USC Dornsife News

The new EH MATTERS fellowship gives students from underrepresented groups a chance to conduct research on environmental health and safety issues. [3¾ min read]

Robert Tanaka, a mathematics and economics major at USC Dornsife, has learned to deal with visual impairment caused by his albinism to qualify for the 2021 Paralympic Games in judo. [5¼ min read]

An experimental album created by USC Dornsife fellow Jonathan Leal and producer Charlie Vela celebrates the musical traditions of the South Texas borderlands, while also warning us of what the future could hold. [4½ min read]

Thanks to a prestigious Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship, Isis Galeno ’21 explores the history of Mexican American ska music in Los Angeles. [3¾ min read]

Though she didn’t set foot on campus until orientation, the psychology major quickly got involved in causes aimed at leaving the university — and the world — a little better for the next generation and beyond. [3½ min read]

Tiara Wilson studies how themes of resistance, justice and cultural identity are expressed in the region’s immensely popular music genre. [2¾ min read]

Graduating senior Kimberly Melgoza has been studying how mind-altering substances, like psilocybin mushrooms and ayahuasca, have been used in rituals across Latin America. She’ll bring this research to Yale Divinity School as a master’s student this fall. [4½ min read]

Two chemistry students with deep interest in sustainability are among 13 USC scholars to receive National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowships in 2021. [5 min read]

Inspired by her experience at a refugee camp in Greece, biological sciences and global medicine student Lauren Yen launches organizations that improve health care documentation and shelter conditions for vulnerable populations. [3 min read]