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Sustainability News Highlights
USC Chief Sustainability Officer Mick Dalrymple retires
Mick Dalrymple, USC’s inaugural Chief Sustainability Officer, has retired after five years of collaborating across USC teams to lead sustainability efforts at the university.
The Fire Forecast: AI Model Accurately Predicts the Spread of Wildfires in Real Time
By combining high-resolution satellite data, terrain data and realistic fire simulations, USC Viterbi researchers have developed a reconstruction and prediction tool for making informed decisions when tackling catastrophic wildfires.
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.