Fun podcast with Prof. @karenlloyd.bsky.social & alumna Laurie Barge exploring how Earth’s most extreme environments are shaping where and how scientists search for life beyond Earth. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/d...

Extremely thought provoking essay by @dornsife.usc.edu English Prof Emily Hodgson Anderson, including the idea that the earliest examples of ‘ghostly’ writing made us as a society more comfortable with not knowing, or not asking, how some forms of writing were produced. lithub.com/ghost-writin...

Great conversation with @dornsife.usc.edu Prof. @karenlloyd.bsky.so + alumna Laurie Barge, senior research scientist at @nasajpl.bsky.social Highlights include life that thrives with pH levels 1000 times more basic than bleach! youtu.be/kwvxYkv92A0

This week we welcome Barnard College Professor Amy Zhou to our department colloquium!

This generous gift to Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West will enable new understandings of the past to inform public dialogue in the West + support partnerships with nonacademic professionals and practitioners dornsife.usc.edu/news/stories...

This is going to be fun! 👽🧬🌋

Looking forward to meeting alumni in San Diego this weekend!

What an honor

This is what the most distant confirmed galaxy looks like. The light we're receiving was emitted when the Universe was ~15x smaller in linear size than today, and right now it's ~30 billion light-years away from us. The light was emitted when the Universe was <300 million years old. Pretty amazing!

USC names Beong-Soo Kim as its 'next generation' president

The Heineman Foundation, the American Institute of Physics, and the AAS are pleased to announce Alice Shapley as the winner of the 2026 Dannie Heineman Prize for Astrophysics. www.aip.org/aip/alice-sh... 🔭 @aip.bsky.social

New findings from @dornsife.usc.edu Earth sciences Professor Sylvain Barbot could reshape risk assessments for Istanbul, one of the world’s most vulnerable megacities. today.usc.edu/how-hidden-f...

This week we welcome UC Merced Professor Tanya Golash-Boza to our department colloquium!

First paper since moving to @dornsife.usc.edu led by PhD student Jorge Sarrato-Alós along with Valenciano, Di Cintio, Brook, and Maccio' -> In both FIRE & NIHAO sims: early-forming galaxies have bigger DM cores, while late-forming galaxies are more cuspy arxiv.org/abs/2601.17113

I can't wait to talk about how cool life is deep beneath our feet! Join us for this fun discussion with Laurie Barge (NASA/JPL) and me!

Join me live on Feb 26 for a conversation with @dornsife.usc.edu researchers & alumni on how Earth’s most extreme environments are shaping where & how scientists search for life beyond our planet. Register Now: usc.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

We’ll miss Joel and his enthusiasm for the field he greatly impacted. Being his graduate student in the 90s was an amazing experience. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/17/s...

Great recognition Prof Doug Capone --> 2025 Highly Ranked Scholar status: #26 globally in the Marine Sciences This award has places him in the top 0.05% of all scholars worldwide. scholargps.com/highly-ranke...

Congratulations to evolutionary biologist Toby Kiers on winning the Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement. This prize, administered by @dornsife.usc.edu celebrates Kiers’ research is on mycorrhizal fungi connecting plant roots across forest floors. dornsife.usc.edu/news/stories...

Po’pay, a Tewa religious leader, led the Pueblo Revolt, the most successful Indigenous rebellion in what’s now the USA - By Prof. Peter Mancall, Director of the Early Modern Studies Institute and Professor of History, Anthropology, and Economics @dornsife.usc.edu dornsife.usc.edu/news/stories...

If powerful #AI systems can sometimes start behaving like sociopaths, how do we keep them aligned with human values? We explore what it might take to keep them in check — including a built-in sense of “vulnerability,” so it has something to lose by causing harm. dornsife.usc.edu/news/stories...

Congratulations Blake! aerospace.org/press-releas...

Definitive evidence of how Narcan works by capturing images of it in action for the first time. May help develop drugs with longer-lasting protection against overdose. Great work and writing by Saif Khan, Ph.D. Candidate in Biology @dornsife.usc.edu dornsife.usc.edu/news/stories...

How researchers are learning what makes police stops feel respectful dornsife.usc.edu/news/stories...

Year in Review: Over the past year, CRCC held a powerful series on many different aspects of Economic Empowerment, helping to create economically sustainable organizations, share wealth-building skills and build wealth-building ministries. crcc.usc.edu/report/wealt...

From community dream to academic force in contemporary Armenian studies @dornsife.usc.edu dornsife.usc.edu/news/stories...

USC Nobel laureate in Chemistry Arieh Warshel is using AI to predict how HIV and other viruses evolve as a means of overcoming drug resistance. @dornsife.usc.edu today.usc.edu/decoding-the...

Year in Review: It's been a challenging year. CRCC worked with mental and physical health experts to help congregations thrive by working with faith leaders to maintain their own wellbeing and helping their teams do so as well. crcc.usc.edu/wellness-and...

