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The Power of Collaboration in the Path to STARS Gold and Beyond, With Insights on STARS 3.0
- University of Southern California (CA)
- University of Virginia (VA)
- AASHE (MA)
In this webinar, we highlight how the University of Southern California (USC) and the University of Virginia (UVA) conducted STARS report peer-reviews, and we detail the processes by which we …
- Posted Oct. 24, 2024
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USC Sustainability Hub empty
- University of Southern California (CA)
Photo of an empty USC Sustainability Hub, before students arrive for the day.
- Posted Aug. 15, 2024
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USC Hospitality
- University of Southern California (CA)
USC Hospitality recognizes the importance of meeting the needs of the campus without comprising the health of our students, employees or the environment. By initiating several efforts with our practices …
- Posted July 21, 2024
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Green Grad Party
- University of Southern California (CA)
USC students decorate their graduation caps at the Green Grad party hosted by the Office of Sustainability.
- Posted April 30, 2024
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USC Sustainability Town Hall
- University of Southern California (CA)
Students gather in the USC Sustainability Hub to hear from a panel of speakers provide updates on campus sustainability efforts.
- Posted April 30, 2024
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End-of-Year Party for Graduating Interns
- University of Southern California (CA)
Graduating interns from the USC Office of Sustainability pose with their certificates of appreciation in front of the mural in the campus Sustainability Hub.
- Posted April 30, 2024
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USC Peace Garden Seed Giveaway
- University of Southern California (CA)
Student volunteers gather at the USC Peace Garden to harvest and label seeds collected from the garden to give away.
- Posted April 30, 2024
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Arts & Climate Collective Festival
- University of Southern California (CA)
USC students participate in the annual Arts & CLimate Collective Festival during Earth Month.
- Posted April 29, 2024
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Sustainable Choices, Sustainable Futures: Empowering Students Through an Online Training
- University of Southern California (CA)
The USC Office of Sustainability launched an online Student Sustainability Training module in April 2023. The 45-minute training allows students to explore how global sustainability imperatives connect to USC’s Assignment: …
- Posted Feb. 21, 2024
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Environmental Lab Research
- University of Southern California (CA)
A summer graduate fellow with the USC Dornsife Wrigley Institute for Environmental Studies, Lanja Karadaghi, demonstrates the research they are conducting in the lab.
- Posted Sept. 2, 2023
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Lighting up the lab
- University of Southern California (CA)
A graduate fellow with the USC Dornsife Wrigley Institute for Environmental Studies, Thabassum Ahammad, demonstrates the research they're conducting in the lab.
- Posted Sept. 2, 2023
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Learning About Metal Recycling
- University of Southern California (CA)
Students from the USC Dornsife Environmental Studies program visited the SA Recycling center located on Terminal Island in San Pedro. The students toured the facility and learned about the entire …
- Posted Sept. 2, 2023
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Field Research
- University of Southern California (CA)
Students with USC Dornsife's Nuzhdin Lab employ molecular biology and bioinformatic techniques to better understand the interactions between genotype and phenotype across a wide range of organisms. The lab is …
- Posted Sept. 2, 2023
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Optimizing kelp growth
- University of Southern California (CA)
A USC diver attaches seaweed to a prototype of a device called the “kelp elevator.” Raising and lowering kelp on the elevator accelerates its growth, proving the potential for mass-produced …
- Posted Sept. 2, 2023
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Using Strategies Elites Understand: Divestment as an Approach to Social Change
- Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick Campus (NJ)
- University of Southern California (CA)
Over the past 50 years, student activists and community organizers on college campuses have advocated for divestment as a strategy to enact necessary change. These activists and organizers are often …
- Posted June 15, 2023
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Preliminary Investigation of Sustainability Awareness and Activities among Academic Libraries in the United States
- University of Southern California (CA)
This paper explores sustainability, sustainability awareness, and how it is measured in academic libraries in the United States, and considers how assessment tools or key performance indicators (KPIs) could enhance …
- Posted June 15, 2023
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Creating Cultures of Health in the Academy: Bringing Together Top-Down and Ground-Up Approaches
- University of California, Riverside (CA)
- University of Southern California (CA)
This article reports on a 3-year longitudinal study focused on the impact of cross-sector, collective impact approaches to creating cultures of campus health. The study sought to understand the integration …
- Posted June 15, 2023
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End of Year Celebration at the garden
- University of Southern California (CA)
Student interns and Office of Sustainability staff members celebrate the end of the school year at the USC Peace Garden.
