USC Dornsife News

USC Dornsife led an effort to analyze bodycam footage from 1,000 traffic stops across Los Angeles — data now helping train AI tools aimed at improving safety, accountability and respectful treatment during stops.

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

The five-year Research Training Group award will fund groundbreaking research in geometry and representation theory while supporting students and educators across Los Angeles.

Support from USC Dornsife alumni enables graduate students to attend science conferences and present their research to the broader scientific community.

Most species still lack their own sequenced genome. New research led by USC Dornsife shows that when studies rely on similar but different species, findings from genetic data can be distorted by up to 60% — putting vulnerable species at greater risk.

Research led by Stephen Bradforth explores how quantum entanglement might influence the outcome of ultrafast molecular events.

A team from USC, UC Riverside and Carnegie Observatories embarks on an ambitious project to better understand our universe

Challenging long-held ideas of evolution on islands, a USC Dornsife study found most Channel Islands foxes evolved proportionally larger brains than their mainland cousins — a surprising trait shaped by novel, isolated conditions and survival demands.

USC Dornsife psychologists show that empathy can be conditioned through emotional rewards — revealing a surprising path to compassion.