2009

Expert Costas Synolakis of the Astani Department spoke to reporters from Nature and CNN on the anniversary of the 2004 Indian Ocean catastrophe

Aggeliki Barberopoulou and others in the USC Tsunami Research Center modeled Californian coastal vulnerabilities.

Michael Kassner, Shrikanth Narayanan, and Viktor Prasanna are now Fellows of the American Society for the Advancement of Science.

CS Chair Shang-Hua Teng is now a Fellow and Professor Cyrus Shahabi a Distinguished Member of the Association of Computing Machinery

The highly selective medical honor society recognizes Tzung "John" Hsiai's achievements in biomedical research.

The ISI Project Leader/Epstein Department professor talks about making 21st century grid computing techniques into useful tools for clinicians.

"Ted Berger, Danny Cohen, Bart Kosko and Gerhard Kramer are four very talented and exceptional individuals with outstanding records of academic achievement," noted Dean Yannis C. Yortos.

Jared Fortune (ISE), Dan Hong (AME), Khiza Mazwi (Mork Derpartment) and Ashok Patel (Hsieh Department) receive Excellence in Teaching commendations.

The USC Presidential chair, trustee and alumnus who is the namesake of the Viterbi School of Engineering and the founder and co-director of the USC Center for Software and Systems Engineering are tapped for highly prestigious recognition.

In a one-day seminar, a faculty panel shared their experiences, discussing the benefits of a career in academia with more than 100 doctoral candidates.

Professor Iraj Ershaghi and Dean Yannis C. Yortsos held up their end of the $975,000 donation presented on the Coliseum field during the 2009 (sob!) Stanford game.

In a long and detailed article entitled "Computer Science in the Conceptual Age," Mike Zyda talks about the addition of "design, storytelling, artistry, empathy, play, and emotion" to CS curricula, with particular emphasis on Viterbi School computer game instruction.

Thirty years ago, Mike Gruntman imagined a sensor that could image the heliopause, the boundary of the sun's solar wind. This year, his vision was realized by NASA and documented in Science.

Subu Goparaju was one of the "Infoscions" who attended the recent “thought sharing and collaboration event that brings together the best academicians, researchers, practitioners and thought leaders” at the USC Viterbi School.

Tzung "John" Hsiai hopes to help clinicians distinguish cardiac emergencies requiring immediate surgery from chronic problems manageable with drugs and lifestyle change.

Ramesh Govindan will lead the USC's Viterbi School of Engineering partnership in an interdisciplinary communication networks research center, sharing $35.5 million in funding over 10 years.

Maja Mataric', director of the USC Center for Robotics and Embedded Systems (CRES), will lead an effort to evaluate the effectiveness of robots as exercise coaches.

Patrick Soon-Shiong M.D. and Rick Stephens, both members of the USC Viterbi School’s Board of Councilors, received Los Angeles County Economic Development Corporation Eddy Awards® November 12.

Introduced by Hsieh Department chairman Eun Sok Kim, the renowned physicist spoke about academia's lost topics of science.

Fred Aminzadeh, Managing Director of the USC Energy Institute's Global Energy Center, will direct an ambitious 3D mapping and modeling effort focused on the Geysers area in Northern California.

The Viterbi School's Costas Synolakis was a principal investigator of an NSF-funded team that visited the devastated islands and probed the strengths and weaknesses of the emergency response.

Computer scientists Ewa Deelman and Ann Chervenak of the Viterbi School's Information Sciences Institute will be part of a new $9 million effort headquartered at the Keck School of Medicine at USC

Faculty members from the Ming Hsieh and Computer Science departments teamed up with a Keck School professor to win the Best Technology Award at a recent conference on implantable medical devices held at USC.

Charlene Jeune's personal essay and a recommendation from her manager at Entertainment Arts, where she had been an intern, catapulted her into the finals round in which she was awarded one of two EA $2,500 scholarships.

Paul K. Newton, a specialist in applied mathematics and modeling, will participate in a new physics oncology center, working with scientists at the Scripps Research Institute and other institutions — and with Andrew J. Viterbi.

Emily Mower's research may allow synthetic agents (robots and computer avatars) to understand human expressions of emotion. She presented her most recent findings at the 10th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association held in Brighton, UK.

The Biomedical Informatics Research Network (BIRN) has launched a website that highlights its broadened focus, including services for the entire biomedical community and enhanced data-sharing and analysis tools and capabilities.

