COMMENCEMENT: Sprinter Chioma Okonkwo, aivil engineering major, hopes to medal in the NCAA Women’s Track and Field Championships and perhaps even run in the Olympics.

COMMENCEMENT: For Aidan Niswender, a COVID lockdown hobby became a passion that could lead to a career in perfumery.

Actor, comedian and writer (and USC grad) Bennett and playwright, screenwriter and producer Shekar will speak during two commencement ceremonies on May 12.

Roughly half of all birth defects involve the face and skull, yet scientists remain unclear about why most occur.

Seventeen Trojan teams earned scores equal to or improved from 2022.

COMMENCEMENT: Hannah Will, a Master of Public Administration, earned a 4.0 GPA while moving states, getting married, landing a job and having a baby. She’s now on Meta’s global policy campaigns and programs team.

COMMENCEMENT: Jonathan Spikes launched his school-based gun violence-reduction program to help one of the poorest and most violent areas in Florida.

A USC Dornsife math professor explores ideal techniques and real-world applications of finding the perfect shuffle.

TITLE IX: “If we can continue moving forward, the future is very bright,” says Associate Dean Nickey Woods.