He spent more than 500 hours in space, craving potato chips — but his priorities are down-to-earth: sharing the importance of a STEM education.

For these reasons, Alzheimer’s disease and dementia are among the most pressing of the many intractable problems USC researchers in multiple disciplines are seeking to unravel. Here are the approaches three USC scientists are taking to further understand the disease.

A family fair, KDFC's Discovery Day at the Tech, a new effort to introduce children to the joys of classical music, will be held at The Tech Museum of Innovation, 201 S. Market St. in San Jose, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Saturday, Oct.

Groundbreaking class takes the stage as the school expands its repertoire of world dance.

Congress designates Sept. 17 as a day to recognize the value and history of the guiding document.

How a USC Viterbi professor helped preserve a NASA mission aimed at understanding climate patterns and the world’s water cycle.

The effort to catalog the inequity in onscreen roles for women and minorities has a new weapon: software that took engineers USC and Google two years to develop.

Artists and industry executives are uniting against unauthorized uploads, writes Paul Young of the USC Thornton School of Music, and the public may be ready to see the issue from their vantage point.

Edward Goldman talks about how the L.A. art scene continues to rapidly expand through donations of art and money. He highlights the donation to USC of Eugene Rogolsky’s collection of several hundred artworks.

USC Dornsife/L.A. Times Poll also shows support for ballot measure to legalize recreational use of marijuana.