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Professor of Communication Michael Cody, one of the leading scholars of social influence processes and a beloved mentor, has died at the age of 74.

Cody died on June 5 in Davenport, FL.

For more than four decades at USC, Cody advanced communication research across multiple disciplines while helping to establish USC Annenberg as a global leader...

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On May 15, 2026, USC Annenberg celebrated its commencement ceremony, honoring more than 1,200 graduates in communication, journalism and public relations. Thousands of family members, friends, faculty and staff gathered in Alumni Park to mark the occasion.

Continuing the tradition of honoring graduating students from disciplines across the university, USC’s annual Student Recognition Awards ceremony and Academic Honors Convocation were held this...

The documents came first: thousands of pages of court filings tied to January 6 Capitol attack prosecutions, dense with legal language and countless names. From his laptop in Los Angeles, Isaac Vargas began working through them, not line by line, but at scale.

Using tools like Google Pinpoint designed to process large volumes of text, he extracted names, roles and...

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