Scott Faris brings a lot of experience to his teaching post at the USC School of Dramatic Arts.

USC Dornsife researchers Peter Kuhn and Valery Fokin say culture will play a prominent role in shaping the USC Michelson Center for Convergent Bioscience.

The findings suggest that estrogen treatment after menopause protects the memory needed for short-term cognitive tasks.

Driving more than $6 trillion in annual output, I.P. has become a critical area of interest for future entrepreneurs and business leaders.

Robert Wood Johnson Health Policy Research scholar Gerson Galdamez is one of 40 students focusing on national health policy challenges.

“Engineering essentially enables us to solve societal problems,” Yannis C. Yortsos says. “That’s something that resonates very well with women or underrepresented minorities.”

USC’s Manuel Pastor argues that Proposition 13, approved by voters in 1978, marked a turning point away from public investment in education, infrastructure and social services. Today, Pastor argues, more residents are seeing how replenishing the state’s coffers is key to restoring prosperity.