Built Environment and Sustainability

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Description

Create a sustainable physical environment and infrastructure that supports health & well-being (promotes activity, enables social connection, improves health and productivity, and fosters equity)


Goals

  1. Lead efforts to align and integrate well-being efforts focused on people, place, and planet into the USC ecosystem
  2. Work with key stakeholders on ways the built environment can support health & well-being utilizing recommended standards and guidelines that support a healthy campus environment

Resources

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Nearby Nature

Discover UPC’s outdoor spaces with “Nearby Nature,” a project by USC Dornsife Professor Victoria Campbell Arvai’s students. Mapped on the Sustainability at USC campus map, the native plant areas offer benefits like stress relief and mood improvement. To explore these campus green spaces, visit the campus map.


Co-leads

Angie Young
Instructional Designer,
USC Bovard College

Yogi Matharu
Assistant Professor of Clinical Physical Therapy; Director of Physical Therapy Clinical Services,
USC Division of Biokinesiology and Physical Therapy


Contact

Have questions or want to get involved? Reach out to us through our Contact Us page or email workwell@usc.edu.