Highlights

On April 11, 2025, USC School of Architecture will host the symposium, Housing 10x: A Platform to Accelerate Innovative Responses to the Housing and Climate Crises.

At USC’s Hult Prize Competition, students presented ideas toward United Nations Sustainable Development Goals for a chance at $1 million.

USC Brittingham Social Enterprise Lab links social impact professionals with students across campus for intensive mentorship workshop.

USC Viterbi launches a unique multidisciplinary MS in Energy Engineering for students who are passionate about solving our critical global challenges in energy transition.

People in neighborhoods that experience more days of high heat show faster aging at the molecular level than residents of cooler regions, say USC researchers.

During Monday’s event, USC Price’s new dean gave credit to a family that taught him the value of higher education.

USC research on the vanishing coastlines of Alexandria, Egypt, offers nature-based solutions for protecting coastal cities globally, including those in California.

The climate policy pendulum is swinging back again with Trump in office. Money, lobbying and talking about red vs. blue states all play a role in the political and public divide.

USC researchers develop low-cost wildfire detection system to accurately detect wildfires minutes—even seconds—after they ignite.

An expert on fluid dynamics shares how engineers can help mitigate flooding after major wildfires.

How two innovative approaches – nature-based fire buffers and AI-powered wildfire detection – show promise in tackling the growing wildfire risk.

Naomi Lee, a PhD candidate at the USC Price School of Public Policy, has won the Western Regional Science Association’s (WRSA) Charles M. Tiebout Prize for best student-authored paper.

One week into the new year and Los Angeles was on fire. The Palisades and Eaton wildfires had been raging for a full day when a new one broke out in the Hollywood Hills. From their four-level hillside home beneath the Hollywood sign, Nina and Andreas Grueter could see flames in the distance.

We asked Adam Rose, a Professor (Research) at the USC Price School of Public Policy, about the link between climate change and the fires ravaging Los Angeles County this week.

The annual event puts a spotlight on USC’s efforts to reduce waste through reuse, recycling and composting.

Researchers suggest a framework for sharing the Nile’s water and hydropower resources under prolonged drought.

A new study co-written by a USC professor finds that indirect experience with severe weather drives public concern about climate change around the world.

By upcycling plastics, reducing environmentally harmful anesthesia gases and transforming medical supply chains, the USC health system and health sciences schools are working to shrink health care’s carbon footprint.

What if artificial intelligence systems were built differently? How might they function if they were modeled not on human intelligence, but rather on plant intelligence?

With a $4.1 million grant from the National Institutes of Health, USC researchers will characterize climate-related exposures and gaps in adaptation capacity to understand their combined impacts on human health.

Christopher Boone joins USC Price after decades of work supporting the growth of sustainability programs in colleges and universities across the country.

Using cutting-edge technology, USC Dornsife scientists discovered how a deadly combination of factors led to disaster. They hope their research will help identify other regions vulnerable to similar flooding events.

National leaders may be struggling to agree, but businesses see the economic benefits of clean energy, states are cutting emissions, and people everywhere are more cognizant of their actions.

The newly established fund inspires students and faculty at the USC Sonny Astani Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE) to transform their research into high-impact solutions.

Numerous efforts at USC are underway to ensure football games are as close to zero waste as possible.