USC Dornsife News

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

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.

A new USC Dornsife study finds that outdated guidelines are limiting tree growth — especially in lower-income neighborhoods — and offers a path forward.

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 Dornsife study finds that food insecurity fell 5% last year, but 25% of county households still struggle to put food on the table amid food program cuts and lingering high costs.

USC Dornsife Public Exchange program brings shade trees to neighborhoods across the city.

At USC’s Capital Campus in Washington, D.C., policymakers, researchers and practitioners explored how nature can be used to address increasingly frequent climate-associated risks.

USC Dornsife Dean Amber Miller explains how Public Exchange creates streamlined pathways for public and private sector leaders to tap academic expertise, and why that’s important.