USC Dornsife News

To early Christians, ancient gladiators were potent symbols of martyrdom, embodying virtue and bravery despite being enslaved.

George Wilson was one of the first philosophers to take a critical interest in cinema, writing several influential books on the subject.

Adults who self-reported higher vulnerability toward financial exploitation showed lower thickness in a brain region that is affected early in Alzheimer’s disease.

Celebrated author and Distinguished Professor of English earns one of the literary world’s top honors for his reimagining of a classic American tale.

The Jimmy Gauntt Memorial Award Endowment honors its namesake while giving talented USC Dornsife students a leg up on their writing careers.

USC Dornsife Public Exchange program brings shade trees to neighborhoods across the city.

The Vatican has said that the pilgrimage to Medjugorje, a small town in Bosnia-Herzegovina, can yield ‘spiritual benefits’ but refrained from calling the apparitions genuinely supernatural.

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.

USC Dornsife researchers will evaluate a new classroom program that’s teaching debate, deliberation and civil discussion skills to middle and high school students.