Sustainability: Human Factors
RESEARCH SPOTLIGHT
Effective technology is available to move the needle on sustainability. The challenge is to implement these solutions quickly and at scale.
That’s why USC Dornsife is thinking differently. Our researchers explore how to overcome the economic, political, and psychological challenges that stand in the way of a sustainable future.
You Are What You Eat? More Like Where You Eat.
Strategies to promote healthy food choices have targeted neighborhoods lacking healthy, affordable eating options. A new study suggests a different approach by analyzing where people eat beyond their home neighborhoods.
Celebrating the Class of 2024
Find everything you need to know about USC Dornsife Commencement Ceremonies on Friday, May 10, 2024.
3/29: NATO at 75
As the North Atlantic Treaty Organization’s (NATO) 75th anniversary approaches, join political science and global security scholars for a critical dialogue on the transatlantic alliance’s relevance and future.
Curiosity at Work
Stand Out, Together
At USC Dornsife you’ll study the things you love the most. You’ll explore ideas that you’ve never thought about before. You’ll learn how to make sense of the world from all different angles. And, as part of our community, you will help to define a dynamic academic environment focused on improving lives and the world around us.
Meet the Students
USC Dornsife students demonstrate an impressive combination of academic excellence, accomplishment, creativity, and hard work. Each and every student is hand-selected because they bring something special and unique to our community.
A Brighter Future
Isabella Pangilinan Environmental Studies majorUSC Dornsife student Isabella Pangilinan is passionate about finding solutions to some of our world’s most pressing challenges like climate change and social and economic inequity. The multidisciplinary courses offered through her major are preparing her for a career in environmental law.
The Power of “And”
Joshua Senior Biological Sciences major, East Asian Languages and Cultures minorUSC Dornsife student Joshua Senior is studying to become a neurosurgeon. He explains how his liberal arts education at USC Dornsife prepares him for his career goals – and for life.
A Trojan Family Like No Other
Victoria Quon-Chow Human Biology major, Nutrition and Health Promotion minorAs a student at USC Dornsife, Victoria Quon-Chow is bouyed by the support of the Trojan Family as she prepares to become a doctor.
Unprecedented Access to Academic Expertise
Public Exchange fast-tracks collaboration between academic researchers and the public and private sectors to define, analyze, and solve complex problems that organizations face. Through our first-of-kind model, we amplify social impact by making academic expertise more easily accessible than ever before.
“Public Exchange provides the connective tissue that not only identifies appropriate expertise within the university to solve a particular problem, but it takes care of the contracts, project management, and other hurdles that have traditionally made collaboration with researchers challenging.”
Stand Out With Purpose
When Frank Herbert sat down in 1963 to start writing ‘Dune,’ he wasn’t thinking about how to leave Earth behind. He was thinking about how to save it, writes USC Dornsife’s Devin Griffiths in The Conversation.
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“It’s fairly easy to trace my mother’s side of the family all the way back to the early 1500s,” said Jazlyn Mooney, professor of quantitative and computational biology at USC Dornsife.
Her mother’s family traces to the medieval Jewish expulsion from Spain and is part of a community that came to New Mexico in the 1600s.
“But my father is African American. And in that case, very quickly, we are no longer able to trace anything because of the lack of genealogical records.”
Mooney led a landmark study of African American ancestry to shed light on these gaps, using computational analysis of publicly available genetic data.
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