The Southern California Environmental Health Sciences Center received the grant as it celebrates 25 years of research dedicated to reducing diseases caused by environmental exposures.
The new EH MATTERS fellowship gives students from underrepresented groups a chance to conduct research on environmental health and safety issues.
Study by Keck School researchers finds link between “forever chemicals” and changes in glucose metabolism.
Jian Xu hopes to better understand the mechanisms behind environmental toxins increasing the occurrence of birth defects in order to develop new treatments or even prevent craniofacial birth defects.
Factors like less access to nutritional foods and more exposure to pollution may impact the brain’s structure and volume, a new USC study finds, altering how children read and think.
Signs of pre-symptomatic stiffening of the arteries were seen in kids with daily exposure to auto emissions, a USC study finds.
The harm can rival that of secondhand smoke or living next to a freeway, USC researchers say.
Meredith Franklin of the Keck School of Medicine has developed a tool that uses satellite data to help characterize the toxins veterans are exposed to when deployed.
USC is pooling thousands of brain scans to understand how aspects of our physical space — including air pollution, noise and green space — may impact our risk for various developmental, neurodegenerative and psychiatric problems.
A USC-UCLA study offers a nationwide assessment of the population facing exposure risks from burned-off, excess natural gas at oil and gas production sites.
USC researchers found that exposure to flaring was associated with 50% higher odds of preterm birth.
A first-of-its-kind USC study found that factors like secondhand smoke and a lack of exercise were associated with a higher BMI during childhood.
A team led by USC Viterbi’s Adam Smith has found that purified water returned to Southern California aquifers for storage and reuse blends with antibiotic-resistant bacteria already found in the aquifer.
USC researchers are exploring how losing California’s largest lake could affect the respiratory health of people throughout the Imperial Valley and beyond.
The Southern California Environmental Health Sciences Center is seeking applications for 2009 Environmental Health Research Pilot Project Grants.