USC Dornsife News

Geologist Meghan Miller works with scientists worldwide to study why curving mountain chains form where some tectonic plates collide. Their research appears online in Nature.

Researchers from the USC Wrigley Institute for Environmental Studies weigh the options for sourcing the salmon, shrimp or oysters served up on your dinner table.

California’s first master’s program in stem cells comes to USC. The one-year program will feature an invitational second research year.

A progressive degree student at USC Dornsife, Pavitra Krishnamani’s community service has inspired her decision to attend medical school and consider child psychiatry.

Meat and cheese may be as bad as smoking, according to a new study led by Valter Longo, biological sciences professor at USC Dornsife.

Bits of greasy pizza boxes, Styrofoam peanuts, apple cores all churning into one, massive heap. Think this is just garbage? Rubbish! Some is turned into electricity. Alumna Julia McGinnis knows that . . . Trash Can.

After death, twin brains afflicted with Alzheimer’s show similar patterns of neuropathologic changes, according to a new study led by USC Dornsife psychologist Margaret Gatz.

The professor emeritus of mathematics led interdisciplinary efforts at USC Dornsife combining mathematics, computer science, neuroscience and biomedical engineering.

The new GE DeltaVision OMX Blaze at USC Dornsife, which can generate 3D images of objects at the nanometer scale, bends the laws of physics.