USC’s student health services grew over two decades under the watch of the resilient administrator, hiker and singer.

Critic Jane Smiley notes that the author, who teaches nonfiction at USC, has a unique tone — “persnickety and unenthusiastic,” she calls it. Yet White Sands is unexpectedly moving.

Ever on the go, a USC Thornton musician is well on his way to international success.

The administrator serves as a key strategic, business and legal adviser to the university’s senior leaders.

The Northrop Grumman Institute of Nanophotonics and Nanomaterials will explore the properties of tiny structures and materials.

The USC Global Leadership Summit is a two-day conference featuring some of the world’s leading economic experts discussing the pathway to progress beyond the European financial crisis.

“When I first got to USC, I said, ‘If I have to see one more male coming-of-age film I will scream,’ ” says Dean Elizabeth Daley of USC’s School of Cinematic Arts. “I thought, ‘Can I just see some young female angst?’ ”

Pilot program shares 3-D recorded testimonies gathered by USC Shoah Foundation, which preserves stories of genocide survivors and witnesses.

“Emotion steers our thinking,” says USC’s Mary Helen Immordino-Yang. “It's the rudder that directs our mind and organizes what we need to do.”

The Sp7 or Osterix gene more than likely emerged from an ancestral gene family about 400 million years ago, expanding the diversity of life and programming the development of bone-secreting osteoblast cells. Bone-forming vertebrates now range from the tiny frog Paedophryne amauensis to the mighty blue whale.