USC Davis competition puts principles of Universal Design to work on everyday items and locations.

Also in the plan: Housing athletes at UCLA. The International Olympic Committee will select between LA, Paris, Rome and Budapest, Hungary, next year.

The USC Gould School of Law’s First Generation Professionals Program has 37 students from a variety? of ethnic and socioeconomic backgrounds. “It's a way of establishing community,” says the school’s Camille Gear Rich.

“What about set design, sound editing and art direction, for instance?” asks Todd Boyd of the USC School of Cinematic Arts. “These areas are more emblematic of the industry as a whole.”

The three-year program, intended to help introduce USC School of Cinematic Arts’ students to the new medium, is among the week’s LA tech highlights.

The USC Dornsife Writing Program instructor played an important role in shaping and expanding the university’s writing curriculum.

Professor of preventive medicine says byproducts of the leak — beyond methane gas — may be a long-term threat to human health.

The three-part series was created in partnership with USC Libraries and is hosted by LA historian Nathan Masters, manager of academic events and programming communications for the USC Libraries.

“This is probably the last time we can interview the survivors directly,” said Karen Jungblut of USC Shoah Foundation — The Institute for Visual History and Education. “The least we can do is let them know the world is interested in them.”

The research by USC’s Alexander Kappner and a colleague reveals that 66 lawyers in private practice — most working for businesses — dominate the Supreme Court’s docket.