May 2023
USC & USC Dornsife News Stories
- Saved from Extinction, Southern California’s Channel Island Foxes Now Face New Threat to Survival
Suzanne Edmands
- AI Sheds New Light on the ‘Code of Life’
Remo Rohs
- Three USC Dornsife faculty members named 2023 Simons Investigators
Naomi Levine, Seth John and J. Cameron Thrash
- Structural biologist Helen Berman elected to the National Academy of Sciences
Helen Berman, Remo Rohs and Scott Fraser
- Newly minted PhD draws from personal experience to advocate for children in foster care system
Alumna Melissa Chadburn, Dana Johnson, Danzy Senna and Elda Maria Román
- Graduating human biology major creates opportunities for North Korean refugees
Alumna Woori Lee
- Graduating sociology major founded USC’s first group for students of Middle Eastern/North African descent
Alumnus Anthony Khoory
- How their mothers’ love helped scholars bloom
Michael Campbell, Peter Kuhn, Jazlyn Mooney, Gayla Margolin and Darby Saxbe
- What sets the USC Dornsife experience apart?
Alumna Isha Sanghvi and Emily Anderson
- Celebrated writer and Distinguished Professor of English elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters
Percival Everett
- $50 million gift commitment establishes The Ronald and Leslie Sherwin Initiative for environmental protection at USC Dornsife
Alumnus Ronald Sherwin and Amber D. Miller
- USC Pride Month celebrations come as LGTBQ+ community is targeted across the country
Karen Tongson
- Unlocking the ocean’s secret: Natural carbon capture
William Berelson
- Biosimilar drugs underused due to commercial insurance restrictions
Chang Li and the Department of Economics
- How to write a commencement address
Natalia Molina
- Latina doctoral candidates are first in their families to pursue PhDs; now they’re set for USC graduation
Natalia Molina, the Center for Latinx & Latin American Studies and doctoral candidates: Karina Santellano, Laura Dominguez, Divana Olivas, Blanca Ramirez and Tisha Reichle-Aguilera
Notable Earned Media
- ABC News
Christian Grose on mounting concerns with U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein.
- The Atlantic
Jane Junn on audience response to Trump’s CNN Town Hall.
- The Daily Beast
Steven Ross about the writers’ strike.
- Forbes
Evelyn Alsultany on the new MENA category and its effects on DEI efforts.
- KCRW-FM
Karen Tongson on the Dodgers’ decision to re-invite the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence to Pride Night after facing backlash for their original invitation and ban of the group.
- KNX-AM
Trisha Tucker on book bans in Texas and Florida.
- KNX-AM
Josh Vidale on a swarm of minor earthquakes that hit Riverside and Imperial County.
- KTLA-TV
Josh West on flooding concerns.
- Los Angeles Times
Steven Ross on writers’ struggles in Hollywood.
- Miami Herald
Cavan Concannon on the Duggars controversial form of Christianity.
- NBC News
Stanley Rosen on the return of Ya Ya the panda to China.
- New Scientist
Nicholas Warner on topological solitons and black holes.
- New York Times
Natalia Molina about the flawed new shade structures at L.A. bus stops.
- New York Times
Jackie Wong had poem featured.
- New York Times
Darby Saxbe for her study on how neighborhood violence affects the brains of teenagers.
- New York Times
Arthur Stone on pain.
- New York Times
Anna Krylov about major journals’ rejection of a paper that says science should be impartial.
- New York Times
Christopher Boehm for his book “Hierarchy in the Forest: The Evolution of Egalitarian Behavior.”
- New York Times
Adrian De Leon on the Philippines leader Ferdinand Marcos Jr.
- NPR
David Kang on relations between the U.S., South Korea, and North Korea.
- Seattle Times and the Oregonian
Duncan Ryūken Williams about the largest Shinto shrines in the U.S.
- Spectrum News 1
Robert English on the Russia — Ukraine War.
- U.S. News & World Report and MSN
Bob Shrum on approval ratings for past presidents.
- Yahoo News
Trisha Tucker about their class on banned books.
- Yahoo, The Hill, MSN and KTSM
Hajar Yazdiha on the model minority myth.
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