Rick Caruso is recognized with the university’s highest alumni honor.

About one of every five USC undergraduates has parents who didn’t go to college. And these first-generation Trojans are some of the university’s top students.

Felicitous Reyes just graduated from USC, where she finished magna cum laude — no small feat for someone who beat the very long odds.

USC biochemist Valter Longo has spent decades studying aging in yeast cells and lab mice. He now believes he’s developed a diet that may boost longevity — by mimicking the effect of periodic fasting.

A smile might be all that stands between victory and defeat while playing a game, according to a new study by the USC Institute for Creative Technologies.

Six faculty members will live among students at new residential colleges.

With physical therapy — and weekly boxing classes — one man found the footing to hold off his mental and physical decline because of the neurological disease.

Clusters of a sticky protein — amyloid plaque — found in the brain signal mental decline years before symptoms appear, a new study finds.

Teenage angst might take years off the lives of parents who have to put up with it, but a study by USC researchers shows that anxiety can actually be good for young people. (Daily Mail)