The longtime leader of the Annenberg Foundation invested $1.5 billion in nearly 3,000 nonprofits and projects.

Barrio was an associate professor at the USC Suzanne Dworak-Peck School of Social Work until her retirement in 2024, and served as the school’s executive vice dean for a time.

USC Dornsife’s Stephen Finlay explains how defining your “why” can boost your happiness, well-being and clarity in life.

USC scientists have developed a wearable system that enables more natural and emotionally engaging interactions in shared digital spaces, opening new possibilities for remote work, education, health care and beyond.

Heading into college, the alum — now director at Allogene Therapeutics in San Francisco — was torn between engineering or doing something else. In the end, “I felt like there were way too many electrical and computer engineers in my family.”

USC’s Lisa Aziz-Zadeh and a team of university and industry researchers look at how humans — and AI — understand color metaphors.

A USC Dornsife study finds that for unemployed men, mental health improves significantly after 50 — not because of aging or more leisure time, but because retirement becomes socially acceptable.

USC researchers involved in the count explain key findings on homelessness in the county.

USC Dornsife’s Norbert Schwarz discusses how the warrior mindset may actually have a negative effect on patients.

Q&A: In a world increasingly shaped by AI, how machines make decisions under uncertain conditions grows more important every day. USC’s Willie Neiswanger shares his expertise.