Before Tommy and Traveler, there was Tirebiter. Well, maybe that should be Tirebiters...

Christina Yu Yu picks four standout pieces from the USC Pacific Asia Museum.

Before electricity, paved roads and cars arrived in the frontier town of Los Angeles, there was USC—a single two-story building on uncultivated land. How far the University Park Campus has come.

At USC, an arts education is more like creative entrepreneurship.

Health care is in growth mode across Southern California, and USC has staked its future on academic medicine.