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.
A USC environmental health professor is studying the health effects of the former Exide battery recycling plant in Vernon, where high levels of lead were found. She worries that California doesn’t have a complete picture of the lead situation at Huntington Park High.
A research team from USC is working on a multiyear study to understand how people use the area’s parks and if there are any social benefits.
Studying music seems to have helped accelerate the cognitive development of young children in Los Angeles, according to a study conducted by researchers with the Brain and Creativity Institute at USC.
Networks of automated agents hold sway over social media, with major implications for politics, national security and free speech.
