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.

Mexico-based James hd Brown is famous around the world, but he’s a virtual unknown in Los Angeles, his birthplace.

American music students traditionally have few chances for global study, but USC’s music school wants to change that.

Benita Walton-Moss teaches a health assessment course that covers signs of abuse.

Vocal screening clinics are part of a health and wellness push that’s catching on at top-tier music schools like USC Thornton.