USC Viterbi COVID-19 Response
Please find activities, links and resources below surrounding USC Viterbi's response to COVID-19.
FAQ and COVID-19 Related Pages
Quick-links below to any FAQ page or other pages created on our school site in relationship to COVID-19.
- COVID-19 FAQ for USC Viterbi International Students
- COVID-19 FAQ for the USC Viterbi Community
- COVID-19 FAQ for USC Viterbi Researchers
- Student Advising Resources during COVID-19
- Research Efforts Addressing COVID-19 Challenges
- Online Events Series
- PPE Help
Our Four-Pillar Themes
Content relating to our four pillar themes (people, programs, thought leadership, innovation and outreach) that are unique to USC Viterbi in the current environment.
- Call to action from the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) - USC Viterbi has been instrumental in an effort to engage brilliant engineering minds, whether students, faculty or others, in a call to action for COVID-19. The action involves the creation of a virtual incubator, which accepts ideas and transforms them into actionable concepts, using the lean startup methodology of the NSF I-Corps Program and specifically the participation of the Los Angeles Innovation Node, in which USC Viterbi is the lead institution.
- USC Viterbi K-12 STEM Center's Parents Page - A hub for at-home STEM enrichment
- COVID-19 FAQ for the USC Viterbi Community
- Student Advising Resources during COVID-19
- Video Series: Day-in-the-life of a USC Viterbi Student
- Story: How Hardware Store Parts Transformed into Virus-Destroying Devices
Personal Protective Equipment (PPE)
Please visit our Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) Help page if you are seeking PPE or are able to help to produce, donate, etc. We are trying to coordinate such efforts on this page to protect as many people as possible.
- Webinar: Handling the PPE Shortage Through Innovation, Creativity, & Maker Movement
- Webinar: Innovative "DIY" PPE Disinfectant Methods Featuring Andrea Armani
- Story: As the World Goes Remote, USC Researchers, Entrepreneurs Work to Fill Gap in Healthcare Supply Chain
- Webinar: Handling the PPE Shortage: Update on Mask Design and Fabrication
- Story: Faculty and staff send protective gear to medical center during coronavirus crisis
- Story: USC Student Collects and Distributes Protective Gear for Hospitals
Digital Technologies for COVID-19
Webinars and content surrounding the topic of how digital technologies can aid the fight against COVID-19
- Webinar: Center for Cyber-Physical Systems: CCI Virtual Mini-Workshop on Digital Technologies for COVID-19
- Webinar: Charting COVID-19 Chatter on Social Media and The Network Science of COVID-19
- Webinar: Learning to Forecast and Forecasting to Learn from the COVID-19 Pandemic and Privacy-Sensitive Mobile-based Contact Tracing for COVID-19
- Webinar: Machine Learning to Track the Spread of COVID-19
- Webinar: A Knowledge Graph Integrating Annotations On 44,000 COVID-19 Scientific Articles and Rapidly Responding to COVID-19 Using Knowledge Graphs
- Online Symposium: AI for COVID-19 in LA
- Webinar: The Balance Between Privacy and Keeping Communities Safe
- Webinar: Social Media and the Post-COVID-19 Landscape
- Webinar: Pandemic Risk Evaluation Platform and Post-Wave-1 Healthcare Restart
- Webinar: Analyzing Internet traffic and unique automobile business software company in challenges during the COVID-19 crisis
- Webinar: Modeling of infectious disease and group testing for efficient assessment
- Webinar: Incorporation of risk factors in a stochastic epidemiological COVID-19 model for Los Angeles County
Online Events and Seminars
Please visit our Online Events Series page to see upcoming and previous events and seminars
- Webinar: Garrett Reisman - Working Remotely: Lessons I Learned From Space
- Webinar: Addressing the Ventilator Shortage and Solutions Discussion
- Webinar: Emergency Ventilator Design and Fabrication
- Highlight - Dr. Andrew Viterbi Presents: The Mathematics of Epidemics – A Century-Long Saga
- Webinar: The Race for the COVID-19 Vaccine
- Online Symposium: USC-IISc Faculty Research Mini Online Symposium on COVID-19
- Online Symposium: Day 1 USC Viterbi-THU Faculty Research Symposium on Data Analysis and Informatics
- Online Symposium: Day 2 USC Viterbi-THU Faculty Research Symposium on Data Analysis and Informatics
- Online Symposium: USC Viterbi-IISc Faculty Research Symposium on COVID-19
Research Related to COVID-19
Please visit our page Addressing COVID-19 Challenges to learn in detail about our wide ranging and diverse research efforts. New projects join this page frequently. If you are a researcher yourself, you might want to visit COVID-19 FAQ for USC Viterbi Researchers.
