Tiny organisms in the sea play a critical role in a natural cycle that affects global warming. USC Dornsife researchers discover why and build a computer model that predicts the rate of carbon transfer.
Four professors join the biological sciences, chemistry, Earth sciences, and quantitative and computational biology departments. [2½ min read]
USC Dornsife’s Southern California Earthquake Center is deploying high-performance computers, sensors and other high-tech gadgets to better prepare Californians for severe seismic activity. [5 min read]
Alumni Laurie Barge ’09 and Scott Perl ’19 co-lead a laboratory at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena. There, they search for the origins of life on Earth to better understand how life might develop elsewhere in the universe. [5½ min read]
USC Dornsife paleontology PhD student Hank Woolley is digging into our warmer past to help us understand how we might survive climate change. [5 min read]
Earth scientist William Berelson installs a network of devices designed to create a detailed map of greenhouse gases and other noxious emissions in L.A. neighborhoods. [3½ min read]
Just because it’s summer doesn’t mean you can’t keep learning. Check out this collection of short, entertaining and educational videos featuring USC Dornsife scholars.
The Sustainability Across the Curriculum program aims to educate the university’s 20,000 undergraduate students in how sustainability intersects with their major field of study. [4¼ min read]
USC Dornsife Earth scientist Emily H.G. Cooperdock suggests ways instructors can promote inclusivity in the classroom, the science lab and out in the field. [4½ min read]
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