USC Dornsife News

Powered by a network of more than one thousand researchers from around the world, the center is at the forefront of earthquake system science.

Students on a Maymester course travel to Argentina to undertake hands-on geological fieldwork, studying the 470 million-year-old Famatinian Arc and learning to work as an international research team.

As water supplies decline in major agricultural states, Sarah Feakins of Earth sciences explores how to generate more drought-resistant food crops.

Widely varying CO2 levels are nature’s way of self-regulating against future runaway glaciation, according to Joshua West of Earth sciences and environmental studies.

The son of a traveling shoe salesman, Fischer became a world leader in sedimentary geology and a devoted teacher whose warm and friendly personality was appreciated by colleagues and students alike.

Scientists speed up a natural process that occurs deep in the ocean, raising the possibility that humans could help the Earth cope with greenhouse gases.

An international group led by a USC Dornsife climate expert upgrades a global database that tracks global shifts in temperatures.

This holiday season, discover how USC Dornsife scholars view trees. From the landscape of forests in the American West to sustainability to trees designed to study algebraic functions, our academic endeavors connect to a sturdy trunk of curiosity and explore issues across a broad canopy of disciplines.

USC Dornsife’s Ph.D. hooding ceremony takes place May 12 at Cromwell Field. This year, doctoral degrees will be issued to 156 graduates — including these two exceptional scholars.