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USC Dornsife faculty share how they teach students to engage with artificial intelligence in ways that stimulate — instead of stifle — their creativity.

Retrospectives on Yayoi Kusama often point to mental illness as her source of inspiration. But before she made it big, she was a young girl inspired by traveling the world for the first time, writes art history PhD candidate Audrey Storm.

Funded by ARPA-H, the research team will collect detailed data on brain activity, sleep, smartphone use and more to identify risks and protective factors among USC students with depression.

A civil rights attorney and USC Dornsife lecturer explains how to navigate problems at the polls.

A childhood encounter with a best-selling book about the Revolutionary War sparked a love of history for Benjamin Goff, a USC ROTC alumnus who graduated from USC Dornsife with a history degree in 2025.

This summer, researchers at USC Dornsife turned the world into a laboratory, traveling across all seven continents as part of a broad research footprint that stretched around the globe.

With The Macfarlane Foundation support, students learn from environmental leaders and discover new ways to turn their interests into careers.

This summer, USC students interned across the public, private and nonprofit sectors in the nation’s capital, working in a variety of industries ranging from business to government to medicine and beyond.

USC Dornsife research finds that physically strenuous work may not offer the same brain protection as voluntary leisure-time exercise and may even increase dementia risk.