Retired Gen. David Petraeus officially became “Professor Petraeus” to USC students during the week of October 7 — lecturing on energy and the U.S. economy, meeting with student veterans and cheering the football team to a win in the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum.
Petraeus, whose current interests include how energy, information technology, life sciences and manufacturing revolutions will spur the North American economy, was impressed with the latest Trojan technology — robotic fingers that give machines a humanlike touch and the testimony of Holocaust survivors brought to life through 3-D technology.
Petraeus, who constructed the counterinsurgency doctrine that stabilized Iraq under U.S. and allied forces and later served as director of the CIA, joined USC’s faculty this fall as Judge Widney Professor.
Petraeus’ first stop on campus was opening a national conference hosted by the USC Price School of Public Policy on the needs of military veterans returning from war. There, LA Mayor Eric Garcetti made his first official visit to campus and announced plans to establish a new Office of Veterans Affairs for the city.
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