Creating New Knowledge
Across campus, USC faculty and students are developing new ways of learning, thinking, doing, collaborating — all with a forward-looking mindset. Progress begins with a commitment to break new ground, letting go of ideas that constrain our imagination.
Sustainability Across the Curriculum
The concept of sustainability cuts across all disciplines. Faculty from all over campus are developing new courses and modifying their existing syllabi to incorporate sustainability principles, research and applications. Learn more about USC’s Sustainability Across the Curriculum Initiative.
USC’s dramatic expansion of sustainability curriculum
Sustainability education and research at USC
How USC is preparing every student to help protect the planet
USC’s mission is to cultivate engaged human beings who are empowered to have a positive impact on society.
Jill Sohm, Professor of Environmental Studies, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences; Member of the USC President’s Working Group on Sustainability
Knowledge Leaders
Multiplying Degrees
Ever more intersectional, the USC Jimmy Iovine and Andre Young Academy — which already fuses the arts, technology and the business of innovation — is developing new joint degrees with the USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism, the USC Marshall School of Business, the USC Viterbi School of Engineering and the Keck School of Medicine of USC.
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Filling the Gaps
Some of today’s most pressing problems don’t just lack answers — they lack the entire infrastructure to approach it. USC experts are agile and quick-moving when it comes to convening the types of thinkers and doers who can help.
Experts Who Take Initiative
USC scholars and researchers are often the first to respond to new widespread crises or reinvent something that benefits society — both phenomena that are becoming markers of the modern world. With meaningful responses about diversity, equity and inclusion, action on new health threats and even developing new musical instruments using biotechnology, our community is eager to take on the new and uncharted.
States with strict abortion policies saw biggest declines in birth control, emergency contraceptive use after ‘Dobbs’
USC study suggests Supreme Court’s abortion decision has had wider ramifications for women’s reproductive health than previously thought.
USC, Capital One establish Center for Responsible AI in Finance
Housed under the new USC School of Advanced Computing, the center aims to advance responsible AI for financial services
Diet linked to preeclampsia among low-income Hispanic women during pregnancy
A new USC study suggests that interventions in diet during pregnancy could help address this health disparity faced by Latinas.
AI presents a new equation for teacher-student success
USC Rossier’s Yasemin Copur-Gencturk is empowering math educators with a scalable, AI-powered professional development program.
Trojan empowers English as a Second Language students with AI
Brent Warner is embracing artificial intelligence for its ability to help his students at Irvine Valley College take control of their own learning.
USC Stem Cell scientists develop game-changing model to study human cerebellar development, disease
The cerebellum controls movement and plays important roles in cognitive functions including language, memory and emotional processing.