A Sustainable Hackathon
The 4th annual Sustain-A-Thon saw 57 students propose solutions for making the planet more livable and sustainable.
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USC Viterbi Offers Two New Short Courses: “Viterbi vs. Pandemics!” and “Sustainable Energy”
Both lecture series launch the week after Labor Day, offering students a comprehensive faculty coverage of COVID-19 and a series on sustainable energy with Dean Yortsos
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USC Viterbi Sustainability Projects Receive $150,000 Funding Boost
Projects centered on precision agriculture, water modeling using AI, and smog-reducing architecture have been recognized in the USC Center for Sustainability Solutions’ latest grants.
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USC Viterbi Launches New Masters Program in Advanced Design and Construction Technology
Interdisciplinary program from the Sonny Astani Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering will create leaders of the built environment and sustainable cities
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USC Viterbi Doctoral Student Named Among “World’s Top 35 Innovators Under 35”
Ghena Alhanee is the first USC doctoral student to have made MIT Technology Review’s prestigious list twice
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Six USC Viterbi Faculty Win NSF CAREER Awards
Awards span research from machine learning to wastewater reuse to fluid dynamics and to self-healing materials.
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Six Innovative Ideas To Aid People in Crisis Zones
USC Viterbi’s Virtual Demo Day showcases student-designed products for the world’s hardest-to-reach people.
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Wastewater Surveillance Could Promote Early COVID-19 Detection
USC Researchers Receive NSF RAPID grant to track coronavirus spread through wastewater samples.
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USC Undergraduate Researcher Peers Beneath The Waves
Hannah Walker, a graduating mechanical engineering major and winner of the USC Discovery Scholar Prize, has created a device to inexpensively map the ocean’s underwater topography.
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Blazing New Trails, from Dirt Bikes to Construction
USC senior Julia Lind seeks to bring technology not just to the people who design buildings, but to those who build them.
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What If Airplanes Could Repair Their Own Damage?
USC researchers 3-D-printed the next-generation of high strength, lightweight structures that can autonomously heal impact damage.
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USC Viterbi Listed Again Among the Nation’s Top 10 Engineering Graduate Programs
Annual rankings by U.S. News & World Report also keep USC Viterbi among the top five private engineering schools
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Reducing the Environmental Impact of Desalination and Wastewater Treatment
USC Viterbi Ph.D. student Sophia Plata, the first woman in her family to attend college, works to meet the challenge of access to clean water.
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A Future Sound “Computer”?
USC researchers create smart materials that can mimic electrical devices by triggering different responses to sound.
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Some Wastewater Reuse Processes Can Lead to Undesired Byproducts
Potable water reuse is a boon for sustainability, but USC researchers warn of potentially toxic byproducts.
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In A Season Of Giving, This Student Start-up Is Transforming The Way We Give
Duet is the world’s first student-built micro-philanthropy platform designed to connect donors with refugees and local stores in a more personalized and dignified way
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Changing a 150-year-old paradigm
USC Researcher Discovers a New Approach to Stabilize Spinning Systems by Simultaneously Injecting and Removing Energy
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MIT Technology Review Names USC Viterbi Ph.D. Student One of “The Top Innovators Under 35” in the Middle East and North Africa
The award recognizes Ghena Alhanaee for her work to prevent a regional catastrophe by providing a linked emergency response plan across the Persian Gulf
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Can a Building Help Thwart The Next Active Shooter?
Researchers have designed a virtual environment to test how building features in schools and offices help or hurt occupants during active shooter incidents.
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Researchers demonstrate antibiotic-resistant genes are well removed by purification used to recycle wastewater but final quality is influenced by environmental factors
A team led by Assistant Professor in the USC Viterbi Sonny Astani Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering Adam Smith has found that purified water returned to Southern California aquifers for storage and reuse blends with antibiotic-resistant bacteria already found in the aquifer, adding key data to the conversation on how we reuse water.
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USC Viterbi Researchers Awarded Nearly $2 Million by NSF’s Pilot Convergence Accelerator and AccelNet Programs
Professors in the Sonny Astani Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering Lucio Soibelman and Burcin Becerik-Gerber will build knowledge networks in key fields to advance design, development and operation of national infrastructures.
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Lessons Within the Rubble
How two USC professors are mining historic disasters to build educational infrastructure reframing how we approach natural disaster preparation.
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Using 3-D Printed Mother-of-Pearl to Create Tough New Smart Materials
USC researchers are drawing inspiration from mollusks to build lightweight, strong materials for wearable technology and more.
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Meet The Trojan Engineer Helping Chinese Cities Bounce Back After Disaster
Nan Li, Ph.D. ’14, was named a 2018 top “Innovator under 35” in China by MIT Technology Review for his work in resilient cities