USC News

• To reduce COVID-19 risk, individual distancing makes a difference
  Even when faced with risks such as living in an area with high infection rates, people who avoid large gatherings and other risky behaviors are less likely to be diagnosed with COVID-19, USC researchers say.
• Private funding to provide much-needed bipolar disorder research
  Grant from the Milken Institute and the Baszucki Brain Research Fund will support research at the USC Mark and Mary Stevens Neuroimaging and Informatics Institute.
• Study is first to show figurative language comprehension relies on brain’s motor regions
  USC neuroscientists demonstrate that, like literal language, abstract metaphors are embodied in the brain.
• Joyous celebration marks law students’ bar admission ceremony
  Results indicated a 94% pass rate for USC Gould alums taking the California bar exam, placing the law school in the top three in the state.