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Rising levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere might indirectly fertilize the ocean with nitrogen in places that are now poor in this essential nutrient.
The USC Center for Work and Family Life recently launched a stress reduction lab on the Health Sciences campus, featuring resources to help participants improve their mental and physical well-being.
The USC School for Early Childhood Education will be able to reach nearly 100 more needy parents and children through the Early Head Start program, thanks to a $1 million grant from the American Recovery a
USC School of Cinematic Arts Professor Emeritus Mel Sloan died Jan. 12 of pneumonia at his home in Van Nuys. He was 86.
Sloan served on the faculty from 1946 until his retirement in 1997.
Over the holiday break, 10 USC School of Pharmacy students traveled to Jamaica for a service-learning project.
The presumption that children need both a mother and a father is widespread. It has been used by proponents of Proposition 8 to argue against same-sex marriage and to uphold a ban on same-sex adoption.
For the first time, USC researchers have identified specific genetic variations that predict clinical outcomes in patients with gastric (stomach) cancer.
An aquatic science challenge in Southern California that is sponsored in part by USC reached a new audience of middle school and high school students this year.
Fellows from the Center on Communication Leadership and Policy at the USC Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism have written an essay included in a report released Oct. 15 by California's first lady Maria Shriver.
USC professors Mark Humayun and Dana Goldman have been named to the Institute of Medicine, one of the highest honors in the fields of health and medicine.
The institute made the announcement Oct. 12 at its 39th annual meeting.
Live demonstrations of devices that do everything from helping physicians connect with each other on patient care issues to showing people how stressful situations affect their own hearts were highlights of the Body Computing 3.0 conference on Oct. 9.
Arnold Heidsieck, professor of philosophy at USC College, preeminent scholar in German and European intellectual history and literature, particularly Jewish Prague-born 20th-century writer Franz Kafka, has died. He was 72.
Last month, USC Dean of Religious Life Varun Soni and Rob Asghar, a USC Annenberg Center on Public Diplomacy University Fellow, met with officials from the U.S.
David Bottjer, professor of earth and biological sciences at USC College, and Luis Chiappe, director and curator of the National History Museum, have established the College's Center for Chinese Fossil Discoveries.
The federal government may not have been able to save California from massive budget cuts, but at least a stimulus research grant will help scientists understand the biology of western lakes.
Math for America Los Angeles has been awarded $1.5 million in American Recovery and Reinvestment Act funds through a National Science Foundation grant.
USC's entering undergraduate student body is the most academically talented in the university's 129-year history.
