Latest USC Dornsife News in the Topic Usc Wrigley Institute For Environmental Studies http://dornsife.usc.edu/news/topics/791/usc-wrigley-institute-for-environmental-studies/ During a Maymester course, 26 mostly environmental studies students in USC Dornsife who completed a Spring class teaching them how to dive are now headed to Guam and Palau.]]> Wed, 23 May 2012 14:55:00 -0500 Santa Monica High School’s team won first place in the ninth annual QuikSCience Challenge. More than 400 middle and high school students from around the world submitted 74 science project entries.]]> Tue, 17 Apr 2012 14:56:00 -0500 Researchers with the USC Wrigley Institute for Environmental Studies, housed in USC Dornsife, have received a $2 million grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to study the composition and complexity of marine microbial...]]> Mon, 19 Mar 2012 16:12:00 -0500 The University of Southern California Sea Grant Program has awarded $727,700 to support seven new research projects led by researchers at universities throughout California. The studies look at issues such fish contamination,...]]> Fri, 17 Feb 2012 15:47:00 -0500 Students get hands-on field training in Catalina Island ecology.]]> Fri, 15 Jul 2011 11:24:00 -0500 This summer, the USC Philip K. Wrigley Marine Science Center on Catalina Island welcomes the general public to visit its state-of-the-art research facilities through its “Saturday at the Lab” program, which began on...]]> Thu, 2 Jun 2011 13:25:00 -0500 The USC Sea Grant program, part of the USC Wrigley Institute for Environmental Studies based in the USC Dana and David Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences and funded by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric...]]> Thu, 12 May 2011 17:21:00 -0500 USC College Dean Howard Gillman has appointed Dr. Roberta Marinelli the new director of the USC Wrigley Institute for Environmental Studies, following an extensive national search. Since 2005, Marinelli has served as the program...]]> Mon, 14 Mar 2011 11:13:00 -0500 Two USC College biologists have received support from the National Science Foundation to examine the conditions that lead to the synthesis of B vitamins in the marine environment and the influence of those vitamins on marine...]]> Thu, 21 Oct 2010 11:03:00 -0500 The functioning of marine ecosystems depends on the size and flavor of microbes at the base of the food chain. Changes to the Earth's atmosphere might rearrange that microscopic menu. Microbes that currently are the main course...]]> Tue, 27 Jul 2010 14:20:00 -0500 For the second consecutive year, Gabrielino High School placed first in the 2009 Edison Challenge, a partnership between Edison International and USC College of Letters, Arts & Sciences’ Wrigley Institute for Environmental Studies.]]> Mon, 21 Sep 2009 12:55:00 -0500 Sycamore Canyon Middle School placed first for a project involving recycling batteries. The environmental science contest is a partnership with USC College’s Wrigley Institute for Environmental Studies.]]> Mon, 21 Sep 2009 12:38:00 -0500 Mon, 13 Apr 2009 10:20:00 -0500