Alex Keane is a Renaissance Scholar who graduated magna cum laude with a degree in Psychology and minors in Spanish and Management Consulting in 2016. ________________________________________________________________________________________ To the average citizen, corruption is as American as apple pie. When asked in a … [Read more...] about Should or Shall: An Examination of American Legal Ethics
Crumpling Bad Hospitals with Evidence-Based Design
Yume Nishi is in her final year of study in the 5-year Bachelor of Architecture program with a minor in Occupational Therapy at the University of Southern California. After graduation, she hopes to go into healthcare architecture and is very interested in integrating data and design to help enhance people’s lives. She is an active member on campus and loves being a Teaching … [Read more...] about Crumpling Bad Hospitals with Evidence-Based Design
Bugs and Drugs: The Discovery of Penicillin
_____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ The beginning of the modern era of antibiotics can be traced back to Alexander Fleming’s accidental discovery of penicillin in 1928. After returning from a family vacation, Fleming noticed that a plate of Staphylococcus bacteria had been contaminated with a … [Read more...] about Bugs and Drugs: The Discovery of Penicillin
Medical Institutions Perpetuate Unethical Physicians-Industry Interactions
Kasra Behizad is a first-year medical student at the Keck School of Medicine of USC with a concentration in primary care and community medicine. His research interests include designing community health empowerment programs and investigating the role of spirituality/religion in the healing … [Read more...] about Medical Institutions Perpetuate Unethical Physicians-Industry Interactions
Benefits of Acute Stress: Empathy as a Treatment for Depression
Joyce Ho graduated from the University of Southern California in May 2015 with a Bachelor of Science in Human Biology and a minor in Musical Studies: Piano. As a student, she assisted in research at USC's Health, Emotion, & Addiction Lab and worked on health policy advocacy with Los Angeles County Medical Association. Holding a Christian perspective on science, she is … [Read more...] about Benefits of Acute Stress: Empathy as a Treatment for Depression