Partnership is designed to minimize the damage and disruption caused by the inevitable earthquake, wildfire or flood.

Twice a week they hit the streets, handing out burritos and making friends.

USC pharmacologist Clay Wang has hopes that the eight species of fungi onboard the SpaceX rocket might one day lead the way to a “sunblock” that could protect humans from the harmful radiation of space.

Andrew Lakoff, a USC sociology professor who has conducted research on psychoanalysis in Argentina, find a history of prestige associated with self-improvement among Buenos Aires’ educated middle class.

The $12 million award for Keck School of Medicine and others supports research on aggressive tumors in African-American women.

A USC research project called SimSensei involves a virtual therapist able to “read” patients’ body language for signs of anxiety, nervousness, contemplation and other emotional attributes.

In his revealing book “Let the People Rule: Theodore Roosevelt and the Birth of the Presidential Primary,” USC’s Geoffrey Cowan reminds us that those who forget the past are doomed to repeat it.

Morgan Polikoff of the USC Rossier School of Education has a modest proposal: The Department of Education should abandon what has been the central principle of school accountability for the last decade and a half.

Columnist Steve Lopez visits Douglas Becker’s class on international relations, war, global terrorism and conflict resolution, and meet students from Taiwan, Korea, India, Germany and the United States

Joseph Palacios has performed two years of background research on the run up to the Olympics for Hughes Research Labs (HRL) in Malibu. By analyzing hundreds of news articles and social media outlets (Facebook, Twitter, You Tube, etc), Palacios helped develop algorithms for predicting crisis events in Brazil.