USC Senior Vice President Thomas Sayles joins other top-level executives at L.A. Magazine roundtable.

USC’s Sofia Gruskin will be one of five technical advisers on upcoming work.

The Glorya Kaufman International Dance Center celebrates its opening in grand style with faculty, friends and students.

Miriam Adelson, Suzanne Dworak-Peck and Claude Mann, a trio dedicated to helping others, join the board that governs the university.

USC researchers lead an international team identifying seven genes that predict ‘intracranial volume’ and Parkinson’s disease.

The initiative intends to offer an emotional benefit that can’t be achieved through medicine alone.

The producer and composer will spend the academic year working with students in the Contemporary Music division.

A study including USC researchers found indoor workers were 5-6 percent more productive when outdoor air pollution levels were at good levels than when they were rated unhealthy.

USC’s Paul Irving and a colleague note that older workers are an abundant, valuable and largely unrecognized resource — but negative stereotypes lead many employers to overlook this resource’s unique ability to increase productivity.

Despite what it seems from today’s headlines, USC’s Peer Fiss notes that golden parachutes weren’t originally designed to reward an executive who chooses to walk away or is forced out in the wake of scandal.