- Story: USC Researchers Release Public Coronavirus Twitter Set for Academics
- Story: Research Team in Race to Develop COVID-19 Vaccine and Treatments
- Story: USC Researchers Analyze Coronavirus Misinformation on Twitter
- Story: A Coronavirus Tracking App That’s Putting Privacy First
- Story: Robotic Arms Extend the Reach of UV Disinfection
- Story: Beating A Pandemic To The Punch
- Story: Wastewater Surveillance Could Promote Early COVID-19 Detection
USC Student Emergency Fund Options
- CARES - For more information on the Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security (CARES) Act, please click here
- Ignite.com - For donation and volunteer opportunities including USC's crowdfunding platform ignite.usc.edu, please click here
- Student Government emergency funds
- USC Viterbi Emergency Fund – Financial support for registered students at the Viterbi School of Engineering who face unforeseen expenses due the impact of COVID-19
Messages from Leadership
For complete list of community messages from USC Central please visit this page
8/5/2020 - Provost Zukoski: On Fall Semester Remote Instruction
7/8/2020 - Dean Yortsos' Letter to USC Viterbi International Students
7/8/2020 - President Folt: Message Regarding International Students
7/7/2020 - Dean Yortsos' Letter to USC Viterbi Undergraduate Students
7/1/2020 - Provost Zukoski: On Student Housing and Course Schedules
6/19/2020 - Provost Zukoski: Regarding restart activities
6/02/2020 - President Folt: The 2020-2021 Academic Year
5/07/2020 - Provost Zukoski: Project Restart – The Path to Bringing USC Back to Campus
4/29/2020 - President Folt: State of the University Address
4/28/2020 - Provost Zukoski: Academic Updates for Current and Future Trojans
4/24/2020 - President Folt: Celebrating USC’s Graduating Class of 2020
4/16/2020 - Provost Zukoski: Support for the USC Graduate and Professional Student Community
4/15/2020 - Message to Trojan Community from President Folt
4/3/2020 - Memo from Dean Yortsos: Competence and Character
4/3/2020 - An Important Message from the Provost and Chief Financial Officer
3/30/2020 - President Folt: Join USC in Helping Those Impacted by COVID-19
3/24/2020 - President Folt: COVID-19 New Actions
3/20/2020 - Provost Zukoski: Options for Course Grades and Withdrawals
3/17/2020 - Memo from Dean Yortsos: Facing the COVID-19 Challenge
Community and Resource Links
USC Student Health - Find info for Operational Updates. TeleHealth and more
CDC - Find Travel Advice, Facts & Figures, How to Protect Yourself and more
Music for Surviving a Pandemic - What Trojan engineers are listening to during this period of self-isolation
Related News and Media
Read More
USC Researchers Release Public Coronavirus Twitter Set for Academics
Dataset to track public sentiment and help researchers understand the social dimensions of the pandemic
Read More
Research Team in Race to Develop COVID-19 Vaccine and Treatments
Researchers in the USC Viterbi Mork Family Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science are joining the global research effort to develop a viable vaccine to halt the global pandemic.
Read More
5 Tips to Stay Cyber Secure When Working Remotely
Personal hygiene is important to reduce the spread of COVID-19, but don’t skimp on your cyber hygiene.
Read More
5 Scientific Achievements Accomplished Remotely
How USC Viterbi researchers innovated, disrupted, and engaged new frontiers from a distance
Read More
Faculty and staff send protective gear to medical center during coronavirus crisis
Viterbi faculty and staff are stepping up to donate masks or produce eyewear to protect Keck Medicine of USC healthcare professionals against the new coronavirus
Read More
DEN@Viterbi: Going the Distance: USC Viterbi Provides Distance Education During COVID-19
What Happens When All Students Become On-Line Students? Look to the Engineers.
Read More
USC Researchers Analyze Coronavirus Misinformation on Twitter
By analyzing millions of tweets, USC computer science researchers are investigating how false information about the coronavirus spreads on social media.
Read More
USC News: How Hardware Store Parts Transformed into Virus-Destroying Devices
A partnership between USC Viterbi and the Keck School of Medicine has produced a system — built from off-the-shelf items — that uses UV light to disinfect face shields.
Read More
Center for Cyber-Physical Systems: CCI Virtual Mini-Workshop on Digital Technologies for COVID-19
USC Researchers and faculty presented on how digital technologies– mobile applications, internet of things, data science, AI, and machine learning can play a role in understanding, monitoring and combatting COVID-19.
Read More
As the World Goes Remote, USC Researchers, Entrepreneurs Work to Fill Gap in Healthcare Supply Chain
USC researchers and alumni emphasize innovation and collaboration to support the fight against COVID-19 on the front lines.
Read More
A Coronavirus Tracking App That’s Putting Privacy First
By anonymously tracking coronavirus spread through contact tracing, smartphone technology could help people get back to their daily lives—while keeping a close eye on the resurgence of the virus.
Read More
Robotic Arms Extend the Reach of UV Disinfection
USC researchers adapt a customizable robot to autonomously perform disinfection tasks in both small and large spaces.
Read More
USC Student Collects and Distributes Protective Gear for Hospitals
Computer science and business administration student MacKenzie McClung is rounding up much-needed protective equipment for healthcare workers in Florida.
Read More
A Call to Action for Engineers
USC Viterbi dean, faculty and students play key role in NAE’s Call to Action to finding engineering solutions to problems posed by COVID-19.
Read More
Music for Surviving a Pandemic
What Trojan engineers are listening to during this period of self-isolation
Read More
Beating A Pandemic To The Punch
USC Viterbi researchers are helping us understand what COVID-19 might do next.
Read More
Wastewater Surveillance Could Promote Early COVID-19 Detection
USC Researchers Receive NSF RAPID grant to track coronavirus spread through wastewater samples.
Read More
The Engineering Bat Signal for COVID-19 Went Out. She Answered It.
How Julia Sircar, a Class of 2020 graduate, came to work with top engineers to combat a pandemic.
Read More
AI to Better Diagnose and Treat Renal Cancer and COVID-19
USC researchers are using AI to fuel more confident diagnosis of renal tumors, as well as more customized treatment for cancer patients and patients infected with COVID-19.