December 2024
USC & USC Dornsife News Stories
- What triggered Nepal’s catastrophic 2021 flood – and could it happen again?
Josh West and Chan-Mao Chen - Neurons, songbirds and candy-coated science: Young minds explore neurobiology
Sarah Bottjer and JEP - Food insecurity in LA County remains well above national average, despite slight decline
Kayla de la Haye - Celebrating a year of achievements for USC Dornsife
Helen Berman, Percival Everett, Travis Williams, Peter Kuhn, Jessica Marglin, Nina Kang, Tadjea Gracner, Josh West, Darby Saxbe, Duke Han, Maggie Nelson, Viet Thanh Nguyen, Danzy Senna, Jordan Chancellor (PhD student), Katie Googe (PhD student), Isabel Smith (PhD student), Lizzie Aviv (PhD student), Sibo “Carl” Zhou (alumnus), Jamie Gomez (alumnus), Sophia Perez (alumnus), Brandon Som (alumnus), Rai Benjamin (alumus), Croix Bethune (alumnus) and Cheryl Russell (alumnus) - How Charles Dickens created Christmas as we know it
Tok Thompson and Kate Flint - How one state’s repeal of a prison ‘pay-to-stay’ law could guide national reform
Brittany Friedman - Richard A. Easterlin, pioneering economist who explored happiness and demographics
Richard Easterlin - Cell by cell: Rebuilding the body
Ian Ehrenreich - Charting the future of health care at USC
Shri Narayanan and Peter Kuhn - USC-led center gets $4 million to study impact of wildfire smoke, extreme heat on human health
Rima Habre and John Wilson - What social rejection teaches your brain
Leor Hackel - It’s the season of eating to excess
Scott Kanoski and Kayla de la Haye
Conversation Articles / Op-eds
- ‘Gladiator II’ entertains, but how much does it exaggerate? A historian weighs in
By: Stefano Rebeggiani – Angelus - Trump and Prabowo should enhance economic ties to counter China
By: Derek Grossman – Nikkei Asia - How a director of national intelligence helps a president stay on top of threats from around the world
By: Treverton Gregory – The Conversation, The Fulcrum, Arcamax and Yahoo News - New Year’s Eve celebrates St. Silvester – the 4th-century pope whose legend shaped ideas of church and state
By: Cavan Concannon – The Conversation, Yahoo News, ArcaMax, Bonner County Daily Bee, Metropolitan Digital and The Times West Virginian - 5 elections to watch in 2025
By: Patrick James and other contributors – The Conversation, All Politics Now, The Huntsville Item, The Pinnacle Gazette, News Pronto, Asian Spectator, Philippines News and the Bozeman Daily Chronicle - To Save Refugees and Migrants Is to Save Ourselves
By: Viet Thanh Nguyen – The New York Times - Separating families? That’s just business as usual for the U.S.
By: Natalia Molina – Washington Post
E-newsletters
- Dec. 4: Student Newsletter
- Dec. 17: Parent Newsletter
- Dec. 18: Faculty and Staff Newsletter
- Dec. 19: Alumni Newsletter
Videos
- 🧘 Beat Final Exam Stress | Deep Breaths with USC Dornsife #meditation #uscdornsife #fighton
- The Offspring’s Dexter Holland is a USC Dornsife ‘Triple Trojan’
Dexter Holland (alumnus) - The Offspring’s Dexter Holland On Punk Rock and Ph.D. #uscdornsife
Dexter Holland (alumnus) - USC Dornsife in the News: 2024
Anthony Vaccaro, Audrye Wong, Carly Kenkel, Christian Grose, Dan Lainer-Vos, Danzy Senna, Darby Saxbe, Deborah Harkness, Devin Griffiths, Duke Han, Duncan Williams, Gregory Treverton, Hajar Yazdiha, Jacob Soll, Jeffrey Jenkins, Joe Árvai, John Vidale, Kayla De La Haye, Kyla Thomas, Laura Melissa Guzman, Lisa Bitel, Lydie Moudileno, Manuel Pastor, Mara Mather, Matthew Kahn, Natalia Molina, Patrick James, Percival Everett, Robert English, Samantha Burton, Soeren Mattke, Steven Lopez, Tadeja Gracner, Vahe Peroomian, Viet Thanh Nguyen, Yehuda Ben-Zion and Ying Liu
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