A Trojan whose name became part of the U.S. Navy fleet. Paul Ignatius — WWII veteran, former Secretary of the Navy, and namesake of the USS Paul Ignatius — leaves a legacy of service & honor.

Trojan Family Weekend vibes 😎

Happy Halloween! 🎃 Here’s an interesting short read on the historical popularity of ghosts and by folklore expert Tok Thompson of anthropology at @dornsife.usc.edu Boo! 👻 dornsife.usc.edu/news/stories...

Research led by @dornsife.usc.edu Professor Emilio Valadez shows how combining two types of brain scans significantly improved predictions of future anxiety in teens. => One day we may use brain imaging to help teens most at risk for anxiety disorders dornsife.usc.edu/news/stories...

Just as an FYI, Father Matthew Wheeler of the USC Caruso Catholic Center assured me that God will be on USC’s side against the Fighting Irish tonight. Yes that’s a USC Rosary 📿 he’s holding.

Fantastic article on the most recent Nobel prize in physics to Clarke, Devoret and Martinis written by @dornsife.usc.edu Prof. Eli Levenson-Falk. Eli's Ph.D. adviser, Irfan Siddiqi, was advised by Devoret, and Clarke was his secondary adviser. theconversation.com/nobel-prize-...

Great time celebrating new and promoted faculty @dornsife.usc.edu yesterday. From folks in the writing program helping students communicate, listen, speak, and write… to physicists working on superconducting qubits, it was an amazing celebration of excellence in the liberal arts @usc.edu

How do you make a century old Los Angeles landmark more sustainable? USC Environmental Studies Professor Victoria Petryshyn has the answers! dornsife.usc.edu/wrigley/2025...

Such a thrill yesterday to celebrate Percival Everett’s Pulitzer Prize along with a panel of other esteemed @dornsife.usc.edu English Profs Dana Johnson and Aimee Bender. Special thanks to Provost Guzman for hosting the event, which featured questions from some amazing undergraduate students.

No ivory tower here: @dornsife.usc.edu scientists and USC heath experts in the community lending a hand in Los Angeles. dornsife.usc.edu/news-briefs/...

Honoring Jane Goodall’s legacy @dornsife.usc.edu dornsife.usc.edu/news/stories...

Brings together a neurologist, quantitative biologist, and clinical pharmacist to develop a drug to reduce the impact of Alzheimer's disease. Cool aspect: using AI to speed up molecule discovery by ~1000 times @dornsife.usc.edu today.usc.edu/usc-research...

New in Cell by @dornsife.usc.edu Quantitative & Computational Biology Professor Jazlyn Mooney --> Population size of gray foxes in the US is actually stable/ past estimates had suggested decline. Past work using the wrong “reference genome” distorted the picture. dornsife.usc.edu/news/stories...

Be part of an unforgettable conversation with acclaimed author and artist Oliver Jeffers as he takes us on a journey through his stories about Earth, environment, and our shared future! 🎟️ Spots are limited! Secure your ticket today: wies-deltamurphy-2025.eventbrite.com

Wonderful interview w @dornsife.usc.edu Distinguished Professor of English Maggie Nelson @parisreview.bsky.social She is in the American Academy of Arts & Letters and was awarded a MacArthur “genius” Fellowship. Books include NYT bestseller and National Book Critics Circle Award The Argonauts

Great news from the lab of @dornsife.usc.edu Chemistry Professor Stephen Bradforth - major grant from the new US-UK #Quantum Initiative. Working to detect quantum entanglement in real time, capturing events that unfold in just quadrillionths of a second. dornsife.usc.edu/news/stories...

New study by led by @dornsife.usc.edu researchers finds that Individuals with accelerated DNA aging have an increased risk of cognitive decline in their 50's AND the the effect is stronger for people from low socioeconomic backgrounds. dornsife.usc.edu/news/stories...

Huge win for @dornsife.usc.edu Cosmology! Glad to partner with fantastic scientists at Carnegie and UC Riverside to test different theories about how galaxies form. The amazing Prof Vera Glusevic will serve as the collaboration lead. dornsife.usc.edu/news/stories...

Excellent news from @dornsife.usc.edu Equity Research Institute: a major grant from the Waverley Street Foundation will enable research at the intersection of communities, climate and data. Congrats to Director and Professor of Sociology Manuel Pastor. dornsife.usc.edu/news/stories...

Fascinating @dornsife.usc.edu study 🦊🧠 - Most Channel Islands foxes evolved proportionally larger brains than their mainland cousins. Work by @usc.edu Professor of Biological Sciences Suzanne Edmands and PhD student Kimberly Schoenberger. dornsife.usc.edu/news/stories...

USC Dornsife's own Bill Deverell will be honored at Clockshop 's 20th anniversary gala next week. We salute his tireless research that deepens connections between California's communities and public lands. Event details: clockshop.org/fundraiser/

Students, take it from our faculty: 🎯 Less fear 🎯 More exploring 🎯 Enjoy your time outside class, too