The Mork Department's Kristian Jessen will lead an effort to develop tools to enhance recovery of a valuable but elusive resource.

The second group of undergraduate interns from China enjoyed Los Angeles as much as the hands-on research; U.S. students found the work 'eye-opening.’

Faculty in 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.

The energy giant gives $915,000 in scholarships and training to USC students as part of its global University Partnership Program (UPP).

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.

The USC Viterbi School was selected as one of 33 recipients of a 2008 HP Labs Innovation Research Award, which is designed to encourage open collaboration with HP Labs resulting in mutually beneficial, high-impact research.

Childrens Hospital "is working closely with Robert Neches, a division director at the University of Southern California’s Information Sciences Institute, on ways to revolutionize disaster-preparation training."

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

A $5.9 million grant will keep one of the Viterbi School's longest running research success stories running for at least another five years.

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.

A Hsieh Department graduate student has applied the classic tool for eliminating dead-end possibilities in data reception to qubit communications

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

Professor P. Vijay Kumar's EE-Systems team took the best paper prize at a recent conference on Distributed Computing Systems.

Canada's Discovery Channel website covers efforts by Maja Matarić of the Viterbi School's Computer Science Department to develop a robotic system to aid therapists treating children with ASD.

Alex Dimakis, whose interests lie in communications, coding theory, signal processing, and networking will join the department in June 2009.

A team from the Viterbi School's Information Sciences Institute will structure data to allow health scientists to quickly and consistently test hypotheses.

Viterbi School studies document that kids with ASD are attracted to and interact with robots; creation of therapy tools is next step.

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.

The first issue of the new electronic newsletter produced by the Defense Threat Reduction Agency features a Q&A with the director of the USC Collaboratory for Advanced Computing and Simulations, both on his work creating supermaterials and on general WMD defense basic research priorities.

A recent report describes how CS Professor Cyrus Shahabi is successfully adapting his Progressive Data Analysis (ProDA) system, which applies signal processing ideas to data processing problems, to the software giant's computing platforms.

As many as five outstanding seniors studying electrical or biomedical engineering at the San Luis Obispo college will this fall be able to speed their paths to USC MS degrees through the new Viterbi Integrated Masters of Science Program

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."

The British tech-in-education magazine Vision takes a long look at how young students might profit from hands-on experience with the modular shape-changing robots developed at ISI

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.

Andrea Hodge has received a $175,000 two-year grant to carry on advanced research in a sophisticated manufacturing process used to coat targets with thin films of various materials.

Iraj Ershaghi of the Mork Family Department discussed the potential for increasing production from the 9-billion-barrel oil field that lies under Southern California.

Viterbi contributes expertise and leadership to the university's High Performance Computing Center

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

A 25th anniversary story describes "brilliant" 1983 work by Paul Mockapetris and Jon Postel in creating the now-universal .com, .edu, .gov, .org domain name system at the Viterbi School of Engineering's Information Sciences Institute.

Keith Chugg's prize honors his achievements in textbook writing, teaching, research and student guidance

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.

Shrikanth Narayanan's research into speech emotion detection receives a detailed account in an 'Annals of Technology' story in the June 23 issue.

Research center's business director brings together Army, industry, academia and a foundation to create a lab-bench-to-marketplace competition judged by a blue-ribbon panel

How do you keep a potential half-billion social networkers current? A Viterbi School expert tackles the growth problems of one of the world's largest computing systems.

George Bekey drew on his vast experience in a wide range of engineering disciplines in his speech at the recent IEEE SOSE conference in Monterey, California

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.

Cars can run on the same fuel used in stoves, and "I think the United States, at least in urban areas, could do the same kind of thing that Argentina is doing," make natural gas available at filling stations, AME Professor Paul Ronney said.

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

The Viterbi School's Yan Xiao, on sabbatical in China, has created a prototype of a sturdy, quick-to-build bamboo house designed to help the vast number of people made homeless by the May 12 Sichuan earthquake.

The organizers of the mammoth 2008 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation were all from the Viterbi School CS Department. An ISI robotics team took a top prize and a USC specialist in nanorobotics won a prestigious Pioneer Award.

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.

Aristides A.G. Requicha, holder of the Viterbi School's Gordon Marshall Chair, was honored for his career achievements May 23 at the world's largest gathering of robotics and automation researchers.

Ming Hsieh professor Alan Willner to helm renowned publication in the optics field.

Electrical engineer Michael Johnson moves from regional chair to national Vice-Chairperson of the National Society of Black Engineers, continuing his upward trajectory and high level of involvement both within and without the school of engineering

The director of the Viterbi School's Center for Robotics and Embedded Systems and Senior Associate Dean for Research appears on Paul Peterson's Channel 35 weekly discussion show to explain her vision of mechanical creatures who can help the elderly.

The newspaper portrays the Viterbi School as the destination for "an academic tidal wave from the Indian Ocean," thanks to its excellent overseas reputation, outreach trips and welcoming campus environment. The article spotlights Indian Student Association president Guarav Kumar, Senior Associate Dean Cauligi Raghavendra and others.

"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.

Costas Synolakis praises the Chinese government's willingness to accept outside aid after the devastating 7.9 tremblor, but faults its failure to enforce building codes.

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.

DemoDay6: Viterbi students demonstrate their original interactive games to industry representatives in the latest installment of what has become an instant USC tradition.

A computer science graduating senior will represent the Viterbi School in university's main commencement ceremony.

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

Two prize-winning Hsieh department specialists hope to break a bottleneck that has long limited computing systems that use light - photons - instead of electronics for processing.

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.

Bart Kosko of the Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical Engineering was one of three recipients of an excellence award from the USC Faculty Senate.

In January, Ed Maby and Adam Fincham's students were given a two-word assignment: "Smart Surfboards." By May, they'd gone surfing.

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

The Ming Hsieh Department professor is a leader in the field of robust control.

Ramesh Govindan, chair of the Department of Computer Science and fifth-year doctoral student Nupur Kothari take top honors at a top-tier IEEE conference.

Christopher Leung, John McArthur and Ramnath Shenoy are 2008 Viterbi recipients of USC Student Recognition Awards.

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.

Egypt has its great pyramids; Viterbi now has its micropyramids

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.

The Viterbi school's cyberdefense lab partnership wins an American Council for Technology (ACT) national award

Engineering faculty and deans from USC and China's pre-eminent technical research institution will share ideas on the University Park campus beginning April 30.

Biomedical engineering students present their work at the 12th Annual Fred S. Grodins Graduate Research Symposium.

Assistant Professor Konstantinos Psounis wins “Best and Most Compelling Presentation and Demonstration” at Stanford University workshop on the future of the Internet.

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

G4 Web TV airs an extended discussion with B. Clifford Neuman of ISI, director of the USC Center for Computer Systems Security.

Viterbi faculty, students, and alumni were prominent and numerous in a series of recent major national and regional SAE events, including two at Davidson.

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.

The Viterbi School is playing a $5.9 million part in a DARPA research effort to develop a sophisticated decision-aid system that can be deployed in the field.

Dean Yannis C. Yortsos receives the 2008 Western North America Reservoir Description and Dynamics Award from the Society of Petroleum Engineers Western North America Region.