As a walk-on basketball player at UC Riverside, Kristopher Acevedo received an academic dismissal that set him on a surprising path to a USC doctorate.

USC researchers identified a biological pathway that helps activate the immune response against certain types of cancer.

With a talented mix of returners, transfers and blue-chip freshman recruits, the USC men’s basketball team is looking to make the NCAA tournament in head coach Eric Musselman’s third year.

After Dionne Harmon — a nonsmoker and marathon runner — learned she had lung cancer, a USC team used advanced tech and medicine to get her on the path to wellness.

Because risk factors such as low education, high blood pressure and smoking vary widely, a one-size-fits-all approach to prevention won’t work.

Trojan student-athletes established a new cumulative GPA record in the spring semester: 426 student-athletes earned a GPA of 3.0 or higher.

Public health concerns remain for those adults who frequently misuse stimulant medications, according to a review from the Keck School of Medicine of USC.

Using free aerial imagery and artificial intelligence, the tool gives cities an affordable way to target tree planting, expand shade and make smarter investments in climate resilience.

The largest diffusion MRI network analysis of bipolar disorder to date reveals subtle but widespread differences in brain communication pathways involved in emotion, reward and cognitive control.

Karolina Charaziak’s five-year grant from the National Institutes of Health will support research on how the inner ear processes complex sounds, such as speech and music.