USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences

Digging up dinos is all in a day's work for this Trojan.

Paleontologist Alyssa Bell helped unearth and reconstruct Gnatalie, the sauropod sensation soon to be on display at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County. Read the full story in National Geographic ⤵️

How to bring a 75-foot-long dinosaur back to life A team of scientists and artists transformed a jumble of bones entombed in tons of rock into a towering dinosaur that will leave visitors to L.A.'s Natural History Museum wonderstruck.

“That’s my dad. That’s MY DAD!”

Most Americans don't expect an unfiltered show of emotion from a political family, but that's how audiences learned and grew curious about Gus, V.P. nominee Tim Walz's neurodivergent son.

Our expert has advice on learning more (hint: listen to neurodivergent people themselves).

Gus Walz’s emotion at DNC helps bring neurodiversity into the light Disability studies researcher sees an opportunity for society to learn how to better understand and support neurodiversity.

Q&A: The changing landscape of American labor For Labor Day, USC Dornsife Distinguished Professor Manuel Pastor explains the challenges facing workers and the modern labor movement and considers solutions that may position workers for better benefits and more technical jobs given the rise of technology. [4¾ min read]

Move-in feels like it was just yesterday. And at USC Dornsife, it was.

New students come from near and far to begin USC life Meet some of the 8,000 Trojans who moved in this week

is a great day to bee up on this new honeybee vaccine story. Here are the buzz-worthy details from Dornsife experts: https://bit.ly/4deNcPo

New honeybee vaccine offers hope for protecting more than just honeybees An expert on bees and other pollinators discusses the recently approved vaccine to protect honeybees from a bacterial scourge and gives tips for helping these ecologically crucial species survive.

Read what you want to.
- Deborah Harkness, Professor of History

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Quote of the day. "Books are never guilty pleasures. You should never, ever feel guilty about reading something-- not even the cereal box."
- USC Dornsife's Deborah Harkness on her reading habits, in the New York Times (may require subscription)

Can you picture yourself back on campus again? We can 🌟
Summer break is winding down and we can't wait to welcome back our Trojans ✌️

Chances are, L.A. will host the 2028 Olympics with nary a gnarly earthquake.

That said, we present the lesser-known (and perhaps more terrifying) fault lines hiding under Los Angeles ⤵️

String of earthquakes rattles L.A.: Are they telling us something bigger? Having half a dozen earthquakes with a magnitude 2.5 or greater strike in a single week is not a common occurrence in Southern California.

One professor and two doctoral candidates at USC Dornsife have been named Fulbright Scholars for the 2024–25 academic year.

Fulbright Scholar awards for USC Dornsife professor, PhD students Prestigious Fulbright awards will enable the scholars to conduct research and teach in France, the Czech Republic and Spain’s Canary Islands

Three exceptional students--two current undergrads and one recent grad--have added to the expansive list of accolades received by USC Dornsife scholars.

USC Dornsife students earn Goldwater, Astronaut scholarships Two students and one alumnus win Goldwater and Astronaut scholarships, and a Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute fellowship

At USC’s Capital Campus in D.C., leaders from across the country explored how nature can be used to address increasingly frequent climate-associated risks.

USC Dornsife Public Exchange and White House OSTP tackle climate change PX and the Office of Science and Technology Policy work to advance use of nature-based solutions to climate-change risks like floods, heatwaves, fires

When our experts mapped daily temperature variations across the U.S., it revealed stark differences between wealthy and poor neighborhoods, and large differences by race.

Dangerous daily temperature swings harm some more than others Mapping daily temperature variations in the U.S. revealed stark differences between wealthy and poor neighborhoods, and between races.

When our experts mapped daily temperature variations across the U.S., it revealed stark differences between wealthy and poor neighborhoods, and large differences by race.

Dangerous daily temperature swings harm some more than others Mapping daily temperature variations in the U.S. revealed stark differences between wealthy and poor neighborhoods, and between races.

Congratulations to our faculty on these exciting awards!

Wrigley Institute Names 2024 Faculty Innovation Award Winners - Wrigley Institute for Environment and Sustainability Creating a more sustainable and environmentally just future for our planet and all who live on it

Our researchers DID find one task in where fathers did more planning and ex*****on: taking out the garbage.

Fathers also did more home maintenance tasks, but mothers did more of the related planning. 😬

Could this data lead to more equitable households?

Moms think more about household chores − and this cognitive burden hurts their mental health Moms execute more household tasks. But they’re also family executives, doing more of the thinking ahead and assigning that are part of all those chores – bad news for their mental health.

Competing in the n**e... and other things you aren't seeing at the Olympics this year.

5 ways the ancient Olympics differ from the modern games 5 ways the ancient Olympics differ from the modern games The ancient Olympics of Greece differed considerably from the modern international games, which focus on athleticism.

Perhaps retirement could be rebranded as "what might be the most productive and meaning-filled period of our lives"? A retired sociologist remarks on Boomers doing extraordinary things in encore careers.

It’s Time to Invent Rituals for Retirement This sociologist says they'd help create meaningful lives in retirement.