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.

New algorithms improve efficiency and identify more specific behavioral targets for intervention.

The typical story of neighborhood change, or ethnic succession: an incoming group “takes over” and wipes away the past. But USC’s Manuel Pastor notes that’s not what's happening in South Los Angeles.

USC experts look at some of the challenges presented by the digital phenomenon, from the future of gaming to safety concerns.

USC will again be represented by a roster that would match most countries.