Video: Celebrating 30 years of the USC Environmental Studies Program with Karla Heidelberg and Jill Sohm
ENST director Jill Sohm

In honor of this milestone, we sat down at USC’s new Sustainability Hub for a chat between former ENST director Karla Heidelberg and current ENST director Jill Sohm as they reflect on the first 30 years of the program and share their vision for the next 30!

Sharing Untold Stories: Ph.D. student Amber Santoro highlights community impacts of freeway construction
Ph.D student Amber Santoro.

Inaugural USC Libraries Sustainability Fellow curates digital exhibit to spotlight community displacement during L.A.’s heyday of freeway construction.

BioFlare Wins The 2024 Min Family Challenge
MIN FAMILY CHALLENGE WINNERS BIOFLARE (PHOTO/ANGEL ITUA)

The USC student startup is developing a device that would transform most organic food waste into cooking gas and reduce indoor pollution for millions.

Win Aung is Named on the Metropolis Future 100 List
Render of The Urban Activator project.

USC School of Architecture student Win Aung ‘24 has been named to the prestigious 2024 Metropolis Future 100 List, recognizing the top graduating architecture and interior design students in the United States and Canada.

Talking about mental health in climate spaces
SHREYA AGRAWAL (CENTER) PARTICIPATING IN A PANEL DISCUSSION ON CLIMATE AND MENTAL HEALTH. (PHOTO BY NICK NEUMANN/USC WRIGLEY INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENT AND SUSTAINABILITY)

The climate crisis can make our current times feel quite challenging, especially if you are a young person trying to deal with all the other pressures in your life: school, work, interpersonal relationships.

Media Panel: Transportation in LA with Nick Andert and Rachel Uranga
USC ITE poses for a group photo with Nick Andert and Rachel Uranga.

On April 11th, 2024, USC ITE had the pleasure of welcoming two transportation media professionals to our campus for a media panel discussion about transportation in Los Angeles.

Recap of event: How to be a Sustainable Trojan

To celebrate Earth Day, USC Staff Assembly invited Lilian Ledesma from the USC Office of Sustainability to present on How to be a Sustainable Trojan.

Keck Medical Center of USC receives sustainability award
Miguel Gonzalez, associate administrator of support services for Keck Medicine of USC and Erwin Morales, administrative director of plant maintenance who suggested the water conservation strategy. (Photo/Courtesy of Miguel Gonzalez)

On April 17, the 2024 Los Angeles Department of Water and Power (LADWP) Awards recognized Keck Medical Center of USC for finding a way to save over 1.7 million gallons of water in a single year.

USC Wrigley Institute Selects 2024 Storymakers
A close-up of flowers on a cliffside in the spring.

The USC Wrigley Institute for Environment and Sustainability is pleased to announce the 2024 cohort of Wrigley Institute Storymakers fellows.

AI bridges the gap between data and dialogue for climate journalism
AI-generated image of a woman in a busy, brightly-lit office.

We stand at the nexus of an information glut and an action deficit — particularly when it comes to defining the crisis of our time: climate change.