USC Dornsife Office of Communication

May 2025

USC & USC Dornsife News Stories

From Student to Science Communicator
Peter Kuhn, Srikar Kolluru (student)
USC Dornsife’s Percival Everett Wins 2025 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
Percival Everett, Moh El-Naggar and Dana Johnson
What you need to know about the papal conclave
Richard Wood
USC Dornsife researchers develop tool to break brain circuits with molecular precision
Don Arnold
Grievance and Power: What Colonial History Teaches Us About Political Retribution
Peter Mancall
How pro-immigration policies can win public support in an era of populism
Morris Levy
Even weak tropical cyclones raise infant mortality in poorer countries, USC-led research finds
Zachary Wagner
Two USC Dornsife students earn prestigious Goldwater scholarships
Catcher Salazar (student), Jason Toliao (student)
Using environmental science to affect policy management: Karla Heidelberg
Karla Heidelberg and John Heidelberg
A new method for characterizing quantum gate errors
Daniel Lidar and Eli Levenson-Falk
USC launches $12 million Institute on Ethics & Trust in Computing
John Hawthorne and Moh El-Naggar

Conversation Articles / Op-eds

National security advisers manage decision-making as advocates or honest brokers
By: Gregory F. Treverton – The Conversation
No matter who the next pope is, US Catholics stand ‘at a crossroads’ − a sociologist explains
By: Maureen Day – The Conversation, HeraldNet, Samoa News and the Pittsburgh Courier
Americans are still learning the wrong lessons from Vietnam
By: Viet Thanh Nguyen – Los Angeles Times
Abundance liberalism versus adversarial legalism
By: Jeb Barnes and Tom Burke – Hypertext
ASEAN falls short again
By: Derek Grossman – Nikkei Asia
Californians must refuse to abandon the immigrants among us
By: Jody Agius Vallejo and Manuel Pastor – Los Angeles Times and The State
In Search of Narrative Plenitude
By: Viet Thanh Nguyen – Diasporic Vietnamese Artists Network
When it comes to mole, it’s personal and political
By: Natalia Molina – Los Angeles Times, Yahoo! News, DNYUZ
What Milton Friedman Can Teach Abundance Advocates
By: Matthew E. Kahn – City Journal

E-newsletters

Videos

Professors Read Their Students’ Reviews
Julia Chamberlin, Thomas Gustafson, Christopher Muniz, Patricia George and Rita Barakat
USC Graduation | Dornsife Class of 2025 Graduates Reflect On Memories
Various students
Roger Lynch to Grads: Dornsife Has Given More Than a Degree
Roger Lynch (alumnus)
Roger Lynch On His Career Path
Roger Lynch (alumnus)

Let us know if you have any comments about this Dornsife Brief email us at communication@dornsife.usc.edu