Newsmakers
April 3, 2009 8:49 AM
USC President Steven B. Sample will be among the honorees at the 2009 USC Asian Pacific Alumni Association Scholarship and Awards Gala on April 17 at Town & Gown.
In addition to Sample, who will receive the association’s President’s Award for visionary direction, the organization will honor three outstanding members of the Trojan Family.
Professor emeritus Ken Miura ’64 will receive the Distinguished Alumni Award. IW Group president/COO Nita Song ’97 and KTLA Morning News co-anchor Frank Buckley ’87 will receive leadership awards.
Funds raised at the event benefit current and future USC students through Asian Pacific Alumni Association programming and a scholarship endowment.
The gala will begin at 6 p.m. with a silent auction and reception, followed by dinner and program at 7 p.m. Tickets may be purchased by visiting http://alumni.usc.edu/apaa. For more information, call (213) 740-6380.
Rave Reviews
Los Angeles Times critic Kenneth Turan won first place in the category of radio criticism at the second annual Los Angeles Press Club National Entertainment Journalism Awards.
Turan earned the award for his film reviews on Classical KUSC’s Arts Alive.
Nano Wafers
USC scientists have demonstrated a process they say allows manufacturing of carbon nanotube wafers that can perform all the functions of silicon chips at a potentially competitive cost.
The method created by a team led by USC Viterbi School of Engineering professor Chongwu Zhou was described in the journal Nano Letters.
Zhou’s group includes graduate students Koungmin Ryu, Alexander Badmaev and Chuan Wang.
Scrip for Success
USC School of Pharmacy Ph.D. candidates Erik Serrao, Tino Sanchez and Ben Xu have won fellowships to support their respective research projects in drug development.
Sanchez received a two-year, $50,000 dissertation fellowship from the California HIV/AIDS Research Program, which provides funding to support HIV/AIDS research in California.
Sanchez, who works in the lab of associate professor Nouri Neamati, is working toward the development of drugs for patients with HIV.
Serrao, another grant winner doing HIV/AIDS research in the lab of Neamati, was awarded a $19,000 Oakley Fellowship, part of the USC Graduate School Endowed Fellowship Competition.
Xu was awarded a Sjögren’s Syndrome Foundation student fellowship, which will help support his research project on an autoimmune disease characterized by tear gland inflammation and dry eye.
Across Campus
She Means Business
Robyn Walker, assistant professor of clinical management communication at USC Marshall’s Center for Management Communication, has been named editor of The Journal of Business Communication.
One of the preeminent publications in the discipline of business communication, the journal strives to publish manuscripts that contribute to knowledge and theory of business communication as a distinct, multifaceted field.
Walker earned her Ph.D. in communication at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City. She is the author of Strategic Business Communication: An Integrated Ethical Approach and a contributing author for the Cengage Publishing textbook “BCOM.”
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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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