Politics
Days before the election, a new poll offers a look at how California's redistricting response to Texas is playing out in four congressional races.
News Stories
Student
About 50 students got an unexpected opportunity to speak with the former president during a USC Dornsife Center for the Political Future study group, with pizza and ice cream on the side.
Social Impact
A new study by USC Dornsife psychology researcher Wändi Bruine de Bruin finds that using unfamiliar terms results in less public concern and less willingness to support policies that could stave off the extinction of species.
Health
Staying in school longer can protect against dementia, with particularly large benefits among people at higher genetic risk, according to a study by USC Dornsife economics scholars.
Social Impact
The shadow population of deceased relatives is more than three times as large as today’s living population, writes USC Dornsife Professor of Sociology and Spatial Sciences Emily Smith-Greenaway.
Sustainability
When conservation affects local people, the question of who pays and who has a voice in decisions can make or break species recovery, say USC Dornsife environmental scientists Shannon Gibson and David Ginsburg.
Arts and Culture
For Armenians, births, deaths and other important events are marked by a ritual 40 days, a tradition arising from both Christianity and folk customs.
Politics
USC Dornsife economist Mathew Kahn and UC Berkeley economist Emmanuel Saez debate Prop. 40, which aims to impose a one-time, 5% tax on billionaires.
Health
A new clinical trial based on a USC Dornsife researcher’s pioneering work on liquid biopsy will investigate whether a simple blood test could help detect breast cancer as early as Stage I.
