USC Games Expo 2022 Takes Participants on a Ten Hour, Multi-World Adventure
Over fifty student games debut at 6th annual expo event hosted on Twitch
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“Do Better Than Us”: Three Years of USC Viterbi Ph.D.s Receive Their Hoods.
At the 2022 Ph.D. Hooding and Awards Ceremony, 215 new graduates join Trojan forebears like Andrew Viterbi and Wanda Austin.
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2022 Graduate Yun Li Awarded Top PhD Honor for Exemplary Research
The 2022 graduate was honored for research on the role of energy system decarbonization and land surface properties on urban air quality in Southern California.
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A Grand Day: Dean Yortsos Receives Top Award for Engineering Education
On the same day the 2022 Grand Challenges Scholars were recognized, USC Viterbi dean wins Gordon Prize for his role in the program’s creation.
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USC Executive Global Space and Defense Program Concludes Inaugural Year
Leaders from military, government and private industry complete unique USC certificate program
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Professor J.J. Lee retires after changing students’ lives at USC for over 50 years
Inspired by a desire to safeguard coastal spaces, Lee moved from Taiwan to the U.S. to catapult the next generation of engineers at USC Viterbi.
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USC and UA Students Are Developing an AR Interface to Inform Lunar Astronauts of Location, Vitals
 Finalists in NASA “SUITS Up” Next Generation Astronaut Challenge Hopes to Foster Lunar Exploration
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Engineering Sustainable Cities Around the Globe
USC joins with universities across the globe to launch new certificate program focused around the UN Sustainable Development Goals
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Milad Pirhadi, USC PhD’21, Awarded Top PhD Honor for Exemplary Research
Pirhadi, now an air pollution specialist at the California Air Resources Board, was the second PhD in Professor Constantinos Sioutas’ lab to win the USC PhD Achievement Award in six years.
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Experimental Infrastructure at USC Receives a $100M+ Boost
From upgraded quantum computing center to new nano facilities, five investments that are transforming research, innovation and learning
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Catching Smoke: How a USC Team is Helping Clear the Air in Alaska
Innovative USC Viterbi course unites interdisciplinary students to clean Fairbanks smoke pollution with “Chimney Cherries”
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ITP At 40
The Information Technology Program, which now boasts USC’s most popular minor with applied analytics, recently celebrated decades of excellence
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A student’s mission to make games accessible to everyone
David Barrett (’22) is adapting current games and creating new ones to meet a wide range of disability needs
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Becoming an Engineer, One Extreme Hike at a Time
USC Viterbi student Prathmesh Bakshhi translates his passion for discovery to impact communities and infrastructures across the globe.
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USC Viterbi Students Win Poster Award at Top Fluid Dynamics Conference
The team, who won second place at the American Physical Society Division of Fluid Dynamics Conference, featured two high school students through the SHINE program.
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USC Viterbi and Amazon Announce Joint Summer Research Program for Undergraduates
8-Week, Residency Program is Open to Undergraduate Students Throughout the U.S.
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Top Five in the Nation for 10 Consecutive Years: USC Viterbi’s Online Programs in Engineering, Computer Science
The U.S News & World Report ranks DEN@Viterbi as consistently among the best online graduate degree programs in the nation
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An Actress, Pilot and Engineer: One Student Does It All
From gymnastics to the U.S. Air Force ROTC, USC Viterbi senior Natalie Smith built her life on asking ‘Why not?’
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Breakfast of Champions, Prepared by Your Neighborhood Robot
No need for fancy cafes. For your next coffee and pancake order, all you need is a couple of robots – and USC Viterbi students to program them.
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Creating Trustworthy Engineers
The recently launched Engineering in Society Program aims to equip USC Viterbi students with the ethical and communication skills to flourish in an ever-accelerating world
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Viterbi Alumnus and Construction Executive Establishes $1 Million Endowment in Construction Management
Gift from Jonathan Emami, graduate of the construction management program, will help nurture the next generation of construction and development leaders
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“Tech for Good” Week Debuts at USC
A series of USC Viterbi-lead events, headlined by innovators and change-makers, explores the challenges of humanitarian crises
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When Basics are a Luxury, How Do You Promote Sustainability?
$10 milk. Electricity six times the national average. An innovative course at USC partners with Alaska’s Tlingit indigenous community to find new answers.
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USC Researchers Present 30 Papers at EMNLP 2021
Goals include building fairer commonsense models by reducing bias, detecting polarizing topics to mitigate conflict, and achieving smooth human-AI communication.
