USC in the News

June 1, 2021

Keck School of Medicine of USC

• CBS News |Americans begin transition into post-pandemic life as more are vaccinated | David Agus also of USC’s Ellison Institute featured

USC

• Good Morning America |‘GMA3’ exclusive: USC’s history-making valedictorian | USC featured
• The New York Times |14 excerpts from commencement speeches without the word C*vid | USC featured

USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism

• Next Avenue |Meet the master of reinvention | Jonathan Taplin featured
• KPCC-FM |State of Affairs: Garcetti to be Biden’s Pick for India ambassador, idle oil wells pose fanger to South LA neighborhood, violinists share music scross the state | Christina Bellantoni featured
• Los Angeles Times |A viral TikTok video brought chaos to Huntington Beach. Officials fear it’s just the beginning | Karen North quoted
• NBC News |Gian Franco Rodriguez enjoys his dream debut on Netflix’s ‘Halston’ | Inclusion Initiative cited

USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences

• The New York Times |The beautiful, flawed fiction of ‘Asian American’ | Viet Thanh Nguyen featured
• The Hill |Think again about China | Gregory Treverton featured
• Los Angeles Times |AMLO wants to transform Mexico. An election may stop him | Pamela Starr quoted
• BuzzFeed News |The pandemic has left us with a lingering trauma about money | Center for Economic and Social Research cited

USC Leonard Davis School of Gerontology

• U.S. News & World Report (via HealthDay) |Amazon tribe could hold key to health of aging brains |Andrei Irimia also of the USC Viterbi School of Engineering
  Additional coverage was found via Yahoo News, the Hindustan Times and La Nación.

USC LGBTQ+ Student Center

• ABC News Los Angeles affiliate KABC-TV |Resources for the LGBTQ+ community |USC LGBTQ+ Student Center highlighted

USC Libraries’ ONE Archives

• ABC News Los Angeles affiliate KABC-TV |Resources for the LGBTQ+ community |USC Libraries’ ONE Archives highlighted

USC Pacific Asia Museum

• Los Angeles Times |USC Pacific Asia in Pasadena reopens with a new goal: Decolonize our own museum | Bethany Montagano featured

USC Suzanne-Dworak Peck School of Social Work

• Los Angeles Times |Schools face mental health crisis among students as pandemic trauma remains | Marleen Wong quoted

USC Viterbi School of Engineering

• CNBC |New bill would ‘open up Big Tech’s hood,’ make companies explain how they decide which content to show | Aleksandra Korolova and John Heidemann cited