After a devastating marine heatwave hit the Florida Keys and Dry Tortugas in 2023, the populations of two essential reef-building corals are now too low to fulfill their ecological roles. However, coral researchers are not giving up hope yet.
USC was named a top producer of U.S. Fulbright students for 2025–26, with 19 in total. Among those, 15 earned degrees or completed a minor at USC Dornsife.
Creative writing major Micah Owens, who spent much of his life in boarding school prior to attending USC, is the latest winner of the USC Dornsife Magazine Creative Writing Contest.
An evolutionary adaptation that allows one ocean bacteria to thrive could prove to be its Achilles Heel as oceans change, new study reveals.
Under her leadership, the program grew significantly in both scope and prestige.
Using highly advanced, large-scale computational screening methods developed by USC Dornsife’s Vsevolod “Seva” Katritch, USC researchers evaluate billions of potential compounds to find a promising new drug for Azlheimer’s disease.
Trump’s stated reasons for taking Greenland are wrong – but the tactics fit with the plan to limit China’s economic interests.
Underground heat and sediment patterns control how earthquakes behave along one of the most dangerous faults in the eastern Mediterranean.
Toby Kiers is honored for research on mycorrhizal fungi — and for efforts to map and protect the underground networks that sustain life on Earth.
Po'pay, a Tewa religious leader, led the Pueblo Revolt, the most successful Indigenous rebellion in what’s now the United States.
