Teeming with countless planets, stars, galaxies — and perhaps a host of as yet unimagined phenomena — the universe is incomprehensibly large. Despite its massive nature, reality ultimately boils down to infinitesimal basic building blocks. No one is quite certain what they are, but two USC Dornsife physicists explain how scientists may be closer than ever to an answer.
As the British writer and philosopher Aldous Huxley famously noted, “There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception.” USC Dornsife psychologists examine how our minds perceive the world around us — and how those perceptions can vary from reality.
Research by James Moffett of biological sciences and Earth sciences found surprising levels of iron in the depths of the Southern Pacific Ocean that may be linked to global climate.
Human and civil rights lawyer Anna Walther ’04 defends those on the fringes of society who are made more vulnerable by their social invisibility.
Ten years ago Hurricane Katrina blew Morgan Hawkins off his path to medical school, but with the help of USC Dornsife, the alumnus got back on course to realizing his dream.
Led by Steven Lamy of international relations, 17 undergraduates travel to Iceland, Norway and Finland to study climate change in the Arctic as part of a USC Dornsife Problems Without Passports course.
An audiovisual version of a fotonovela co-developed by Margaret Gatz of psychology to inform the Latino community about dementia has aired on PBS.
Inspired to find answers by her grandfather’s heart disease, Tiffany Lian is conducting research on taste receptors that may benefit drug discovery and development.
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