Chi Xiangyuan

Neel Iyer, an Indian American sophomore at USC, chanted his prayer in Sanskrit to the victims of the Atlanta shooting at a vigil. The event was co-organized by the USC Asian Pacific Islander Faculty and Staff Association, USC Office of Religious and Spiritual Life, and Asian Pacific American Student Services, in which more than a hundred people congregated together at USC Village to remember the victims of anti-Asian hate crimes, a year after the tragic event of Atlanta Spa Shooting.

On March 1

Significant group disparities in naturalization — the process where individuals born outside of the United States become U.S. citizens — based on applicants’ race, ethnicity, gender and religion were found in an empirical study published March 12. The study was co-authored by Emily Ryo, a professor of law and sociology at the Gould School of Law, and Reed Humphrey, a USC alumnus and Ph.D. candidate at the University of Washington.

In their investigation of naturalization applications decided by

More than 10 years of experiments and observations of glowing fish culminated in a discovery by researchers at the Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences and the Viterbi School of Engineering that inches the scientific world closer to understanding why unpleasant memories stick around so vividly in human brains. Starting from “scratch,” the team became the first to train and study synapses in live zebrafish.

To create memories to measure, researchers used an “unprecedented” method of tr