USC Study Finds AI Agents Can Autonomously Coordinate Propaganda Campaigns Without Human Direction
The findings carry stark implications for elections, public health, and anyone who relies on social media for information
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Measure Twice, Learn Once: The Class USC’s AME Engineers Can’t Forget
At USC Viterbi’s AME department, Mechoptronics is the course students dread taking and spend the rest of their careers grateful they did.
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Building Engineers: Inside USC’s Hands-On Mechoptronics Lab
At USC Viterbi’s Mechoptronics lab, 190 students learn measurement, troubleshooting, and hands-on engineering skills they’ll carry for life. From soldering capacitors to dissecting cameras, students say the course is challenging, time-consuming, and ultimately the most useful class they take.
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The AI That Taught Itself: USC Researchers Show How Artificial Intelligence Can Learn What It Never Knew
A USC Viterbi undergraduate and her professor developed a method that allows AI to fix its own knowledge gaps in real time.
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Women in Engineering (WiE) Celebrates 20 Years at USC
USC Viterbi’s Women in Engineering marks two decades of milestones and student empowerment.
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Where Flow Becomes Science: Inside the Fabulous Fluids Facility
A tour with Paul Ronney, Chair of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering at the USC Viterbi School of Engineering, through three laboratories that ask the same fundamental question: how does fluid move, and why?
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Love Letter to Humanity
Grand Challenge Scholars gather in Eternal City to address universal challenges at GSCP 2026 Annual Meeting
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USC Engineers Offer Solutions to Stop Unsafe AI Behaviors
USC Viterbi Researchers Plan to Develop Mathematical Guardrails for AI Safety in Upcoming Study With Philanthropic Funding
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For Users Managing Passwords, Convenience Beats Security
USC study reveals users favor convenience over security, preferring to keep their current password managers even when better tools are free
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USC Engineers Prepare to Listen as Orion Heads for the Moon
A 4.5-meter dish antenna on the USC campus will join 33 other ground stations contributing to a study of how spacecraft signals behave at lunar distance.
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Get Ready for The Games Week: the Engineering Grand Challenge LA28
From March 2-6, the USC Sonny Astani Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering (CEE) will bring together researchers, civic leaders and student innovators to brainstorm the energy, mobility, media and infrastructure challenges of the 2028 Olympic and Paralympic Games.
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USC Astronautics PhD Student on the Emerging Area of Space Sustainability
At the 7th Summit for Space Sustainability in Paris, USC PhD student José Pedro Ferreira raised awareness of the potential impacts of space activities in the atmosphere and the need for emerging research to be reflected in global governance.
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From Man’s Best Friend to Astronauts’ Most Reliable Companion
USC Researchers Find New Approach to Exploring Mars with a Robot dog that Learns “New Tricks” to Support NASA’s Future Missions
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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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Where Mechanical Engineers Are Made: Inside the Baum Family Maker Space
A tour with Paul Ronney, Chair of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering at the USC Viterbi School of Engineering, through the facility where AME students build, test, compete, and learn that sometimes your best asset isn’t speed, it’s reliability.
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No Time for Trial and Error: How to Speed Up the Discovery of the Next Super-Alloy
A 3D-printing technique co-developed at USC has enabled the rapid discovery of a new alloy that can withstand extreme heat.
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USC Professor Elected to Prestigious Academies for AI and Systems Engineering Work
Neil Siegel elected to prestigious academies for research on when artificial intelligence is ready for critical systems.
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Construction’s Reckoning: Why America’s Builders Are Racing to Reinvent Their Industry
A recently released report on a NSF-funded workshop led by USC Viterbi presents the importance of collaboration between academia, industry and federal agencies.
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Quantum Without the Physics
USC Viterbi Professor Giacomo Nannicini makes quantum optimization accessible in new book
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AI for Soldiers, Movies, and Children: USC Engineer Elected to National Academy
Professor Shrikanth Narayanan recognized by the NAE for pioneering contributions to human-centered AI and speech technologies with wide-ranging societal impact
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Closing the Gap in Water Reuse: USC Engineer Elected to National Academy
Professor Amy Childress recognized by the NAE for transforming wastewater into clean water and bridging academia with the real world
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Cracking the Brain’s Code: Unlocking Neuron Memory to Advance AI
USC researchers discover neurons have memory and use a single neuron’s activity to map entire brain networks, first to achieve this “mission impossible” that opens new possibilities for AI and neuroscience.
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The End of Academic Writer’s Block? This Tool by USC Scientists Writes Research Papers in Under an Hour
USC researcher launches GRAIL just one day after OpenAI’s competing platform, promising to turn rough notes into submission-ready papers in under an hour
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AI System Built at USC Helps Investigators Track Down and Convict Sex Traffickers
Mayank Kejriwal’s research on fighting sex trafficking with artificial intelligence has earned a spot in Science, one of the world’s most prestigious scientific journals.