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2003

2003 News


Small and Deadly
December 17, 2003
USC engineers develop novel technologies to measure ultrafine specks of air pollution
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USC Chosen for $12 Million Homeland Security Center
November 25, 2003
The Dept. of Homeland Security has selected USC as the site of the first university Center of Excellence
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3 Faculty Receive Okawa Awards
November 14, 2003
Mel Breuer, Milind Tambe and Aiichiro Nakano receive Okawa Foundation Awards to pursue varied research interests.
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Flamenco and Sangria
October 27, 2003
USC undergraduate engineering students study engineering in Spain, and no, it wasn't all Flamenco and Sangria.
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Global Engineering: Spanish Style
October 27, 2003
Observations from USC Engineering Undergraduates
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USC Engineering Shares $10.8 Million Cybercrime Grant
October 15, 2003
USC's Information Sciences Institute and UC-Berkeley will establish a testbed to improve defenses against computer worms, viruses and denial-of-service attacks.
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USC Wins Second ERC
October 01, 2003
The National Science Foundation funds Biomimetic MicroElectronic Systems (BMES) center to develop biologically-inspired implantable microdevices that can communicate with tissue.
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Dean Appoints Four to Endowed Chairs and Professorships
August 28, 2003
Dean C. L. Max Nikias has named Aristides Requicha, Theordore Berger, Robert Scholtz and Terence Langdon to endowed chairs and professorships.
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Computer Scientist Jeff Rickel: 1963-2003
July 14, 2003
Jeff Rickel, a rising star in the field of artificial intelligence expert and member of the Department of Computer Science, dies from complications of cancer
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A Distant Commencement
May 16, 2003
Dave Rocheleau, a 27-year-old Boeing employee from Mesa, Arizona, visits the USC campus for the very first time to pick up his MS diploma.
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Congratulations Class of 2003!
May 16, 2003
More than 1,500 members of the USC School of Engineering Class of 2003 complete the first leg of a lifelong journey of learning.
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USC Engineering Grads Bring Cyprus Together
May 16, 2003
Vesile Evrim and Charalambos Poullis are the first beneficiaries of an international fellowship program begun by Dean C. L. Max Nikias.
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School Breaks Ground for Ronald Tutor Hall
May 06, 2003
Donor Ronald Tutor, USC President Steven B. Sample, Engineering Dean C. L. Max Nikias and donor Dwight J. "Jim" Baum break ground for the School of Engineering's new Ronald Tutor Hall.
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Sol Golomb Elected to NAS
April 30, 2003
Sol Golomb, a 40-year faculty member, becomes only the third person affiliated with the School to hold dual membership in the National Academy of Sciences and the National Academy of Engineering.
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Graduate Cybersecurity Program Offered
April 25, 2003
USC School of Engineering is offering one of the nation's first master's degree program in cybersecurity beginning in the fall.
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Len Adleman Wins Turing Prize
April 14, 2003
Professor Leonard Adleman has been honored by the Association of Computing Machinery with the Turing Prize, often called the Nobel Prize of Computing.
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Hollywood Must Change or Face Extinction
February 27, 2003
Dean Max Nikias outlines how digital technology will change the entertainment industry and what Hollywood must do to survive.
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New Technology Spurs Rapid Growth of School of Engineering Distance Education
February 06, 2003
Kelly Goulis, executive director of the Distance Education Network (DEN) says that advanced e-learning technologies from the Information Sciences Institute have increased DEN enrollments 27 percent in the past year. "Distance learning is a reality, not a dream at USC Engineering," says Dean C. L. Max Nikias.
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USC Researcher Loses Data Aboard Columbia Shuttle
February 02, 2003
highlight of the Space Shuttle Columbia's last voyage had been an experiment with flames by astronaut-trained Paul Ronney, a professor of aerospace and mechanical engineering.
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Frank J. Lockhart 1916-2002
January 01, 2003
Frank J. Lockhart, Professor Emeritus of Chemical Engineering Passes Away Former Chair of USC’s Chemical Engineering Department Was 86
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