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September 25, 2009 10:10 AM
University Professor and Distinguished Professor of Business Administration Warren Bennis is one of the first two recipients of the FrED Forum Leadership Award.
Warren and Frances Hesselbein, newly appointed chair for the Study of Leadership at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, will be honored at an awards dinner on Dec. 2 in New York.
The FrED Forum, which refers to the future of executive development (the r was added as a whimsical touch), was created to improve the quality of leadership.
HEALTHY FOUNDATION
The USC Annenberg School for Communication has announced a partnership with the California HealthCare Foundation to do in-depth reporting on health policy issues throughout the state.
Funded by a three-year, $3.29 million grant, the California HealthCare Foundation Center for Health Reporting at the USC Annenberg School will team with journalists from traditional and emerging media to report on the most vexing health care issues facing the state: quality, access and cost.
Throughout its 12-year history, the foundation has shown a commitment to supporting and producing nonpartisan research and analysis to support evidence-based decision-making in government and the private sector.
Leading the Center will be journalism professor Michael Parks, the Pulitzer Prize-winning former Los Angeles Times editor, who recently completed a seven-year term as director of the journalism school at USC Annenberg.
Parks will chair the center’s board of advisers and lead the center’s development. A nationwide search is under way for an editor in chief and a staff of journalists. The staff, to be based primarily in Los Angeles, will include one reporter in Sacramento.
POP STAR
The L.A. Residency Program of USC Annenberg’s Norman Lear Center’s Popular Music Project announced that Courtney Holt, president of MySpace Music, will be its 2009-10 Distinguished Resident.
From his early days playing in bands and producing music videos and commercials to his current post, Holt has merged his love of music with a commitment to increase the power and potential of music’s scope.
During the fall semester, Holt will work with undergraduate students, exploring the changing face of the music industry and the rapidly changing demands of music consumption, branding, marketing, distribution and cultural identity in the digital age. In the spring, he will participate in a USC event that will examine the challenges and promises of music’s digital horizon.
NUMBERS GUY
Shanghua Teng, recently named chairman of the computer science department at the USC Viterbi School of Engineering, has won a 2009 Delbert Ray Fulkerson Prize, an honor presented only every three years.
Teng and collaborator Daniel A. Spielman of Yale University received the accolade for their paper on algorithms, which appeared in the Journal of the Association for Computing Machinery.
The prize program began in 1979 to honor the memory of the distinguished mathematician whose name it bears.
Teng, a theoretical computer scientist with experience in academia and industry, joined the USC Viterbi School in August.
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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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