Social Impact

USC researchers are using AI to model public transportation challenges throughout Southern California.

Professor of Cinematic Arts Holly Willis is exploring ways to use AI as a creative experience.

Professors Gauri Rao and Prashant Dogra are using AI to accelerate drug development at USC Mann.

USC Marshall and USC Viterbi professors are bridging the worlds of business and computing by teaching students to become translators between AI technology and organizations.

Using free aerial imagery and artificial intelligence, the tool gives cities an affordable way to target tree planting, expand shade and make smarter investments in climate resilience.

European colonial powers linked church and state. But the founders of the United States broke from that idea as surely as they broke from Britain.

Survival as a colonist meant enduring hard labor and rigid hierarchies in a rural world shaped by inequality and lack of privacy. USC Dornsife experts explain.

USC Marshall’s Neely Center contributes to a practical roadmap for crafting enforceable remedies in lawsuits targeting social media and generative AI companies.

USC postdoctoral fellow Valerie Gomez discusses her research on Salvadoran immigrant families and her mission to expand access to higher education.

Six students in USC Marshall’s Hayes Barnard Fellowship and the program’s founding director installed solar panels to electrify a school.