IDEAS IN ACTION | USC's Podcast Series

Dr. Sarah Van Orman, Chief Health Officer at USC Student Health and Amanda Vanni, USC Office of Health Promotion go over what to students can expect when visiting the USC Student Health, including recent changes and information for students who may be facing their first doctor visit without a parent or guardian present.

Varun Soni, Vice Provost for Campus Wellness and Crisis Intervention and Dean of USC Office of Religious Life and Emily Sandoval, Senior Director of USC Residential Education discuss how to stay stress-free during finals (or at least how to reduce stress during finals) and how to apply these techniques to everyday stress beyond college and into the workforce.

Since 1970, Earth Day has been on April 22 and focused on education and change. 48 years later, what has changed and what is the future? Kelly Sanders, Assistant Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at USC Viterbi School of Engineering and Travis Longcore, Assistant Professor of Architecture, Spatial Sciences and Biological Sciences USC School of Architecture and USC Dornsife debate the trends, difficulties, and solutions we're faced with sustainability.

Clifford Johnson of USC Dana and David Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences and Henry Jenkins of USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism come together to discuss Black Panther, comics and how science and pop culture converge.

Elizabeth Currid-Halkett of USC Sol Price School of Public Policy and Johanna Blakely of USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism cover how people view themselves in and out of social media, and its effect and influence on culture.

Judy Pa of Laboratory of Neuro Imaging at Keck Medicine of USC and Skip Rizzo of USC Institute for Creative Technologies a discuss the use of virtual reality and artificial intelligence to rewire our brains so we can stay healthy.

Andrea Armani, professor from USC Viterbi School of Engineering and Jonathan Lasch, executive director of the Alfred E. Mann Institute for Biomedical Engineering at USC, discuss how technology is being used to transform healthcare and impact society. Topics discussed include biotechnology and the new USC Michelson Center for Convergent Bioscience.