Subu Goparaju was one of the "Infoscions" attending the “thought sharing and collaboration event that brings together the best academicians, researchers, practitioners and thought leaders” that came to the USC Viterbi School in October.

Tzung "John" Hsiai hopes to help clinicians distinguish cardiac emergencies requiring immediate surgery from chronic problems manageable with drugs and lifestyle change.

Ramesh Govindan will lead the USC's Viterbi School of Engineering partnership in an interdisciplinary communication networks research center, sharing $35.5 million in funding over 10 years.

Maja Mataric', director of the USC Center for Robotics and Embedded Systems (CRES), will lead an effort to evaluate the effectiveness of robots as exercise coaches.

Patrick Soon-Shiong M.D. and Rick Stephens, both members of the USC Viterbi School’s Board of Councilors, received Los Angeles County Economic Development Corporation Eddy Awards® November 12.

Introduced by Hsieh Department chairman Eun Sok Kim, the renowned physicist spoke about academia's lost topics of science.

Fred Aminzadeh, Managing Director of the USC Energy Institute's Global Energy Center, will direct an ambitious 3D mapping and modeling effort focused on the Geysers area in Northern California.

The Viterbi School's Costas Synolakis was a principal investigator of an NSF-funded team that visited the devastated islands and probed the strengths and weaknesses of the emergency response.

Computer scientists Ewa Deelman and Ann Chervenak of the Viterbi School's Information Sciences Institute will be part of a new $9 million effort headquartered at the Keck School of Medicine at USC

Faculty members from the Ming Hsieh and Computer Science departments teamed up with a Keck School professor to win the Best Technology Award at a recent conference on implantable medical devices held at USC.

Charlene Jeune's personal essay and a recommendation from her manager at Entertainment Arts, where she had been an intern, catapulted her into the finals round in which she was awarded one of two EA $2,500 scholarships.

Paul K. Newton, a specialist in applied mathematics and modeling, will participate in a new physics oncology center, working with scientists at the Scripps Research Institute and other institutions — and with Andrew J. Viterbi.

Emily Mower's research may allow synthetic agents (robots and computer avatars) to understand human expressions of emotion. She presented her most recent findings at the 10th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association held in Brighton, UK.

The Biomedical Informatics Research Network (BIRN) has launched a website that highlights its broadened focus, including services for the entire biomedical community and enhanced data-sharing and analysis tools and capabilities.

Funds from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act will support a wide range of Viterbi School research in numerous engineering disciplines

Stefan Schaal's Computational Learning and Motor Control Lab's mechanical quadruped performed at a high standard in recent DARPA competitive trials.

Dorit S. Hochbaum, a world-renowned scholar with wide-ranging OR interests, will be the inaugural recipient of the Epstein Family Chair in the Daniel Epstein Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering

Nobel Laureate Carl Wieman brought his message that current methods of teaching subjects like physics, chemistry and engineering are inefficient to about 100 USC faculty members -- and left behind continuing interest.

Mark Humayun has been elected to the prestigious Institute of Medicine for his groundbreaking work to restore sight to the blind.

Iraj Ershaghi, the Viterbi School's Omar B. Milligan Professor of Petroleum Engineering, has won unanimous election to the Board of Directors of the Research Partnership to Secure Energy for America (RPSEA)