Managing fire risk is also about caring for one’s community. Two USC experts share how learning that ethos can begin in schools.
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“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.
In the years since Anthony Lee became president of Westcliff University, the Irvine school has grown to 2,000 students from 100 and earned its accreditation.
Faculty, alumni and supporters share how the school of Gerontology has shaped the aging field — and continues to lead into the future.
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.
Abrams joins the USC Suzanne Dworak-Peck School of Social Work after spending more than 30 years documenting and improving the well-being of incarcerated youth and young adults.
The executive cohort of the Doctor of Education in Educational Leadership online program launched last year.
Two interconnected research collaborations spanning four USC schools are combining social science with machine learning to study the positive effects of community resilience.
USC’s Center for the Political Future offers a hopeful, practical model for ensuring that democracy functions and flourishes through respectful, civil dialogue and trust — regardless of political party affiliation.