USC Dornsife News

Celebrated author and Distinguished Professor of English earns one of the literary world’s top honors for his reimagining of a classic American tale.

The Jimmy Gauntt Memorial Award Endowment honors its namesake while giving talented USC Dornsife students a leg up on their writing careers.

USC Dornsife Public Exchange program brings shade trees to neighborhoods across the city.

The Vatican has said that the pilgrimage to Medjugorje, a small town in Bosnia-Herzegovina, can yield ‘spiritual benefits’ but refrained from calling the apparitions genuinely supernatural.

USC Dornsife study finds that as of 2019, more than 1.4 million children have lost a family member to a drug overdose, with younger children increasingly affected.

USC Dornsife researchers will evaluate a new classroom program that’s teaching debate, deliberation and civil discussion skills to middle and high school students.

A USC Dornsife study takes advantage of a “natural experiment” from World War II to analyze how sugar rationing influences long-term health outcomes.

Nobel laureate Arieh Warshel, Distinguished Professor of Chemistry at USC Dornsife, was recognized for his academic achievements and intellectual courage.

Folklorists created a through line from the Celtic pagan festival of Samhain to Halloween. But the Halloween we know today has more to do with the English, a 9th century pope and American consumerism.