USC Dornsife News

A seasoned chess pro teaches USC Dornsife students critical thinking, decision-making strategy and history lessons through a 1,500-year-old board game. [5¾ min read]

USC Dornsife writing professor Amy Meyerson uses fiction — and extensive research — to illuminate the unsolved theft of one of the world’s most storied gems. [6¼ min read]

Through their research on plagues dating back to the late 19th century, USC Dornsife historians discovered striking parallels between the coronavirus pandemic and previous disease outbreaks. [3½ min read]

USC Dornsife historian and poet Adrian De Leon traces the histories of the Filipino diaspora across continents all the while exploring the meaning of home. [5½ min read]

USC Dornsife scientists may have solved the storage problem that has long slowed the spread of renewables. [2 min read]

Nobel laureate and Presidential Professor of Economics at USC Dornsife Angus Deaton and economist Anne Case say the pandemic also exacerbates deaths of despair. [2¼ min read]

Mathematically speaking, the United States’ Electoral College is built to virtually guarantee narrow outcomes for presidential elections. [5 min read]

USC Dornsife scientists lead research in lab models that shows the drug mifepristone may counter negative effects experienced by females of some species after mating. The results could lead to extending lifespan in humans. [3 min read]

As the world confronts the coronavirus pandemic, the WHO agency finds its very financial survival under threat as President Trump blames the organization for the virus’ spread. To what extent can we say that the agency failed to do its job?