For the third year, the hospital received the highest rating in the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services report.

COMMENCEMENT: Issac Vargas was part of the Reuters investigative team that was awarded the 2026 Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting.

COMMENCEMENT: Rahinatou Sawadogo has charted a career path at the intersection of biopharmaceutical science and business.

COMMENCEMENT: Arthur Bookstein bikes across Japan to raise funds for AYA@USC, a program that supports adolescents and young adults with cancer.

COMMENCEMENT: Yuquan “Wendy” Zhou’s introduced a novel, “people-based” approach that measures when and where essential services are accessible in daily life.

COMMENCEMENT: Christian Gudiel is dedicated to helping system-impacted youth choose a different path for their lives.

COMMENCEMENT: Maxim Averbukh appreciates the "uniquely holistic way of thinking about aging" that is fostered for students and trainees at the USC Leonard Davis School.

More than 2,000 students will come to USC for the 42nd annual National Tournament.

PODCAST: The president sits down with Assal Habibi, USC associate research professor of psychology and director of the USC Center for Music, Brain and Society, to discuss how music — something deeply woven into society and the human experience — helps shape the brain.

COMMENCEMENT: In her research, Eleanor Batista-Malat found that older adults receiving home- and community-based services had the same likelihood of experiencing abuse as those not receiving services.