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.

The 32-year agency veteran will oversee the university’s communications strategy as its new senior vice president and chief communications officer.

A joint resolution from both houses of the California State Legislature honored USC Shoah Foundation for a quarter-century of Holocaust education and remembrance.

USC Kaufman went from being an idea to a top-level dance program with incredible speed. As they prepare to depart, its first graduates recall why they took a chance on an “unknown.”