USC Dornsife Public Exchange

Widespread media coverage and critical grant funding help expand Public Exchange’s CLEAN project.

Public-private partnerships push university research beyond theory and into action to help city leaders, nonprofits and public agencies solve real-world problems.

Funding from the nonprofit group FireAid will expand Public Exchange’s soil testing campaign, screening for a wider range of contaminants, speeding up lab results and increasing community outreach.

With assistance from USC and the federal government, the city of L.A. is cooling local neighborhoods one school at a time by planting trees along sidewalks.

At the USC Capital Campus, the USC Dornsife Public Exchange and the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy explore how nature can be used to fight floods, heatwaves, fires and more.