USC Dornsife News

People who highly value equality and purity are most likely to see excessive wealth as wrong, a new study suggests.

USC Dornsife scholars with deep knowledge of the embattled region, including one who experienced bombing in Kyiv this summer, spell out the long-term effects of the conflict and how they would advise Putin and Zelenskyy.

While gold mining’s environmental toll is well known, a team led by USC Dornsife researchers has uncovered a hidden culprit behind the Amazon rainforest’s slow recovery: water loss caused by reshaped terrain.

USC Dornsife-led research indicates that obvious reasons for higher infant mortality rates following damaging storms, such as reduced pre-natal care and diminished nutrition, are surprisingly not the culprits, but instead more obscure factors may be at play.

An inside look at the "conclave", the secret assembly of cardinals that chooses who will lead the Catholic Church.

Why is President Trump likely interested in the island nation? International relations professor Steve Lamy explains.

Descendants of survivors helped researchers identify 279 deportees and tell their stories, giving victims a voice, writes Wolf Gruner of USC Dornsife’s Center for Advance Genocide Research.

USC Dornsife scientists discover how a deadly combination of factors led to disaster. They hope their research will help identify other regions vulnerable to similar flooding events.

A USC Dornsife Maymester course offers undergrads an chance to engage with human rights activists, politicians and diplomats in one of the world’s least studied, most fraught regions.