The Viterbi School's Costas Synolakis was a principal investigator of a 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)

Jean-Pierre Bardet, chair of the Sonny Astani Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, will lead a team of experts who will use both sophisticated computer modeling and close up on-site inspections.

Gordon Roesler's first focus: Pacific coast waves, the potential "equivalent of five nuclear power plants worth of completely clean energy"

Professor Michael Zyda of the Computer Science Department believes that the CS undergraduate major specializing in computer game development has attracted students and provided them with a firm foundation in computer science principles, while helping the graduates to succeed in the game industry.

Michael E. Kassner, a professor in the Viterbi School Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering and the Mork Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, has been named Director of Research of the Office of Naval Research.

Meet Bandit, a robot programmed at the USC Viterbi School of Engineering by a team led by Professor Maja Mataric'

Lockheed Martin Fellow Gary Hafen presented a check for $80,700 to Dean Yannis Yortsos to sponsor a wide array of projects for Viterbi undergraduates.

Nanophotonics specialist Michelle Povinelli receives both Army Research Office Young Investigator Award and National Science Foundation CAREER Award