USC - Viterbi School of Engineering - Viterbi Newswire 7/14/09

July 14, 2009

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	TOP STORIES Kelly Goulis leads enhancement and expansion of Viterbi School's professional education programs Najmedin Meshkati (ISE) to advise U.S. State Department as Jefferson Science Fellow Kenneth Klein, BMEE ’82, inducted into USC Board of Trustees
	IN THE NEWS BME's Mark Humayun's artificial retina featured on NBC Nightly News Epstein Department's pianist-computer scientist Elaine Chew makes music on new CD
	RESEARCH Francisco Valero-Cuevas (BME) casts doubt on old theories of finger control BME's Chungqi Jiang's plasma plaque-blaster stars in School of Dentistry tests Renowned researcher Shang-Hua Teng comes to chair Viterbi School CS department
	FACULTY HONORS Hsieh's Stephen Cronin and Hossein Hashemi win prestigious NSF CAREER grants Roger Ghanem (AME/Astani) receives USACM Structural Mechanics Award Yong Chen (ISE) and Andreas Molisch (EE) named NAE "Creative Young Engineers" Alan Willner (Hsieh) is a 2009 HP Innovation Award winner Terence Langdon (AME ) honored by Czech Academy of Sciences
	STUDENTS Grand Challenges Summit Co-Hosts announce Grand Challenges Scholars program Summer Research Interns picnic in Archimedes Quad
	EVENTS Burcin Becerik-Gerber (Astani) gathers leaders of Building Information Modeling Boeing VP Rick Stephens and 300 other Trojans gather at C-17 Globemaster plant César Piña's accomplishments as director of ISI's MOSIS chip brokerage honored

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