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Wednesday, November 30, 2022
Commute time is a daily consideration for almost everyone, but second-year Price graduate student Jacob Wong takes a particularly long look at how he and other Angeleos navigate the city. As a full-time Master of Public Policy (MPP) student, intern for the Los Angeles Department of Transportation (LADOT), and METRANS student staff writer, transportation is both a professional and personal interest. “I’m always thinking about how to maximize my commute, like how long it will take me to ...
Tuesday, November 22, 2022
Even before moving to Los Angeles to start his International Public Policy and Management (IPPAM) program at the USC Sol Price School, Agil Wibowo has always had a desire to tackle economic inequality in his home country of Indonesia. “In Jakarta [the Indonesian capital], the rich and poor both live in the same areas,” he says.
Wibowo grew up in the city of Binjai on Sumatra island and attended the Perbanas Institute to study banking and finance. After completing his ...
Friday, November 18, 2022
Heavy duty trucks are a leading contributor to global climate change. California has enacted technology forcing legislation to replace fossil fuel trucks with zero emission vehicles to address freight transportation emissions. These vehicles include both battery electric and hydrogen fuel cell class 8 trucks. To determine which type of vehicle provides the most significant savings in energy consumption and emissions over diesel, a cradle to grave life cycle assessment (LCA) using ...
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Tuesday, November 15, 2022
The University of Southern California (USC) is launching a unique, high-visibility postdoctoral fellowship program as part of Assignment: Earth , the USC campus-wide sustainability framework. The program aims to accelerate sustainability research; train future leaders in academia, government and non-governmental organizations, and industry; and support discovery, evaluation, and implementation of innovative solutions to sustainability problems.
The Postdoctoral ...
Tuesday, November 15, 2022
From Left, Professor Eric Shen, Kailin Liu (BS‘26), Christine Stavish (MS ‘23), Timothy Labounko (BS ‘24), Alex Wang (BS ‘26), Dr. Michael Phoenix, at the ESRI Learning Center
This past Tuesday, November 8th, pouring rain and heavy traffic did not deter USC students from visiting the Environmental Systems Research Institute (ESRI) Headquarters in Redlands, CA. As students from various academic disciplines toured the beautifully landscaped campus, ...
Wednesday, November 9, 2022
On Friday, October 28, the METRANS K-12 team hosted its Across the Seas event, giving students from USC Hybrid High School an opportunity to learn about global supply chains through several fun and interactive activities. This was the consortium’s second consecutive year hosting the event in partnership with the Port of Long Beach.
The participating Hybrid High students first got to flash their engineering skills by competing in teams to build a ramp that would take the longest ...
