USC Dornsife News

Susan Forsburg of biological sciences and her USC Dornsife colleagues create mutant yeast to understand how some cells survive after dividing without copying all of their DNA.

As USC Wrigley Marine Science Center celebrates its 50th year, the institute debuts an important new research facility.

Kate Flint of art history and English is researching flash photography’s past — through Weegee, Jacob Riis and lesser known figures — to shed light on how it revolutionized the way we view and record our visual world.

Philip J. Ethington of history and political science stirs up more than spirits with his ambitious multimedia history Ghost Metropolis — he seeks to raise and answer complex questions about how Los Angeles came to be.

Antoine Bechara of psychology and colleagues find giving consumers a “prize” for choosing smaller meal portions means lower daily intake of calories.

Joshua West of earth sciences at USC Dornsife examines the latest in a string of related disasters striking Nepal in hopes of providing officials hard data to manage recovery.

From neuroscientists to engineers to molecular biologists, USC researchers delve into what happens during slumber — and how to help us get more of it.

Researchers from USC Dornsife’s Center for Economic and Social Research co-host a conference on creating change in human behavior that benefits the public good.