Funds from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act will support a wide range of Viterbi School research in numerous engineering disciplines

Stefan Schaal's Computational Learning and Motor Control Lab's mechanical quadruped performed at a high standard in recent DARPA competitive trials.

Dorit S. Hochbaum, a world-renowned scholar with wide-ranging OR interests, will be the inaugural recipient of the Epstein Family Chair in the Daniel Epstein Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering

Nobel Laureate Carl Wieman brought his message that current methods of teaching subjects like physics, chemistry and engineering are inefficient to about 100 USC faculty members -- and left behind continuing interest.

Mark Humayun has been elected to the prestigious Institute of Medicine for his groundbreaking work to restore sight to the blind.

Iraj Ershaghi, the Viterbi School's Omar B. Milligan Professor of Petroleum Engineering, has won unanimous election to the Board of Directors of the Research Partnership to Secure Energy for America (RPSEA)

Jean-Pierre Bardet, chair of the Sonny Astani Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, will lead a team of experts who will use both sophisticated computer modeling and close up on-site inspections.

Gordon Roesler's first focus: Pacific coast waves, the potential "equivalent of five nuclear power plants worth of completely clean energy"

Professor Michael Zyda of the Computer Science Department believes that the CS undergraduate major specializing in computer game development has attracted students and provided them with a firm foundation in computer science principles, while helping the graduates to succeed in the game industry.

Michael E. Kassner, a professor in the Viterbi School Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering and the Mork Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, has been named Director of Research of the Office of Naval Research.

Meet Bandit, a robot programmed at the USC Viterbi School of Engineering by a team led by Professor Maja Mataric'

Lockheed Martin Fellow Gary Hafen presented a check for $80,700 to Dean Yannis Yortsos to sponsor a wide array of projects for Viterbi undergraduates.

Nanophotonics specialist Michelle Povinelli receives both Army Research Office Young Investigator Award and National Science Foundation CAREER Award

Five-month old Charlotte Aquarelle Bayona Chew was the youngest listener to Dean Yannis C. Yortsos' September 23 report to engineering faculty and staff

Harry Zhu and Tina Ren spent summer in the school's Shanghai office. Zhu: "I could really directly contribute to the growth of Viterbi in China." Ren: "I learned much."

Viterbi researchers Panayiotis Georgiou and Shrikanth Narayanan partner with communication and health professionals to create a speech-to-speech (S2S) translation system for clinics and emergency rooms.

Konami Digital Entertainment has announced the release of Reflection, a Nintendo game invented by a student team from the USC GamePipe Laboratory.

Academicians, government officials,research funders and others gather at Davidson Conference Center for three-day meeting on flames

Dean Yannis C. Yortsos greets the entering class of 2009 with a rousing talk and a community-building barbeque.

Shanghua Teng, recently named chairman of the Viterbi School Computer Science Department, is a winner of a Delbert Ray Fulkerson Prize, an honor presented only every three years.

The Viterbi Grad Student Association received a $5500 check from the aerospace giant to equip teams for a rigorous two-day trial.

Ewa Deelman of the Information Sciences Institute and her Pegasus Project will participate in an ambitious NSF effort to develop and test novel approaches to parallel, grid, and cloud computing.

CS Professor Milind Tambe and CREATE Director Steven Hora welcomed a delegation from the US Transportation Security Administration to talk about tests of the new GUARDS schedule randomizer.

The Ming Hsieh Department professor's new responsibilities include student recruitment and retention.

The CS Department's Research Experience for Undergraduates served up 10 sunny weeks of seminars, visits and even an ethics training program to 14 visiting undergrads.

Stanford's Global Climate and Energy Project has initiated an international collaboration with the Viterbi School and two Chinese universities to study large-scale sequestration of carbon dioxide in saline aquifers in China.

"You've Come to the Right Place!" Dean Yannis Yortsos, faculty and staff gave warm welcomes at the Parent’s Move-In Day Reception and the subsequent student luau.

Andrea Armani and Ellis Meng have been named to the 2009 class of the TR35, an annual list of the world's top young innovators selected by the editors of Technology Review, the much admired MIT magazine.

P. Daniel Dapkus will be awarded the International Symposium on Compound Semiconductors’s (ISCS) 2009 Welker Award at its symposium at the end of August.

Thirty-eight students from the U.S., India and China wind up their USC projects — and many will return to the Viterbi School as grad students

Fifty students from East Los Angeles - most of them incoming freshmen at East Los Angeles College, but some still in high school - came to the Viterbi School for a look at career opportunities in engineering.

