President George W. Bush has announced that USC trustee and namesake of the Viterbi School of Engineering Andrew J. Viterbi is one of the recipients of the nation's highest honor for science and technology.

Civil engineering professor, traveling with a U.S. delegation, reported that some cities in earthquake-damaged region would be better off relocating than rebuilding.

USC professors of computer science and electrical engineering will use their awards to foster collaboration and promote courseware and curriculum innovation.

Former USC NCAA Champion Ous Mellouli, a Viterbi School graduate, walked away with the gold at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing.

Speaking about identity security earlier this month, Chertoff also met with university officials, including Dean Yortsos and CREATE Director Detloff von Winterfeldt.

Shri Narayanan of the Ming Hsieh Department and Laurent Itti of the Computer Science Department are the latest recipients of this prestigious award.

ASME Computers and Information in Engineering (CIE) Conference recognizes Epstein faculty member for outstanding scholarship.

A team of physicians and faculty from Keck and the USC Viterbi School will join Childrens Hospital in a new study to understand blood flow in people with sickle cell anemia.

Undergraduate engineering students fulfill course requirements while getting a taste of Rome's timelessness, turbulent history and engineering marvels in overseas study program.

Students in this year's USC-IIT Kharagpur summer exchange program said the hands-on work was valuable and, in some cases, helped them decide whether to pursue an advanced degree.

The Viterbi School's summer MESA science-mathematics-physics institute brings the laws of gravity, motion and celestial orbits into focus for middle and high school teachers.

Newly appointed faculty in electrical engineering, chemical and materials science, astronautics and civil engineering will join the professorial ranks beginning this fall.

A June 30 story in the Wall Street Journal describes the influence of Viterbi School alumnus Alireza Azmandian, who "was drawn to the motivational-speaker circuit when he was a graduate student in the U.S."

In a new paper called "Math and Music: The Perfect Match," pianist/computational engineer Elaine Chew proposes applications of the increasingly powerful discipline of Operations Research to the ancient art of pitched and rhythmic sound.

Rahul Jain, whose interests lie in networks, games and control, will join the department this fall coming from IBM.

Information theorist Gerhard Kramer of Bell Labs, Murray Hill, NJ, will join the Ming Hsieh Department early next year.

The Aerospace Institute for Engineering Research has embarked on three ambitious, collaborative aerospace research projects that could benefit commercial aviation worldwide.

An industrial and systems engineering student will examine the safety issues involved in the design of a new Expo Light Rail crossing near Dorsey High School.

A distinguished radar and communications technologist in the Ming Hsieh Department has been appointed professor emeritus in recognition of his exceptional contributions to the field.

Nikias, Yortsos and Golomb journey with him to Helsinki to be part of events honoring the School's namesake and three illustrious colleagues.

Terence G. Langdon has won a 2008 Blaise Pascal Medal for Material Science from the European Academy of Sciences, and will deliver the Lee Hsun Lecture at a Chinese Academy Institute of Materials Science

Glaucoma patients and those with other eye diseases may benefit from a simple polymer device that attaches to the eye, reports Chemical Technology, in its June 9, 2008 review of new work by biomedical engineer Ellis Meng and her colleagues.

Professor Ellis Horowitz will serve as interim chair of the Viterbi School's Department of Computer Science.

Three Viterbi School doctoral students will have their careers generously supported for three years as recipients of Alfred E. Mann Innovation in Engineering Doctoral Fellowships.

The giant Bangalore-based IT company will partner with the Viterbi School to create a Center for Research & Education in Advanced Software Technologies on the USC campus

Monica De Los Santos, director of Student Services in the Viterbi School's Admission and Student Affairs Office, has won the USC Outstanding Academic Advising Award.

"Seven years ago we set a very lofty target...I am extremely pleased to tell you that as of the end of this March, our fundraising total stood at $300,955,609 in cash and pledges."

Parents, siblings, children and friends — some from across the globe — cheer 1,860 newly minted Viterbi School graduates, who have now become part of USC's global Trojan family.

Byeong Ho Gong and Chan K. Song were the first Viterbi Distance Education Network students to win M.S. degrees while studying outside the U.S.

