July 2023
USC & USC Dornsife News Stories
- It’s a Barbie world (we’re just living in it)
M.G. Lord - What causes mudslides and floods after wildfires? Hint: It’s not what scientists thought
Joshua West - USC student is youngest elected official in Los Angeles County
Triston Ezidore (student) - Where urban tree canopies and environmental justice meet
John Wilson and Manuel Pastor - USC Dornsife scholar Peggy Kamuf elected to the British Academy
Peggy Kamuf and Natania Meeker - Undergraduate will use rare, prestigious Truman Scholarship to springboard career as civil rights attorney
Michael Solomon (student) - Preserving threatened languages and cultures among top priorities for new Armenian studies institute leader
Shushan Karapetian - Why concerns about extreme weather are more important for concerns about water safety than concerns about climate change
Wandi Bruine de Bruin and Joshua Inwald (student) - Researchers illuminate centuries of identity lost because of slavery
Jazlyn Mooney - USC to lead interdisciplinary project to predict psychological health risk factors
Dani Byrd, Antonio Damasio and Assal Habibi - The Bite Stuff
Andrew Lakoff, Luisa Reis-Castro and Peter Redfield - NATO summit: USC experts discuss Sweden’s pending alliance, uncertainty looming over Ukraine
Patrick James, Steven Lamy and Robert English
Notable Earned Media
- AOL, Yahoo and Women’s Health
Wendy Wood about how to break bad habits. - Axios
Darby Saxbe about mental health treatments and insurance policies. - Axios
Jazlyn Mooney about Black Americans’ ancestral links - Business Insider
Vahe Peroomian about Starlink satellites. - Business Insider, MSN and Yahoo News
Christian Grose on Ron DeSantis’s presidential bid. - Business Insider, Spectrum News 1 and Yahoo News
Robert English on Russia-China relations amid the ongoing war in Ukraine. - The Conversation and Yahoo News
Jeffrey Fields on what are classified documents. - CNN
Robert English on Russia’s war efforts without Wagner. - Forbes
Chris Freeman on the usage of the word “cis” and its recent ban on Twitter. - Fresno Bee and Yahoo News
Natalia Molina about her book “A Place at the Nayarit.” - The Gazette
Jacob Soll on America’s post-pandemic economic and social revival. - Hollywood Reporter, DailyMail and Yahoo Entertainment
Steven Ross on criticism of SAG-AFTRA president Fran Drescher for an outing in Italy during contract negotiations. - The Hollywood Reporter, Yahoo and the Daily Beast
Steven Ross about the SAG-AFTRA strike. - House Beautiful and MSN
Tok Thompson on superstitions. - Los Angeles Times and the Washington Post
Steven J. Ross on AI’s effects on writers and actors in the motion picture and streaming industries. - Los Angeles Times
Darby Saxbe on mental health problems that occur during pregnancy. - MSN
Peter Kuhn about the effects of unexpected income. - Newsweek and MSN
Irving Biederman on the importance of play for human health. - New York Times
Tok Thompson on pinpointing the beginning of traditions. - New York Times
Matthew Kahn on why California and Florida have become uninsurable. - NPR
David Kang about the Korean War. - Sacramento Bee and Yahoo News
Kambiz Akhavan on Kamala Harris’ popularity as vice president. - Spectrum News 1
USC Dornsife Urban Trees Initiative. - Voice of America
Patrick James on possible retaliation from Russia after Biden’s support for NATO.
Conversation Articles / Op-eds
- Astro-tourism – chasing eclipses, meteor showers and elusive dark skies from Earth
By: Vahe Peroomian – The Conversation and CBS News - Prigozhin revolt raised fears of Putin’s toppling – and a nuclear Russia in chaos
By: Gregory F. Treverton – The Conversation and Yahoo News - I’ve taught in prisons for 15 years – here’s what schools need to know as government funding expands
By: Nicholas De Dominic – The Conversation and Yahoo - Adam Smith: Why it is unfair to label Scottish economist and philosopher a proponent of ‘greed is good’
By: Jacob Soll – The Scotsman - The Power of Sharing Birth Stories
By: Darby Saxbe – Yes! Magazine
Videos
- Alumni Voices: How We Created a Multimillion Dollar App 2 Years Out of College
Travis Chen (alumnus) and Brian Femminella (alumnus) - What Students Say Is The Most Important Class They’ve Taken in College
Emily Anderson, Richard Fliegel, Molly Lancaster, Kamy Akhavan, Hannah Ethridge (student) and JJ Flores (student) - How a Multi-Million Dollar Grant to USC Will Help Green Los Angeles
Manuel Pastor and John Wilson - USC’s Barbie Expert Reviews the Movie
M.G. Lord
E-newsletters
- July 13: Alumni Newsletter
- July 19: Faculty and Staff Newsletter
- July 24: Parent Newsletter