June 2025
USC & USC Dornsife News Stories
- Why forests aren’t coming back after gold mining in the Amazon
Josh West and Abra Atwood (alumnus) - Gerd Bergmann, physicist who probed the wavy motions of electrons
Gerd Bergmann, Stephan Haas, Grace Lu and Werner Däppen - USC Dornsife study reveals how protein droplets help cells master difficult DNA repair
Irene Chiolo and Chiara Merigliano - Wildfires, falling EV interest and transit doubts test L.A. ahead of the 2028 Olympics
LABarometer - $1 million FireAid grant boosts USC Dornsife researchers’ wildfire soil testing program
Josh West, Seth John and Sam Silva - Lighting a new way to predict earthquakes
Sylvain Barbot - The future of art education, research and policy
Center for Music, Brain and Society - Brain cell discovery may explain excessive hunger
Scott Kanoski and Lea Decarie-Spain (Post-Doc) - Scientists code Milky Way twin galaxies to better understand dark matter
Vera Gluscevic - USC technology may reduce shipping emissions by half
William Berelson - Bang! Goes the Universe
Kris Pardo, Vera Gluscevic, Tok Thompson and Zlatan Damnjanovic - Kiss of Life: Experts Focus on Preserving the Planet
Richard Wood, Carly Kenkel, Sergey Nuzhdin, Craig Stanford and Suzanne Edmands - How to Find Meaning and Purpose in a Busy World
Stephen Finlay, Ralph Wedgwood and Merrick Anderson - Buried Alive: The Secret Life of Deep Earth Microbes
Karen Lloyd and Andrew Steen - The Great Apes’ Guide to Human Nature
Craig Stanford and Jane Goodall - The Art of Living
Percival Everett, Danzy Senna, Jessica Taylor Bellamy (alumnus), Deborah Harkness, Enrique Martínez Celaya, Aloe Blacc (alumnus) and Christopher Scott Carpenter (alumnus)
Conversation Articles / Op-eds
- Your brain learns from rejection — here’s how it becomes your compass for connection.
By: Begüm Babür – The Conversation, the Bangaladore Mirror, Rappler and Daily Legal News - Politics based on grievance has a long and violent history in America
By: Peter C. Mancall – The Conversation, Tolerance.ca, The Bay City Tribune, Daily Legal News, Akron Legal News and Yahoo News - Israel bombed an Iraqi nuclear reactor in 1981 − it pushed program underground and spurred Saddam Hussein’s desire for nukes
By: Jeffrey Fields – The Conversation, Yahoo News New Zealand, Tolerance.ca, NDTV, Medium, NewsOne, The Denver Gazette, New Zealand City and Daily Legal News - What happens next in US-Iran relations will be informed by the two countries’ shared history
By: Gregory F. Treverton – The Conversation, Houston Chronicle, Yahoo News Australia, The Ada News and the Chattanooga Times Free Press - California’s long history of National Guard overreaction to peaceful protesters
By: William Deverell – Los Angeles Times - Greater America Has Been Exporting Disunion for Decades
By: Viet Thanh Nguyen – The Nation - Rage and Prayer in Los Angeles
By: Manuel Pastor – Dissent - The struggle for Los Angeles
By: Viet Thanh Nguyen – Financial Times - Ukraine’s audacious asymmetric attack on Russia inspires Taiwan
By: Derek Grossman – Nikkei Asia - The Stars and Stripes Forever?
By: Morris Levy, Matthew Wright and Jack Citrin – The Fulcrum, Latino News Network, News Tribune and Daily Press - South Korea Will Not Choose Between the US and China
By: David Kang and Park Kyuri – The National Interest - The Moral Paralysis Facing Iranians Right Now
By: Morteza Dehghani – The New York Times - Ukraine’s audacious asymmetric attack on Russia inspires Taiwan
By: Derek Grossman – Nikkei Asia - U.S. and Iran have a long, troubled history
By: Jeffrey Fields – The Conversation, Yahoo News New Zealand, Tolerance.ca, NDTV, Medium, NewsOne, The Denver Gazette, and Daily Legal News
E-newsletters
- Jun. 12: Alumni Newsletter
- Jun. 25 USC Dornsife Magazine Newsletter
Videos
- Media Giant CEO Reveals His Surprising Journey
Roger Lynch (alumnus) - A Poem Inspired by the Los Angeles Wildfires
Shandela Contreras (student)
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