USC Dornsife News

The Distinguished Professor of English earns fiction’s highest honor for his novel James, which offers a searing retelling of a Mark Twain classic.

In foreign affairs, the national security adviser plays a coordinating role, setting the flow of recommendations to the National Security Council and the president, explains Gregory Treverton of political science and international relations.

USC Dornsife graduating senior Srikar Kolluru spent his undergraduate years translating scientific research into compelling stories — and inspiring his peers to do the same

A new USC-developed technique enhances quantum sensing by counteracting the limitation of decoherence, unpredictable behavior caused by environmental noise.

Reading offers unexpected forms of connection, as Professor of English Emily Anderson uncovers in her latest, Shadow Work: Loneliness and Literary Life.

The astrophysicist and champion of interdisciplinary learning comes to USC from the University of California, Irvine, where he is dean of the School of Physical Sciences.

Mixing his passion for magic with his academic studies, graduating cognitive science major Tyler Gibgot learns he can help others find their own brand of magic.

Nuclear experts from the US and Iran are due to meet in Oman. The turn to diplomacy indicates Trump is erring against reviving a maximum pressure strategy with Tehran.

An expert on how societies prepare for and respond to emergencies — from pandemics to climate change — USC Dornsife’s Andrew Lakoff explores how our well-being depends on the health of Earth’s ecosystems.