January 2025

USC & USC Dornsife News Stories

• New year, same you? USC professors offer research-based tips for sticking with your New Year’s resolutions
  Wendy Wood, Lorraine Turcotte and Daphna Oyserman
• Long before the L.A. fires, America’s housing crisis displaced millions
  Richard Easterlin
• Q&A: Exactly why have the L.A.-area wildfires been so destructive? (Wrigley)
  Jill Sohm and Joe Árvai
• Study links contamination of drinking water with ‘forever chemicals’ to a range of rare cancers (Keck)
  Paulina Oliva
• USC hosts 2025 invitational Science Olympiad showcasing student innovation
  Moh El-Naggar
• Parenting through disaster: How California’s wildfires are affecting children and families
  Emily Smith-Greenaway

Conversation Articles / Op-eds

• New Year’s Eve celebrates St. Silvester – the 4th-century pope whose legend shaped ideas of church and state
  By: Cavan W. Concannon – The Conversation
• 5 elections to watch in 2025
  By: Patrick James and other non-Dornsife scholars – The Conversation, Japan Today, The News Minute and Financial Nigeria
• Righting a wrong, name by name − the Irei monument honors Japanese Americans imprisoned by the US government during World War II
  By: Susan H. Kamei and Duncan Williams – The Conversation, Yahoo News, CT Insider, Castle-Rock Messenger, Cadillac News, Metropolitan Digital, Asia Times, and The Huntsville Item
• Trudeau taps out: How Trump’s taunts and tariff threats added to domestic woes confronting Canada’s long-standing PM
  By: Patrick James – The Conversation, Scroll, The Wire India, The Standard Hong Kong, News Pronto, The Moderate Voice and Univision
• A national, nonpartisan study of the Los Angeles fires could improve planning for future disasters
  By: Najmedin Meshkati – The Conversation, Metropolitan Digital and The Invading Sea
• Israel-Hamas deal shows limits of US influence – and the unpredictable impact of Trump
  By: Gregory F. Treverton – The Conversation, Arcamax and Yahoo News
• How the oil industry and growing political divides turned climate change into a partisan issue
  By: Joe Árvai – The Conversation, Yahoo News, Yahoo News Australia, What’s Up Newp, ArcaMax, Cobb County Courier and Fast Company
• Newly discovered photos of Nazi deportations show Jewish victims as they were last seen alive
  By: Wolf Gruner – The Conversation, Time Goggles, Bozeman Daily Chronicle, Bucks County Beacon, AlterNet, NZ City, Mena FN, Chron, The Middletown Press, Yahoo Life and Yahoo News UK

E-newsletters

• Jan. 15: Student Newsletter
• Jan. 22: Parent Newsletter
• Jan. 23: Alumni Newsletter
• Jan. 28: Faculty and Staff Newsletter

Dornsife Dialogues

• In Conversation with Danzy Senna
  Danzy Senna and Jonathan Escoffery (PhD Student)

Videos

• Should Babies Eat Sugar? Eye-Opening New Research!
  Tadeja Gracner
• Should Babies Eat Sugar? New Research on Early Sugar Restrictions Sheds Light
  Tadeja Gracner
• Chess and Critical Thinking: USC Dornsife Class Spotlight
  Jack Peters
• A Conversation With Award-Winning Author Danzy Senna
  Danzy Senna and Jonathan Escoffery (PhD Student)

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