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Machine learning algorithms can help public health officials identify areas of high vaccine hesitancy by ZIP code to better target messaging and outreach and counter misinformation.
When death is looming, the warmth of a held hand can communicate deeply where words fail.
To qualify as a Catholic ‘saint,’ someone must have two miracles credited to them. But how does the church define a miracle in the first place?
The language around climate change can feel overwhelming. A psychology and public policy expert breaks it down in plain English.
Arts-related activities for people living with Alzheimer’s and other related disorders could improve people’s quality of life, but collaborating in communities requires a common language.
The US has learned that it cannot suppress its way to a healthy relationship with fire in the West. That strategy failed, even before climate change proved it to be no strategy at all.
Pemerintah dan perusahaan swasta memanfaatkan insentif demi menarik masyarakat Amerika untuk divaksinasi COVID-19. Seorang peneliti ekonomi menjelaskan cara kerja nya.
Plus, new research chronicling the experiences of Japanese Americans interned by the US government during the second world war. Listen to The Conversation Weekly podcast.
In the wake of 9/11, some called for rounding up whole groups of people viewed as potential threats to the nation. But Transportation Secretary Norman Mineta knew the U.S. had done that before.
Common sense is a broad and diverse set of abilities that help define what it means to be human. AI researchers are struggling to endow computers with it.
Science is not egalitarian. Top researchers get more credit and funding than lesser-known scientists. The long-held practices creating inequality also amplify gender disparities that hold back women.
Conservatorships significantly restrict people’s ability to make decisions for themselves. Other options can provide support while maintaining respect for autonomy.
Many people are starting to celebrate the return to a pre-pandemic life. How does that feel to those who have suffered losses and are still grieving?
Athletes and spectators were lured to Olympia by a longing for contact with their compatriots and their gods.
Religion was a common theme in some of the cases to come before the nine justices in the recently concluded Supreme Court term. Three experts help explain what is at stake.
An AI analysis shows that differences in how New Yorkers and Angelenos tweet go beyond the words they use.
Medical innovations paired with innovative programs to get them to Black, Indigenous and Hispanic Americans can help close the health inequality gap.
Science denial is not new, but researchers have learned a lot about it. Here’s why it exists, how everyone is susceptible to it in one way or another and steps to take to overcome it.
Higher education in the US has been faulted for not requiring students to read and write enough. But is that criticism justified? New research raises doubts.
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Professor of Music Teaching and Learning, University of Southern California
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Professor of the Practice of Law, University of Southern California
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Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
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Professor and Knight Center Chair in Media & Religion, USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism
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Fulbright Scholar and SweAmfo Research Fellow at USC School of Cinematic Arts, University of Southern California
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Research Scientist, University of Southern California
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Clinical Associate Professor of Law, Co-Director, USC Immigration Clinic, University of Southern California
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Dana and David Dornsife Professor of Psychology and Director of the Wrigley Institute for Environment and Sustainability, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
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Associate Professor of Practice, University of Southern California
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Doctor of Musical Arts Student, University of Southern California
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Professor of Journalism, USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism
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Director of the USC Dornsife Brain Health Observatory, University of Southern California
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Associate Professor of the Practice of Political Science and International Relations, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
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Professor of Physics and Astronomy, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
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Research Scientist, Center for Economic and Social Research, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
