New $10 million gift will provide scholarships for African-American and Hispanic students in undergraduate and graduate programs.
University admissions staff made tough decisions to select students from 56,000 applicants, an increase of 3.5 percent from last year and the most-ever for the university. One in seven incoming freshmen (14 percent) is first in their family to attend college.
Donors see giving pay off through opportunities for students to learn from top faculty.
A $60 million naming gift from USC Trustee Suzanne Dworak-Peck supports USC’s drive to transform the profession of social work.
Through crowdsourcing, researchers at the Keck School of Medicine of USC have aggregated some of the largest brain scan data sets for certain neurological and psychiatric disorders.
The field of 56,000 applicants is a USC record.
Women’s advancement in the high-paying jobs of the past few decades — from doctors to software engineers to financial advisers — exceeded their male peers’ prospects, researchers including USC’s Nir Jaimovich found.
National champion women’s water polo and women’s soccer teams are recognized, as is the Rose Bowl winner.
Participants in Art Division, a Westlake nonprofit, took lessons with some of USC’s top artists, then displayed their own work.
A trio of USC Thornton musicians direct performers from podiums here and abroad.
