Sustainability, climate change and other related issues from USC News.
- Rosi Dagit realized that the post-fire mud flows would likely smother everything in their path — including the endangered fish in Topanga Creek — so she mobilized a team that included USC Sea Grant as a key player.
- New research shows how a shipboard system using limestone and seawater could cut maritime CO2 emissions by 50%.
- USC deans and faculty share climate research and insights as part of a full day of programming at the USC Capital Campus.
- USC is a top destination for students, faculty and staff seeking purpose-driven work, collaborative learning and innovative discovery — all because the university prioritized health, computing, community development, sustainability, athletics and the arts.
- USC Price’s Wändi Bruine de Bruin presents findings to the National Academy of Sciences and calls for research to better understand and address Americans’ concerns about new energy infrastructure.
- A USC-led team led by USC Dornsife researchers has uncovered a hidden culprit behind the Amazon rainforests’ slow recovery: water loss caused by reshaped terrain.
- The USC Price assistant professor has spent the last 15 years helping voices of community members be heard in the wake of disasters.
- Chatzi and Aung’s work evolved from treating patients to preventing disease entirely.
- Skylar Funk MA ’25 — a professional rock musician and climate activist — has helped make USC a greener place as graduate co-chair of the Student Sustainability Committee.
- As the medical director of sustainability at Keck Medicine of USC, Associate Professor Arash Motamed is working to reduce the harmful effects of clinical operations on the environment.