Participants in the annual program — including several USC alumni — run companies that are reshaping the field of educational technology and the future of learning.
USC Dornsife psychologists show that empathy can be conditioned through emotional rewards — revealing a surprising path to compassion.
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.