The National Science Foundation has awarded Kevin Knight and collaborators $1.6 million to develop computational tools to analyze now-unreadable written texts from antiquity.

The founder and chief executive officer of Intelligent Systems Technology, Inc., is the newest professor in USC’s Daniel J. Epstein Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering.

Professor Maja Mataric' gave a detailed presentation in Washington D.C. sponsored by the Congressional Robotics Caucus about the potential for robots in healthcare

The Third Annual USC Symposium on Building Information Modeling + Construction and Fabrication, co-hosted by the Viterbi School's Burcin Becerik-Gerber and Architecture's Karen Kensek carried on the USC claim for academic pre-eminence in the emerging discipline.

Viterbi School Professor Jean-Pierre Bardet was an opening speaker welcoming leaders in the fields of engineering, environment, academia, government, labor and public health "to begin making an historic shift in order to meet our region's pressing needs."

The Voice of America Hindi language video channel focuses on the success of students from IIT Kharagpur in the Viterbi School's summer undergraduate research program

Computer science theoretician will be professor and chair of the Viterbi School Department of Computer Science.

Michael E. Kassner was recently elected a fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), a distinction accorded to only about 2% of its members.

The Viterbi School of Engineering has made education for engineering professionals a top priority, ranking alongside graduate research and undergraduate study.

Dozens of the talented undergraduates spending summer at the Viterbi School working intensively with faculty gathered on a sunny Wednesday for burgers, hotdogs and conviviality.

A new study suggests controlling muscles in even simple movements taxes our minds to capacity, countering a long-held belief that an inability to complete dexterous tasks results from properties of the muscles themselves.

A large and enthusiastic group gathered to toast a great Viterbi School success story -- ISI's MOSIS chip brokerage -- and the 22-year career of the director who orchestrated that success.

The Astani Department's Burcin Becerik-Gerber co-hosts a July 30-31 gathering that will bring together leading figures in Building Information Modeling, a new technology that is transforming the construction industry.

The Epstein Department's multi-talented computer scientist/pianist performs the title tracks on a new Albany Records CD, Doubles, presenting the work of composer Peter Child.

Gödel prizewinner Shang-Hua Teng comes to USC from Boston University; Dean Yortsos also names Kim to lead EE/E, extensions of chair terms in BME, Astani, and EE-Systems, and an interim appointment in AME.

Yong Chen (Epstein Department) and Andreas Molisch (Hsieh Department) are among 88 exceptional researchers selected to take part in the NAE's 15th annual U.S.Frontiers of Engineering symposium

The Viterbi School systems safety expert will join the Office of Science and Technology Advisors to the U.S. State Department

The National Science Foundation has named the Viterbi School's Stephen Cronin and Hossein Hashemi as winners of highly competitive grants for young researchers.

A celebration of the strength and endurance of the aerospace giant's USC ties brought the Spirit of Troy and "Conquest" to the Long Beach C-17 Globemaster III cargo aircraft assembly building.

Work by Dr. Mark Humayun and collaborators including Armand Tanguay of the Ming Hsieh Department was a featured segment on the evening newscast, and on MSNBC.

Roger Ghanem, who hold appointments in AME and the Astani Department, will receive the U.S. Association for Computational Mechanics Computational Structural Mechanics Award for 2009

The Ming Hsieh Department photonics expert is one of 60 researchers nationwide to be selected by the Hewlett-Packard Company program.

Selected engineering students at USC, Duke University, and Olin College who follow a special program with five challenge-related elements will receive a special honors designation along with their diplomas.

A pulsed-power device destroys dental decay bacteria biofilms rapidly and completely in early tests; may someday replace painful root canal surgery — and even find a place above home bathroom sinks.

The Czech Academy of Sciences awards its Honorary Medal, "De Scientia Et Humanitate Optime Meritis," to Terence Langdon of AME and the Mork Department.

Appointee is a USC alumnus, a decision analyst who has headed several CREATE studies and is an experienced academic leader

Dean Yannis C. Yortsos, now a member of the elite Chinese institution's advisory board, signed an agreement creating a new joint research center on "Green and Smart" energy IT

Their CSCI 477 experience researching requirements, designing and prototyping software was a win-win for students and industry.

USC researchers say they've made a big improvement in a new breed of electronic detectors for viruses and other biological materials — one that may be a valuable addition to the battle against epidemics.

In a ceremony in Beijing, Deans Yannis C. Yortsos and Shiyi Chen signed a Memorandum of Understanding establishing a unique link between their two schools.

