2026 Scholarship Dinner Celebrates Impact, Connection and the Future of Engineering
The annual event brings together students and donors for an evening of gratitude, storytelling and shared purpose.
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Inge Marcus Survived World War II and an Orphaned Childhood. Her North Star: Education.
Inge and her late husband, Hal Marcus (M.S. ’59) have given back to higher ed across many decades, including USC.
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USC Maintains a Critical Piece of the Internet’s Phone Book. It Just Got a Boost
Public Interest Registry makes a gift to USC ISI in recognition of its nearly 40 years of operating B-Root and pioneering DNS privacy research.
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A Gift to Shape the Future
Ron and Valerie Sugar invest in innovation with a new trustee chair at the USC School of Advanced Computing
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The Perfect Gift
Alumnus Mohammed Al-Suwaiyel, former minister of telecommunications and IT, has helped shape modern Saudi Arabia. Now, his family has given back to the school that helped shape him.
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She’s Taught Tennis to Politicians and Movie Stars. Now, She’s Helped Over 10,000 Kids Learn Coding
Little more than a decade ago: Kathy “Coach” Kemper had a vision for a unique coding camp. She found the perfect doubles partner at USC Viterbi.
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What Can Simulate Nature? Aid Blockbuster Drugs? And Get Congress to Agree?
USC, home of the first operational quantum computer in academia, hosted its second quantum technology forum, bringing together leading experts from industry, academia and government.
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The Hidden Chemistry of Human Survival
Jeremy Alexander, Doug Peacock Scholar, finds innovation in overlooked spaces – from wastewater microbes to aerospace materials – to protect life on Earth and beyond.
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USC Team Develops New Sensory Robot Hand Advancements
Professor Daniel Seita collaborated with a student team in developing the MOTIF Hand, a tool advancing the capabilities of previous robot hand technology.
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Discovering New Materials: AI Can Simulate Billions of Atoms Simultaneously
Allegro-FM achieves breakthrough scalability for materials research, enabling simulations 1,000 times larger than previous models.
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CaseFlo Wins the 2025 Min Family Challenge
The 2025 Min Family Challenge Winner, USC student startup CaseFlo, seeks to streamline case management for homelessness to support both case managers and clients in need.
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Milestones and Memories at the 46th Viterbi Awards
The annual gala celebrated major USC Viterbi accomplishments and inspirational honorees
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USC Undergrad Tackles Political Polarization at SXSW EDU 25
Isabel Epistelomogi, a computer science and business administration major, is making waves with her research exploring how political polarization plays out in real life.
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Scholarship & Fellowship Dinner Spotlights Academic Excellence, Generosity
The 10th annual event brought students and donors together for a special night of gratitude.
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A Naming Gift for USC Viterbi’s Construction Management Program
Alumnus Jonathan Emami has made a contribution to transform the Construction Management Program
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Celebrating 20 Years of USC Viterbi Astronautical Engineering
The academic program and its record-breaking student-run USC Rocket Propulsion Lab are celebrating 20 years of advancing space exploration through stellar research and teaching.
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USC School of Advanced Computing Gift Establishes Chair in Computing and Health
A $5-million gift from entrepreneur and philanthropist Mark A. Kolokotrones will support computing advances in health
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USC Viterbi Hosts Honeywell Hypersonics & Emerging Technologies Industry Day
Leading industry representatives, academics and students gathered on campus to discuss the future of hypersonic technology.
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Industry Leaders-Turned-Professor-Philanthropists Engineer a Novel Pipeline
A gift from USC Viterbi professor Neil Siegel and his wife, Robyn Friend, creates an eponymous endowed professorship in systems engineering.
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A Legacy of Leadership: Professor Emeritus Alexander “Sandy” Sawchuk Establishes Faculty Chair
Maryam Shanechi is the inaugural holder of the Alexander A. Sawchuk Chair in Electrical and Computer Engineering.
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Celebrating Electrical Engineering Pioneer Ming Hsieh
Ming Hsieh shares his journey as an engineer and innovator with the Trojan family including a new generation of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) students, recounting his humble beginnings in rural China to his rise as founder and innovator in the biometrics scene.
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Presenting…The First Engineering Musical in USC’s History: “Volare”
For the 20th anniversary of the naming of the USC Andrew and Erna Viterbi School of Engineering, new musical honors Andrew and Erna Viterbi’s love story.
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Newly established Antevy Innovation and Entrepreneurship Fund Empowers the Solution of Grand Challenges Addressed with the Civil and Environmental Engineering Disciplines
The newly established fund inspires students and faculty at the USC Sonny Astani Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE) to transform their research into high-impact solutions.
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Uber CEO: ‘We Depend on Engineers to Build Everything’
Dara Khosrowshahi talked tech, tough times, and transformation at the new Ronald and Valerie Sugar Distinguished Speaker Series in Advanced Computing.