AI meets policing: USC leads LAPD body cam study
New research using artificial intelligence aims to improve officer interactions with the public.
$2.9 million grant from Bezos Earth Fund boosts USC urban greenery work
USC Dornsife researchers aim to help increase urban tree canopies, lower city temperatures and address longstanding environmental inequities.
10 USC Stem Cell doctoral students and recent graduates earn NIH fellowships
The prestigious National Institutes of Health awards promising doctoral students with mentored research training with the long-term goal of developing productive, independent research scientists.
The internet has a dark side, but can we teach machines how to identify it?
Researchers at the USC Information Sciences Institute are developing technology that can detect logical fallacies in AI and classify hate speech in internet memes.
Why do some chatbots talk funny? Teaching them to ‘think’ rationally might help them do better
Trojans Mayank Kejriwal and Zhisheng Tang decided to test how well language representation models make rational decisions.
USC Roski Eye Institute faculty members use AI with aim of revolutionizing patient care
Physicians Melinda Chang and Benjamin Xu are exploring the use of AI to automate clinical tasks.
The Future Foretold
Will your city be under attack in the next six months? What are the odds that your favorite team will make the playoffs? USC researchers use AI to look for answers.
USC unveils strategic vision to transform athletics facilities
University President Carol L. Folt’s “moonshot” for athletics builds on recent momentum to support all 21 sports programs and launch USC Athletics into the future.
Boeing, USC Viterbi partnership provides internships, tuition and a full-time job after graduation
The aerospace company’s Accelerated Leadership Program invites sophomores from partner universities into a wide range of engineering and product-focused activities, including access to top-level leadership.
USC Stem Cell’s journey toward 1,000 mini-kidneys begins with $1 million fund
With a $1 million prize from the Kidney Innovation Accelerator, or KidneyX, USC Stem Cell scientists are on a quest to build a “kidney” that resembles the real thing in function, if not in form.
Quantum computers are better at guessing, study demonstrates
USC researchers leverage techniques to manage error accumulation, demonstrating the potential of quantum computing.
New Rawlinson Stadium set to be home of USC women’s soccer and lacrosse
The $38 million project will feature spectator viewing decks and social spaces, a state-of-the-art press box, concession stands and a capacity of 2,500.
Raising awareness for leading non-genetic cause of infant hearing loss is personal
Michelle Zappas discovered a gap in knowledge among health care professionals around the viral infection that caused her daughter’s hearing loss.
USC’s Paul Aisen, pioneering Alzheimer’s researcher, honored with Epstein Alzheimer’s Disease Director’s Chair
An international leader in Alzheimer’s disease research for over 30 years, Aisen is recognized with the highest academic honor at the Keck School of Medicine of USC.
Farms of the future: How the mung bean, chickpea and kelp can survive climate change
USC Dornsife’s Sergey Nuzhdin on how the evolution of crops may point toward their sustainable future.
Advancing computer vision one pixel at a time
What happens when a rabbit jumps in front of a self-driving car? Perhaps nothing bad, thanks to research from USC Viterbi’s Information Sciences Institute and the Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering.
USC research prototype launches for testing on the International Space Station
CLINGERS, a unique docking system, is designed to facilitate sensing and docking operations in space.
AI sheds new light on the ‘code of life’
USC Dornsife researchers employ artificial intelligence to unveil the intricate world of DNA structure and chemistry, enabling unprecedented insights into gene regulation and disease.
Information Sciences Institute leads initiative to increase bandwidth availability around the nation
The USC Viterbi unit is working with the National Science Foundation, the Idaho National Laboratory and the University of Utah to expand spectrum access.
Researcher uses mammal DNA to zoom into human genome with unprecedented resolution
Steven Gazal has identified base pairs of DNA that play a crucial role in human disease.
Neighborhood Academic Initiative gala celebrates graduating class of seniors
This year’s gala honors a class of scholars who bonded during trying times to help one another succeed as they progressed through the USC Leslie and William McMorrow Neighborhood Academic Initiative.
Multimillion-dollar legacy gift supports USC Rossier, Keck School of Medicine and Caruso Catholic Center
The generous donation comes from longtime USC supporters Amy King Dundon-Berchtold and James “Jim” Joseph Berchtold.
Unlocking the ocean’s secret: Natural carbon capture
Ocean-inspired methods for carbon capture hold promise for reducing greenhouse gas emissions and advancing sustainability efforts. Experts from USC and Caltech join us for a Q&A from the docks at the Port of Los Angeles.
Annenberg Inclusion Initiative unveils The Inclusion List
The list, a partnership with the Adobe Foundation, provides the titles of the 100 most inclusive theatrically released films from 2019 to 2022.