Spring Semester Life Lessons
Professors from some of this semester’s gerontology courses share how everyone can use their classroom lessons in their everyday lives.
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To Reduce COVID-19 Risk, Individual Distancing Makes a Difference
Even when faced with larger structural risks, such as living in an area with high infection rates, people who avoid large gatherings and other risky behaviors are less likely to be diagnosed with COVID-19, say USC researchers.
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USC Gerontology Faculty Listed Among Top Scientists Worldwide
A recent analysis of nearly 200,000 researchers – roughly the top 2% of the world’s scientists – has shown several USC Leonard Davis School of Gerontology faculty members to be among the most highly cited investigators on the planet.
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Where Gerontology Meets TV Production: A Master’s Student’s Mashup
Tim Deal MSG is passionate about both gerontology and TV production. His path has taken him between the two. The sweet spot is where they intersect.
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Happy and Healthy Holidays
USC Leonard Davis experts share tips to help keep loved ones safe and healthy during the season’s celebrations.
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Associate Professor Mireille Jacobson: Uncovering Connections Between Health Policies and Well Being
Associate Professor Mireille Jacobson discusses her research using economic insights to better understand decision-making around vaccines and more.
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Interventions to Improve Late-Life Health & Longevity Must Begin in Early Life, Says Noted Researcher
Terrie Moffitt of Duke University delivers the 2021 Esther and Isadore Kesten Memorial Lecture.
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Ready to start your journey into the gerontology field? Find out how to apply to USC Leonard Davis School of Gerontology academic programs.
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Wondering what's possible in gerontology? The USC Leonard Davis School offers multiple online and on-site degree programs, gerontology minors and postdoctoral and certificate programs.
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Want to support innovative gerontology education, research, and service? Learn more about ways to contribute to the USC Leonard Davis School.
Learn MoreCelebrating Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Please join President Carol L. Folt, the Black Staff and Faculty Caucus, and the Center for Black Student and Cultural Affairs to honor and celebrate the rich history of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Speaker: Debra Parker Oliver, PhD
Lecture: “Building a NIH Funded Research Career: Caregiving as an Exemplar”
Speaker: Judith Frydman, PhD
Lecture: “Maintaining proteostasis in aging and disease: pathways and principles of eukaryotic protein quality control”
“With its wide range of classes from neuroscience to public policy, the USC Leonard Davis School has helped me develop as a leader.”
Human Development and Aging
