The Diverse Voices Forums kicks off Oct. 25 with David Simon, former journalist and creator of HBO’s acclaimed drama series The Wire as well as the network’s new drama, The Deuce.

Newly discovered Junornis huoi represents an exciting update to what we know about complex flight. “We did not expect to find evidence of such a complex flight pattern in such an early bird,” says USC’s Mike Habib, “so this find is very exciting.”

The presidents and chancellors of Association of American Universities member schools, including USC, strongly urge Congress to act.

Designed to boost physical activity, the app is seen as a key step to advancing mobile health technology.

The composer behind some of legendary Harry Belafonte’s biggest hits offers advice to Trojans.

Even if it tastes like Gummi Bears and is inhaled as smoke-free aerosol, vaping a higher concentration of nicotine may increase how often teenagers use electronic cigarettes or smoke traditional cigarettes, according to a Keck School of Medicine of USC study.

Nicotine is extremely harmful to the developing adolescent brain, USC study finds.

Researchers including USC’s Brian Rathbun say populist beliefs don’t depend on how you’re doing financially. Instead, they say, it depends on how you think broader social groups are doing — in short, whether the rich are getting richer and the poor getting poorer.

The artist and professor, whose reputation as a conceptual artist has gained over the last decade, began making images out of compressed lint in 1999. The lint works as a ephemeral reminder of the never-ending rhythms of women’s domestic labor.

USC’s Angus Deaton and a colleague write that the obvious solutions — improving Medicaid, focusing on the crisis and concentrating on rural areas — won't solve the problem. The long-run solution, they say: higher wages and better jobs for working people.