The school’s curriculum includes courses in history, technique, choreography and performance for students with and without dance experience.

The 36th annual event recognizes outstanding students and faculty, as well as the university’s most dedicated supporters.

With 500 authors, celebrities, musicians, artists and chefs and more than 150,000 attendees, it’s the largest literary and cultural festival in the nation.

Chemist who holds 14 U.S. patents and two trade secrets helps develop key components for gyroscopes and Mars rovers.

USC scientists aim to generate cells that move cars, warm houses and help produce food.

“North Korea’s nuclear breakout was the result not only of its own nuclear ambitions, but also of the efforts of hard-liners in the administration of George W. Bush to sabotage any meaningful rapprochement with North Korea,” writes USC’s Mike Chinoy.

Author Jonathan Taplin, director emeritus of the USC Annenberg Innovation Lab, argues that the major tech companies are fundamentally monopolistic — but says the roots of the situation are hundreds of years old.

Albert “Skip” Rizzo of the USC Institute for Creative Technologies found that veterans often preferred not to talk about their experience. The VR technology allows them to face their traumatic experiences head on.

The 10-hour procedure at Keck School of Medicine of USC saved the patient from risk of sudden cardiac death and redefined surgical limits.