October 2025

USC & USC Dornsife News Stories

• Honoring Jane Goodall’s legacy at USC Dornsife
  Jane Goodall and Craig Stanford
• Researchers invent new AI tool to automate detection of cancer in blood samples
  Peter Kuhn
• 2 brain scans are better than 1 in predicting teen anxiety, study finds
  Emilio Valadez
• Public Exchange expands from USC to Washington University in St. Louis
  Kate Weber, James Bullock and Seth John
• USC’s Lisa Aziz-Zadeh receives Nimoy Knight Foundation’s Live Long and Prosper Award
  Lisa Aziz-Zadeh
• How quantum computing simulates nature, aids blockbuster drugs and gets Congress to agree
  Daniel Lidar and James Bullock

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

• Nobel Prize in physics awarded for ultracold electronics research that launched a quantum technology
  By: Eli Levenson-Falk – The Conversation
• Baseball returns to a Japanese American detention camp after a historic ball field was restored
  By: Susan Kamei – The Conversation
• Trump’s words aren’t stopping China, Brazil and many other countries from setting higher climate goals, but progress is slow
  By: Shannon Gibson – The Conversation
• Orange County’s future depends on supporting immigrants today
  By: Jody Agius Vallejo – The Orange County Register
• One Step Removed from Ash
  By: Vanessa Holyoak (PhD candidate) – Los Angeles Review of Books
• Is it wrong to have too much money? Your answer may depend on deep-seated values – and your country’s economy
  By: Jackson Trager – The Conversation
• 2 iconic coral species are now functionally extinct off Florida, study finds – we witnessed the reef’s bleaching and devastation
  By: Carly Kenkel, Jenna Dilworth (PhD Candidate) and Maya Gomez (PhD Student) – The Conversation
• Trump’s anti-Venezuela actions lack strategy, justifiable targets and legal authorization
  By: Jeffrey Fields – The Conversation

E-newsletters

• Oct. 15: Faculty/Staff Newsletter
• Oct. 16: Alumni Newsletter

Videos

• From Gold Rush to Gigabytes California’s 175 Years of Change and Reinvention
  James Bullock, Bill Deverell, Elizabeth Logan, Alice Baumgartner, Nayan Shah, Jill Sohm, Peter Westwick

Dornsife Dialogues

• From Gold Rush to Gigabytes: California’s 175 Years of Change and Reinvention
  Bill Deverell, Elizabeth Logan, Alice Baumgartner, Dan Lewis, Nayan Shah, Jill Sohm, Peter Westwick

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