Meet some of those students who — under the direction of Neeraj Sood, director of the COVID Initiative at the USC Schaeffer Center for Health Policy & Economics — have been part of the teams working with the city of Los Angeles, the L.A. Fire Department and surrounding communities to better understand and battle COVID-19.

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Omar Toubat

Nikhilesh Kumar

Acacia Hori

Sonia Treminio

Dianna Jimenez

In this audio interview with an expert in community health and urban history, we compare and contrast the 1918 and 2019 pandemics.

USC's David Sloane compares the 1918 flu pandemic and COVID-19

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In this audio interview with the associate director of USC's Office of Sustainability, we discuss the green upgrades Trojans can expect to see over the next decade.

USC's Ellen Dux on the future of sustainability on campus

Music can cause all types of emotional reaction. While at Harvard, Matt Sachs was interested in one reaction in particular -- the chills. Now a PhD student at USC, Sachs found that people who get the chills from particular songs might have their brains wired differently than those who don't. Producer Joanna Clay has the story.

Brains are different in people who get the chills from music

Did you know the USC campus was just one building for its early years? Or that the land it was on used to be mustard fields? Or one of its most iconic buildings is no more? Learn some juicy bits of USC's history with a walk down memory lane -- literally -- as USC News walks the campus with archeologist Kenneth Seligson, who recently taught a course on the archeological history of USC.

Produced by Joanna Clay.

Walking tour reveals secrets of USC campus history

Even as Latinx had gained wider acceptance, particularly in academic settings due to its perception as a gender-neutral and pan-ethnic label, only around a quarter of U.S. adults who self-identify as Hispanic or Latino have actually heard of the term. So, for Latinx Heritage Month—also known as National Hispanic Heritage Month—several USC students spoke about which labels they prefer, the stories behind them and the significance of self-identifying that way.

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