The world’s largest study of tobacco use to date was published last month in the medical journal The Lancet and included Keck School of Medicine professor Jonathan Samet as an author.

A new multidisciplinary minor in the health sciences this fall will allow students in the Dana and David Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Science to take classes at the Keck School of Medicine.

College review website Unigo ranked USC third on its list of Top 10 Colleges for Aspiring Entrepreneurs, the Huffington Post reported Saturday. More than 30,000 college students voted on top schools for entrepreneurs on the site. The University of Oklahoma and the University of Pennsylvania beat out USC for the top two spots. U.S. News [...]

The USC Credit Union moved its University Park Campus office to the Campus Center Courtyard after 15 years in King’s Hall. The branch office was moved to accommodate summer renovations to King’s Hall, which included a revamp of Café 84. USC Credit Union President and CEO Gary Perez said the non-profit financial cooperative was happy [...]

Victor Wellington Peters, USC’s oldest alumnus who graduated in the class of 1924, died Aug. 12, according to USC News. He was 109. After studying at the newly created University of California, Los Angeles campus for two years, Peters took a year off from school to build houses with his father in the nearby area. He returned [...]

The changes USC Transportation has implemented for the new school year could be a
positive transition back into the fall semester for faculty and students alike.

As students flock to the University Park Campus for classes this fall, they will find new, portable bike lanes flanking Trousdale Parkway. A joint project by the Office of Student Affairs and the Undergraduate Student Government, the bike lanes, marked with “bike sharrows,” enable students to bike up and down Trousdale without interfering with pedestrian [...]

The Dept. of Public Safety apprehended a suspect Wednesday afternoon in connection with last week’s theft of laptops and smartphones from offices in the John McKay Center, a newly constructed $70 million, 110,000-square-foot athletic facility west of Heritage Hall, DPS Captain David Carlisle told the Daily Trojan on Thursday. Malachi Whalen, a 22-year-old from Long [...]

The Los Angeles Police Department was in pursuit of a stolen vehicle at approximately 2 p.m. Wednesday when the suspect pulled into Parking Structure X, according to DPS Captain David Carlisle. PSX is adjacent to Figueroa Street, near Gate 3 on USC’s University Park Campus. The black 2002 Chevrolet Trailblazer was reported stolen from Santa [...]

The Los Angeles Police Department arrested two men Friday afternoon believed to be responsible for the fatal shooting of two international graduate students in April, LAPD Detective David Garrido said. Garrido said the suspects, who are scheduled to be arraigned Tuesday, are Bryan Barnes, 20, and Javier Bolden, 19. Though the suspects, who are being held [...]