As the United States exerts growing pressure on Mexico, USC Dornsife political scientist Pamela Starr, author of The Making of Mexico, explains what Americans often misunderstand about the country next door and why the relationship matters.
A celebrated poet and Nobel laureate, Louise Glück wrote about mortality, broken families and human frailty with devastating wryness and quiet beauty.
Longtime USC Dornsife chemistry professor Arieh Warshel intertwines personal stories from his life with major milestones in Israeli history and his scientific journey to the Nobel Prize. [2¾ min read]
The Arieh Warshel Institute of Computational Biology at the Chinese University of Hong Kong in Shenzhen will support international collaborations and cutting-edge research in bioinformatics and computer-aided enzyme and drug design.
Nobel winning economist and USC Presidential Professor Angus Deaton looks at the rising trend of deaths from drug overdose, alcohol-related disease and suicide.
The distinguished economist has been described as an “optimistic defender of globalization.”
The lauded USC scientist, who helped shape the development of organic chemistry in the second half of the 20th century, played a major role in establishing USC as a notable center of advanced hydrocarbon chemistry and proposing the methanol economy.
F. Duncan Haldane, the Princeton University physicist awarded a 2016 Nobel Prize in Physics for his research into the properties of matter in extreme states, conducted much of his award-winning research while he was a professor of physics at USC Dornsife.
Globally renowned scientists gather for three-day symposium on “Multiscale Modeling of Complex Molecules and Life Processes.”
A new Israeli postage stamp honors USC Dornsife Nobel Prize winner Arieh Warshel and the United Nations’ proclaimed 2015 International Year of Light.