Microtechnology pioneer shares some personal experiences in risk taking, perseverance, competition and the role of money.

The Viterbi School's Distance Education Network's largest-ever graduating class marked a 30 percent increase over 2007 — which had been 30 percent above 2006.

Ken Klein (BSMEE'82), benefactor of the Klein Institute of Undergraduate Engineering Life urges the Class of 2008 to follow their passion in life.

Chemical engineering senior Kelly Nakamura was not only at the top of her class, but the Emma Josephine Bradley Bovard Awardee for having the highest GPA of all graduating senior women at USC.

The Viterbi School graduating senior, Trojan basketball player and new Rhodes Scholar will be a salutatorian in the university's May 16 commencement ceremony.

The School celebrates legendary scientist and engineer Simon Ramo, co-founder of TRW; an industry leader; and a Viterbi School alumna at its yearly engineering awards ceremony.

Graduating seniors and student leaders were recognized for their exceptional achievements in a special Viterbi Awards ceremony held on campus.

A USC presidential scholar and top ISE student wins a research grant to study human factors in airport safety at LAX.

Sonny Astani Department alumnus Sung Woo Lee has been named president of Kookmin University, a leader in information technology in South Korea.

Two industrial and systems engineering undergraduates have received 2008 Science and Engineering Fellowships from the Rose Hills Foundation to support their research in aviation and railway safety.

Dean Yortsos recognizes exceptional teaching, research and service in the Viterbi School in his annual "State of the School" speech and awards luncheon.

An internationally known USC civil engineer, Abdel-Ghaffar specialized in the analysis and monitoring of long span flexible bridges.

Noted civil engineer Jean-Lou Chameau delivers the inaugural lecture for the Astani Department’s new Dorman Distinguished Lecture series.

Six engineering faculty are recognized for mentoring that made a difference in lives of fellow faculty and/or students.

Faculty and students meet with NRC representative to discuss changing priorities as global energy demands increase.

The professor emeritus was recognized for his significant contributions, scholarly writings and teaching awards in the area of oil and gas field development.

The Viterbi School and Seoul National University have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to begin collaborative programs in digital communications, image and video signal processing and other areas of electrical engineering.

University officials from the Shanghai institution have entered into a new partnership with the Viterbi School to develop collaborative student and faculty research programs.

“Becoming Part of California’s Rebuilding” was the theme of this year’s USC-Associated General Contractors 14th Annual Symposium at the Galen Center.

The new agreement will allow the institutions to develop collaborative academic programs, exchanges and internships.

Viterbi undergraduates and faculty show off their artistic talents during the second annual spring art festival, sponsored by KIUEL.

The Viterbi School's Mork Family Department hosts a new annual keynote lecture to honor the late provost and chemical engineer.

In just over one year, Christopher Leung has brought together a volunteer student programming effort, supported by industry, that may soon have working software products

A five-year grant will advance the engineering professor's work to produce a new measurement technique for the development of next-generation microfluidic devices.

A new EPA-funded investigation will examine the amount of coarse particle pollution in specific parts of the Los Angeles Basin.

The Viterbi School professor of electrical engineering is known for his cutting edge research to improve and miniaturize particle accelerators.

Viterbi School's Yolanda Gil, Kate Baxter, and Robyn Strumpf are honored in an annual USC ceremony recognizing female excellence.

Women In Engineering (WIE) Connect 2008 introduces girls to a bright future in science and technology.

Aerospace engineering Prof. Geoff Spedding's bat flight studies received top billing in today's New York Times, as well as National Public Radio and Science Daily.

Jack Wolf, invited speaker for the Viterbi Distinguished Lecture, chronicled the evolution of audio storage from the days of Thomas Edison to the present.

Viterbi Professor Geoff Spedding reports in today's Science magazine how bats, like insects, are able to hover in mid-air.

Viterbi School engineering students host a new community outreach program for middle schools, a Career Fair and an industry dinner seminar during this year's national E-Week celebration.

The faculty member has won a three-year grant for his novel approach to solving delay problems in ad-hoc wireless networks.

Alexis Livanos, Wanda Austin and John Martin have close Viterbi connections

When Santa Anita unveils its newly surfaced race track on Feb. 9, jockeys, trainers, owners and horses will thank Sonny Astani Department Chair Jean-Pierre Bardet for coming to the rescue.

