Results tagged “research”

Sheltering Homeless Saves Money, Study Says

Placing four chronically homeless people into permanent supportive housing in Los Angeles resulted in more than $80,000 per year in savings to taxpayers and improved quality of life for the [read more]

USC Faculty to Help Paramount School District

A multidisciplinary collaboration among the USC Rossier School of Education, the USC Viterbi School of Engineering and USC College aims to transform middle school science and math education in the [read more]

Former USC Intern Fights for Cleaner Air

Fifteen-year-old Otana Jakpor’s essay on how she spent her time with USC would include leading demonstrations on how to map demographic data and conducting research on diesel emissions from locomotives [read more]

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]

Ruvkun and Ambrose Receive Massry Prize

Gary Ruvkun has come a long way from living in his van after being denied medical school admission by USC and UCLA in the early 1970s. He and fellow molecular [read more]

Brain Has an Innate Sense of Geometry

Despite minimal exposure to the regular geometric objects found in developed countries, African tribal people perceive shapes as well as westerners, according to a new study. The findings, published online [read more]

Stimulus Grant Yields Child Abuse Update

USC School of Social Work professor Penelope Trickett has been awarded $1.4 million in American Recovery and Reinvestment Act funds to study how and why child abuse and neglect increases [read more]

A New Generation of Visual Anthropologists

Twenty-six years ago, the first visual research center at USC was founded by Academy Award winner Barbara Myerhoff (Number Our Days). The program thrived and was developed by filmmaker and [read more]

Blazing a Trail to Education Innovation

David Dwyer is serious about change. It’s a focus that has grown out of a distinguished, decades-long career as an entrepreneur, educator, researcher and technologist, and one he brings with [read more]

Grants to USC Faculty Top $100 Million

When Congress enacted the economic stimulus package, or the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA), universities around the country cheered the government’s reinvestment in science and the opportunities it presented [read more]

Society Must Address Recidivism, Officials Say

Nearly 650,000 people are released from the nation’s prisons every year, and about nine million more are released from jails. Two-thirds of those who come out of prison are rearrested [read more]

Sykes Gift Sets New Endowed Faculty Chair

A $1 million gift from the Sykes family has established the first endowed faculty chair within the USC Division of Biokinesiology and Physical Therapy at the USC School of Dentistry. [read more]

USC Symposium Targets Key Pharmaceuticals

The “Moving Targets” symposium, hosted on Nov. 9 by the USC School of Pharmacy, focused on therapeutics involved in the tumor microenvironment. “Moving Targets” aims to promote the interactions of [read more]

Are There Answers for the Big Questions?

While working on Philosophical Analysis in the Twentieth Century, Volumes 1 and 2, a definitive two-volume history of analytic philosophy, Scott Soames came to a conclusion that a less-reasoned mind [read more]

Students Draft Homeless Children Bill

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 [read more]

Lost Woody Guthrie Recordings Revived

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 [read more]

Pollution’s Impact May be Underestimated

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 [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]

Getting the Goods on a Moving Dilemma

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 [read more]

KNOWME Wins Body Computing Slam Prize

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 [read more]