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Sustainability News Highlights
10 Projects, 10 Solutions: Student Engineers Tackle Everyday Problems
USC Makers celebrated its 10th anniversary with 10 student-built projects, including tools to reduce food waste and inventive assistive robots.
USC Scientists Built a Tiny System That Thinks Like a Brain and Runs on Thin Air
USC researchers created a coin-sized analog system that senses, learns and makes decisions using energy from its surroundings, without a battery.
Engineering for Energy Demands Summit 2026: Meeting Rising Global Energy Needs
USC Viterbi and the National Academy of Engineering convened leaders to discuss rising energy demand, infrastructure, investment and the future workforce.