The lauded USC scientist, who helped shape the development of organic chemistry in the second half of the 20th century, played a major role in establishing USC as a notable center of advanced hydrocarbon chemistry and proposing the methanol economy.
The next wave of batteries will pack a larger charge in a smaller size, benefiting everything from cell phones to cars and even aircraft.
Part artist and part inventor, Phillip Sliwoski makes handcrafted pieces that keep critical USC labs running.
Bradforth will coordinate strategic planning efforts for the natural sciences and mathematics, and will help support and enhance both research and education in basic science at USC.
Scientists led by Xiaojiang Chen of biological sciences and chemistry at USC Dornsife find that proteins squeeze DNA to melt it open to let replication begin.
Scientific advisers have counseled presidents at least as far back as Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Even so, many politicians and much of the public seem slow to trust them — a situation that needs a remedy, and soon.
F. Duncan Haldane, the Princeton University physicist awarded a 2016 Nobel Prize in Physics for his research into the properties of matter in extreme states, conducted much of his award-winning research while he was a professor of physics at USC Dornsife.
With hard work, determination and the support of his family, first-gen freshman Richard Garcia will study chemistry at USC Dornsife.
Travis Williams and a team of researchers develop a new method that generates hydrogen and stores it efficiently, and without further polluting the environment.
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