Ifunanya Nweke, who earned a master’s in Nonprofit Leadership and Management, launched an organization that’s trained and helped employ more than 150 musicians with autism. Read more > 

Notifications of fatal opioid overdoses have a lasting impact on prescribing behavior, according to a study led by researchers with USC Price and its partner organization, the USC Schaeffer Center. Read more >

USC Price Professor Jeffery Jenkins, who literally wrote the book about contentious speakership elections, explains what made this dispute historically unusual and how it foreshadows what’s to come in Congress. Read more > 

Another big industry is being targeted for disruption. USC experts discuss the significance of Mark Cuban and Jeff Bezos launching online pharmacies as Americans pay high costs for prescription drugs. Read more >

McDonnell will be the next director of the Safe Communities Institute, bringing more than 40 years of experience to an organization dedicated to advancing public safety solutions. Read more >

Alexandra Graddy-Reed was selected as an entrepreneurship policy fellow by the Association For Public Policy Analysis & Management.

Rosalie Liccardo Pacula will serve as the new co-chair of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM) Forum on Mental Health and Substance Use Disorders, which sits under the Population Health Board within NASEM.

William Resh was invited to the talk “Roundtable on the President’s Management Agenda as part of the ‘Year of Evidence Action,'” McCourt School of Public Policy, Georgetown University, November 16, 2022.

Christian Grose won the Joseph L. Bernd Award for the best article published in the Journal of Politics in the most recent academic year. The Bernd award was for “Social Lobbying,” published in the Journal of Politics and co-authored with Pamela Lopez, Sara Sadhwani, and Antoine Yoshinaka.

Deborah Natoli was awarded the 2022-2023 USC Interdisciplinary Teaching Grant from the Office of the Provost for her course proposal, “The Art and Science of Leadership.”

The Washington Post published an op-ed from Roberto Suro explaining why Congress has failed to pass immigration reform.

Bloomberg and KCRW’s Press Play spoke to Jeffery Jenkins about the contentious election for U.S. House speaker and how it compared to previous speakership stalemates.

Financial Times, Irish Times and Fox News interviewed Gary Painter about Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass declaring a state of emergency to address the city’s homelessness crisis.

The Economist cited Geoff Boeing’s research on city “entropy” for a story about the decline of city street grids in urban planning.

Marketplace quoted Richard Green about the state of the housing market following a survey that showed a drop in homebuilder confidence.

NPR and The Philadelphia Inquirer spoke to Jakub Hlávka about how long it could take eligible patients to get an Alzheimer's drug that was recently approved by the FDA.

United Press International, Medscape and U.S. News & World Report cited research published in JAMA Open Network and led by Jason Doctor showing that notifying doctors when their patients fatally overdose could curb opioid overprescribing.

KCRW and KPCC’s Our Body Politic interviewed Erroll Southers about homegrown violent extremism for an episode revisiting the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol.

Los Angeles Times and Yahoo News quoted Mindy Romero about why Latino residents don’t vote more in Los Angeles following the leaked racist audio recording of City Council members.

Los Angeles Business Journal featured John Loper in a story about how the city of Inglewood could benefit from the Hollywood Park mixed-use development project.

CalMatters, LAist and SFGate quoted Christian Grose about how redistricting could increase political representation of racially and ethnically diverse candidates in California.

Bloomberg interviewed Glenn Melnick about health insurance companies denying mental health claims despite a California law requiring more comprehensive mental health coverage.

Investopedia interviewed Spencer Couts about alternative investments in the wake of a $4 billion deal between private equity giant Blackstone and the University of California.

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