Gary Painter covers the federal program addressing challenges in areas with persistent poverty.

Performing without structured choreography, students must illustrate a dance discussion through improvisation at Visions and Voices event.

Sunday’s concert at USC’s Bovard Auditorium was a highlight of Jeffrey Kahane’s 20th and last season as the orchestra’s music director.

With a robust community of internationally recognized faculty, USC is working to demystify the degenerative disease and find ways to prevent, treat and cure it. More than 55 researchers at USC have an expertise related to Alzheimer’s disease. Some look at the brain’s vascular system to identify Alzheimer’s before it begins. Others look at big data brain imaging and still others help families cope.

The alliance aims to move cargo through the nation’s ports more efficiently by adopting new technology.

Rosa Navarro runs a private practice treating chronic pain, implanting medical devices of her own design.

Students accompany professor to local theatrical productions, with positive results.

The partnership has the potential to transform the quality of life for millions of people, USC provost says.

The project aims to accelerate the development of reliable blood tests for biologically based precision treatment and disease monitoring.

The Kuhn Laboratory of the USC Michelson Center for Convergent Bioscience will work with other institutions to develop the world’s first global liquid biopsy database.