggie Nelson
George Wilson, philosophy professor who focused on film, language and action
George Wilson
Annual awards shine a light on exceptional staff and faculty
Wolf Gruner, Jeffrey Russell, Alan Watts, Brittany Friedman, Jonathan Libgober, Santiago Morales, Cris Negron, Jessica (Xiaomin) Zu, Amber Arias (staff), Amy Braden (staff), Susan Harris (staff), Hannah Kiszla (staff) and Susan Vaswani (staff)
How best to improve L.A. County residents’ lives? Ask them
Kyla Thomas, Marco Angrisani, Ying Liu, Kate Weber, Evan Sandlin
Study: Delayed government benefits to displaced workers undermines support for free trade (USC Price School)
Kyuwon Lee
Masks affect how kids — and parents — read emotions, USC brain research finds
Darby Saxbe and Yael Waizman (PhD student)
USC Urban Trees Initiative expands green spaces in South Los Angeles neighborhoods
Kate Weber and Public Exchange

Conversation Articles / Op-eds

How updated Vatican rules on validating supernatural appearances of Mary will affect the famed pilgrimage site of Medjugorje
By: Lisa Bitel – The Conversation, Arcamax, Metropolitan Digital, SF Gate and Alter Net
Vulnerability to financial scams in aging adults could be an early indicator of Alzheimer’s disease, new research shows
By: Laura Fenton and Duke Han – The Conversation, Yahoo, Yahoo News Australia and AlterNet
How the gladiators inspired evangelicals’ sense of persecution
By: Cavan W. Concannon – The Conversation, Yahoo News, The Times West Virginian, Idaho Tribune and the Houston Chronicle
UN climate negotiations end on shaky geopolitical ground, but I see reasons for hope
By: Shannon Gibson – The Conversation, Yahoo News, Inkl, Philippine Canadian Inquirer, Europe Says, ArcaMax, SF Gate, and Bozeman Daily Chronicle
Opinion: Trump’s border czar and a history we should not forget
By: Natalia Molina – Los Angeles Times, Yahoo and Houston Chronicle
‘I Am Disappointed, Fearful, Numb.’ Pulitzer Prize Winner Viet Thanh Nguyen Reflects on Trump ‘Racially Purifying’ the US
By: Viet Thanh Nguyen – Zeteo
The Struggle for Energy Sovereignty in Puerto Rico’s Gubernatorial Elections
By: Jaden A. Morales (PhD student) – NACLA

E-newsletters

Videos

Planting Trees in South LA | Milestone Reached for USC Urban Trees Initiative
Monica Dean, Will Berelson and Public Exchange
Introducing M.S. in Mathematical Data Science at USC Dornsife
Aaron Lauda and Xiaohui Chen
USC Alumnus Captures Rare Mountain Lion on Camera
Miguel Ordeñana (alumnus)
🧘‍♀️ Practice Gratitude | Deep Breaths with USC Dornsife
Guru Shabd Khalsa

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