USC Dornsife News

Trojan alumnae and former foster youth Carmen and Lucero Noyola leaned on USC Dornsife’s Trojan Guardian Scholars for guidance and support. Now they’re returning the favor. [3½ min read]

Inspired by scholar-activists such as Angela Davis and international social movements for Black liberation, Mellon Mays Fellow Felanté Charlemagne’s research focuses on prison abolition, decarceration and the Black radical tradition. [5 min read]

USC Dornsife Professor of Sociology Andrew Lakoff is featured on this episode of ‘The Conversation Weekly’ discussing what the World Health Organization’s handling of the coronavirus pandemic means for the organization. [3¾ min read]

USC researchers studying sibling bereavement in 43 countries note that such deaths raise risk factors for health and social issues in the surviving children. [2 min read]

“American families” is one of six topics to be addressed during the final presidential debate on Oct. 22. As the final 2020 presidential debate approaches, experts with the USC Center for the Changing Family based at USC Dornsife share the questions they’d most like the candidates to address. [3 min read]

The USC Center for the Changing Family is funding more than a dozen studies to understand how the coronavirus pandemic is shaping family life, from mental health care for children to intimate partner violence to detention of immigrants. [9½ min read]

Former Mellon Mays scholar Amaka Okechukwu ’08 reflects on poetry, social justice and the uncertain future for diversity in higher education. [6 ½ min read]

How USC Dornsife beat the odds to transform online learning into a vibrant virtual experience with almost unlimited educational potential.

Urban centers may start to look radically different due to COVID-19, say experts from USC Dornsife. [6½ min read]