The books were given by the USC Greek Councils to support the USC Family of Schools.

A daughter of Vietnamese immigrants becomes a tenacious, Harvard-educated surgeon who deals with challenges head-on.

Joan Broderick trains nurse practitioners to use a chronic-pain treatment plan that teaches patients effective coping strategies over 10 appointments.

The Golden State is home to several prominent universities, USC among them, that accept thousands of transfer students a year.

“If you have melting aircraft parts, it’s mixing with the other parts — that could easily disguise other evidence of an IED,” says Thomas Anthony of USC Viterbi’s Aviation Safety and Security Program.

Researchers including USC’s Julie Marsh warn against “data walls” — public ratings of pupils, by name — that stress competition and achievement rather than meaningful learning.

Astronautical engineers try to set a new mark for a student-flown rocket. Will they succeed?

Even if 10,000 drivers immediately abandoned their cars for the extended Expo Line, it would be small potatoes, USC’s Genevieve Giuliano says. But the transit line does much more than impact traffic congestion.

New services and platforms are great for consumers, but USC’s Jonathan Taplin notes they’re siphoning revenue away from the underlying music, leaving songwriters, performers and the whole industry choking on their dust.

Rohit Varma and his USC colleagues say that in the next 30 years, an unprecedented number of Americans will be dealing with diseases like age-related macular degeneration, glaucoma, diabetic retinopathy and cataracts.