USC Dornsife News

USC Dornsife led an effort to analyze bodycam footage from 1,000 traffic stops across Los Angeles — data now helping train AI tools aimed at improving safety, accountability and respectful treatment during stops.

For 20 years, USC Dornsife’s Institute of Armenian Studies has bridged Los Angeles, the diaspora and Armenia itself, fostering research that amplifies the community’s experiences and aims to advance the field into a more globally relevant future.

Widespread media coverage and critical grant funding help expand Public Exchange’s CLEAN project.

Through immersive, hands-on learning, USC Dornsife’s Los Angeles Service Academy prepares the next generation of civic-minded leaders.

The five-year Research Training Group award will fund groundbreaking research in geometry and representation theory while supporting students and educators across Los Angeles.

The Waverly Street Foundation grant — the largest in ERI’s history — will help the institute shape public understanding, support frontline advocates, and train scholars to advance climate and economic justice.

The new funding will expand Public Exchange’s soil testing campaign in the aftermath of the Los Angeles wildfires — screening for a wider range of contaminants, speeding up lab results and increasing community outreach.

The latest USC Dornsife LABarometer survey finds Angelenos grappling with climate stress, doubting transit readiness for the Olympics and losing interest in electric vehicles.

The USC-Cerritos College Summer Research Internship in Sustainability empowers first-generation students to pursue STEM careers, with support from Agilent Technologies.