In a novel experiment, a USC biomedical engineering professor examines the intricate circuitry between precision hand manipulation skills and specialized neural circuits in the brain.

The researcher becomes the fifth faculty member in the Sonny Astani Department to receive a National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) award.

Actor Alan Alda shares some tips with Viterbi School engineering students on the art of public speaking.

USC researcher Constantinos Sioutas develops new technologies and exposure methods to investigate the link between air pollution and heart disease

The former director and chief operating officer of the Alfred E. Mann Institute for Biomedical Engineering at USC who was on the biomedical engineering faculty and a member of the USC Viterbi School of Engineering’s Board of Councilors was 73.

George Chilingar, an expert on petroleum engineering whose expertise is anchored by mastery of numerous related disciplines, who has been published in 65 books in numerous languages, who has oil fields named after him, was feted January 15 for his unprecedented duration of USC faculty membership.

New study reveals dramatic improvements in patient flow at large safety net hospitals, based on the principles of industrial and systems engineering.

In a Los Angeles Times op-ed, transportation expert James E. Moore, II, chair of the Daniel J. Epstein Department, and consultant Tom Rubin show how much public transit has been impacted by construction and funding of the city's rail network.

For the first time in its history, the coveted Order of the Torch has selected two students from the Viterbi School to act as ambassadors for all USC seniors in a variety of campus events.

Hossein Hashemi, an assistant professor of electrical engineering-electrophysics in the Ming Hsieh Department, has been named to the Gordon S. Marshall Early Career Chair.

Astani and Viterbi School faculty and board members celebrate a new beginning for one of the school's original departments.

With a historic $17 million gift, the largest ever to name a civil engineering department, Sonny Astani (MSISE’78) positions a department to meet the challenges of megacities.

Engineering society honors USC’s president and provost for their exceptional leadership and contributions.

In a Houston Chronicle opinion essay, Viterbi Dean Yannis C. Yortsos argues for urgently increased federal funding supporting basic research in energy.

Engineering senior and basketball player Reed Doucette, who is working on the efficiency of solar cells, will continue his studies at Oxford next year.

After years of systems installation work aboard many Navy ships, ISE doctoral student Yvette Torres becomes a professor in pursuit of a new career in academia.

MIT bioengineer Douglas Lauffenburger presents keynote lecture on the promising intersection between bioengineering and biotechnology.

The Viterbi School welcomes two research scholars who show promise of advancing the fields of nano device technology and health care systems engineering.

The Office of the Vice Provost for Research has awarded 13 USC engineers 2007 Zumberge interdisciplinary research grants for projects in quantum computing and new educational technologies to ultrasonic image-guided surgery.

USC Viterbi School computer programming students need problems. University Park neighborhood organizations need their own applications and websites. The two find each other at Prof. Barry Boehm’s long-running graduate level course in Software Engineering, CS 577.

The American Association for the Advancement of Science recognizes Senior Associate Dean Maja Mataric and USC Provost C.L. Max Nikias for distinguished contributions in science and engineering.

Kids, teachers and Viterbi School seniors benefit from a special outreach program of supplemental science and engineering classes.

Fundraising leaders in Viterbi’s arm of the Good Neighbors Campaign hope to increase participation in the annual USC funding drive.

Fully a quarter of all the bandsmen in “The Greatest Marching Band in the History of the universe” are from the Viterbi School.

A multi-institutional team led by USC faculty has received a five-year, $8 million grant from the National Institutes of Health for an ambitious effort to survey the genetic, physical, environmental and behavioral profiles of children with autism.

Shanghai Jiao Tong University rankings show Viterbi School gaining ground in engineering, technology and computer science.

A new NIH-funded project will focus on visual displays to help people suffering from macular degeneration and other forms of vision loss.

The IIE president emphasizes fundamental shifts in thinking and education to keep pace with complex, 21st century industrial processes and systems.

Computer scientist David Kempe and biomedical engineer Ellis Meng named to endowed chairs for their exceptional early career contributions.

Dean Yannis C. Yortsos has appointed Ellis Meng of Biomedical Engineering and David Kempe of Computer Science to endowed early career chairs.

