USC’s Kirby Farah notes that although many Americans without Mexican ancestry view the holiday as an excuse to drink margaritas, the actual legacy of Cinco de Mayo is a complicated one.
The station will also carry the popular Trojans Live Monday evening show featuring USC coaches and athletes.
With commencement a week away, graduate Tola Oseni reflects on her use of graphic design, music and video to share untold stories and open the art world to previously excluded groups.
The reasons why few Latinos enroll in clinical trials, USC’s Maria Aranda says, may include a low level of health literacy about certain disorders, a shortage of bilingual health providers and fear of being treated as “guinea pigs.”
The joint effort by USC and San Diego State will study items contaminated after smoking has stopped, like a shirt that smells of smoke.
The accomplished university administrator and attorney will serve as senior vice president for human resources, a new post in the USC president’s cabinet.
Backed by a Department of Defense grant, USC and UCLA researchers will explore gastrointestinal bacteria’s potential role in children with autism spectrum disorder.
Mounir Ghabrial turned down a lucrative offer from a major consulting firm to join a startup focused on improving access to healthy food in Los Angeles.
“Dimensions in Testimony,” the joint project between USC Shoah Foundation and the USC Institute for Creative Technologies of interactive Holocaust witness testimonies, has a permanent home at the Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center.
As a child, Lenai Wilkerson was told she couldn’t be a ballerina because of how she looked. Now, as she prepares to graduate from the USC Kaufman School of Dance, she wants to further the conversation on diversity in dance.
