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An avid outdoorsman and the first of eight children in his family to go to college, Jay Clewis guides students through the world of UX research and design methods at the Academy. Read on...
The degree teaches product design for the 21st century and offers a progressive option allowing USC undergraduates to begin coursework toward the master’s while simultaneously completing their bachelor’s degree.
Mimi is an artist, designer and co-founder of Project Wren, the Y Combinator-backed startup that measures and offsets your carbon footprint. As commencement and inevitable questions about the future draw near, Mimi's long-term plan is refreshingly simple: build meaningful things with people she cares about. Read on...
As the saying goes, a picture is worth a thousand words. Rapid Visualization is a first-year Academy course that teaches entrepreneurs, artists, designers, and makers how to capture a flash of inspiration on paper before it fades from memory. Read on...
Kyoku founder Harry Valner is always looking for the next mountain to climb. Fueled by a desire to bring physically-engaging products to an app-saturated world, Valner's love for the outdoors serves as his entrepreneurial compass. Read on...
The Iovine and Young Academy may not be a fashion school, but it's definitely making a statement. For the third year in a row, Academy students have won at the prestigious 2020 Fashion Scholarship Fund (FSF) Competition, a merit-based scholarship that looks for gifted and enterprising young people to advance in the fashion industry. Read on...
Academy senior Pratima Manga shares how her journey to the Academy has challenged her preconceived notions of success. Whether it be pursuing her newfound love of product design or building a community empowering entrepreneurship at USC, Pratima believes that with the right people and a little bit of grit, anything is possible!
The online retail industry is booming, and so is cardboard packaging waste. Enter Infinity Box: a reusable shipping container empowered with real-time tracking and lasts 100x long than its cardboard counterparts. Infinity Box is rethinking shipping practices, offering sustainable solutions to both online retailers and consumers alike. Read on...
Senior Mac Baker's love of tinkering has led her to follow in the footsteps of great inventors from the past. An admirer of Leonardo Da Vinci, Baker has spent her time at the Academy honing her creative chops in the hopes of one day patenting products that will change the world. Read on...
"In high school, I created a club called Trash to Treasure where we took bed frames and created a recycled sculpture to commemorate our city of San Ramon’s 150th year anniversary." From rhythmic gymnastics to steel welding and Krav Maga, freshman Kia McCormick is a versatile doer pursuing an assortment of creative projects...and she wouldn't have it any other way. Read on...
Anupam Batra is an Academy freshman with a passion for human-centered design. An admirer of Apple pioneers Jony Ive and Steve Jobs, Batra sees an opportunity at the Academy to forge his own entrepreneurial path by creating products and technology that positively impact society. Read on...
Max Orozco has dedicated himself to the study of the brain, working in laboratories throughout California and penning different academic papers on brain development for much of his professional career. But now, Orozco is using his neuroscience background to help reverse people's fear of one of the most daunting procedures in the medical field.
