Among the leaders: USC, with its LGBT Resource Center (including web content directed at international students), an LGBT peer mentoring program that’s open to all students, and its monthly rainbow international lunches — opportunities to meet other LGBT international students.

“While bottom lines have been damaged by the continuing transition to digital from print,” writes USC Annenberg’s Bill Celis, “the digital space offers the platform for a renewed push by black media to continue its pointed, voice-driven journalism.”

The Light Stage at USC’s Institute for Creative Technologies uses a series of high-res photos to create a 3-D model of the subject’s face. Engineers can then digitally insert an actor into scenes, even if that actor is unavailable, much older or younger, or even deceased.

As Congress and the president consider repealing ‘Obamacare,’ USC experts weigh in.

The $700 million retail and residential project is quickly coming together for an August debut.

Parag Havaldar’s expertise with facial-capture technology leads to an Oscar for visual achievement at 85th Scientific and Technical Awards ceremony.

Last month, Congress took the first step toward repeal of the health insurance law, the Affordable Care Act, and now lawmakers are crafting alternatives to replace the ACA. USC experts, from medicine to health care policy, weigh in.

USC expert in metallurgy takes simple, seemingly useless elements to make functional materials out of them.

Composer Ted Hearne of the USC Thornton school picked a bold, complicated, newsworthy topic for his 2014 oratorio — the controversial WikiLeaks case.

Periodic cycles of fasting reprogram pancreatic cells and restore insulin production, USC researchers find.