The USC-led experiment has implications for improvements in human wound-healing. CONTACT: Leigh Hopper, lhopper@usc.edu; or Cristy Lytal, cristy.lytal@med.usc.edu Lizards can regrow severed tails, making them the closest relative to humans that can regenerate a lost appendage. But in lieu of the original tail, which includes a spinal column and nerves, the replacement structure is […]
The 2021 Great California ShakeOut Earthquake Drill will take place on Thursday, Oct. 21, 2021, at 10:21 a.m. Contact: Emily Gersema, gersema@usc.edu WHAT Each year since 2008, the University of Southern California has participated in the Great California ShakeOut. This earthquake drill at USC is meant to prepare students, faculty and staff to know what […]
Nearly 1 million Los Angeles County residents are still food insecure, according to a new report spearheaded by USC Dornsife’s Public Exchange. The study found low-income adults, women, Latinos and people aged 18-40 years old are most likely to be food insecure. Data from Yelp and findhelp.org helped inform the findings. Contact: Jenesse Miller, […]
Contact: USC Media Relations, uscnews@usc.edu or (213) 740-2215 A new gift to the USC Viterbi School of Engineering totaling $14 million will significantly grow recruitment of expert faculty members in industrial and systems engineering (ISE), with a focus on interdisciplinary areas such as computational systems, machine learning and artificial intelligence. The gift will also catalyze the modernization of the facilities […]
USC researchers who studied how women and men fare in salary negotiations found they are equally bad at it. What’s more, they believe that negotiations are influenced by human biases Contact: Emily Gersema, (213) 712-3168 or gersema@usc.edu; or Amy Blumenthal (917) 710-1897 or amyblume@usc.edu A team of USC researchers who have long employed virtual humans to understand […]
A smell both unfamiliar and unwanted hangs over the northern Orange County coast, as oil fouls the irreplaceable air, water and marshlands. A spill estimated at 126,000 gallons has closed beaches and shaken Californians already reeling from the combined environmental impacts of drought and wildfires. USC experts are ready to talk about the spill’s impact and […]
USC and University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School of Business researchers collaborated with Greek researchers and a private company CEO to help Greece do more with less and curb COVID-19’s spread when the country reopened, a study shows. It’s one of the latest examples of how USC researchers deploy artificial intelligence for public good. Contact: Emily Gersema, gersema@usc.edu […]
Many communities were already struggling to combat the ongoing opioid epidemic when the COVID-19 pandemic swept across the country in the spring of 2020. Contact: Leigh Hopper at lhopper@usc.edu, or Stephanie Hedt at hedt@healthpolicy.usc.edu A new study led by researchers at the USC Schaeffer Center for Health Policy and Economics and the L.A. County Medical […]
A USC Dornsife study finds that people who received a COVID-19 vaccine shot experienced a decrease in mental distress such as anxiety and depression. Contact: Jenesse Miller, 213-810-8554 or jenessem@usc.edu COVID-19 vaccines are more than just a way to reduce infection from coronavirus. New results from an ongoing USC study show the shot in the arm brings […]