The White House named Charles F. Bolden Jr. (MS - Systems Management '77), a former combat pilot, Marine Corps major general and veteran space shuttle commander -- and USC trustee as the space agency's next administrator.

Mary S. David, a senior majoring in computer science has won a Google Anita Borg Memorial Scholarship, the first USC student ever to do so.

The ASSE Keillor award to Alice Parker “recognizes and honors outstanding women engineering educators.”

Building on decades of basic research, a team led by BME's Ted Berger has won a 4-year $16.4 million DARPA grant to restore lost memory function.

Viterbi School Dean Yannis C. Yortsos and Technion Senior VP Paul Feigin signed a memorandum of understanding at a meeting in Haifa in early May.

Terence Sanger, a pediatric neurologist, receives concurrent joint appointments in several USC departments.

More than 100 DEN students journeyed to the University Park campus to receive diplomas earned online.

The Viterbi School shines brightly at USC’s 126th Commencement, and at the Viterbi undergraduate and graduate ceremonies where standardv bearer Torey Marshall and 2056 others won degrees

The USC faculty's representative body conferred Distinguished Service Awards for 2009 on Solomon Golomb, Sandeep Gupta, and Maja Matarić

On a recent Middle East trip, Viterbi Dean Yannis Yortsos meets about 60 of the school’s most enthusiastic alums.

A best paper award at the 2009 international conference on agents and multiagent systems in Budapest went to Milind Tambe's team.

Kimberly Boynton was president of Chi Epsilon, active in the American Society of Civil Engineers — and a standout twirler for the USC Marching Band.

The Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical Engineering Systems is the professional home of two new holders of the honor bestowed by the International Fuzzy Systems Association.

Tristin Hatch, a Viterbi School undergraduate studying in Galway, received an award from Ireland's government for exceptional research on transport.

A soft-spoken biomedical engineering grad with an electrical engineering emphasis will speak at the May 15 commencement ceremony as USC's 126th valedictorian.

Ross Mead (CS) and Samantha Cunningham (BME) have been named National Science Foundation Graduate Research fellows, a distinction that includes three years of funding in their fields of expertise.

Krishna Nayak has received a 2009 GE (General Electric) Healthcare Thought Leader Award for his research in magnetic resonance cardiac imaging.

The Global Wireless Education Consortium recognized Andreas F. Molisch for outstanding contributions in teaching, research, and collaboration with academic peers and the industry.

Fokion Egolfopoulos and Hai Wang will participate in the Energy Frontier Research Center for Combustion Science.

Henry "Hank" Koffman of the Astani Department's Construction Management program was one of scores of Viterbi faculty, students, alumni, friends and industry figures who joined the illustrious architect at the Galen Center event

Burcin Becerik-Gerber, a specialist in Building Information Modeling, a radically new way to approach the ancient craft of construction, will mold her research around industry inputs.

Five Viterbi faculty and Associate Dean Margie Berti gave more than 100 doctoral students and postdoctoral fellows tips on academic careers.

Viterbi undergrads designed, constructed, shipped, assembled and then flew their 6.2 pound electric-motor-powered plane in a grueling three-mission competition — and beat M.I.T. and 38 other teams.

The U.S. Department of Energy has designated the Viterbi School as the site of a Center for Emerging Materials for Solar Energy Conversion and Solid State Lighting, to be directed by Ming Hsieh Department co-chair P. Daniel Dapkus.

Sujata Dhole is the Viterbi School recipient of the USC Student Affairs distinction, created "to honor USC’s most outstanding students," on the heels of having won an Office of International Services’ leadership award

Alan Willner is the winner of 2009 Leadership Award New Focus/Bookham Prize from the Optical Society of America

This is the State of the School speech delivered by Senior Associate Dean John O'Brien at the April 23 Faculty-Staff Luncheon, with photos of all the award winners.

Pavankumar Murali's research on improving L.A. rail service has won him a 2009 Haynes Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship, awarded to students whose dissertation proposals address problems of the Southern California area.

Sonny Astani and his wife Jo came to Kaprielian Hall, where faculty in the department he named gathered in his honor to dedicate a memorial to his $17 million gift.

BME professor Ted Berger will work with LAS and the French pharmaceutical discovery firm Rhenovia Pharma to find a strategy for creating effective drugs to regulate a key neural system.

The Klein Institute for Undergraduate Engineering Life encourages students like Michelle Dee to develop talents beyond those taught in engineering classes.

James Moore II has been named a fellow of the Institute of Industrial Engineers, and also elected to a two-year term on the IIE Board of Trustees as a Senior Vice President.

