USC Dornsife News

USC Dornsife graduate students mentor juniors and seniors from high schools near USC, giving them hands-on research experience and a taste of what a career in STEM fields could bring.

Scientists from the Center for Dark Energy Biosphere Investigations at USC Dornsife educate community college students from around the U.S. on cutting-edge research techniques to better understand the ecology of the subseafloor.

Peter Kuhn of biological sciences travels to Vietnam, where he explains the university’s personalized approach to treatment and research at an international oncology conference.

Samuel Andrew Hires of biological sciences earns USC Dornsife’s first-ever New Innovator Award from the National Institutes of Health. His research could one day lead to revolutionary new ways of treating stroke and spinal cord injury patients.

Students on a Maymester course travel to Argentina to undertake hands-on geological fieldwork, studying the 470 million-year-old Famatinian Arc and learning to work as an international research team.

As National Childhood Obesity Month begins, USC experts talk healthy habits and explain how sugar intake and diet affect the brain.

As water supplies decline in major agricultural states, Sarah Feakins of Earth sciences explores how to generate more drought-resistant food crops.

A two-year program aims to train innovative thinkers and solve life-sciences problems by encouraging collaboration across chemistry and biology disciplines.

Stem cell research has been a passion for Natasha Natarajan since she was 15. Now she’s pursuing a master’s in stem cell biology and regenerative medicine.