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Sustainability News Highlights
A Forecast of What’s Next for Chemical Engineering and Materials Science
The 20th annual Student Symposium and Showcase at the USC Viterbi Mork Family Department of Chemical Engineering & Materials Science highlights research in AI-driven materials discovery, energy transition and biomolecular engineering.
Children living near the Salton Sea in Southern California show slower lung function growth
Researchers from the Keck School of Medicine of USC monitored 369 children for an average of two years in one of the first long-term studies of rural air pollution in Southern California.
Think Fast and Build Things: How to Innovate for Sustainability
During The Games Week at USC, 20 student teams competed in a 5-day hackathon – pitching their LA28 innovations to a panel of industry leaders in civil and environmental engineering. We chatted with the winning team, MatterFlow, to discover what gave them the edge.