USC Dornsife News

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

From CFO to agribusiness owner, alumnus Rodney Swan has drawn from his economics degrees. On Oct. 8, he participated in a USC Dornsife event on California’s drought.

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.

USC Dornsife undergraduate Iñaki Pedroarena-Leal took the initiative and landed a prestigious internship at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama this summer conducting underwater research.

"The world would be a better place if everyone was required to spend time in a radically different country than their own." — Robert Rosencrans '13, research fellow in Ghana.

With USC Dornsife alumni at the helm, a bridge essential to villagers in Sikoro, Mali, moves closer to completion.

Eight USC Dornsife undergraduates have traveled to Ghana for five weeks of research aimed at helping rural farmers. Follow their research and read their impressions posted on their blog.

USC College’s Jed Fuhrman and colleagues featured in Science magazine.