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AI tools to help unveil patterns between social determinants of health, mental health risks, among autistic youth ⟩
November 10, 2025
Artificial Intelligence Autism Research
Amber Angell to lead five-year, $3.6 million study analyzing electronic health records, with collaborators from academia and the autistic community.
By Mike McNulty (Adobe Stock) A new USC-led study will apply artificial intelligence tools to electronic health records (EHRs) in order to better understand how social determinants of health — non-medical factors impacting health, such as education, income, housing and neighborhood resources like…
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Aziz-Zadeh receives Nimoy Knight Foundation’s Live Long and Prosper Award ⟩
October 24, 2025
Honor celebrates values of iconic “Star Trek” character Spock, such as rationality, peace, compassion and belonging.
Professor Lisa Aziz-Zadeh offers the iconic Vulcan hand salute :spock-hand: popularized by Nimoy (Photo courtesy of Lisa Aziz-Zadeh) Professor Lisa Aziz-Zadeh has been named a 2025 recipient of the Live Long and Prosper Tribute Award from the Nimoy Knight Foundation. The honor celebrates those…
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Liew tapped to lead NIH-funded P50 national specialized research center ⟩
October 15, 2025
Artificial Intelligence Community and Partners Research Technology
Five-year, $6.5 million project will leverage data science, artificial intelligence and machine learning to build large rehabilitation research datasets for precision rehabilitation.
By Mike McNulty (Image generated by Adobe Firefly) Sook-Lei Liew is the principal investigator of the newly funded Data Science and Analytics for Precision Rehabilitation (DAPR) Center, a five-year project supported by a $6.5 million P50 grant from the National Center for Medical Rehabilitation…
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In memoriam: Jane Goodall, 91 ⟩
October 1, 2025
Faculty International Lectures and Talks
World-renowned primatologist held adjunct faculty appointment for 13 years.
Jane Goodall, shown in 2015 (Wikimedia Commons/Simon Fraser University - Communications & Marketing) Dr. Jane Goodall, the renowned primatologist whose pioneering research with chimpanzees and their occupational behavior was so influential that she had been called the “Einstein of behavioral…
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AI-augmented MRIs may improve post-stroke prognosis ⟩
September 30, 2025
Artificial Intelligence Research Technology
New NIH-funded project uses AI to enhance MRI image resolution to better understand how global brain health impacts long-term stroke recovery.
By Mike McNulty (Adobe Stock) Artificial intelligence is seemingly, suddenly, everywhere. Soon, thanks to a new USC-led study funded by the National Institutes of Health, it will be used to generate synthetic stroke MRI images that are just as accurate and detailed as those produced by the world’s…
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New research shows telehealth occupational therapy is feasible and appropriate for families of high-risk infants back at home after NICU stay ⟩
August 20, 2025
Community and Partners Research Technology
Parents “highly satisfied” with telehealth version of program that initiated occupational therapy an average of six days after NICU discharge.
By Mike McNulty (Adobe Stock illustration) Results of a new study published in OTJR: Occupational Therapy Journal of Research show that telehealth occupational therapy (OT) can be a family-centered, timely way of delivering a comprehensive OT program to high-risk infants back home after being…
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China Initiative Community gets together for another virtual reunion ⟩
July 25, 2025
Alumni Associations and Bodies China Initiative International
Since last fall, the China Initiative Community gathers again in a virtual environment to share updates and celebrate achievements.
Although the Memorandum of Understanding officially ended in 2024, the China Initiative Community, composed of the USC team, accompanied by former faculty member Dr. Adley Chan, dual-degree program graduates, inaugural instructors and past China Initiative residents, continues to foster a sense of…
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USC faculty featured in upcoming research symposium ⟩
July 11, 2025
Associations and Bodies Conferences Lectures and Talks
Lawlor to keynote first annual OTAC/CFOT Research Symposium on July 19.
USC Chan faculty members fill out the agenda of the first annual Research Symposium, hosted by the Occupational Therapy Association of California (OTAC) and the California Foundation for Occupational Therapy (CFOT) on July 19. The virtual event aims to build connections between clinicians and…
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Lawlor recognized with 2025 Ruth Zemke Lectureship in Occupational Science ⟩
July 10, 2025
Conferences Faculty Lectures and Talks
She becomes eighth USC-affiliated recipient of honorary lecture.
Professor Mary Lawlor Associate Chair of Research and Professor Mary Lawlor has been named the 2025 recipient of the Ruth Zemke Lectureship in Occupational Science awarded by the Society for the Study of Occupation:USA. She will deliver the honorary lecture at the society’s annual research…
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Can ChatGPT actually “see” red? New results of Google-funded study are nuanced ⟩
July 8, 2025
Artificial Intelligence Research Technology
AI can accurately generate color associations, but humans use more than just language to understand color.
By Mike McNulty ChatGPT seems to “understand” the metaphor of ‘it was a very pink party’ better than ‘the meeting made him burgundy’ (Adobe Stock illustrations) ChatGPT works by analyzing vast amounts of text, identifying patterns and synthesizing them to generate responses to users’…
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