Retired ophthalmologist Allen Ginsburg and his wife, Charlotte, donate $10 million to name the USC Institute for Biomedical Therapeutics.

She helps youngsters see the impact of music — from Beyoncé to Beethoven to the music of Botswana — on their own communities.

Thousands will descend on the University Park Campus for the university’s 135th commencement Friday. You’ll want to plan ahead.

It is the first university in California to endorse the 10 principles of the international Age-Friendly University Initiative, which highlights how higher education can respond to the challenges and opportunities of an aging population.

Yoofi Quansah fulfilled his dream of playing for the Trojans. As graduation nears, he’s looking toward life as an entrepreneur.

Mei-Lee Ney’s donation is the largest in the history of the USC Leonard Davis School of Gerontology.

He was an institutional presence in the athletic program, who worked with six national championship football teams and 10 College World Series-winning squads.

The University of Southern California’s commencement ceremony will be held the morning of Friday, May 11, on the University Park Campus. Pulitzer Prize-winning author and pioneering oncologist Siddhartha Mukherjee will deliver the commencement address. Mukherjee, Charlie Beck, Maj. Gen. Charles F. Bolden Jr., Jennifer A. Doudna and Forest Whitaker will receive honorary degrees.

Keck School of Medicine of USC and nationwide partners are launching a landmark $1.5 billion National Institutes of Health-led program that seeks to accelerate the development of precision medicine. One of the project’s priorities is to achieve a demographically, geographically and medically diverse community of participants, especially by including those who are underrepresented in biomedical research.