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.

Entrepreneurial USC alum builds his business around style and simplicity, gearing it toward Trojans as a gathering place.

USC tops The Princeton Review ranking of undergrad programs and comes in at No. 5 among graduate programs. “They’ve got some really great faculty among game design schools ... so I think there’s a lot of great practical experience there,” says David Soto, the Review’s director of content development.