Viterbi Newswire 5/25/11

COMMENCEMENT 2011

• A magical day as degree candidates turn into engineers and brand new alumni
• Dean Yannis C. Yortsos' remarks
• Valedictorian Craig Western's remarks

TOP STORIES

• Norberto Grzywacz team wins Coulter Translational Research Partnership
• John and Julie Mork make landmark gift to fund undergraduate scholarships
• Milind Tambe and Daniel Lidar win 5-year basic research MURI awards
  

RESEARCH

• Alice Parker and Chongwu Zhou create nanotube analog of neural synapse
• Ellis Meng receives TATRC/Qualcomm Innovation Challenge Award
• Patric Muggli continues groundbreaking particle accelerator research
  

HONORS

• Larry Lim receives 2011 USC Presidential Award for Staff Achievement
• Murali Annavaram, Alexandros Dimakis, Martin Eskijian, Terence Langdon, Andreas Molisch, and Cyrus Shahabi honored by peers
• Viterbi Awards: (Faculty) Andrea Armani, Ellis Meng, Hai Wang, Joe Qin, Peter Beerel (Staff) Dragana Davidovic, Annie Yu, Angus McColl
  

EVENTS

• "Visioneering" students present projects in USC X PRIZE class
• GamePipe Demo Day lives up to USC number 1 national ranking
• KIUEL capstone expo fills Archimedes Quad with senior ingenuity
• AME team takes second place in national Design/Build/Fly competition

IN THE NEWS

• Alaska Airlines magazine zooms in on Viterbi entrepreneurship programs
• AME freshman's motorized La-Z-Boy featured in Popular Science
  
• James E. Moore L.A. Times op-ed argues against U.S. high-speed rail
• Naj Meshkati comments extensively on reactor issues from Ukraine to California