USC Dornsife News

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

USC Dornsife researchers say powerful, fast-moving quakes could strike the Golden State, urge stronger building codes and better monitoring.

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.

While gold mining’s environmental toll is well known, a team led by USC Dornsife researchers has uncovered a hidden culprit behind the Amazon rainforest’s slow recovery: water loss caused by reshaped terrain.

Anyone affected by the L.A. fires can drop off or mail in soil samples for testing as part of Public Exchange’s community-focused project to assess post-fire lead contamination.

Scientists, using a network of air-quality sensors, find that the city’s urban greenery offsets fossil fuel emissions more than expected, offering insights that could help cities fight climate change.

USC study reveals the inner core is undergoing structural transformation.

USC Dornsife scientists discover how a deadly combination of factors led to disaster. They hope their research will help identify other regions vulnerable to similar flooding events.

Professors bring expertise in topics such as quantum field theory, low-energy microbes and mathematical data science.