How Buildings can Improve Life — A TED Talk by Doris Sung
USC faculty member Doris Sung.

Faculty Doris Sung delivered a TED Talk about reimagining building facades as active contributors to urban life and public health.

Five USC Students Named Summer Sustainability Fellows
The USC Libraries' five summer 2024 sustainability fellows. (Credit: Anne-Marie Maxwell)

The USC Libraries have named five students as their summer 2024 sustainability fellows.

Bugs thrive in urban Los Angeles – volunteers’ traps reveal biodiversity hot spots for city insects and spiders
Volunteers tend to an insect trap in Los Angeles. (Deniz Durmus, courtesy of the Natural History Museums of Los Angeles County, CC BY-SA)

City life can mean lots of pavement and habitat loss. But many bug species are hanging on, especially in neighborhoods with steady temperatures near the mountains.

Price student’s big idea to cut auto emissions: mini EVs
Dylan Di, standing in front of an EV charging station. (Photo: Qinhe Wang)

The federal government’s plan to combat climate change largely hinges on phasing out gas powered vehicles – with transportation making up the largest source of U.S. climate emissions. 

Price professor is a leading expert on economics of climate change, energy and transportation
Antonio Bento, a professor of public policy and economics at the USC Price School.

You might wonder what Antonio Bento, an economist, is doing at a school of public policy.

Answer: He wants his research to have an impact on policy. And it has.

New NSF-Funded Center Established to Lead Geologic CO2 Storage Innovation
The words Co2 inside of a cloud, surrounded by separate symbols representing a factory, recycling, solar power, car, windpower overlayed on a background of a forest seen from an aerial view.

The center will lead to new technologies and workforce development.

USC Liquid Propulsion Lab is Advancing Reusable Rocket Research
The 2024 LPL team during a test fire in the Mojave Desert.

The student-run team tackles the challenge of designing regeneratively cooled reusable rocket engines.

Entrepreneurial Engineers Pitch Ideas for Social and Environmental Startups
FungiFix, winners of the 2024 Das Family Innovate x LA Student Competition, celebrate with jurors and the CEE team.

The Das Family Innovate x LA Student Competition challenges students to develop high-impact urban solutions and compete for a $20,000 prize.

USC scientists use AI to predict a wildfire’s next move
Using AI to predict wildfires: fire burning landscape

Researchers have developed a new model that combines generative AI and satellite data to accurately forecast wildfire spread. The study comes as California and much of the western United States continues to grapple with an increasingly severe wildfire season.

Can policy lower our appetite for meat?
A healthy salad in a bowl.

The City of West Hollywood has reportedly adopted an ordinance that requires plant-based food to be served at all city events, with meat available only upon request.