USC’s Medical STEM Program, a collaboration between the USC Dornsife’s Joint Educational Project and USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, encourages young students to take an interest in cancer-related and medical fields.
Segal facilitated the creation of USC Dornsife’s Loker Hydrocarbon Research Institute and recruited multiple scientists to the College who would go on to win Nobel Prizes.
Widespread media coverage and critical grant funding help expand Public Exchange’s CLEAN project.
For 25 years, the Center for Active Learning in International Studies at USC Dornsife has taught local high schoolers how to examine the forces shaping global events.
Nearly half of Angelenos say their block has enough shade even though most live on tree-sparse streets. A new LABarometer report also reveals how race, politics and education shape support for greening the city.
Assistance has often rested on fuzzy accounting, with funding for airports, hotels and even ice cream stores being counted as climate finance.
Through immersive, hands-on learning, USC Dornsife’s Los Angeles Service Academy prepares the next generation of civic-minded leaders.
Families in local schools — and families of Trojans — are returning to the same program decades later, as beneficiaries or volunteers, creating a multigenerational ripple effect.
Paul Ignatius, a 1942 USC Dornsife graduate and World War II veteran, leaves a legacy that spans public service, journalism and philanthropy.
