Here’s the podcast for our Dad Brain episode. What actually happens to a man when he becomes a father — in his brain, his body and his sense of who he is? Great discussion with @darbysaxbe.bsky.social professor of psychology @dornsife.usc.edu podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/d...

Attn: SF Bay Area alumni -- Hope you can join us for this special event!

What happens to a man’s brain, body and identity when he becomes a father? Join Dean James Bullock and Darby Saxbe, prof. of psychology and author of Dad Brain, for a conversation about fatherhood and family, with live Q&A. Register here for this free event, held via Zoom: bit.ly/4tVoZpK

Congratulations to Natalia Molina on being named a 2026 Guggenheim Fellow! The honor will support her new book project, Hidden Histories in the Garden, which brings to light the stories of the workers who built and maintained the Huntington. dornsife.usc.edu/news/stories...

Excited to head to the San Francisco waterfront on April 30 for a special evening with @dornsife.usc.edu alumni and parents! Join me at the Ferry Building to hear firsthand about all the amazing things happening at the college. See you in the Bay Area! RSVP by April 26: bit.ly/USCBayArea26

Impressive work by Patricio Gallardo of @upenn.edu and @dornsife.usc.edu Prof. Kris Pardo et al. => pairwise velocities measure gravitational force law on cosmic scales, 1/r^n w/ n= 2.1 ±0.3, MOND is a poor fit (PTE=3.65×10−3), while ΛCDM fits well (PTE=0.17). dornsife.usc.edu/news/stories...

Join us on on April 24 to discuss the new book "Dad Brain" with the author, @dornsife.usc.edu Prof. of Psychology Darby Saxbe to learn what her research reveals about the ways fatherhood changes men and how being a dad can shape workplaces and society. Register here: usc.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Congrats @dornsife.usc.edu Chem Prof. Richard Brutchey for his 2026 ACS Langmuir Lectureship recognizing his work on molecular programming related to controlled surface chemistry dornsife.usc.edu/chemistry/20...

USC Dornsife Public Exchange welcomes climate leader with deep LA policy experience dornsife.usc.edu/news/stories...

AI is moving fast. The work of making it trustworthy has to keep pace. USC’s new Institute on Ethics and Trust in Computing is focused on exactly that, with our School of Philosophy helping put human questions at the center of technological ones. today.usc.edu/new-usc-inst...

Today we @dornsife.usc.edu and @usc.edu Viterbi School of Engineering are launching a new effort that brings together the liberal arts and computer science to enable #AI for the public good. today.usc.edu/new-usc-inst...

Good news - no evidence for ecosystem or harm for human health - Noelle Held, marine biogeochemist and principal investigator for the CLEAN Waters project, which is measuring post-fire water quality after Palisades and Eaton fires. www.latimes.com/environment/...

A real treat to return to my old stomping grounds at the @uciphyssci.bsky.social for the advancement exam of my exceptional PhD student Patricia Fofie, who passed with flying colors on her research using numerical simulations to understand how super massive black hole feedback affects galaxy shapes

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.