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We’re Celebrating the Class of 2024
Four days of festivities featured family, friends, faculty and more showing love and support with plenty of flowers, all things Cardinal and Gold, and of course, pictures. See our giant photo gallery and watch the event livestreams online.
Top Stories from USC News
COMMENCEMENT: Meredith Lapidas, a poet who recently published her first two collections, also has a background as a contortion artist.
May 17 marks the 70th anniversary of the Brown v. Board of Education ruling that racial segregation in schools was unconstitutional. To learn how things have changed — and haven’t — read this piece USC Rossier Dean Pedro Noguera wrote in 2022.
COMMENCEMENT: USC Rossier grad Mariah Lora shares her journey from the basketball court and pageant stage to the classroom and commencement podium.
The USC Dornsife Washington, D.C., Program immerses students in real-world policymaking through internships and courses.
Assignment: Earth begins with us
Assignment: Earth is USC’s comprehensive sustainability framework, which guides the university in its mission to foster a healthy, just, and thriving campus and global community. It encompasses various initiatives and strategies to promote environmental stewardship, social equity and economic vitality within the university and beyond.
Celebrating Earth Month at USC
Celebrating Earth Month at USC includes events, initiatives and activities dedicated to raising awareness about environmental issues, promoting sustainability practices and inspiring action among the university community. Here are our latest stories.
Eco Film & Media Arts Festival, Urban Trees Initiative receive national sustainability accolades
USC programs are recognized for student engagement and racial equity from the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education.
Three USC schools collaborate to reimagine the L.A. River
Researchers in landscape architecture, fluid mechanics and augmented reality have created an interactive hydraulic model alongside the river.
USC Sea Grant research, community outreach show approval of aquaculture can be earned
People across all demographics could change their minds when they learned about the environmental benefits of seafood farming, USC research suggests.
From throwing soup to suing governments, there’s strategy to climate activism’s seeming chaos
USC’s Shannon Gibson says that with international climate talks failing to make progress fast enough, activists are radically rethinking how to be most effective in the streets, political arenas and courtrooms.
Surprising discovery about coral’s resilience could help reefs survive climate change
USC Dornsife researchers studying a common Caribbean coral’s ability to adapt to rising temperatures turn up an unexpected result.
Looking to the Sky
Trojans gathered in Hahn Plaza on the University Park Campus on Monday for a lively eclipse viewing party. Learn from USC experts about the symbolism of the celestial rarity and more.