Newmakers
March 27, 2009 11:26 AM
The Society of Professional Journalists recently honored Annenberg Radio News with two first-place Mark of Excellence awards in its regional competiton. Annenberg TV News won three awards, including one first-place finish.
Annenberg Radio News won the newscast category and Jonathan Horn (M.A. Broadcast Journalism, ’09) won first place for radio news reporting for a story on immigrants’ paths to U.S. naturalization.
Each year, the Society of Professional Journalists presents the Mark of Excellence Awards honoring the best in student journalism. The awards offer categories for print, radio, television and online collegiate journalism. The award winners will be honored in April at Arizona State University's Walter Cronkite School of Journalism.
Willa Seidenberg, the director of Annenberg Radio News, said many students worked on each of the newscasts, but gave special congratulations to producers Chiara Canzi, Richie Duchon and Kaitlin Funaro, and hosts Courtney Kabot and Lata Pandya.
Annenberg TV News won first place in the TV news photography category for a report on wildfires, second place for a TV newscast and third place in the TV sports photography category for football coverage.
Pryor Commitment
Kelvin J. A. Davies, associate dean at the USC Davis School of Gerontology, gave the William A. Pryor Distinguished Annual Lecture at Louisiana State University earlier this month.
Davies, professor of molecular and computational biology in the Division of Biological Sciences, holds the James E. Birren Chair of Gerontology at the USC Davis School.
The lectures were established to honor longtime LSU professor William Pryor, a luminary in the chemistry of free radicals. The lectures, which are organized by LSU’s chemistry department in conjunction with the chancellor's office, consist of one specialist seminar for the department and a broader lecture open to the LSU community and the general public. The Pryor lectureship also includes a plaque and an honorarium.
To the Moon!
USC College astronomy professor Edward Rhodes presented a public lecture titled “Keeping Our Future Lunar Astronauts Healthy by Observing the Sun From the Moon” to members and guests of the San Bernardino Valley Amateur Astronomers organization at the San Bernardino County Museum in Redlands on March 21.
25-Cent Anniversary
American Quarterly, the flagship journal of the American Studies Association, is celebrating its 60th anniversary, having released its first issue in spring 1949. The publication moved to USC in 2002.
On March 6, Quarterly editor Curtis Marez, associate professor at the USC School of Cinematic Arts, hosted a reception and roundtable discussion to mark the occasion.
The publication’s editors and board members as well as former American Studies Association presidents discussed the journal’s many highlights and its development during the past six decades, including the changes since its move from Georgetown University to USC.
Park Place
USC Rossier School of Education alumna Vicki Park Ph.D. ’08 recently was awarded the 2008 American Educational Research Association (Division A) Outstanding Dissertation Award for “Beyond the Numbers Chase: How Urban High School Teachers Make Sense of Data Use.”
Across Campus
Global Honors
Faculty and staff members are invited to nominate students for two honors to be handed out at the annual International Graduation Reception and Awards ceremony held by the USC Office of International Services.
The event will celebrate the academic achievements of the university’s graduating students and recognize students, faculty and staff who have made significant contributions to the USC international community.
To nominate, visit http://www.usc.edu/student-affairs/OIS/Activity/intlgraduation/newindex.html prior to the April 3 deadline.
Healthy Dispositions
The Keck School of Medicine of USC, the USC Institute for Global Health, UCLA’s Geffen School of Medicine and the UCLA School of Public Health will host the first annual Global Health Awareness Week from April 3-10 in commemoration of World Health Day.
The week will feature a series of guest lectures by leaders in global health as well as various events to engage students in learning about, advocating for and sharing their passion for global health.
For schedule of events and more information, visit www.ghaw.info
Calling All Police …
Members of the Los Angeles Police Commission will join Chief William Bratton for a community meeting at the USC Galen Center Founders Room at 6:30 p.m. on April 7.
Commission president Anthony Pacheco, vice president John Mack, Andrea Sheridan Ordin, Robert Saltzman and Alan Skobin are scheduled to attend the two-hour meeting.
All community members are invited to attend and share their opinions, questions, concerns and comments with the police commissioners. The meeting will be co-sponsored by USC Government and Community Relations.
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The Wall Street Journal highlighted 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.
KPCC-FM reported that this fall USC will offer Persian language courses for the first time. A $250,000 grant from the Farhang Foundation helped to establish the program. Bruce Zuckerman of the USC Dornsife College said he has many students interested in the Persian language, culture and region. “The Iranian region is one that has great impact on our lives today and has had great impact going back into ancient times,” he said. The story noted that USC and the Farhang Foundation hope to raise more money to create an Iranian studies minor. Payvand also featured the new courses.
American Songwriter ran a Q&A with Christopher Sampson of the USC Thornton School about the school’s Popular Music program, which Sampson founded. He noted that the program has been available as a major in Songwriting since 2009, and has incorporated a diverse range of musical genres. “We have now established a consistent track record of students having professional success to know that the program gets results,” Sampson said. He also highlighted the achievements of Songwriting faculty members Lamont Dozier, Andrea Stolpe and David Poe of the Thornton School.
The Economist featured research by Valter Longo of the USC Davis School finding that short periods of fasting could help cancer patients better tolerate chemotherapy, and may even make treatment more effective. The Globe and Mail (Canada) reported that cancerous tumors are essentially energy hogs. “They need to burn lots of energy just to stay alive,” Longo said. The study was also covered by Irish Independent (Ireland), Magyar Tavirati Iroda (Hungary), Anadolu Ajansi (Turkey), Son Haber (Netherlands), Vietnam+ (Vietnam), Turkish Radio and Television (Turkey) and Romania Libera (Romania).
L.A. Weekly featured research by USC’s Institute for Creative Technologies, which has developed video games based around physical movement for people recovering from strokes or other injuries. The games develop strength in specific body parts. Traditional video games weren’t right for these patients, said the institute’s Belinda Lange. “Often, the fun parts of the game would only be unlocked after a series of other levels, which our patients often couldn’t achieve,” she said. The games are now being tested with physical therapists in three major clinics.
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