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August 28, 2008 10:35 AM
USC Thornton School of Music Dean Robert A. Cutietta was honored June 13 at the 18th annual Distinguished Alumni Awards dinner held by his alma mater, Cleveland State University.
Cutietta has an international reputation as a music educator whose areas of expertise include choral education, learning theories and the psychology of learning.
He is the author of Raising Modern Kids: A Parent’s Guide. His recent honors include the Putnam Award for Meritorious Teaching and the Maestro Award from the University of Arizona.
Cutietta earned a bachelor’s degree in education from the College of Education and Human Services and a master’s degree in music from the College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences at Cleveland State.
Full of Fulbrights
USC continues to shatter last year’s record of nine Fulbright Scholars. Now, 17 students have received the coveted grant for 2008-09.
The most recent recipients were Hans Schroots and Duyen Nguyen.
Schroots, who received his master’s degree in aerospace engineering this spring from the USC Viterbi School of Engineering, will spend a year in Germany researching noise emission computer programming.
Nguyen, who will receive her master’s degree in economics, will spend a year in Vietnam examining the financial market.
Fifty USC students applied for the honor and 22 were selected as finalists - a 50 percent increase over last year’s number.
The grants are for one year of study and/or research that can be pursued in more than 140 countries.
Saks’ Suggestions
In an Aug. 8 talk to medical students, USC law professor Elyn Saks drew from her experience as a schizophrenia patient to make recommendations for policy changes in treatment for mental illness, including regulations on the use of mechanical restraints.
Saks is associate dean and the Orrin B. Evans Professor of Law, Psychology, and Psychiatry and the Behavioral Sciences at the USC Gould School of Law. The talk was part of the Keck School of Medicine of USC’s Humanities, Ethics, Art and the Law curriculum. The four-year curriculum, directed by Assistant Dean Pamela Schaff, concludes with students developing and presenting health policies.
Medical R&R
The 166 members of the incoming class of 2012 took a time-out from their orientation schedule to enjoy a backyard picnic courtesy of Keck School of Medicine of USC Dean Carmen A. Puliafito.
The party, held Aug. 13 at Puliafito’s home, featured dinner, games and a live DJ. Students played volleyball and croquet, threw horseshoes, played on a giant Malpractice game board (aka Operation) and bounced on an inflatable Twister.
“It’s an incredible gesture,” said incoming student Ian Macqueen. “It’s great to get together and enjoy the festivities. It’s the most fun we’ve had all week.”
Eva Chan agreed: “It’s so nice to be here and this event is helping make the transition more comfortable. It’s so great that he opened his home to us.”
NIH Appointment
Grace M. Aldrovandi, associate professor of pediatrics at the Keck School of Medicine, has been invited by the National Institutes of Health to serve as a member of the AIDS Immunology and Pathogenesis Study Section of the Center for Scientific Review.
The four-year appointment began July 1.
Study sections review grant applications submitted to the NIH, make recommendations on the applications to the appropriate NIH advisory council or board and survey the status of research in their fields of science.
Members are selected on the basis of demonstrated competence and achievement in their scientific disciplines, as evidenced by the quality of research accomplishments, publications in scientific journals and other significant scientific activities, achievements and honors.
In It to Win It
USC Annenberg School for Communication undergraduate student Alex Herbach (B.A. Print Journalism ’09) is one of seven students nationwide to win a 2008 Jim Murray Memorial Scholarship. He is USC Annenberg’s fourth Murray Scholar and the fifth overall from USC.
Herbach, from Saratoga, Calif., received a $7,500 scholarship after his essay and application were chosen by seven judges as one of the winners.
He will be honored at the foundation’s 10th anniversary “Tribute to Living Legends of Sports and Media” dinner Oct. 30 at the Beverly Hilton Hotel. He writes for the Daily Trojan and Rafu Shimpo, the nation’s leading bilingual Japanese American daily newspaper.
Linda McCoy-Murray, president and founder of the Jim Murray Memorial Foundation, established the foundation to perpetuate her late husband’s memory and his love of and dedication to his extraordinary career in journalism.
Jim Murray won a Pulitzer Prize for commentary in 1990 at the Los Angeles Times and won the National Sportswriter of the Year Award 14 times. His outstanding work landed him a spot in the writers’ wing in the Cooperstown Baseball Hall of Fame in 1988.
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The Chronicle of Higher Education mentioned USC’s $6 billion fundraising campaign. The story noted that USC had already raised $1 billion in a “quiet phase,” including the $200 million naming gift from USC Trustee and alumnus David Dornsife and wife Dana Dornsife to the USC Dornsife College.
The Guardian (U.K.) highlighted two major gifts to USC in a list of the 10 biggest philanthropic benefactors in America. The list included the $200 million naming gift from USC Trustee and alumnus David Dornsife and wife Dana Dornsife to the USC Dornsife College, and the $110 million gift from USC Trustee and USC Viterbi School alumnus John Mork and wife Julie to create the USC Mork Family Scholars Program.
The New York Times featured the USC U.S.-China Institute documentary “Assignment: China — The Week that Changed the World.” The documentary, part of a series, examines media coverage of the 1972 Nixon trip that reshaped U.S.-China relations after a quarter century of isolation and hostility. “People look back now and take it for granted that the outcome was preordained,” said the institute’s Mike Chinoy, who produced the documentary. Voice of America also featured the story.
Los Angeles Times featured the Oscar Senti-meter, a tool developed by the USC Annenberg School, Los Angeles Times and IBM that analyzes thousands of tweets about the Academy Awards nominees. The story noted that Mexican actor Demian Bechir received an enormous boost on Twitter the day of the nominations, with a total of 6,893 tweets mentioning him, a 47-fold increase from the day before. The story noted the tool uses language-recognition technology developed in collaboration with USC Viterbi School’s Signal Analysis and Interpretation Lab.
The Times of India (India) featured a three-day medical emergency training workshop organized in association with USC. At the workshop, held at GCS Medical College in India, 50 doctors and more than 100 paramedics learned how to improve emergency support systems. William Mallon of the Keck School of USC said that discussion topics included the use of portable ultrasonic devices to scan patients. “The ultrasound applications help physicians make accurate and timely decisions,” he noted. Daily News & Analysis (India) also featured the workshop.
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