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