USC presents a half-day educational and workforce development event to encourage the residents of East Los Angeles (Boyle Heights, El Sereno, Lincoln Heights and neighboring communities in the San Gabriel Valley) to prepare for opportunities related to STEM disciplines.

Economic studies have shown that for every one research job created in the biotechnology industry, four more are created in non-science roles such as administration, marketing, sales and operations.

Researchers at the University of Southern California will demonstrate how using wearable technology and smartphones can improve cancer treatment at a White House event on Oct. 3.

The high school with the highest representation in the freshman class is a south Los Angeles public school a few blocks from the university.

University’s researchers to participate in Vice President Joe Biden’s Cancer Moonshot exhibit.

The most-represented high school is Foshay Learning Center, a public school less than a mile from the USC University Park Campus.

Looking at a potential case through a ‘forensic lens’ can help accurately identify mistreatment.

The survey’s measures include student body diversity, resources for student success and graduates’ ability to obtain satisfying, high-paying jobs. 

Cheyvonné Grayson grew up in South Los Angeles, where he, at the age of 14, saw a friend gunned down. Grayson has worked mostly as a day laborer; now he’s a member of the carpenters’s union and hanging doors at the USC Village project site.

The seven students with expertise in music, performance and multimedia are the latest members of a program that began in 2013.

The approach calls for staff to become actively engaged when responding to school violence through locally designed solutions.