“Black Health and Wellness” is the national theme for Black History Month 2022. The focus is not only on physical health, but also emotional and mental health. With a nod to that inclusive definition of health, USC adopted the theme of “Celebrating Black Joy: Embracing Health and Vitality” for its own campus-wide events and activities. […]
January 31, 2022 USC The New York Times | Fever? Sore Throat? They Just Check ‘No’ | School mentioned USC Dornsife College The Atlantic | Republicans Are Trying to Suppress More Than Votes | USC Equity Research Institute and Manuel Pastor research highlighted Los Angeles Times | ‘A cloud never dies:’ A California monastery mourns […]
January 28, 2022 USC Annenberg School KNX-AM | Crime rates in Los Angeles | Gabriel Kahn interviewed USC Dornsife College Salon | Peter Dinklage pushes Disney’s “Snow White” remake to rethink “f**king backward” dwarf depictions | Evelyn Sultany highlighted The Washington Post | What is the ‘active grandparent hypothesis’ and what does it say about […]
January 27, 2022 Keck School of Medicine The Guardian and NBC4 | Los Angeles city council votes to ban new urban oil and gas drilling in historic move | Jill Johnston research noted NBC4 | The Long Wait for Your COVID Test Results is Getting Even Longer | Jeffrey Klausner interviewed USC Dornsife College LAist […]
This Thursday, Jan. 27, the world will mark the 77th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau, a Nazi concentration camp. Since 2005, the United Nations General Assembly has designated Jan. 27 an annual day of commemoration to honor the 6 million Jewish victims of the Holocaust and others who died at the hands of the […]
January 26, 2022 Keck School of Medicine Associated Press | California appears to pass peak of omicron variant wave | Jeffrey Klausner Interviewed Klausner also spoke with CBS13 Sacramento about why contact tracing is of limited value if not done in a timely manner. Telemundo 52 | Covid-19 vaccinations | Edward Jones-Lopez featured USC Spectrum […]
January 25, 2022 Keck School of Medicine ABC7 | USC doctors use power of poetry to help cancer patients heal: ‘We want this movement to spread’ | The USC Institute of Arts in Medicine program and Jacek Pinski highlighted USC ABC7 | ABC7 interviewed students about being back on campus for in-person classes yesterday| School […]
A transformative donation from the Epstein Family Foundation will accelerate Alzheimer’s research at the two universities in a push to find better treatments and a cure CONTACTS: Leigh Hopper at lhopper@usc.edu or 310-308-0405; or Jade Griffin at jadegriffin@ucsd.edu or 858-761-5456 A joint gift to the University of Southern California (USC) and the University of California […]
January 24, 2022 Keck School of Medicine ABC News | COVID hospitalizations and deaths surge in Los Angeles County | Jeffrey Klausner quoted USC ABC7, NBC4/Telemundo52 and Spectrum News 1 | USC will resume in-person classes today| School mentioned Los Angeles Daily News | USC to allow fans back at indoor sporting events at limited […]
January 21, 2022 Keck School of Medicine ABC7 | Improving healthy habits of potential organ donors | The Living Donor Wellness Program featured The Atlantic | People sharing rapid COVID-19 tests. | Susan Butler-Wu interviewed The New York Times | ‘The New York Times Presents: Move Fast and Vape Things’ | Jon-Patrick Allem also of […]
