STAT News: When AI is the Opposite of Sinister
STAT quoted Yolanda Gil on a new award that recognizes the positive impact of artificial intelligence.
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Pasadena Star-News: Digital Contact Tracing Stalls Out Nationwide
Pasadena Star-News quoted Cyrus Shahabi regarding the concerns around contact tracing apps.
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KTLA: Increase in Landlord-Tenant Disputes Around Rent Collection
Research by Crosstown, a partnership between Viterbi and Annenberg, focused on the increase in landlord-tenant disputes around rent collection.
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CNN: Wildfire-weary Californians, ‘tired of this being normal”
CNN featured Bistra Dilkina on how people may consider moving due to the impacts of climate change.
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USC: Viterbi Faculty Named University Professors and Distinguished Professors
Steve Kay and Shri Narayanan named University Professors; Mahta Moghaddam and Behrokh Khoshnevis named Distinguished Professors
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Scott Fraser Elected to National Academy of Medicine
Professor Fraser was recognized “for integrating biophysics, quantitative biology, and molecular imaging to enable unprecedented views of normal function and disease in live organisms, from embryonic development to old age.” He is the second Viterbi faculty member to be elected to the National Academy of Medicine.
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USC: Election 2020 Chatter on Twitter Busy with Bots and Conspiracy Theorists
New USC study finds that automated accounts and foreign interference are infesting social media conversations about the upcoming election.
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Bloomberg: Alexander Spangher Wins Bloomberg Data Science PhD Fellowship
Spangher, a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Computer Science at the USC Viterbi School of Engineering, will use the fellowship to further his work in NLP and computational journalism.
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NAE: Racial Justice and Equity
Professor John Brooks Slaughter presented a special lecture on racial justice and equity at the 2020 NAE Annual Meeting
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Smithsonian Magazine: Could Tattoo Ink Be Used to Detect Cancer?
A study by Cristina Zavaleta regarding on how common pigments and dyes could help with early cancer diagnosis was featured
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KNX 1070 AM: Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority’s plan to Go Fare-less
James Moore was interviewed about the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority’s plan to go fare-less and whether it will reduce inequities within public transportation.
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Nature: If you want more women in your workforce, here’s how to recruit
Nature quoted Malancha Gupta regarding USC Viterbi’s efforts to support gender diversity.
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KCBS: Effectiveness of UV Light to Sanitize Surfaces Amid COVID-19
CBS featured Andrea Armani who discussed the use of UV light to sanitize surfaces amid COVID-19.
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KPCC-FM: First Day of College During COVID
Andrea Armani was interviewed about helping first-year students navigate college during the pandemic.
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KCRW: Triple Digit Heat in LA
Kelly Sanders was interviewed about how heat in Los Angeles disproportionately impacts low-income and minority residents.
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ABC News: LA arson fires increasing amid COVID-19 pandemic
KABC-TV featured research by Crosstown, a collaboration between Viterbi and Annenberg, which found that arson fires in Los Angeles are on the rise.
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Fox 11: School district halts distance learning after ransomware attack
KTTV-TV interviewed Cliff Neuman regarding a ransomware attack affected a school district.
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KPCC-FM: The Future Of DTLA: Is The Pandemic Just A Bump In The Road Or Something More Serious?
KPCC-FM interviewed James Moore on what the post-pandemic future holds for downtown Los Angeles.
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WIRED: How to Break Out of Your Social Media Echo Chamber
Work by Kristina Lerman about online echo chambers was featured
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CNN: Wildfire-weary Californians, ‘tired of this being normal,’ consider uprooting their lives
Computer Science Professor Bistra Dilkina, who has modeled migration patterns from sea-level rise, discusses climate-driven pressures as wildfires devastate the West Coast.
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CNN: How SpaceX and NASA overcame a bitter culture clash
Garrett Reisman was interviewed on the role of SpaceX in the industry and the company’s evolving relationship with NASA
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Popular Mechanics: We Can Get to Mars Faster
Research by Ivan Bermejo-Moreno and Xiangyu Gao on how engineers could possibly mix jet fuel with shockwaves to travel through space faster was featured
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Hindustan Times: Why International Students Must Remain Optimistic
Dean Yortsos contributed an op-ed showcasing the school’s commitment to our global student body
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WIRED: Photoshop Will Help ID Images That Have Been … Photoshopped
Wael Abd-Almageed was quoted on the viability of this technology to detect deepfakes
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