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Sustainability News Highlights
From water-generating fungi to plant-based AI, Aroussiak Gabrielian reimagines the future of co-existence with the biophysical world
Step into the landscape of Aroussiak Gabrielian’s creative practice, and you enter a strange and wondrous world where art, ecology and technology fuse into new forms of intimacy and survival.
Evelyn Tickle Awarded NSF Small Business Innovation Research Phase II Funding
USC School of Architecture lecturer Evelyn Tickle and her firm GRoW Oyster Reefs LLC have been awarded U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II research and development funding in the amount of $1.24 million over two years.
The Hidden Chemistry of Human Survival
Jeremy Alexander, Doug Peacock Scholar, finds innovation in overlooked spaces – from wastewater microbes to aerospace materials – to protect life on Earth and beyond.