USC has more than 55 researchers working to demystify Alzheimer’s disease and find ways to prevent, treat and cure it. In addition to internationally-recognized scientists scouring multiple paths to find ground zero of the disease, some USC experts are hard at work deciphering what it means to society and families when more than 5 million Americans live with this age-related malady.

The entrepreneur’s $35 million gift ushered in a decade of remarkable achievements for the USC Viterbi unit.

Qiming Wang’s team designed a unique manufacturing technique using 3-D printing.

The USC School of Architecture launched the Homeless Studio, where 11 fourth year students are rethinking homeless architecture, building temporary, moveable, modular and expandable structures. Students will deliver their finished structures to homeless people around the city.

Surveys by the USC Suzanne Dworak-Peck School of Social Work find nearly half of the women on Skid Row have been physically or sexually attacked in the last year.

Felix and Evans will share the honors with Greg Louganis. All three have been active in promoting L.A.’s bid for the 2024 Summer Games.

USC Dornsife’s M.G. Lord recounts a career that led from New York newspapers to books on Barbie and feminism.

“Roots|Races: Latino Engagement, Place Identities and Shared Futures in South Los Angeles” chronicles demographic changes in the area and offers lessons for other communities across the country that could see similar shifts in the coming years.

USC’s Dan Schnur writes that the controversy both reinforces Clinton’s tendency toward obfuscation and Republicans’ talent for overreaction, all but guaranteeing that both major parties will draw even more explicit battle lines from the beginning.

USC researchers and colleagues in Israel find benefits to pupils of different socioeconomic backgrounds and those with stronger and weaker academic abilities.