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Former USC Intern Fights for Cleaner Air

Fifteen-year-old Otana Jakpor’s essay on how she spent her time with USC would include leading demonstrations on how to map demographic data and conducting research on diesel emissions from locomotives [read more]

Getting the Goods on a Moving Dilemma

Each day in metro areas such as Southern California, millions of motorists steer onto the region’s roadways. Tens of thousands of other people take to the skies from one of [read more]

Study Links Children's Sites to Air Pollution

Research produced by Summer Undergraduate Research Fund students has won a top honor from the Association of Pacific Coast Geographers. Competing against more than a dozen universities, the geography students [read more]

SPPD Grad Wins Award for Best Dissertation

USC School of Policy, Planning, and Development alumna Anupama Mann recently received the Gill-Chin Lim Award for the best dissertation on international planning for her thesis “A Megaproject Matrix: Ideology, [read more]

Innovator Students Sweep Parents Weekend

In the not-so-distant future, the world may have a new model for carbon offsetting, inexpensive emergency shelters based on the principles of origami and robotic assistants for people with disabilities. [read more]

ShakeOut Drill a Success at USC

Approximately 300 volunteers participated in a USC earthquake drill held on the Health Sciences campus on Oct. 15. Coordinated by USC Fire Safety and Emergency Planning, the drill was part [read more]

Megacities Center to Study Water Main Breaks

A recent rash of well-publicized breaks in Southern California water mains disrupted commutes and destroyed streets. Now, USC Viterbi School of Engineering professor Jean-Pierre Bardet, director of the USC Center [read more]

Preparing for a Major ShakeOut

As USC gets ready to take part in the Great California ShakeOut at 10:15 a.m. on Oct. 15, some university divisions are proving to be star pupils in the preparedness [read more]

The Worth of Water

In the United States, despite droughts, water is accessible and relatively clean. You can find it in water fountains, sink faucets and store shelves. But what if you had to [read more]

Fossils Fuel Their Imagination

David Bottjer, professor of earth and biological sciences at USC College, and Luis Chiappe, director and curator of the National History Museum, have established the College’s Center for Chinese Fossil [read more]

Lake Research That Isn’t All Wet

The federal government may not have been able to save California from massive budget cuts, but at least a stimulus research grant will help scientists understand the biology of western [read more]

USC Adds Zip to University Park Neighborhood

In its continuing effort to be green, USC has partnered with the city of Los Angeles and Zipcar to expand car sharing in the University Park neighborhood. USC and UCLA, [read more]

Great ShakeOut Drill’s Ties to USC

Want to find out who’s responsible for making you squat under your desk at 10:15 a.m. on 10/15? More than one person, of course. But much of the credit - [read more]

Callahan Named to EPA Advisory Panel

Richard Callahan, associate dean and director of leadership programs at the USC School of Policy, Planning, and Development, has been appointed to a newly formed advisory board for the California [read more]

Tutor Center Earns Green Building Award

With its doors yet to open to the public, the new Ronald Tutor Campus Center has already won an award. Because of its exceptionally environmentally-friendly design and construction, USC’s first [read more]

Can We Save Los Angeles?

USC students will face an enormous challenge during the next few years: Help Los Angeles and other cities survive or risk losing them. According to U.S. Secretary of Energy Steven [read more]

She Heard It on the Grapevine

Faced with the threat of global climate change, businesses increasingly are focused on the development of sound environmental practices. Young entrepreneurs such as USC College alumna Andrea McBride ’07 are [read more]

Education Honors for USC at Grunion Gala

A marine education project supported by the National Science Foundation and managed by USC in collaboration with UCLA and the College of Exploration will be honored on Saturday at a [read more]

He Was Well Ahead of the Curve

More than a decade ago, when sustainability issues were still a specialized curiosity, USC School of Policy, Planning, and Development professor Daniel Mazmanian turned his attention to the emergence of [read more]

Earth Day Video to Debut on YouTube

The Tijuana River flows across the U.S.-Mexico border just south of San Diego, and it carries loads of pollution that contaminate coastal waters. A new five-minute video titled “Shifting Baselines [read more]

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