USC University Relations (UR) advances the University of Southern California’s institutional commitment to strengthening the community, civic, and cultural fabric of all the communities we serve. That includes advancing USC’s academic, research and medical missions, creating a shared vision with our neighbors, providing educational and career pathways, building a strong and sustainable economy for all, championing arts and culture, and helping to solve the most pressing issues of our time. 

Building a Shared Vision with Community and Neighbors

UR supports and helps facilitate more than 100 community-serving initiatives. Our partnerships can be seen at every level of the university, encompassing our research facilities, individual schools, departments, programs, hospitals, health centers and more.


Powered by a Commitment to Community

USC is committed to community partnerships and building a shared vision with neighbors. The university is committed to supporting healthy, vibrant, and engaged communities around the University Park and Health Sciences campuses. 

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100+ Community Programs

USC University Relations helps facilitate more than 100 programs serving youth and families – job training, workforce development, and skills training.

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4,000+ LAUSD Students Served

USC’s comprehensive college access programs serve 4,000 neighborhood students annually, with expansion efforts to serve more Eastside and South Los Angeles families. 

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140 Years of Service and Beyond

Through its history, USC has dedicated itself to being a good neighbor in Los Angeles, creating and supporting programs and projects that have a lasting positive impact on surrounding neighborhoods.


USC Today

The USC Iovine and Young Academy’s product innovation program will be the marquee initiative of the SoLa Foundation’s Materials Science and Engineering Lab. (Photo/Courtesy of SoLa Impact and the SoLa Foundation)

USC Iovine and Young Academy, SoLa Impact jumpstart a science, design and engineering program for L.A youth

The collaboration establishes an after-school program and fellowships that will put 750 young students and adults a year on the path to STEAM careers.

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A new USC study suggests that interventions in diet during pregnancy could help address this health disparity faced by Latinas.

Marlon Boarnet, director of the METRANS Transportation Consortium, explains what the measure will mean for L.A.’s streets.

An electric scooter rider in Los Angeles. (Photo: iStock)

USC scientists conducted one of the largest-ever multiethnic studies of smoking and epigenetics. It could lead to better ways of predicting risk of smoking-related disease.

Cigarettes in ashtray. (Photo: iStock)

VetConnect works with the annual Greater Los Angeles Homeless Count to connect unhoused veterans with services they are entitled to, in real time.

Homeless encampment. (Photo: iStock)