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(12/04/17 1:22am)
While an undergraduate at the University of South Florida, Phillip Buckhaults would often eat lunch in the Moffitt Cancer Center at USF’s medical school. He watched, day in and day out, as sick children would wheel their IV’s into the cafeteria to eat while receiving chemotherapy. This left a lasting mark on him. It was here that he was inspired to take up the fight against cancer, the "emperor of all maladies."
(11/16/17 12:15am)
J.P. Prodoehl’s journey to founding Han Go International, one of the newest nonprofit organizations at USC, has in no way been a straight path. It began on a medical mission trip to Spanish Town, Jamaica his freshman year.
(09/20/17 10:09pm)
Two thousand miles from the nearest hospital, USC professor Lori Ziolkowski spent the beginning of 2017 in Antarctica under some of the most extreme conditions on Earth, studying the environmental limits of life.
(08/09/17 1:11am)
USC professor Vicki Vance is attempting to give a whole new meaning to the phrase "you are what you eat."
(07/26/17 3:06am)
On Tuesday, the Senate voted to proceed with debating and amending the healthcare bill passed by the House on May 4. This amendment process will allow modifications to any part of the bill within the budget reconciliatory rules, turning the Senate into a “wild west” scenario, according to Senator Bob Corker (R-Tennessee). Vice President Mike Pence provided the tie-breaking vote.
(07/19/17 4:00am)
Recent USC graduates De’Aira Bryant and Blakeley Hoffman have been awarded the prestigious GEM National Consortium fellowship.
(07/12/17 12:54am)
Every year, 795,000 people in the United States have a stroke. That's one every 40 seconds.
(07/06/17 1:23am)
Healthcare is broken in the United States. Regardless of what side of the aisle you're on, the evidence is overwhelming that something needs to change.
(06/27/17 11:40pm)
In South Carolina, there is no uniform way for schools to determine which students are afflicted with dyslexia.
(06/21/17 2:44am)
The Black Death wiped out tens of millions of people in medieval Europe between 1347 and 1353. “There were people that would’ve lost every single person that they knew,” Sharon DeWitte, a professor of anthropology and anatomy and physiology at USC, said.
(06/14/17 6:13pm)
Any time a foreign substance enters your body, inflammation and an immune response is going to be elicited. This material could be anything from a splinter in your finger, to a pacemaker in your heart or a polymer placed in your fat tissue to deliver drugs. Every day, Michael Gower, an assistant professor of chemical and biomedical engineering at USC, attempts to control these responses.
(06/06/17 10:51pm)
The United States is facing a severe shortage of people trained
to take jobs in the fields of science, technology, engineering and math
(STEM). These are among the fastest growing occupations in the country,
however, there are not enough educated scientists, engineers and mathematicians
to fill these roles.
(04/20/17 4:23am)
The time it takes to charge a battery is one of the largest barriers towards implementing alternative energy-based devices into our lives. Assistant professor Morgan Stefik and his research group are actively working on trying to solve this problem. Stefik’s focus is on the advancement of a variety of energy devices such as batteries, capacitors and solar water-splitting. He and his group are attempting to accomplish this by synthesizing unique nanomaterials and tuning them to particular applications.
(04/17/17 3:13am)
Associate dean for research and
winner of the 2016 South Carolina Governor's Award for Excellence in Scientific
Research Dr. Hans-Conrad zur Loye and his students bring new solid-state
materials into existence regularly. As an inorganic chemist, zur Loye’s
research group focuses on developing better nuclear waste storage containers
and making more efficient scintillators for neutron diffraction experiments.
(03/23/17 4:41am)
Mohamed Moncef Marzouki reflected on his experiences as the first democratically elected president of Tunisia in his speech "The Jasmine Revolution and the Future of the Middle East” at the Hodges Forum on International Affairs Tuesday as part of his week long stay at USC.
(03/23/17 4:43am)
When rough diamonds began arriving in Amsterdam from South Africa, the international diamond trade exploded. Small shops were turned into “large-scale capitalist enterprise,” employment rose and the diamond industry offered a chance at socioeconomic mobility for many Jews. The role that these Jews played in the international diamond trade is the current subject of USC professor Saskia Coenen Snyder’s research and the book she is working on.
(03/13/17 3:03am)
As a winner of the Michael J. Mungo Distinguished Professor of the Year Award, Dr. David Reisman knows how to connect with students. Reisman teaches Cell and Molecular Biology and is the director of the Center for Colon Cancer Research Tissue Depository.Over the past 25 years at USC, he has had over 60 undergraduates work in his lab and is even collaborating with several of his former students on grants.