By upcycling ocean plastics, reducing harmful anesthesia gases and transforming medical supply chains, the USC health system and medical research schools hope to curb pollution.

Among them: sixty-five students from the USC Leslie and William McMorrow Neighborhood Academic Initiative, an all-time high.

COMMENCEMENT: Phong Doozy volunteers as a medical clown to put smiles on the faces of those facing serious health challenges.

USC study incorporates diversity, equity and inclusion into a clinical trial for age-related macular degeneration, aiming to restore vision and rebuild trust in marginalized communities.

The American Federation for Aging Research recognized Bérénice Benayoun for her research.

USC researchers conducted the first U.S.-based study examining the link between prenatal fluoride and childhood social, emotional and behavioral functioning.

Living things usually prefer stability to conserve energy and resources, but instability might also play a vital role, USC Dornsife molecular biologist John Tower says.

COMMENCEMENT: Fung was 21 years old when she broke her neck and became paralyzed from the chest down.

COMMENCEMENT: Meredith Lapidas, a poet who recently published her first two collections, also has a background as a contortion artist.

COMMENCEMENT: For new graduate Brooke Rios, the way to engineering excellence was discovered in the powerful alliances she forged along the way.