- Posted June 9, 2023
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How to be a Sustainable Trojan presentation
- University of Southern California (CA)
Office of Sustainability staff member presents on How to be a Sustainable Trojan to fellow staff members at an Earth Month 2023 event.
- Posted June 9, 2023
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USC Office of Sustainability tabling at Earth Month 2023 Festival
- University of Southern California (CA)
Staff members from the USC Office of Sustainability tabling at the Earth Month 2023 festival on campus.
- Posted June 9, 2023
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USC Spring 2023 Sustainability Town Hall
- University of Southern California (CA)
Students, faculty, and staff gather to hear updates.
- Posted June 9, 2023
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USC’s Single-use Plastics Elimination – Beverage Bottles Policy
- University of Southern California (CA)
The University of Southern California (USC) established the Single-use Plastics Elimination – Beverage Bottles Policy in July 2022, prohibiting the purchase or use of single-use plastic beverage products across the …
- Posted May 31, 2023
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Eco Film and Media Arts Festival
- University of Southern California (CA)
The inaugural Eco Film and Media Arts Festival was designed to bring together student filmmakers and artists engaged in climate storytelling and activism. The festival featured 11 student films that …
- Posted May 31, 2023
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USC Trojan Shop Local Initiative
- University of Southern California (CA)
Certainly, since the murder of George Floyd in 2020, and the pandemic years through recent months, the focus upon opportunities to close racial economic wealth gaps has heightened throughout Los …
- Posted May 31, 2023
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USC Urban Trees Initiative
- University of Southern California (CA)
The USC Urban Trees Initiative (USC Trees) brings together faculty, staff, and student researchers at the University of Southern California to help the City of Los Angeles and local nonprofits …
- Posted May 31, 2023
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Organizing for a Sustainable Athletics Rating System
- Texas A&M University (TX)
- University of Colorado Boulder (CO)
- University of Southern California (CA)
- Honeycomb Strategies (CO)
In recent years, collegiate athletic programs have implemented a wide variety of sustainability initiatives. These initiatives include zero waste and carbon neutral games, fan outreach and education, LEED-certified stadiums and …
- Posted May 17, 2023
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Submitting to “Case Studies in the Environment”: A Workshop for Authors
- University of Southern California (CA)
“Case Studies in the Environment” (CSE) is a peer-reviewed journal published by the University of California Press. The online journal publishes case studies, which provide nuance to environmental problem solving …
- Posted May 17, 2023
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Inspire Just & Sustainable Behaviors via Your Biggest Influencer: Sports
- Texas A&M University (TX)
- University of Colorado Boulder (CO)
- University of Southern California (CA)
- Wake Forest University (NC)
- Honeycomb Strategies (CO)
This session seeks to educate and inspire sustainability professionals to partner with their athletics departments to improve sustainability systems and motivate fans to enhance their personal sustainability behaviors at home, …
- Posted May 17, 2023
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USC Office of Sustainability tabling
- University of Southern California (CA)
Staff from the USC Office of Sustainability table at an Earth Month event on campus.
- Posted May 8, 2023
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Employing the SDGs to Enhance University Research and Education Sustainability Objectives
- Carnegie Mellon University (PA)
- University of California, Davis (CA)
- University of Southern California (CA)
- AASHE (MA)
Although the SDGs are a global framework, there is not a one-size-fits-all approach to how universities employ them to enhance research, education, and operational sustainability objectives. The purpose of this …
- Posted Oct. 17, 2022
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Webinar: Assessing Sustainability Literacy & Culture: Innovations & Lessons Learned by Multiple Institutions
- Ramapo College of New Jersey (NJ)
- University of Southern California (CA)
- Weber State University (UT)
- Williams College (MA)
- AASHE (MA)
This interactive panel discussion will feature four presenters from different geographic regions (eastern and western United States) and institutional contexts (private and public, and from small liberal arts colleges to …
- Posted Oct. 4, 2022
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USC recognized as a top performer in sustainable food and dining
- University of Southern California (CA)
USC is among the Top Performers under the Food & Dining impact area in the 2022 Sustainable Campus Index.
