Together, the new instructors will expand on the school’s wide-ranging dance expertise by introducing new dance classes in Bollywood, hip-hop, Afro-Cuban, ballet, contemporary, jazz and dance studies. Beyond providing expanded curricular offerings for USC Kaufman’s bachelor of fine arts students, the additional courses will create new opportunities for non-dance majors at USC to take dance classes.

Whether you root for the American League, National League or whoever does well on your fantasy team, the MLB All-Star Game on July 12 and Homerun Derby on July 11 allow players to show off their best against the league's best.

A new USC study debunks the popular belief that electronic cigarettes are merely a substitute for cigarettes among teens. Instead, the study suggests that some teens who never would have smoked cigarettes are now vaping.

A low-calorie fasting-like diet, plus chemotherapy, enables the immune system to recognize and kill skin and breast cancer cells, according to a new USC-led study on mice. A second study on human patients shows that fasting is safe and may protect against chemotherapy’s side effects.

Tyan Parker Dominguez, a USC researcher who studies racial disparities in infant mortality, agrees that cultural mores play a role in infant deaths. While poverty is another factor, she said, it’s not the only one.

Researchers from USC have developed a new machine learning tool capable of detecting certain speech-related diagnostic criteria in patients being evaluated for depression.

Fancy Free, the first solo album from singer and songwriter Robert Rex Waller Jr., finds him experimenting with his sound, styles and textures.

Experimentation with e-cigarettes could become nicotine addiction for youth who have never used any other tobacco products, USC study suggests.

USC will join a cultural program and host a leading Mexican artist on campus in the near future.

USC experts are available to comment on security aspects surrounding the Summer Olympics, drug testing and doping, the business of the Olympics and environmental justice issues in Rio de Janeiro.