In this episode: Tina Isaris Nauman endows a scholarship in the name of USC Viterbi Dean Yortsos and his wife, Sheryl. The amazing story of BME student Holly Rose, who faced her own challenges and gives back — students making air travel safer, and CAM Director SK Gupta writes in Forbes on the idea of digital twins.

This Week on VNN: We honor our nation’s veterans with three stories on the Viterbi homepage, a love story about two Viterbi alumni, computer science professor Barath Raghavan writes an article for IEEE on cloud privacy and security, and two Viterbi alumni create a startup named Sift.

USC Viterbi’s Neil Siegel receives a National Medal of Technology and Innovation medal, Viterbi celebrates Halloween, The K-12 STEM Center receives the Global Engineering Dean’s Council award, Viterbi alum and Hydroplane CEO, Dr. Anita Sengupta honored with the Minority Emerging Technology and Industries Firm of the Year Award 2023.

This week on VNN: Recap of the Sustainability Solutions Conference w/ USC Price; Dean Yortsos receives Chairman Award from GMIS and HENAAC; Stayce Harris as a new USC trustee and Phebe Vayanos talk at TED AI 2023

This week on Viterbi News Now: An alum spotlight on Rusty Jehangir’s startup Blue Robotics, Lives Not Grades goes to Romania, Justin Walsh’s Space Archeology Project, and the USC Center for Research in Space Technologies hosts a space advisory board meeting.