David Medzerian
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Laura Abrams installed as dean of USC social work school — USC News (opens the original)
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The youth welfare researcher wants to prepare Trojans for a rapidly changing world, “one that asks us to think outside the box and dream.” Decades of scholarship and leadership have prepared Laura Abrams for her new job as dean of the USC Suzanne Dworak-Peck School of Social Work. But one thing Abrams was not ready for was a recent random act of kindness that would bring her to tears. Abrams, who began serving as dean on July 1, said that a graduate student she had never met left her a card last
Risks faced by teens online vary by platform, study shows — USC News (opens the original)
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USC Marshall School of Business researchers say new data could help both families and companies keep kids safer online. A recent study in JAMA Pediatrics describes a pioneering assessment of how different online platforms expose teens to different types of harm. USC researchers collaborated on the Stanford University-led study with New York University colleagues and analyzed data from 472 teens ages 13 to 17 who participated in USC’s Understanding America Survey. In the survey, teen respondents
USC Democracy Day event takes a hard look at AI’s evolving impact (opens the original)
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Trojan faculty experts in political behavior, artificial intelligence and media literacy weigh in on global pressures and possible solutions. Nearly 200 students, faculty and staff members filled The Forum at USC’s Ronald Tutor Campus Center on Tuesday for a wide-ranging and at times sobering discussion that focused on artificial intelligence’s evolving impact on political behavior and media literacy. The USC Open Dialogue Project event on the University Park Campus — moderated by USC President
Study sheds light on why dementia seemed rare among Indigenous Bolivians (opens the original)
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The Tsimané and Mosetén communities, who live pre-industrial lifestyles in the Bolivian Amazon, experience fairly common rates of new dementia cases — but shorter survival after diagnosis. In two Indigenous communities living pre-industrial lifestyles in the Bolivian Amazon, dementia is remarkably uncommon. However, a newly published longitudinal study reveals why earlier estimates told only part of the story. Among the Tsimané and Mosetén communities, dementia incidence — the rate of new cases
How USC research sparked a new vision for keeping L.A. cool — USC News (opens the original)
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Researchers from USC Dornsife and USC Viterbi are helping ShadeLA bring temperatures down across the city. On a blazing June afternoon, World Cup fans attending a city of Los Angeles “Kick It In the Park” watch party stepped beneath a temporary shade structure and experienced sweet relief from the scorching sun. Under the canopy, surface temperatures hovered around 74 degrees. But on the exposed basketball courts next to the shade structure, surface temperatures were as much as 51 degrees hotter
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