- Posted Aug. 3, 2022
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USC becomes the first campus to be certified as a 'Green Zone' by the American Green Zone Alliance
- University of Southern California (CA)
American Green Zone Alliance “Green Zone” Certification - In 2021, University of Southern California became the first campus to be certified as a green zone by the American Green Zone …
- Posted Aug. 2, 2022
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Earth Sciences Minor: Climate Change, Stewardship and Resiliency
- University of Southern California (CA)
This minor is intended to provide background for students who plan careers in business with companies who recognize the necessity to respond to environmental change as scientists understand it. Students …
- Posted June 10, 2022
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Urban Sustainable Planning Minor
- University of Southern California (CA)
The 20-unit minor in urban sustainable planning focuses on the application of public policy, urban planning and public management to the analysis and solution of urban problems. It draws upon …
- Posted June 10, 2022
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GIS and Sustainability Science Minor
- University of Southern California (CA)
The innovative Minor in GIS and Sustainability Science provides an interdisciplinary foundation for individuals to address environmental sustainability, among the most pressing challenges of our time. With an understanding of …
- Posted June 10, 2022
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Environmental Chemistry and Sustainability Minor
- University of Southern California (CA)
The environmental chemistry and sustainability minor is designed for students majoring in business, engineering, law, communications and other professional fields to give them the knowledge of chemistry needed to understand, …
- Posted June 10, 2022
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MA Environmental Studies
- University of Southern California (CA)
In the junior year of the B.A. or B.S. program, a student has the option of applying for a progressive Master of Arts degree in Environmental Studies. Requirements for admission …
- Posted June 10, 2022
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MS Green Technology
- University of Southern California (CA)
Green Technologies is a highly interdisciplinary degree program that emphasizes green systems and the environment, energy technology and efficiency, and sustainability and society. The discipline seeks opportunities for alternative sourcing, …
- Posted June 10, 2022
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MS Environmental Risk Analysis
- University of Southern California (CA)
The focus of the MS, Environmental Risk Analysis degree is on advanced training for students with an existing science background. Students will enter the MS program with a BS degree …
- Posted June 10, 2022
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Graduate Certificate in Sustainability and Business
- University of Southern California (CA)
Business is increasingly involved in social and environmental issues. On the one hand, government and civil society are exerting increasing pressure on the business sector to help address the world’s …
- Posted June 10, 2022
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Graduate Certificate in Sustainable Policy and Planning
- University of Southern California (CA)
With increasing urgency, organizations and governments require leaders to design and implement sustainability-focused policy and planning practices that help communities improve in the present without compromising the future. The USC …
- Posted June 10, 2022
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Green Engagement Fund
- University of Southern California (CA)
The University of Southern California Green Engagement Fund (USCGEF) was created in 2014 to fund student-driven, innovative projects aimed at increasing sustainability at USC while increasing awareness in environmental stewardship. …
- Posted Sept. 21, 2021
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Environmental Studies (BA or BS)
- University of Southern California (CA)
The Environmental Studies degrees are built on specialized natural and social science courses and a set of interdisciplinary courses focusing on sustainability. The social science core courses focus on environmental …
- Posted Jan. 12, 2021
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Environmental Science and Health (BA or BS)
- University of Southern California (CA)
The Environmental Science and Health degrees combine the interdisciplinary courses on sustainability described above and some of the environmental social science content with traditional biology and chemistry content to provide …
- Posted Jan. 12, 2021
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Environmental Data Science (MS)
- University of Southern California (CA)
The application of data science to complex environmental problems has become increasingly important in evaluating large-scale environmental challenges. Data science technologies complement interdisciplinary analyses of complex environmental issues ranging over …
- Posted Jan. 12, 2021
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Center for Urban Education
- University of Southern California (CA)
Since its founding in 1999, the USC Rossier Center for Urban Education (CUE) has worked to bring equity-mindedness to institutions of higher education through socially conscious research, tools and learning …
- Posted Oct. 8, 2020
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Pullias Center for Higher Education
- University of Southern California (CA)
The world’s leading research center on student access and success in higher education, the Pullias Center for Higher Education advances innovative, scalable solutions to improve college outcomes for underserved students …
- Posted Oct. 8, 2020
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Closing Racial Equity Gaps
- University of Southern California (CA)
The Center for Urban Education at the University of Southern California identified five obstacles that stand in the way of racial equity at the system level and present five essential …
- Posted Oct. 8, 2020
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(Dis)agreement over what? The challenge of quantifying environmental worldviews
- University of Southern California (CA)
Ever since environmentalism emerged as a social movement, researchers have been trying to quantify the attitudes underlying environmental concern. From the 1970s through the early 2000s, the practice of measuring …
- Posted May 18, 2020
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