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D. Brent Polk to Lead Pediatrics Programs

D. Brent Polk has been named chair of the Department of Pediatrics at the Keck School of Medicine of USC and chair of pediatrics and vice president of academic affairs [read more]

USC Start-ups Raise $115M in Two Years

Since the beginning of 2008, 15 USC spin-off companies have raised approximately $115 million in financing. “The impressive amount of cash going into USC start-ups is validation from the private [read more]

USC College, L.A. Times Team on State Poll

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 [read more]

Hydrogen Peroxide’s Link to Living Cells

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 [read more]

Innovator Students Sweep Parents Weekend

In the not-so-distant future, the world may have a new model for carbon offsetting, inexpensive emergency shelters based on the principles of origami and robotic assistants for people with disabilities. [read more]

Agency Grants $16M for Stem Cell Research

Physician-researchers at USC received a nearly $16 million grant from the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine to fund the development of a stem cell-based treatment for age-related macular degeneration, the [read more]

Two Elected to the Institute of Medicine

USC professors Mark Humayun and Dana Goldman have been named to the Institute of Medicine, one of the highest honors in the fields of health and medicine. The institute made [read more]

Science Fiction Becomes Science Fact

Live demonstrations of devices that do everything from helping physicians connect with each other on patient care issues to showing people how stressful situations affect their own hearts were highlights [read more]

Getting Into the Swing of Creativity

As the sun sets over Santa Monica Pier, nervous USC Marshall School of Business students get ready to make the biggest leap of their lives. Craning their necks into the [read more]

USC Neuroscientists to Map Gene Expression

Two USC neuroscientists have been awarded nearly $9 million in American Recovery and Reinvestment Act funds to map how genes are expressed in different regions of the human brain throughout [read more]

D.C. Research Office Honored

USC Executive Vice President and Provost C. L. Max Nikias and the university community honored the achievements of the USC D.C. Office of Research Advancement and its executive director Steven [read more]

Roski Discusses NFL Stadium Plans

The National Football League will return to Los Angeles to play in a plush and innovative new stadium located in the City of Industry for the 2013 season, Majestic Realty [read more]

Journalism Project Spot.Us Teams With USC Annenberg

Spot.Us, the community funded journalism project founded less than a year ago in San Francisco, announced it is expanding to Los Angeles through a collaboration with the USC Annenberg School [read more]

USC Researchers Win Two ‘Big Idea’ Awards

The first group of winners of a prestigious award from the National Institutes of Health includes two USC scientists working independently to mine the proteome - the universe of proteins [read more]

The Doctor Can Understand You Now

In medical facilities around the country, care is delayed, complicated and even jeopardized because doctors and patients do not speak the same language - a situation particularly dire in diverse [read more]

Elyn Saks Wins MacArthur Foundation Award

USC Gould School of Law professor and Associate Dean Elyn Saks has been selected as a 2009 fellow of the MacArthur Foundation. Saks is the first fellow selected from the [read more]

Sergey Nuzhdin Awarded Stimulus Grant

Sergey Nuzhdin, professor of molecular biology at USC College, has been awarded a $563,000 stimulus grant to purchase an Illumina/Solexa Genome Sequencer. The money also will cover the salaries of [read more]

Leaving No Scars Behind

For the first time in Southern California, urologic surgeons at the Keck School of Medicine of the USC Institute of Urology and USC-affiliated Childrens Hospital Los Angeles performed “belly-button” single-port [read more]

A New Way for Scholars to Communicate

USC is among a group of 35 leading research universities that have joined to create Futurity (www.futurity.org), an online research news site covering the latest discoveries in science, engineering, the [read more]

USC Law Announces New Tax Law Program

The USC Gould School of Law is launching a new graduate tax law program for practicing attorneys and recent law graduates. The LL.M. in taxation provides an advanced study of [read more]

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