Spectrum News: USC Professor Uses 3D Printers to Create Face Shields for Essential Workers
Andrea Armani was interviewed about her and colleagues’ efforts to collaborate with industry and produce PPE
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Media Coverage
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Washington Post: Your smartphone as a weapon against Coronavirus
Cyrus Shahabi was interviewed about a contact tracing app his team is working on to fight the spread of COVID19
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Forbes: In Coronavirus Fight, Robots Report For Disinfection Duty
SK Gupta was interviewed about the ADAMMS-UV robot that researchers at CAM developed to disinfect hard-to-reach spaces
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Hindu Business Line: Developing vaccines will be much faster in future with exascale supercomputers
Priya Vashishta was interviewed about his work, the state of supercomputers and how supercomputers can expedite vaccines
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Fast Company: UVC Light and COVID19
Andrea Armani was interviewed on whether UVC light could fight COVID19
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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.
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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.
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Adobe Spark: 5 Scientific Achievements Accomplished Remotely
How USC Viterbi researchers innovated, disrupted, and engaged new frontiers from a distance
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USC News: 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
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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.
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US News and World Report: USC Viterbi in the top 10 of U.S. News & World Report’s 2021 Best Grad Schools
USC Viterbi is also ranked in the top 5 among all private schools; and is the only school with a simultaneous top 10 ranking in online graduate programs
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Memo from Dean Yortsos: Facing the COVID-19 Challenge
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Student Advising Resources during COVID-19
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Nanovation podcast: How do you put a coating on a liquid?
Malancha Gupta discusses initiated chemical vapor deposition (iCVD), a relatively new processing technique for the depositing of functional polymer thin films.
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Newsweek : Children with Autism Saw Their Learning and Social Skills Boosted After Playing with this AI Robot
USC computer science researchers who designed an artificially intelligent robot that helped children with autism boost their learning and social skills hope such technology could one day aid others with the developmental disorder.
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Robohub: Haptics and Virtual Interactions, Podcast Interview with Heather Culbertson
In this podcast, Assistant Professor in Computer Science Heather Culbertson discusses haptics research, creating interactions that realistically mimic touch sensations experienced during interactions with the physical world.
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MIT LIDS Magazine: Jay Kuo’s Media Communications Lab Hits A Major Milestone
The Media Communications Lab at the University of Southern California’s Viterbi School of Engineering has graduated an astonishing 150 Ph.D. students.
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USC News: Mark Humayun Receives NSF Funding for Contact Lens that Uses Electric Stimulation to Heal Retina
The National Science Foundation’s innovation grant to ophthalmologist and engineer Mark Humayun will advance efforts to slow down or reverse retinal degeneration.
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Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) Updates
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Center for Minorities and People with Disabilities in IT: An Interview with Robert Parke, 2020 Tapia Conference Program Chair
Robert Parke, Senior Lecturer of Information Technology and Art and Design at the USC Viterbi School of Engineering, is the 2020 Tapia Program Chair. Rob has been attending the Tapia Conference since 2016. We interviewed Rob about his career and how he became involved with the Tapia Conference.
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Forbes: Holy Grail? Scientists Devise ‘Nanocatalysts’ To Recycle Carbon Dioxide Back Into Fuels
Scientists at the University of Southern California and the National Renewable Energy Lab have announced an innovation that could someday lead us to a nirvana of near-endless carbon offsets.
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WIRED: Cheap Nanoparticles Pave the Way for Carbon-Neutral Fuel
A new way to produce nanoparticles—which convert carbon dioxide emissions into fuel—may help a niche green-energy technology go mainstream.
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Deadline: Universal, Geena Davis Institute collaborate w/ USC SAIL to pilot Spellcheck for Bias tool
Tool will be deployed to support increased authentic Latinx onscreen representation and casting opportunities during the early stages of the development process
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NAE: Mark Thompson Elected to NAE
Joint USC Dornsife/Viterbi professor recognized for the development of highly efficient electrophosphorescent materials for organic light emitting devices used in displays and lighting worldwide.