Awards recognize a summer enrollment campaign, a video of professors reacting to student reviews, the online and print editions of USC Dornsife Magazine and a first-place alumni profile.
The winning submission to last year’s Shade Zones competition, created by two USC architecture students, is now on display near the historic L.A. Coliseum.
Michelle Barton has led major environmental initiatives and will help guide work on shade, heat resilience and the L.A. River.
USC Dornsife study finds that food insecurity held steady at 24% in 2025, with improvements for low-income households and rising strain among others.
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A new USC Dornsife study finds that outdated guidelines are limiting tree growth — especially in lower-income neighborhoods — and offers a path forward.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.
