CNN: Why ending our dependence on fossil fuels is so challenging
Iraj Ershaghi was quoted in CNN on the challenges of transitioning from fossil fuels.
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WIRED: The Grid Isn’t Ready for the Renewable Revolution
Wired featured Kelly Sanders’ research on ‘precooling’ to optimize energy usage.
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WIRED: Heat is Baking Cities
George Ban-Weiss spoke to Wired about methods to cool down cities
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USC News: Are women worse than men at salary negotiation?
USC researchers say this is a fallacy as their new study points to systemic bias on behalf of recruiters in salary negotiations.
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Dot LA: Researchers have begun to study the use of AI to help firefighters strategize controlled burns
Dot.LA featured research that Yolanda Gil, Bistra Dilkina and Michael Pazzani will work on with the San Diego Supercomputer Center to fight wildfires
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NASA JPL: On the Fast Track to Career in STEM
ASTE Master’s student Natalie Deo who is interning with the JPL team developing the Europa Clipper spacecraft, was featured.
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Dot.LA: Snafu Records Raises $6 Million to Replace Record Executives with AI
Shri Narayanan speaks to Dot.LA about the potential for AI to help democratize the music industry.
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KUTV: COVID-19 cases in Utah projected to decline over next few weeks
Ajitesh Srivastava is referenced as having created one of the COVID-19 forecasting models monitored by the CDC
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CBS News: SpaceX Launches the First All-Civilian Space Crew
CBS News featured Garrett Reisman SpaceX’s launch of the first all-civilian space crew on a three-day mission.
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CNBC: The FCC is trying to stop robocalls, but the scammers won’t disappear
CNBC quoted Paul Schmitt on the challenges of preventing robocalls.
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Gizmodo: Will It Be Possible to Upload Information to My Brain?
Gizmodo quoted Dong Song regarding the possibility that brain-machine interface technology could directly write information on the brain.
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CNBC: Everything is weird in space, and it’s wonderful, says former astronaut
CNBC featured Garrett Reisman, former NASA astronaut who was the previously the director of SpaceX’s Space Operations, to discuss SpaceX’s all-civilian crew and its historic mission to space.
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Marketplace: Texas’ efforts to fix electrical grid may not be enough to prevent future blackouts
Marketplace quoted Kelly Sanders on Texas’ efforts to fix electrical grid that may not be enough to prevent future blackouts.
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USC News : USC Computer Science Students Place Second in Capital One College Bowl Championship
After 10 weeks of competition, a USC team, including two computer science students, finished second to a trio from Columbia University in the final showdown.
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Michelson Research Foundation: Nanofabrication Laboratory Opens at USC Michelson Center for Convergent Bioscience
The nanofab named in honor of John O’Brien was featured.
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CBS LA: NSF Awards USC $15 Million To Establish Western Hub Of Innovation And Technology
CBS and CBS radio affiliate, KNX Radio, covered USC’s new role in the NSF I-Corps Hub: West Region to help a consortium of research universities to
develop entrepreneurs
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Dot LA: USC Just Got $15 Million Grant To Help Universities Create New Startups
Dean Yortsos was interviewed about the NSF I-Corps Hub: West Region through which Viterbi will lead 8 universities to cultivate deep technologies
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Associated Press Wire: Female scientists set back by the pandemic may never make up lost time
Kristina Lerman penned a piece about her research on how COVID-19 impacted female scientists
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Times Union: An AI expert explains why it’s hard to give computers something you take for granted: Common sense
A piece written by Mayank Kejriwal published
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Los Angeles Times: Ways to Save Water During the Drought
Kelly Sanders suggested that people consider their indirect water footprint to when thinking about saving water.
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Washington Post: Racism and Automated Decision-Making
An opinion piece cited research by Aleksandra Korolova that concluded that Facebook served different ads to men and women
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CalMatters: How California can prepare our communities and homes for heat waves
Research by Kelly Sanders’ and George Ban Weiss’ labs was cited.
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WIRED: A simple software fix could limit location data sharing
Research by Barath Raghavan regarding limiting location data sharing was featured
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Wall Street Journal: How to get smarter: start with the brain itself
Dong Song was quoted on how neuroprosthetics could aim in memory
