Newsmakers
March 2, 2009 10:37 AM
Novo Nordisk, a global health care company focusing on diabetes care, has awarded a three-year, $1.5 million grant to create the Pediatric Diabetes Consortium comprised of clinical centers at six major research facilities across the country.
The members of the consortium are Childrens Hospital Los Angeles, the Yale University School of Medicine, Stanford University, the Barbara Davis Center at the University of Colorado, Baylor University and the University of Florida.
The consortium is being created to advance diabetes care and fundamentally change how the disease is treated in children. Its initial aim will be to develop a study utilizing a database registry to assess treatment approaches for children and youth with new-onset type 1 diabetes.
Editor Times Three
The American Educational Research Association has appointed USC Rossier School of Education professor Dominic Brewer as co-editor of Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, a journal in education policy, for 2010-12.
Brewer will co-edit the journal with Bruce Fuller at the University of California, Berkeley and Susanna Loeb at Stanford University. The journal’s administrative home will be USC.
Science Whiz
Former USC Viterbi School of Engineering doctoral student Efthymios Kallos, who earned his Ph.D. in electrical engineering-electrophysics in 2008, has won the 2009 Particle Accelerator Science and Technology Doctoral Student Award given by the IEEE Nuclear and Plasma Science Society.
The award, being given for the first time, recognizes significant and innovative technical contributions to the field of particle accelerator science and technology as demonstrated in a student’s doctoral thesis.
Kallos, who will accept the award in May, won for his doctoral work focusing on the use of multiple electron bunches as a tool for the development of next-generation particle accelerators.
He conducted his doctoral work under the supervision of former USC Viterbi School professor Tom Katsouleas, who is now dean of Duke University’s Pratt School of Engineering, and professor Patric Muggli, who now leads the plasma-accelerator research group.
Kallos is currently a postdoctoral researcher at the Queen Mary University of London.
Volunteer of the Year
Roger Rossier (MSEd ’63, Ed.D ’73) was named a recipient of the 2009 Arnold Eddy Cardinal & Gold Volunteer of the Year Award given to an outstanding individual for voluntary contributions to the USC Athletic department.
Rossier serves as president of the Trojan Club of Orange County, which supports athletic scholarships. Under his leadership, $100,000 was raised by the club toward the Galen Center.
Across Campus
Directory Assistance
USC Civic and Community Relations is updating the USC and the Community Directory. The directory, which described 339 programs in its last edition, will list community outreach programs sponsored by or affiliated with USC that take place in 2008-09.
One of the challenges in compiling the compendium is acquiring information on programs that have not previously been included in the directory. These
can be new programs, programs that were not captured before or one-day or one-time events.
Trojans who know about a program active during the 2008-09 academic year are asked to contact the USC Civic and Community Relations office before March 15 and request a new program form. Contact Katharine A. Díaz can be reached at (213) 743-4514 or kdiaz@usc.edu.
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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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