By studying zebrafish, Joanna Smeeton seeks ways to treat a person’s aversion to cold and pain.

“It teaches them to understand the community they cover and move beyond cliché,” says the course’s creator, Keith Plocek.

The influential artist and educator uses her work to address some of society’s most complex challenges.

Vets concerned that employers and co-workers may assume they have PTSD or are prone to violence, researcher says.

The comedian discusses her own experiences as a beginner in San Francisco.

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.