Main USC news site published by the University Public Relations office. http://uscnews.usc.edu/ en-us Fri, 06 Nov 2009 06:25:00 -0800 Every day for almost a year, USC College professor Robin D. G. Kelley dug through junk to find a man. In a storage facility stacked to the ceiling with overflowing bags and boxes, Kelley donned a dust mask and spent hours sorting through the discarded belongings of Thelonious Monk. “I]]> http://uscnews.usc.edu/arts/no_myths_just_monk.html http://uscnews.usc.edu/arts/no_myths_just_monk.html#15293 Wed, 04 Nov 2009 14:48:02 -0800 Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Los Angeles) introduced legislation that USC School of Social Work students developed that mandates federal agencies reprioritize their funding to help keep homeless children housed with their parents whenever possible. The resolution affirms that children should not be denied the right to be housed together with their]]> http://uscnews.usc.edu/politics_society/students_draft_homeless_children_bill.html http://uscnews.usc.edu/politics_society/students_draft_homeless_children_bill.html#15270 Wed, 04 Nov 2009 14:40:30 -0800 It sounded too good to be true. Pristine metal 78-rpm masters of more than a hundred recordings made by folk musician Woody Guthrie in the mid-1940s, including a few songs that had never been released, had been unearthed in cardboard barrels in a basement in Brooklyn. But it was true.]]> http://uscnews.usc.edu/arts/lost_woody_guthrie_recordings_revived.html http://uscnews.usc.edu/arts/lost_woody_guthrie_recordings_revived.html#15269 Wed, 04 Nov 2009 14:06:33 -0800 Six students in the USC Primary Care Physician Assistant Program have been named National Health Service Corps scholars by the U.S. Bureau of Health Professions. The federal program awards scholarships to students pursuing primary care health professions training. Of the nearly 2,000 candidates, only 200 students were designated as scholars]]> http://uscnews.usc.edu/university/students_honored_for_helping_the_underserved.html http://uscnews.usc.edu/university/students_honored_for_helping_the_underserved.html#15268 Wed, 04 Nov 2009 13:00:30 -0800 Heavy traffic corridors in the cities of Long Beach and Riverside are responsible for a significant proportion of preventable childhood asthma, and the true impact of air pollution and ship emissions on the disease has likely been underestimated, according to researchers at USC. The study, which appears in an online]]> http://uscnews.usc.edu/health/pollutions_impact_may_be_underestimated.html http://uscnews.usc.edu/health/pollutions_impact_may_be_underestimated.html#15266 Wed, 04 Nov 2009 12:48:14 -0800 http://uscnews.usc.edu/university/usc_start-ups_raise_115m_in_two_years.html http://uscnews.usc.edu/university/usc_start-ups_raise_115m_in_two_years.html#15265 Wed, 04 Nov 2009 11:06:38 -0800 Each day in metro areas such as Southern California, millions of motorists steer onto the region’s roadways. Tens of thousands of other people take to the skies from one of the region’s airports. Others roll across the region aboard trains. Simultaneously, another little transportation drama is playing on the region’s]]> http://uscnews.usc.edu/politics_society/getting_the_goods_on_a_thorny_dilemma.html http://uscnews.usc.edu/politics_society/getting_the_goods_on_a_thorny_dilemma.html#15257 Wed, 04 Nov 2009 11:04:10 -0800 A team led by associate professor Donna Spruijt-Metz won co-honors with USC Viterbi School of Engineering faculty at the USC Body Computing Slam. The event was a competition of presentations held the day before the annual USC Body Computing Conference 3.0, which took place in mid-October on the University Park]]> http://uscnews.usc.edu/health/knowme_wins_body_computing_slam_prize.html http://uscnews.usc.edu/health/knowme_wins_body_computing_slam_prize.html#15256 Wed, 04 Nov 2009 09:57:40 -0800 USC College and the Los Angeles Times today announced a jointly sponsored series of six statewide public opinion polls beginning Nov. 8 and continuing throughout California’s 2010 elections for governor and U.S. Senate. This is the first such cooperative venture of this magnitude between a major newspaper and a major]]> http://uscnews.usc.edu/politics_society/usc_college_la_times_team_on_state_poll.html http://uscnews.usc.edu/politics_society/usc_college_la_times_team_on_state_poll.html#15251 Wed, 04 Nov 2009 08:15:57 -0800 At first glance, pairing Mozart, Titanic film music, jazz and humor-tinged stories might seem an odd mix for a concert program. But on Oct. 25, for 125 glorious minutes, more than two-dozen of the USC Thornton School of Music’s illustrious alumni showcased their considerable talents and wit in a musical]]> http://uscnews.usc.edu/arts/usc_thornton_alums_come_together.html http://uscnews.usc.edu/arts/usc_thornton_alums_come_together.html#15244 Wed, 04 Nov 2009 08:07:46 -0800 Research produced by Summer Undergraduate Research Fund students has won a top honor from the Association of Pacific Coast Geographers. Competing against more than a dozen universities, the geography students took home the association’s President’s Award for Outstanding Student Poster Presentation. The project examined the exposure of children attending schools]]> http://uscnews.usc.edu/health/study_links_children_to_air_pollution.html http://uscnews.usc.edu/health/study_links_children_to_air_pollution.html#15243 Wed, 04 Nov 2009 07:55:15 -0800 Community-based education and awareness programs minimized the death toll from the recent Samoan tsunami, though there are still ways to improve the warning and evacuation process, according to a team of researchers that traveled to Samoa last month. Professor Costas Synolakis of the USC Viterbi School of Engineering’s Astani Department]]> http://uscnews.usc.edu/global/planning_saved_lives_in_samoan_tsunami.html http://uscnews.usc.edu/global/planning_saved_lives_in_samoan_tsunami.html#15242 Tue, 03 Nov 2009 11:06:20 -0800 Impact, the award-winning television newsmagazine produced at the USC Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism, is going global. Distributor Global Broadcasting has picked up the series to run in several countries throughout Europe. “It’s a wonderful notch on our students’ belts to say that they are part of something that]]> http://uscnews.usc.edu/digital_media/usc_annenberg_magazine_goes_global.html http://uscnews.usc.edu/digital_media/usc_annenberg_magazine_goes_global.html#15236 Tue, 03 Nov 2009 07:33:09 -0800 If a circadian rhythm is like an orchestra - the united expression of the rhythms of millions of cells - a common chemical may serve as the conductor, or at least as the baton. The chemical is hydrogen peroxide (H2O2), the active ingredient in color safe bleach. Produced in all]]> http://uscnews.usc.edu/science_technology/hydrogen_peroxides_link_to_living_cells.html http://uscnews.usc.edu/science_technology/hydrogen_peroxides_link_to_living_cells.html#15228 Mon, 02 Nov 2009 15:10:44 -0800 Jonathan Samet, holder of the Flora L. Thornton Chair of the Department of Preventive Medicine at the Keck School of Medicine of USC, reached an international audience with messages about global health during two sessions at USC’s 2009 Global Conference in Taiwan. Held in Taipei on Oct. 29-31, the sold-out]]> http://uscnews.usc.edu/health/samet_addresses_international_health_concerns.html http://uscnews.usc.edu/health/samet_addresses_international_health_concerns.html#15227