LavaLab Opens Its Doors
USC Viterbi’s premier undergraduate startup incubator targeted a more diverse group of students than ever before this semester – and was the better for it.
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How do you innovate inclusion?
HackSC, SHPE, NSBE, and Girls in Tech host USC’s first ever Diversity & Inclusion Hackathon
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Viterbi Researchers Create The Lightest, Smallest, Fully Autonomous Crawling Microrobot Reported To Date
The RoBeetle’s artificial muscle is powered by controlled catalytic combustion, a technology that has the potential to enable the development of a diverse new generation of microrobots capable of operating on land, water and air.
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Designing for a Better World: A Summer of Innovation
Over 100 high school students from across the nation ideate solutions for the COVID-19 pandemic in USC-led bootcamp
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Novel Technology Extends Battery Life, Increases Upload Speed, and Reduces Data Corruption
Memory device, developed by USC Viterbi researchers, shows record performance
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One Giant LEAPFROG For Humanity
USC students and researchers at ISI SERC are building a lunar landing flight vehicle as part of NASA’s Artemis program.
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Shock Waves Might Offer the Jolt Needed to Reach Mars
Applying shockwaves can improve conditions for fluid mixing in supersonic combustion engines, paving the way for flights at speeds five times faster than the speed of sound.
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USC Viterbi Doctoral Student Ke Xu Wins WiSE Merit Award
Xu’s research focuses on on the creation of electronics-free, entirely-soft autonomous robots.
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USC Student Team Makes NASA RASC-AL Competition Finals
The design team will present its design on Wednesday, June 17 at 10:50 a.m. PST. Livestream will be available.
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USC Aerodesign Team Takes First Place for the Third Time at the Annual AIAA Design/Build/Fly Competition
From among 113 teams around the world, USC students came in first in the remote fly-off and also won best report at the 2019-2020 competition.
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GrayMatter Robotics Wins the Maseeh Entrepreneurship Prize Competition
The USC Viterbi-led startup, which hopes to leverage AI for manufacturing, takes home the $50,000 grand prize at the 10th annual MEPC.
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AgriCulture Wins The Min Family Challenge
The USC Viterbi-led team aims to improve the diets and health of low-income, urban residents in unique contest pairing engineering and societal challenges
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USC at the International Conference on Learning Representation (ICLR)
USC researchers will present work virtually at top AI conference, April 25-30.
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As the World Goes Remote, USC Researchers, Entrepreneurs Work to Fill Gap in Healthcare Supply Chain
USC researchers and alumni emphasize innovation and collaboration to support the fight against COVID-19 on the front lines.
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A Digital Pick Me Up: New Start-Up Provides “Empathetic AI”
Blue Fever, a burgeoning company in the Viterbi Startup Garage, helps uplift the spirits of Gen Z girls and young women
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What If Cell Service Was Portable?
USC students launch Beamlink to provide the first ultraportable, low cost cellular base station for disaster relief and rural connectivity.
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USC Viterbi Researchers Honored with Best Paper Nomination at the 2019 International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems
Researchers from the Autonomous Microrobotic Systems Laboratory were acknowledged for designing the first four-winged robotic insect weighing less than 100mg.
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MEPC at 10
The latest edition of the 10-year-old Maseeh Entrepreneurship Prize Competition promises to transform high-tech ideas into viable startups.
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Thriving in an exponential world: Changing the conversation, adapting to change and the importance of trust
In his 2019 State of the School address, Dean Yannis C. Yortsos highlighted several milestones, including record enrollments in women engineering students, the Engineer of 2020 and the importance of trust in our world of exponential changes.
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Talking to Robots…Under the Sea
A team of USC Viterbi undergraduates that is developing underwater wireless communication technology will represent the U.S. at the Global Grand Challenges Summit student competition finals
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Come Together
Atomus, a fledgling USC Viterbi startup, is developing technology that would make it easier for the Marines to 3-D print spare parts for ships, military vehicles and planes, benefitting the Corps, defense contractors and the nation.
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USC Viterbi Startup Garage and Amazon Alexa Fund Announce Support for Voice Tech Startups
Amazon Alexa Fund and Alexa Fellowship will work with USC’s Silicon Beach Accelerator, Viterbi Startup Garage to cultivate the next generation of voice startups
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Dreaming Big Pays Off
Computer science student turned entrepreneur Drake Rehfeld is flying high with five ventures under his belt before he’s even graduated—but it didn’t happen without hard work.
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Celebrating Innovation
Entrepreneurial students recently gathered to recognize their business successes – and to do a bit of networking.