Reluctant Hero Steps Into the Spotlight
- Shervin Lalezary '08, right, with his brother Shawn. Both are reserve deputies in the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department.
January 27, 2012 1:28 PM
USC Gould School of Law alumnus Shervin Lalezary ’08 arrested a serial arsonist who had been on a rampage that resulted in millions of dollars in property damage in Los Angeles.
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Ostrow School Resident Provides Care in Thailand 01/27/12
Dozens of patients in Thailand received free dental care from first-year Ostrow School of Dentistry of USC advanced endodontics resident Sue Suh in December.
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Navy Veteran Sets Sail for Consulting Job 01/25/12
Chad Cisco MBA ’11 has had an exciting 20-year career in the U.S. Navy in various positions, including a nuclear power plant operator, tactics instructor and executive officer on a ballistic missile submarine.
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Life Discovered on Dead Sea Vents 01/25/12
Scientists at USC have uncovered evidence that even when hydrothermal sea vents go dormant and their blistering warmth turns to frigid cold, life goes on.
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Sugars Donate $5 Million to the USC Libraries 01/25/12
USC trustee Ronald D. Sugar and his wife, Valerie Sugar MS ’72, have endowed the Valerie and Ronald Sugar Dean’s Chair of the USC Libraries.
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Golomb Receives Prize for Scientific Achievement 01/25/12
Distinguished University Professor Solomon Golomb was selected to receive the 2012 William Procter Prize for Scientific Achievement, the highest honor bestowed by the research society Sigma Xi.
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Trojan Debate Squad Set for Great Debaters Rematch 01/25/12
The Trojan Debate Squad will travel to Texas for a Jan. 27 rematch of a famous 1935 debate between USC and Wiley College that inspired The Great Debaters, the 2007 movie starring Denzel Washington.
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Bane Wins Asa V. Call Alumni Achievement Award 01/24/12
Dan Bane ’69 will receive the Asa V. Call Alumni Achievement Award, USC’s highest alumni honor, at the 79th annual USC Alumni Awards on April 28 at the Westin Bonaventure Hotel in downtown Los Angeles.
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USC Hosts X PRIZE Day 01/27/12
The X PRIZE Foundation will bring its “visioneering” process to USC today, encouraging students to develop solutions that address the biggest problems facing the planet.
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Weiss Receives International Award for Social Work Paper 01/26/12
Eugenia Weiss, clinical assistant professor at the USC School of Social Work, has received the International Award for Excellence.
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In Memoriam: Manbir Singh, 67 01/24/12
Manbir Singh, professor of biomedical engineering and radiology at the USC Viterbi School of Engineering, died during the winter break while visiting family in India.
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Attitude Is Everything in Walking Study 01/24/12
City planners long have debated how to get people on their feet and cars off the road. But encouraging urban dwellers to go pedestrian could require different strategies depending on their attitudes toward walking, according to USC Sol Price School of Public Policy professor Marlon Boarnet.
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Cancer Study Examines Diets High in Fish 01/24/12
New research from USC and the Cancer Prevention Institute of California (CPIC) has found that eating salmon and other dark, fatty fish may decrease the risk of developing prostate cancer, while consuming flounder and other white, lean fish may increase the risk.
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Omar Lopez Honored for Foster Care Work 01/24/12
Omar Lopez is the recipient of an Angels in Adoption award from the Congressional Coalition on Adoption Institute.
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Nominations Sought for Mellon Awards 01/23/12
Nominations for the 2012 USC Mellon Mentoring Awards will be accepted through Feb. 27.
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USC Bike Summit Puts Safety First 01/23/12
In an effort to promote a pedestrian-friendly environment, USC held its first bike summit on Jan. 18 in the Ronald Tutor Campus Center Ballroom.
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The New York Times ran an op-ed by Dan Schnur of the USC Dornsife College about Mitt Romney and the Florida Republican debates. Before the debate, Schnur wrote that this was the most important night of Romney’s political life. A poor performance could doom his chances at winning the primaries, though a stellar performance wouldn’t guarantee the nomination would be his. The New York Times also ran a post-debate op-ed by Schnur, in which he wrote that despite some stumbles, Romney gave his best debate performance yet. “Romney did prevent Gingrich from dominating the debate stage again and in doing so he may have taken away Gingrich’s best chance to reframe the race,” Schnur added.
The Washington Post, in an Associated Press story, featured the rematch of a 1935 debate between USC and Wiley College, which became the basis for the 2007 movie “The Great Debaters.” During the segregation era, the small, historically black Wiley College had difficulty finding a non-black college to debate. “We owe a debt of gratitude to USC for being ground-breakers in allowing us ... to really, at that point, achieve legitimacy,” said Wiley’s current director of forensics. Though at the time there wasn’t a structure for national debate championships, the USC team was known to be nationally competitive, said Gordon Stables of the USC Annenberg School, director of the Trojan Debate Squad. The debate was also covered by a second Associated Press story and ABC News Shreveport, La., affiliate KTBS-TV.
La Repubblica (Italy) ran an op-ed by Antonio Damasio of the USC Dornsife College about the roots of moral reasoning. Damasio wrote that moral conventions grew out of instinctual, unconscious responses that developed before humans even had the ability to reason. Conscious human reasoning refined those instincts into true moral conventions. These emotions were selected in evolution because they contributed to better management of life by solving social problems, Damasio wrote.
Inc. featured research by Deborah MacInnis and Valerie Folkes of the USC Marshall School with Christine Porath, formerly of USC and now with Georgetown University. They found that when employees are rude to one another in front of customers, it elicits a strong negative reaction from them. As a result, customers do more than just view the business poorly; they may be inclined to take action to “punish” the company in some way.
Pasadena Star-News featured a speech that Lawrence Harris of the USC Marshall School gave at the 2012 Economic and Entrepreneur Summit on the United States’ future economic challenges. Harris said that though it’s unlikely the U.S. will face another recession, a more educated global workforce means the country faces stiffer competition from other nations. “The second problem with the developing world is that they all want to be like us — that means to consume like us,” Harris said.
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