USC Dornsife News

A new USC Dornsife study finds that outdated guidelines are limiting tree growth — especially in lower-income neighborhoods — and offers a path forward.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

Led by a former White House policy advisor, the new practice provides expert research and project management services to government, industry and nonprofit partners.

Throughout 2022, 37% of low-income residents of Los Angeles County lacked access to sufficient food for an active, healthy life. That’s 10 points more than in 2018, before the pandemic struck, according to research published by USC Dornsife’s Public Exchange.