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Sustainability News Highlights
- Code Green
By upcycling plastics, reducing environmentally harmful anesthesia gases and transforming medical supply chains, the USC health system and health sciences schools are working to shrink health care’s carbon footprint. - Aroussiak Gabrielian’s research and design work reimagines AI
What if artificial intelligence systems were built differently? How might they function if they were modeled not on human intelligence, but rather on plant intelligence? - USC-led CLIMA Center awarded $4.1 million by NIH to study impact of wildfire smoke and extreme heat on human health
With a $4.1 million grant from the National Institutes of Health, USC researchers will characterize climate-related exposures and gaps in adaptation capacity to understand their combined impacts on human health.