Recipients include a social work visionary, a leading researcher in the fight against AIDS, a spinal surgery innovator, an award-winning actress, the chairman of the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors and a popular comedy star.

Architecture students at USC have designed a creative solution to temporarily shelter homeless women: petite pods built of birch, steel and aluminum that can be stacked and rearranged on parking lots or vacant plots of land. These mini cabins are expected to be cheaper and lighter, simpler to replicate and easier to put up and take down.

Jonathan LoPresti has been a doctor at L.A. County+USC Medical Center for 36 years. But he’s fearful of what will happen if millions lose health insurance next year under the GOP plan to repeat Obamacare. And he worries about the impact on his hospital and its patients.

Alum Jason Thalken uses his head to help fighters sharpen their skills.

The event brings smiles, tears and opened envelopes to Health Sciences Campus.

USC’s dramatic victory marks the team’s 13th comeback from a double-digit deficit, most in NCAA Division I.

Artists explore the price of migration and the toll it takes on lives in the Americas.

USC volunteers organize a day of arts and crafts for foster children who live at Hillsides, a Pasadena care facility.

Trojans now hold the women’s record win streak after a 15-2 win over Indiana.

The USC Thornton faculty member earned acclaim as a young American performing a Tchaikovsky concerto on the Russian stage.