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The USC Dornsife professor and former divisional dean explored how science and technology shape modern life and brought scholars across disciplines together to tackle complex questions.

Open to all undergraduates, USC Dornsife’s new Intensives offer a way to build focused expertise in areas that matter now — with a credential that appears on a diploma and transcript.

Dads today are spending dramatically more time with their kids than they did a generation ago. But there’s a less encouraging trend tucked into this development.

A review of nearly 100 years of high school yearbooks from Salinas High School in California showcases a nostalgic, not always accurate, version of high school.

Emerging from a swirl of sonic influences, reggaeton began as Panamanian protest music long before Puerto Rican artists turned the genre into a global phenomenon.

‘Cultural Catholics’ who rarely attend Mass now make up half of the church in the United States, explains Maureen Day of USC Dornsife’s Center for Religion and Civic Culture.

USC Dornsife study finds that as of 2019, more than 1.4 million children have lost a family member to a drug overdose, with younger children increasingly affected.

Klein’s work spanned many decades and encompassed 18 books on gang dynamics, intervention and prevention as well as juvenile delinquency.

New USC Dornsife-led research reveals that the nation’s marginalized groups face greater health risks from daily temperature variations than wealthier white populations.