USC Dornsife Office of Communication

July 2025

USC & USC Dornsife News Stories

A quantum “holy grail”? Tiny device controls electron spins for future tech
Kelly Luo
What happens when society stops expecting you to work?
Titus Galama
How the Brain Learns to Care
Leor Hackel and Yi Zhang (doctoral student)
USC teams up with ShadeLA coalition to cool Los Angeles ahead of 2028
Public Exchange
Cancer as a journey, not a battle: How we frame the illness may influence outcomes
Norbert Schwarz
USC researchers pioneer lifesaving cancer breakthroughs
Valter Longo

Conversation Articles / Op-eds

Jimmy Swaggart’s rise and fall shaped the landscape of American televangelism
By: Diane Winston – The Conversation, Tolerance.ca, Religion News Service, New Pittsburgh Courier and Metropolitan Digital
Can AI think – and should it? What it means to think, from Plato to ChatGPT
By: Ryan Leack – The Conversation, Yahoo Canada, The Morning Sun and Tolerance.ca
US government may be abandoning the global climate fight, but new leaders are filling the void – including China
By: Shannon Gibson – The Conversation, Yahoo News Australia, Yahoo News New Zealand, MENAFN, Tolerance.ca, ScheerPost and Asia Times
No representation without reservation: The long-term limits of gender quotas in India
By: Varun Karekurve-Ramachandra – VoxDev
In ‘The Nimbus,’ a glowing toddler challenges beliefs and a marriage
By: Jane Hu – The Washington Post
‘Everyone else has moved on’: Why L.A. fire victims may be feeling even worse now
By: Alexis Landau – Los Angeles Times
US strikes on Iranian nuclear sites won’t faze North Korea
By: Derek Grossman – Nikkei Asia

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