Inventing Solutions
Our world no longer fits into neat little buckets. Today’s issues dismantle traditional organizational structures and require interdisciplinary approaches. Our community of collaborators work across disciplines to apply new approaches to solving problems. We bring unconventional partners together — scientists, storytellers, visual artists — in an effort to inspire one another and find solutions in the space in between disciplines.
An Urban Mindset
Tracking food and nutrition security in Los Angeles County
USC Urban Trees Initiative
Measuring carbon dioxide and pollutant levels in Los Angeles
Having a critical mass of faculty across our different campuses, bringing in our different expertise areas, is really about ameliorating the risk that is associated with drug development. The other aspect of critical mass is that we also want to develop a culture of innovation and entrepreneurship.
Steve Kay, University and Provost Professor, Director of the USC Michelson Center for Convergent Bioscience
Interdisciplinary Answers
USC Stevens Center for Innovation
It’s one thing to discover; it’s another to move it to the marketplace where commercialization can maximize positive impact. USC’s technology licensing office plays a key role in the innovation ecosystem across Southern California.
Meeting Today’s Challenges, Head-on
The world is facing complex issues that often have conflicting factors: empty buildings amid housing shortages; climate-fighting technologies and red tape; clinical pain management and opioid addictions. Finding solutions requires new approaches and relentless determination.
Academic Rigor, Visionary Approaches
USC scholars and researchers rise to meet varied modern problems with groundbreaking innovations, cross-disciplinary collaboration and creative solutions — transforming how we tackle today’s most critical issues.
Keck Medicine of USC earns ‘LGBTQ+ Healthcare Equality Leader’ designation
The university’s hospitals and USC Student Health earn the top score in the Human Rights Campaign Foundation’s 2024 Healthcare Equality Index.
USC Dornsife sociologist Hajar Yazdiha awarded prestigious Carnegie Fellowship
The assistant professor of sociology plans to focus her fellowship on tackling societal challenges through a study of truth and reconciliation practices.
USC commencement 2024: What you need to know if you’ll be attending
Thousands are expected on the University Park Campus for USC’s 141st commencement celebrations this week. You’ll want to plan accordingly.
‘Defining Courage’ event spotlights the uplifting yet tragic story of WWII Nisei soldiers
The audience of more than 500 includes surviving 98-year-old soldier Yoshio Nakamura, a proud double Trojan.
Trojans help usher in a new era for women’s professional volleyball
Former USC student-athletes Kalyah Williams and Skylar Fields reunite with coach Amy Pauly in Orlando as part of the new Pro Volleyball Federation.
Turning a tumor’s ‘shield’ into a weapon against itself
USC Viterbi biomedical engineers have designed a protein that targets and disables tumor cells’ defenses while marking cancer cells for death.
Professor Bob Baker Memorial Award Established by Dexter Holland will honor a pioneer in molecular biology
Holland, lead singer of The Offspring, is an alumnus of USC Dornsife’s Molecular and Computational Biology program.
USC-led study introduces improved way to grow cells that give rise to kidney’s filtration system
Scientists report significant progress in cultivating nephron progenitor cells.
Can carbon capture solve climate change?
EARTH MONTH: Removing excess carbon dioxide from the atmosphere could go a long way towards slowing global warming, experts tell USC Dornsife event.
Direct-to-patient educational material helps older adults reduce use of drugs like Valium, Xanax
Study finds that patients who received brochures about risks, alternatives and tapering recommendations were more likely to successfully quit taking benzodiazepine medications.