Four-day conference in Playa Vista kicks off with cutting-edge exhibition.

USC, Geological Survey and city of Santa Monica team up on a virtual reality installation that shows rising sea levels.

USC Sea Grant partners with the U.S. Geological Survey and Santa Monica for a virtual reality installation nicknamed “the Owl,†which photo-realistically depicts the rising sea levels pushing the famed Southern California coastline eastward.

Alumna Marie Lu left her academic pursuit of law and medicine to focus on gaming and writing.

Entrepreneurs take on tough questions from retired Gen. David Petraeus and others.

Julia Adolphe, 28 years old and completing a doctorate the USC Thornton School of Music, is starting at the top with her viola concerto. If she can make it there ...

A dozen USC students — all of them veterans — took part in Habitat for Heroes, a part of Habitat for Humanity.

”Before last Tuesday, no American under age 30 had voted in an election in which a Republican was elected president,“ writes USC’s Dan Schnur, who notes that there’s a difficult lesson here: Neither side wins all the time.

This is the seventh year Nikias has delivered baklava to the Trojan Knights in the week before the rivalry game, establishing a new tradition alongside longstanding ones.

”Regardless of how popular the term ‘privilege’ has become,” writes USC’s Stephen J. Aguilar, “I have never found it particularly useful in discussions, because it is too generic and abstract.”