The reversible method targets specific synapses without harming neurons, offering a powerful tool for studying — and potentially treating — conditions such as addiction, epilepsy and PTSD.
Alcohol-related liver disease has quietly surged to become the leading cause of alcohol-related deaths. USC is leading the charge to change that.
USC is a top destination for students, faculty and staff seeking purpose-driven work, collaborative learning and innovative discovery — all because the university prioritized health, computing, community development, sustainability, athletics and the arts.
The longtime director of the world’s largest repository of LGBTQ+ materials retires having facilitated its modernization and expansion.
The icon, modeled after a number of USC football players, represents the five qualities of a Trojan: faithful, scholarly, skillful, courageous and ambitious.
Research uncovers a mechanism that protects the genome by avoiding catastrophic errors when repairing breaks in tightly packed DNA, a finding with implications for cancer and aging.
As USC Village’s inaugural faculty in residence wrap up their final year in the complex’s residential colleges, they reflect on the community they helped build in the eight years since the facility opened.
USC Viterbi’s Information Sciences Institute is exploring how large language models like ChatGPT understand — and sometimes violate — legal frameworks.
Finance leader Bret Johnsen and real estate executives Wil Smith and Glenn Sonnenberg are elected to the university’s governing board.
The SpaceX CFO and USC alumnus brings more than 20 years of financial leadership experience to the board.
