USC Dornsife News

Vitaly Kresin of physics finds that clusters of aluminum metal atoms become superconductive at surprisingly high temperatures.

Alumna Virginia Carter began her career as an aerospace physicist before joining the feminist movement in the 1960s and taking an unlikely turn into the entertainment industry.

Scientists use giant laser to examine frigid droplets of liquid helium that stretch the imagination and defy intuition.

Luke Bouma, a junior majoring in physics and mathematics, receives the Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship — the nation’s most prestigious undergraduate science award.

USC Provost Fellow Elizabeth Cantwell, a Ph.D. student in the Creative Writing and Literature program at USC Dornsife, draws from the sciences in her dissertation on Renaissance literature.

Moh El-Naggar, assistant professor of physics at USC Dornsife, is selected to receive the 2012 Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers, which comes with a $1 million research award.

USC Dornsife senior Sanjay Kumar Rajpoot is launching a business that could revolutionize the way plants are grown, helping to end world hunger by enabling year-round farming anywhere.

This holiday season, discover how USC Dornsife views the complex and beautiful snowflake from every angle through psychology, chemistry, poetry, physics, international relations — and more.

Winner of the Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award, USC Dornsife’s Stephan Haas will continue his research on graphene — touted as a ‘miracle material’ — that could lead to more sophisticated functionality in modern electronics.