USC Dornsife Office of Communication

November 2025

USC & USC Dornsife News Stories

Celebrating 175 years of California history
Alice Baumgartner, Nayan Shah, Peter Westwick and Jill Sohm
A path to safer painkillers – revealed by freezing opioids and their protein receptors in motion
Cornelius Gati and Saif Khan (PhD candidate)
Beyond the hype: Quantum computers start solving real problems
Eli Levenson-Falk
Training the minds behind the AI algorithm
Aaron Lauda, Xiaohui Chen, Sheel Ganatra, Stanislav Minsker, Khang Nguyen (master’s student) and Viraj Bansal (master’s student)
USC Dornsife honors 104-year-old alumnus, veteran and former Secretary of the Navy
Paul Ignatius, Viet Luong, Michael Donley and Louis Zamperini (alumni)
How a USC Dornsife service program shapes multiple generations of local families and Trojans
Juan Carlos Whyte-Lira and Itzel Whyte-Aguayo (alumni)
How young Angelenos come to understand and shape their city
William Deverell, Elizabeth Logan and Allan Scholl (alumnus)
LA’s shade gap: Many think their streets are covered – they’re not
Kyla Thomas
Teaching teens to understand a changing world
Steve Lamy, Teresa Hudock, Michael Fry (emeritus), Leylâ Fikes (alumna) and Reid Lidow (alumnus)
USC Dornsife’s post-wildfire lead testing initiative grows in and beyond L.A. County
Seth John
In Memoriam: Gerald Segal, Professor Emeritus of Chemistry and former USC Dornsife dean
Gerald Segal (emeritus), George Olah, Arieh Warshel, Curt Whittig, Surya Prakash, Sydney Benson (emeritus), Otto Schnep (emeritus) and Karen Segal (retired staff)

The Conversation Articles / Op-Eds / Other Scholar-Written Articles

Fullerton’s Immigrant Families are Racially Diverse and Long-Settled, Not New Arrivals, New USC Data Shows
By: Jody Agius Vallejo, Manuel Pastor, Justin Scoggins and Jeffer Giang – Fullerton Observer
Bad Bunny and Puerto Rican Muslims: How both remix what it means to be Boricua
By: Ken Chitwood – The Conversation
How climate finance to help poor countries became a global shell game
By: Shannon Gibson – The Conversation
Interruption in SNAP benefit turns a chronic hunger problem into an acute crisis
By: Leah Gose – Los Angeles Times
The Trump Administration in Southeast Asia: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
By: Derek Grossman – Global China South Project
The first Thanksgiving is a key chapter in America’s origin story – but what happened in Virginia four months later mattered much more
By: Peter Mancall – The Conversation

E-newsletters

Videos

From Gold Rush to Gigabytes California’s 175 Years of Change and Reinvention
Susan Harris, and Itzel Whyte-Aguayo and Juan Carlos Whyte-Lira (alumni)

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