September 2025
USC & USC Dornsife News Stories
- Political discussions at USC Dornsife explore democracy’s biggest questions
Bob Shrum and Mike Murphy - What your DNA – and childhood – reveal about midlife decrease in IQ
Christopher Beam and Deborah Finkel - $4M grant from the John Templeton Foundation funds a new frontier in cosmology
Vera Gluscevic, Dmitri Gallow and Aiichiro Nakano - $5M grant strengthens USC Equity Research Institute’s mission for climate and economic justice
Manuel Pastor and James Bullock and Ezinne Nwankwo (fellow) - New faculty bring global perspectives to USC Dornsife
Romina Wainberg, Ricardo Jose Goncalves Duarte Filho, Graeme Reynolds, Venya Gushchin, Eleanor Gordon-Smith, Harry McCarthy and Christian Campbell - New faculty strengthen USC Dornsife’s social and natural sciences departments
David Schönholzer, Michael Droste, Milena Djourelova, Heather Kosakowski, Katharina Kircanski, Samuel Nastase, Valentina Gonzalez-Rostani, Eric Kramon, Michael-David Mangini, Meredith McLaughlin, Peter Haine and Ahmed Elbanna - USC Dornsife chemist wins major grant from new US-UK quantum initiative
Stephen Bradforth - Scientists warn California should prepare for destructive ‘supershear’ earthquakes
Yehuda Ben-Zion and Ahmed Elbanna - Want to save an endangered species? Start with the right DNA blueprint
Jazlyn Mooney - USC researchers win $8M NIH grant to pursue novel Alzheimer’s drug
Vsevolod Katritch - From lab to conference: How travel awards shape USC chemistry careers
Cesar Reyes and Zhaohong Sun (PhD students) - $3M NSF grant funds new USC Dornsife mathematics research and training program
Sheel Ganatra
The Conversation Articles / Op-eds / Other Scholar-Written Articles
- Los Angeles Is Contaminated Now
By: David Ulin – The New York Times - ¿Por Qué MAGA?
By: Manuel Pastor – Dissent - How Witnessing Violence Impacts Brain Development — and What Colleges Can Do
By: Mary Helen Immordino-Yang – Inside Higher Ed - The Dirty Move Republicans Could Pull to Keep the House
By: Steve Posner – The Bulwark - Bangladesh’s Caretaker Government Has Reoriented Its Foreign Policy
By: Derek Grossman – World Politics Review
E-newsletters
- Sept. 10: Student Newsletter
- Sept. 25: Alumni Newsletter
Videos
- L.A. Could See Damaging “Supershear” Earthquake, Scientists Warn
Yehuda Ben-Zion and Ahmed Elbanna - USC’s Legacy of Excellence In and Out of the Arena
Manuel Pastor, Charles Lehnen (PhD student), Barry Thompson, Will Berelson and Karen Lloyd - Dean James Bullock, USC Dornsife’s 23rd Dean
James Bullock - The Trojan Legacy: In Research, In Athletics
Manuel Pastor, Charles Lehnen (PhD student), Barry Thompson, Will Berelson and Karen Lloyd - Nothing beats golden hour on campus
Campus locations
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