Tech keeps memories of loved ones alive


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I never deleted my dad’s cellphone number. And every so often, while I’m searching for something on my phone, I stumble upon it. My father died on Oct. 9, 2009 — four years ago yesterday and 20 days before my 17th birthday. He’d fought a six-year battle with multiple myeloma and then one Friday … And […]

GOP should distance itself from Tea Party


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“A Plan to Save the Republican Party,” is the headline for Daniel Altman’s latest article in Foreign Policy. In it, the economics professor at the Stern School of Business describes the growing rift that began with primary challenges to Republican incumbents and most recently climaxed with the standoff over defunding the Affordable Care Act. Altman […]

USC professor wins Nobel Prize in Chemistry


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Dr. Arieh Warshel of the USC David and Dana Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry on Wednesday. The award recognized Warshel, Martin Karplus of the Université de Strasbourg in France and Harvard University, and Michael Levitt of Stanford University for “the development of multiscale models for complex […]

Meeting features PSA, WSA


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Committees presented on students’ political activism and reducing sexual crimes at USC.