Viterbi Newswire 10/13/11

TOP STORIES

• Dean Yannis C. Yortsos sets a lofty goal: to go "from very good to great"
• Chan Soon-Shiong Family Foundation endows Viterbi chair
• Viterbi MAPP joins with Metrolink to create rail safety culture
• Bhaskar Krishnamachari and Jernej Barbič selected members of the TR35
  

RESEARCH

• Pin Wang's label virus could help immune system fight HIV
• Shinyi Wu quantifies effectiveness of institutional exercise motivation
• Yolanda Gil's 'workflow' technology moves to cyber defense applications
• Maged Dessouky finds better ways to timetable L.A. rail freight
• GamePipe app that models character's movements after user's wins patent
  
  

FACULTY HONORS

• 'Genuine Giant' Tony Maxworthy wins top American Physical Society prize
• Guiseppe Caire, Michael Gruntman, Qiang Huang, Bhaskar Krishnamachari, Aristides Requicha, Milind Tambe and Yannis Yortsos honored
• Paul Rosenbloom wins 'Best Idea' award at prestigious AI conference
• Roger Ghanem named Gordon S. Marshall Professor; Jernej Barbič appointed to Viterbi Early Career Chair 

EVENTS

• Fight On Toward the Destined Reign of Troy!
• USC Center for Energy Nanoscience reviews two years of achievements
• China meeting Taiwan in Viterbi School's 'No Distance' iPodia classroom
• John Slaughter welcomes Center for Engineering Diversity students
  

IN THE NEWS

• N.Y. Times reports on Chris Kyriakakis' ultra high fidelity sound systems
• Maja Matarić on 'Engineering Our Future: Because Dreams Need Doing'
• L.A. Business Journal spotlights Viterbi School culture of innovation
• Metrolink CEO praises partnership with USC Viterbi on rail safety culture program 
  
• Mork Department #7 in citations in Thomson-Reuters Global Research Report