Building a Sustainable Future
Trojan Family Magazine’s Spring 2025 Issue is focused on USC President Carol Folt’s sustainability “moonshot,” which marshals the university’s research, teaching and community engagement efforts to create a healthy, just and thriving world. Our story on lithium mining in the Imperial Valley shows just how important Trojan research is to communities in Southern California and beyond.
Main Features
Obesity and diabetes drugs can catalyze profound changes in your body — and in public health, too
USC experts say anti-obesity drugs have the potential to significantly reduce future health care spending.
Rebuilding Los Angeles
USC experts share their expertise on how Angelenos can rebuild their communities after the January wildfires.
Big Ten Network StudentU program brings real-world sports-broadcasting opportunities to USC students
The organization produces more than 2,500 athletic events per year on the Big Ten Network’s streaming platform, B1G+.
Stories from Spring 2025
The USC researcher shares how her work in remote sensing is helping scientists, students and institutions take action.
The USC Price assistant professor has spent the last 15 years helping voices of community members be heard in the wake of disasters.
Chatzi and Aung’s work evolved from treating patients to preventing disease entirely.
Skylar Funk MA ’25 — a professional rock musician and climate activist — has helped make USC a greener place as graduate co-chair of the Student Sustainability Committee.
Sustainability Changemakers
Trojan Family Magazine puts the spotlight on Trojans who have made a significant difference in sustainability at the University of Southern California.
A New Lithium Economy at the Salton Sea
Manuel Pastor — Distinguished Professor of Sociology and American Studies and Ethnicity at the USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences — discusses how lithium mining in the Salton Sea region will affect local communities and the nation’s electric future.
Spelling out the urgent need for a green energy transition
The USC Visions and Voices event El Respiro / Respire invites participants to speak their minds on climate justice — without saying a word.
