Professor Costas Synolakis, Emeritus Professor Gérard Medioni and technology entrepreneur Fariborz Maseeh, a Viterbi Board of Councilors member, join the prestigious academy.
USC researchers deepen understanding of membrane design to allow for desalination of high salinity streams using green or lower energy investment.
An air sampling method created by USC Viterbi researchers to measure air quality has been adopted by the Department of Homeland Security to better understand COVID-19’s spread.
Philip Fine has parlayed his prowess at monitoring air quality and interpreting hard science for diverse stakeholders into influencing rules and regulations at the highest levels.
USC researchers are harnessing the power of living organisms to make materials that are strong, tolerant and resilient.
A grant from the National Science Foundation will help USC researchers track the potential spread of the coronavirus through wastewater samples.
USC Viterbi PhD student Sophia Plata, the first woman in her family to attend college, works to meet the challenge of access to clean water.
USC Viterbi researchers have developed smart metamaterials that can mimic electrical devices by triggering different responses to sound.
A team led by USC Viterbi’s 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.
The first step is to go after the “low-hanging” fruit of carbon reduction: energy efficiency.
USC Viterbi team began its study on NDMA after contradictory findings surface in the environmental research community.
SoCalGas’s corporate dysfunction and a lack of oversight for underground gas storage facilities are responsible for the largest methane gas leak in American history, USC-led study finds.
USC researchers measure particulate matter along popular L.A. routes, finding that some exposed passengers to greater concentrations of carcinogens.
USC’s Visions and Voices event mixes moving melodies with deep thoughts on the ocean.
Qiming Wang’s team designed a unique manufacturing technique using 3-D printing.
New 3-D material developed by USC Viterbi engineer could revolutionize flexible electronics.
Critical backup generators were built in low-lying areas at risk for tsunami damage — despite warnings from scientists.
Cyrus Maroofian finds purpose in his life by giving low-cost water filters to mountain dwellers and African schools.
USC Viterbi engineer Adam Smith conducts research on microbes that consume waste in water.
To protect human health, civil and environmental engineer Felipe de Barros tries to predict how pollutants travel in subsurface water.
New study is inspired by a 2010 survey showing that villages in the shadow of small islets suffered some of the strongest tsunami impacts.
Bridges, overpasses and underused lots are seen as potential sites for permanent arts installations.
Bassist and USC Viterbi professor George Ban-Weiss sets himself apart on musical and academic levels.