USC Dornsife News

Students chronicle their research experiences in a new USC Wrigley Institute for Environmental Studies blog.

As the inaugural speaker of the USC Dornsife Sustainability Task Force’s Distinguished Lecture Series, renowned ecologist William Schlesinger warns against the “Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse” threatening a sustainable future.

Students spend Spring break at the USC Wrigley Marine Science Center on Catalina Island studying the science of sustainable food. After lessons on aquaculture and aquaponics, they get their hands dirty creating compost in an edible garden.

With the rapidly expanding world population, food production must increase in tandem. USC Dornsife’s Sergey Nuzhdin is investigating how the humble chickpea may be a solution.

Bits of greasy pizza boxes, Styrofoam peanuts, apple cores all churning into one, massive heap. Think this is just garbage? Rubbish! Some is turned into electricity. Alumna Julia McGinnis knows that . . . Trash Can.

Launched recently by Dean Steve Kay, the USC Dornsife Sustainability Task Force takes on questions affecting people and the environment.

USC Dornsife senior Sanjay Kumar Rajpoot is launching a business that could revolutionize the way plants are grown, helping to end world hunger by enabling year-round farming anywhere.

Residents in low-income communities in Los Angeles County are benefiting from the Program for Environmental and Regional Equity. By producing critical research, the program is becoming a statewide model for environmental justice.

Geraldine Knatz’s motto is “It’s impossible, it’s difficult, it’s done.” Preparing for retirement, the first woman executive director of the Port of Los Angeles gave it her all to turn the ship around.