USC - Viterbi School of Engineering - Viterbi Newswire 4/14/10

April 14, 2010

The Viterbi Newswire is a digest of recent USC Viterbi School of Engineering news stories. For a complete listing of recent news and events visit the Viterbi Website - http://viterbi.usc.edu/news/recent-news.htm

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	TOP STORIES Viterbi School honors Steven and Kathryn Sample, NASA Administrator Charles Bolden and AECOM CEO John Dionisio Keck and Viterbi Faculty push forward on HST@USC, with Terry Sanger taking leadership role Academy Award winner Paul Debevec honored
	RESEARCH A woman’s place is at the cutting edge: inside Andrea Armani’s laboratory ISI’s Brian Schott and John Graybill launch cloud computing startup aimed at facilitating design for smaller companies Milind Tambe/Fernando Ordoñez team finalists in Operations Research competition GamePipe student startup launches and updates iPhone game Labs of Andrea Armani, Michelle Povinelli and Anupam Madhukar win DoD instrumentation funding
	FACULTY HONORS Maja Matarić named “Remarkable” by USC Women in Science and Engineering Nenad Medvidović, Robert Scholtz, Andrea Armani and David D'Argenio win USC mentoring honors Gerald Fleischer first winner of new ASEE award for Engineering Economy Teaching
	EVENTS Fourth Feng Deng-sponsored Viterbi - Tsinghua U. faculty conference held at USC Cornell’s John Hopcraft presents fourth George Bekey lecture Alumni Association honoring EE alumnus and namesake Ming Hsieh 2010 NAE Grand Challenges Summit at the Viterbi School website goes live; first speakers announced Dean Yortsos visits Viterbi School alumni and parents in Bangalore
	IN THE NEWS LA Times: Internet pioneers gather in Marina del Rey to salute the Information Sciences Institute "A Latina Excels in Nanotechnology" La Opinión profiles Andrea Hodge Science News describes Priya Vashista lab research on water-splitting ‘superatoms’ Medical News interviews David Belson on reducing doctors waiting room wait time

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