Biomedical Engineering Department Chair Michael Khoo presided over the 13th Fred S. Grodins Graduate Research Symposium, presenting a wide range of exceptional student talent.

The Viterbi School and the Olin College of Engineering have signed an agreement to make the Viterbi Integrated Masters of Science Program (VIP) available to select Olin students.

USC’s Mexican American Alumni Association's distinction goes to Eric Zúñiga, who will be graduating this May with a B.S. in Chemical Engineering

On the Today Show, Senior Associate Dean Maja Mataric‘ discusses the promise and potential of "socially assistive robotics," a term she invented, in the treatment of ASD.

Jim Waltze gave Dean Yannis C. Yortsos a $125,000 check April 6 to establish the Beavers Heavy Construction Scholarship.

Thomas Reed, Don Paul,and Narayana Murthy received honors at the 2009 Awards Banquet; Rachel Lauren sang, and a good time was had by all.

The eminent Viterbi School professor wins the highest and most esteemed honor bestowed by the Institute of Industrial Engineers (IIE)

Noted R&D entrepreneur W. Daniel Hillis adds USC professor to his long list of professional associations

"As the Movie Industry goes to Hollywood for its Oscars, so the world of Video Games, Animation and Visual Effects comes to Vancouver for their Elans" - and this year the Viterbi School's Paul Debevec will go.

The concrete canoe team of USC’s chapter of the American Society of Civil Engineers returned from a weekend competition in Hawai’i not just with a tan, but a third-place finish.

The Silicon Valley venture capitalist, a Viterbi School alumnus, will receive a Merit Award at the 76th Annual USC Alumni Awards Gala on May 2, 2009

A 5-bedroom, 3.5 bath demo house made from the GluBam® composite material invented by Astani Department Professor Yan Xiao now stands in Changsha, China.

Maja Mataric´, David Kempe and Sven Koenig received 2008-2009 USC Mellon Awards for Excellence in Mentoring at a April 21 ceremony.

The Hsieh Department specialist has received the IEEE Intelligent Transportation System Society Best Practice Award for pioneering work on now widely used "adaptive cruise control" systems.

Shanling Yang, a senior who serves as a co-captain of the USC AeroDesign team, is one of eight winners of regional awards from the Sigma Gamma Tau national aerospace engineering honor society.

Signals specialist's responsibilities will include teaching assistantships and other financial aid, faculty teaching assignments, and student recruiting and retention.

Office of Naval Research recognizes a faculty member of the USC Mork Family Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science for innovation in biosensor design.

"Reflection," created by a team from the USC GamePipe Laboratory, captured the Independent Games Festival's "Next Great Mobile Game" prize, based on audience response and reaction.

A collaboration of accelerator physicists, including researchers in the Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical Engineering, has received $13 million in federal funding over the next two years to build a facility for advanced accelerator experimental tests.

Shahram Ghandeharizadeh is a recipient of the Association for Computing Machinery's 2008 Software Systems Award.

Grad student Jason Tsai, his professor, his colleagues and CREATE received high honors at the recent Third Annual Department of Homeland Security University Network Summit meeting.

In recent papers, Chongwu Zhou's research teams have dramatically demonstrated new possibilities for single-atom thick carbon cylinders as possible substitutes for traditional silicon chips, a $270+ billion/year business.

An 8-minute video highlighting the mission and activity of the ISI-headquartered DETERlab Testbed is now online for viewing.

Imaging the soft tissues of the vocal tract in real-time could explain some of the mysteries of human speech production.

Chief Technology Officer Aber Whitcomb will work with teams of students developing new social website applications, which will preview on his company's popular portal.

A $5 Million NIH grant is fueling Kirk Shung's team's work on next-generation medical soundwave imaging

A revolutionary new game-building program challenges at-risk students to learn basic concepts in math and science.

Complete coverage of the meeting held March 2-3 at Duke University with the Viterbi School and Olin College as co-sponsors and Dean Yannis C. Yortsos summarizing.

Sina Golshany won first place in this year's American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics student aircraft design competition, the first USC student ever to do so.

The Viterbi School's Roger Ghanem and Demetrios Spanos are bringing together "leading scientists from physics-based modeling, network science and social networks" for a two-day meeting.

Viterbi School Dean Yannis C. Yortsos delivers closing message of an exciting, profoundly stimulating conference co-sponsored by Duke, USC and the Olin College of Engineering.

This polyhedron is ready to download! (You can also catch up on what happened at the March 2-3 Summit at Duke University).

