COMMENCEMENT

• Viterbi School Pomp and Circumstance, 2009 edition

TOP STORIES

• Dan Dapkus leads newly awarded $12.5 Million DOE Energy Frontiers Research Center
• Aero-Design Team wins high honors in international competition
• Frank Gehry headlines Astani Department Symposium
• Olin College signs up for Viterbi School’s integrated masters of science program

IN THE NEWS

• "Can Robots Help Autism?" NBC Today Show interviews Maja Mataric
• Viterbi Gamepipe Videogame Builders show their stuff on KABC Evening News

RESEARCH

• BME professor Ted Berger modeling neurotransmitter action
• EE’s Krishna Nayak’s magnetic resonance cardiac imaging work wins GE recognition
• Astani’s Burcin Bercerik-Gerber enlists construction elite in BIM problem solving
• AME’s Egolfopoulos and Wang to partner in new national research center on combustion

FACULTY HONORS

• Optical Society’s 2009 Leadership Award goes to EE’s Alan Willner
  
• Double distinction for Epstein ISE’s James Moore from Institute of Industrial Engineers
• Hsieh EE’s Andreas Molisch is “Wireless Educator of the Year”

STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT

• Epstein ISE sophomore Wins Irish Technology Award
• Epstein ISE grad student wins Haynes Foundation Fellowship
• Mork Department senior receives Mexican-American alumni award
• NSF names Ross Mead (CS) and Samantha Cunningham (BME) research fellows
• Beavers establish heavy construction scholarship at Astani Department

EVENTS

• John O’Brien delivers state of the school speech – and bestows faculty-staff awards
• Jean-Pierre Bardet unveils plaque for Jo and Sonny Astani
• Five faculty members and Margie Berti mentor grad students on academic career plans
• Viterbi School student and faculty artists shine in KIEUL showcase
• Grodins 2009: 82 posters and program talks in shining BME event