Building a Sustainable Future
Trojan Family Magazine’s Spring 2025 Issue focuses on the ways USC marshals the university’s research, teaching and community engagement to create a healthy, just and thriving world. Our story on lithium mining in the Imperial Valley shows just how important Trojan research is to communities in Southern California and beyond.
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USC Distinguished Professor Gale Sinatra’s long-standing mission to help people better understand climate change became deeply personal after the January wildfires.
EARTH MONTH: Megan Fieser, the Gabilan Assistant Professor of Chemistry at USC Dornsife, is working to resolve the vexing problem of plastic accumulating in our environment.
USC’s Distinguished Leaders Program helps accomplished professionals redefine their next chapter.
USC Price Dean Chris Boone discusses how his approach to sustainability — rooted in understanding interconnected systems — guides his work in addressing the complex environmental and social challenges facing our planet.
Looking Forward to a Sustainable Future | Spring 2025
USC’s sustainability “moonshot” marshals the university’s research, teaching and community engagement efforts to create a healthy, just and thriving world.
Spelling out the urgent need for a green energy transition
The USC Visions and Voices event El Respiro / Respire invites participants to speak their minds on climate justice — without saying a word.


A New Lithium Economy at the Salton Sea
Manuel Pastor — Distinguished Professor of Sociology and American Studies and Ethnicity at the USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences — discusses how lithium mining in the Salton Sea region will affect local communities and the nation’s electric future.
Sustainability Changemakers
All April, Trojan Family Magazine will feature Trojans who have made a significant difference in sustainability at the University of Southern California.

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