A program backed by USC Dornsife Public Exchange in collaboration with the Keck School of Medicine of USC offers free soil testing. It’s filling a critical gap created when government aid falls short and private testing proves costly.
STORY, PHOTOS and VIDEOS: High schoolers living in the regions affected by the Eaton and Pacific Palisades wildfires learn the skills to capture their communities’ stories.
Managing fire risk is also about caring for one’s community. Two USC experts share how learning that ethos can begin in schools.
“I was trying to get to know a place through its remains,” says one student.
A year after the devastating Palisades and Eaton fires, emergency management professionals in the Trojan Family recall taking their experience outside the classroom to fight the disaster and save lives.
USC Dornsife led an effort to analyze bodycam footage from 1,000 traffic stops across Los Angeles — data now helping train AI tools aimed at improving safety, accountability and respectful treatment during stops.
Two interconnected research collaborations spanning four USC schools are combining social science with machine learning to study the positive effects of community resilience.
The media expert offers insights on the habits of cord-cutting Americans, deepfake videos, and the expected increase in ads that could shape this historic election.
