Investigating the shape of water

Eva Kanso and her USC Viterbi team are studying how fluid flows. What they learn could lead to navigational aids for underwater vehicles.

The same skills needed to create a thriving business can also bring success to a marriage or a career, according to entrepreneurship expert Noam Wasserman. — Illustration/Alamy

Think like an entrepreneur

Even if you don’t own your own business, USC’s Noam Wasserman notes, an entrepreneurial mindset can help bring success in areas of life like marriage and career.

Illustration: USC researchers found a link between higher education and longer life without dementia — Photo/iStock

Education versus dementia

A USC-led study finds that education gives people an edge in helping keep dementia at bay. A related study shows the importance of delaying dementia’s onset.

A juice cleanse allows for a variety of fruits and vegetables, but only in liquid form — Photo/iStock

What’s the best diet plan?

Paleo or low-carb? Raw or just juice? Before trying one of those trendy diets your friends raved about on Instagram, learn the science behind them first.

Bicyclist takes a break — Photo/Hernán Piñera

We’re lazier than we think

A new study shows that people, regardless of age or where they live, poorly guess how active they actually are. For Americans, that means we’re lazier than we realize.

Maxwell Leaks, 9, lives at USC Village with his mother Cynthia and father Broderick Leaks, an educator at the Engemann Student Health Center

For faculty resident, life at USC Village is a family affair

It’s not just students in the residential colleges at USC Village. Faculty in residence Broderick Leaks, his wife and son share an apartment with undergrads as hall mates. The arrangement lets Leaks engage with students on a deeper level, and 9-year-old Maxwell is surrounded by “superstar students who are ready to take on the world.”

The 2018 USC summit on ending homelessness drew experts from a broad range of disciplines

2nd USC summit on ending L.A. homelessness reports progress

USC hosted more than 500 attendees, over a dozen speakers and panelists representing city and county government and nonprofit organizations as well as USC faculty from a broad range of disciplines. In his remarks, Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti described homelessness as “the greatest moral and humanitarian crisis of our time.”

The Hilda and Bruno Haug Ovarian Cancer Research Fund will go toward research in the gynecologic oncology division.

Patient’s estate gift supports oncology research

The division of gynecologic oncology at the USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center has received a $1.1 million estate gift from a grateful former patient, establishing the Hilda and Bruno Haug Ovarian Cancer Research Fund.

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