Viterbi Newswire 11/10/10

TOP STORIES

• Ming Hsieh gives $50 million to create Viterbi-Keck cancer research institute
• Viterbi and Keck Schools collaborate on engineering+medicine HTE@USC program
• Yannis C. Yortsos accepts second 5-year term as Viterbi School dean
• Andrea Armani and Michelle Povinelli win PECASE awards
• Grand Challenges National Summit Viterbi Newswire

RESEARCH

• DHS renews CREATE homeland security University Center of Excellence led by Stephen Hora
• Gaurav Sukhatme lab releases phone app to measure air pollution
• Laurent Itti to direct $16 million DARPA ‘smart vision’ project
• Team led by Panayiotis Georgiou and Shri Narayanan wins Interspeech best paper prize
• Cyrus Shahabi and IMSC to work with METRANS on integrated traffic data system

FACULTY HONORS

• Andrea Armani wins National Institutes of Health Innovator Award
• Guiseppe Caire and Gerhard Kramer elected to IEEE Information Theory Society
• Milind Tambe Wins Columbus Foundation National Security Award

EVENTS 

• ICT celebrates 10 years of breakthroughs and cuts ribbon on new headquarters
• Green Technology symposium honors memory of environmental engineering pioneer Teh Fu “Dave” Yen
• Viterbi, IBM and Makarere University establish ties in Uganda

IN THE NEWS 

• Dean Yannis C. Yortsos pens op-ed on Engineering +
• Dwell Magazine features Viterbi Interaction Lab robots
• Popular Science profiles Mark Humayun’s award-winning research
• Najmedin Meshkati in the news on BP oil response

STUDENTS 

• USC team wins White House videogames-for-health contest
• Undergrads take prize plaque in AIAA Aircraft Design Competition.