Najmedin Meshkati, a professor of civil and environmental engineering, has won the highly competitive Oliver Keith Hansen Outreach Award from the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society.

Dean Yannis C. Yortsos delivers his annual state of the school address and sets new goals for the coming year.

Astronautics Professor Mike Gruntman looks back at the Sputnik era and ahead to interstellar space exploration during AIAA anniversary celebration of space.

Systems Architecting and Engineering Program Director Stan Settles started his fall semester with a high-speed race over Utah's famous Bonneville salt flats.

Francisco Valero-Cuevas, who joined the Viterbi School's Department of Biomedical Engineering this fall, is studying the biomechanical complexities of the human hand.

MS computer science candidate Lakshmi Mallikarjun Kodali shares his experiences at USC with readers of the Times of India: "The expenditure at USC was like an investment on myself; I knew that this would be the best platform for a successful career. My University has a very large population of international students, which makes it very easy for students from other countries to settle down and find friends..."

Sandia computer scientist and software engineer Donna Djordjevich (MSCS'06) has returned to her alma mater to create an interactive gaming platform to prepare decision makers and first responders.

Conclusions from a CREATE risk analysis could help local authorities with emergency planning at Los Angeles ports and electric systems.

The collaboration will help prepare undergraduates for a career in dental biotechnology.

Juniors from the Indian Institute of Technology at Kharagpur were almost reluctant to leave USC after a summer of stimulating hands-on research.

SeaBee II – a 50-pound underwater robotic submarine with three camera eyes, two arms, a novel water-cooling system, and enough smarts to find Pirate Dave’s treasure at the bottom of the lagoon – is swimming for the championship in this week’s international robot competition.

The professor of astronautics is a founding member of the Viterbi School's Astronautics and Space Technology Division.

Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical Engineering researcher Chongwu Zhou has been named Jack Munushian Professor.

Nanotechnologist Chongwu Zhou and colleagues at Purdue and Northwestern universities have created transparent transistors with great potential to create head-up displays, ‘e-paper’ and ‘smart’ credit cards.

The auto maker has donated $225,000 to launch a new high school mentoring program to prepare and encourage educationally disadvantaged but promising minority students to pursue undergraduate engineering degrees.

The young researcher, an assistant professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering, is developing novel ultrasound transducers that can image tissue in three dimensions and provide more than four times the resolution of two-dimensional imaging.

Six new faculty with expertise in biochemical and biomedical engineering, materials science, electrical engineering and computer science will join the Viterbi School this fall.

A 22-year old electrical engineering student from Suzhou and a 22-year old signal and image processing specialist from Tianjing will begin classes at the USC Viterbi School in Los Angeles this fall as the first Ming Hsieh scholars.

The Viterbi School's Distance Education Network, the leading provider of distance graduate education in engineering among research universities, has a new executive director.

The USC Viterbi School and Tsinghua University faculty establish a strategic partnership and build bridges of collaboration with a joint workshop.

He’s been on loan to the NSF for a year and a half, influencing policy and funding decisions in computer science at the national level. When he returns to USC’s Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical Engineering next year, Timothy Pinkston will have some compelling news about research directions in the field.

James Baker, chairman and chief executive officer of Fuji Xerox’s Palo Alto Laboratory (FXPAL), has been appointed new director of USC's Integrated Media Systems Center (IMSC), effective June 1, 2007.

The Viterbi School and Korean Aerospace University mark a Memorandum of Understanding by planting a commemorative tree in Korea.

Viterbi School graduates 1,762 Viterbi School engineers during the 79th annual commencement ceremonies in Archimedes Plaza.

Angus McColl, a veteran of 24 years in the U.S. Navy, is the new executive director of Corporate and Foundation Relations at the Viterbi School.

Bats generate a measurably distinct aerodynamic footprint to achieve lift and maneuverability, quite unlike birds and contrary to many of the assumptions that aerodynamicists have used to model animal flight, asserts aerodynamicist Geoff Spedding in this week's issue of Science.

A collaborative program to study the risks and economic consequences of terrorism gets the OK to investigate other forms of terrorism, including chemical and biological weapons, explosives, borderline security and protecting infrastructure.