David Kempe, who holds the Robert G. and Mary G. Lane Early Career Chair, was one of three USC faculty members to receive the highly prestigious award.

Astani Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering student construction team was one of only eight teams to come away with top honors.

The distinguished senior scientist, now at Stanford, happily re-connected with numerous USC classmates, colleagues, collaborators, former students and old friends.

The new Professional Programs class in "Process Improvement in Health Care" is the first in a series designed to help healthcare professionals use engineering methods to reduce costs and improve care.

The Viterbi School's 'best of the best,' including six NAE members, gather to congratulate George Olah and Robert Scholtz for their election to engineering’s most prestigious organization.

The Los Angeles World Airport Police Chief George Centeno gave commendations to the USC Computer Science department creators of the ARMOR security scheduling system.

Half Century Trojan Day was a homecoming of sorts for 16 silver-haired Trojans, all of whom graduated from USC’s Viterbi School of Engineering 50 years ago or more.

An estimated 1,500-2,000 students showed up for the Viterbi School's semi-annual Career Fair, ready to talk with recruiters and show off their resumes.

Volleyball player and international traveler Kari Hernandez is the 2009 winner of the Orange County Engineering Council honor.

Electrical engineering professor Giuseppe Caire is working to make the promise of the iPhone come true.

USC's Ralph Basilio (PhD AE '07) ready to begin a two-year space mission to find Earth's "missing carbon sinks."

Inventor of the laser says the technology was misunderstood at first, but within a relatively brief period, had found many useful applications.

Early Career Chair will support faculty who show exceptional distinction and promise within their fields.

At USC, Themos Kallos studied the development of next-generation particle accelerators by harnessing electric fields generated in plasmas.

Two Viterbi School faculty members are elected to engineering's most prestigious advisory body, making USC one of only six schools in the nation with two or more elected members each of the last two years.

Craig Knoblock and Massoud Pedram are among the 18 academics given the title by the Association for Computing Machinery.

Nearly 100 colleagues, friends, relatives and well-wishers crowded into the Tutor Hall conference room to celebrate a great career.

An internationally reputed scholar in analog and digital signal and image processing in the Hsieh Department has won a prestigious engineering education award.

The Viterbi School's Information Sciences Institute will help strengthen U.S. defenses against cyber-attack, using experience gained from the DETER testbed co-directed by ISI's Terry Benzel.

Five Viterbi School women graduates share their experiences making the transition to professional life in a lively Q & A with undergraduate juniors and seniors.

Faculty, staff and students gather to celebrate a new plaque commemorating the department's naming.

A pioneer in materials processing and superplasticity is recognized by a highly regarded international review journal.

A leading combustion engineer in the Viterbi School is named to the top slot of a major trade journal.

Alice Parker co-leads an NSF-funded study constructing a non-silicon-electronics- based 3D testbed in which nanotube "synapses" can be connected and then reconnected to understand how neuron signals spread in dense nerve tissue.

Effective in Fall, 2009, new MS ASTE degree requirements will take effect aimed at "solidify[ing] USC leadership on the Masters level in U.S. Space Engineering," according to program director Mike Gruntman

Two years in the making, a project to pump fresh water into two towns in rural Honduras may break ground this spring, thanks to the Viterbi School's undergraduate engineering students.

Penn State University will salute one of its own — a Viterbi School professor — for outstanding accomplishments.

BME professor Francisco Valero-Cuevas talks about his work and the Viterbi School's efforts to recruit Hispanic-Americans into science in a profusely illustrated page one feature in the largest U.S. Spanish-language newspaper.

Ming Hsieh Department associate professor will receive the "2008 Outstanding Engineer Award."

The Epstein Department professor/ISI project leader will lead a five-year effort to make a wide range of biomedical data more accessible to physicians and researchers.

The Materials Research Society honored CS/Physics PhD candidate Weiqiang Wang's conference presentation on simulated aluminum nanoparticle combustion.

The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers turns the spotlight on Viterbi School engineers who have made exceptional contributions to their fields.

The USC Information Sciences Institute's Brian Schott will administer a pilot effort helping small manufacturers use sophisticated high performance computing design tools.

Epstein Department undergraduate Tianqi Gao was one of eight USC students receiving Women's Transportation Seminar study grants.

IEEE Software journal's January double issue identifying the best papers of the past 25 years includes two by the distinguished Viterbi School professor

A first-of-a-kind national engineering conference, to be held March 2-3, 2009, is designed to address key issues in sustainability, health, national security and quality of life.