TOP STORIES

• Viterbi School partners with Duke U. and Olin College on NAE Grand Challenge Summit in March
• The Viterbi School and the largest and oldest university in Mexico sign agreement
• Report on USC-UNAM agreement from Spanish-language daily La Opinión

RESEARCH

• A Nano-Imaging facility with the latest scanning electron microscopes opens, strengthening USC’s position as a national leader in nanoscience and energy.
• Chongwu Zhou's lab prints transparent nanotube lattices on flexible plastic, pointing the way to ultrathin 'e-paper' displays
• Ewa Deelman, Jose-Luis Ambite and Marcus Thiebaux of ISI are part of a new national Center for Genomic Studies on Mental Disorders

FACULTY HONORS

• Michael Arbib, Terence Langdon and Aristides Requicha are named AAAS Fellows
• ISI's Wei-Min Shen's demo wins best-of-category award at Army Science Conference
• Astani Department's Maria Todorovska named "a prominent woman in civil engineering"  by International Journal of Engineering Education
• Barry Boehm wins double honors in IEEE Software "most influential paper" retrospective.

UNDERGRADUATES

• Walking on Water: Freshman Academy students dive into a challenging assignment
• Tutor Tutoring: a Viterbi School program offering extra support for freshmen and sophomores facing intimidating final exams enters its third successful year.
• Jasmine Thum tells NSHSS Monthly about her excellent Viterbi School experiences

EVENTS

• Infosys COO S.D. Shibulal spends a full day at the corporation's U.S. research partner, the Viterbi School
• 'Bekey tribe' of faculty and research scholars gather to celebrate the legacy of the Viterbi School's emeritus robotics giant.
• Representatives of 17 interactive entertainment companies attend GamePipe Lab's Seventh Demo Day.
• Mike Barr and Paul Krivonos of the USC Aviation Safety and Security Program conduct classes in Auckland, NZ
• Harvard's Daniel Schrag discusses energy choices in the Mork Department’s annual Pings Lecture.

IN THE NEWS

• Outpatient Surgery interviews ISE's David Belson about improving operating room usage efficiency.
• N..Y Times focuses on Viterbi School-originated Project:Possibility software for the disabled project