Olah, Scholtz Named to National Academy
Nobel Prize winner George A. Olah, who holds a joint appointment at the USC Viterbi School of Engineering and USC College, and Robert A. Scholtz, the Fred H. Cole Professor of Engineering in the Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical Engineering, were among 65 newly elected members of the National Academy of Engineering announced in Washington, D.C., on Feb. 6.
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Petasis Named Cope Scholar for 2009
USC chemist Nicos Petasis, an authority on organic synthesis and drug discovery, including the anti-inflammatory compounds known as lipoxins and beneficial substances such as omega-3 fatty acids, has received the Arthur C. Cope Scholar Award from the American Chemical Society.
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2/27/2009:

6th Annual Carl M. Franklin Lecture on Science and Society:

Reading DNA Sequences: 18th Century Mathematics for 21st Century Technology

Prof. Michael S. Waterman, USC Associates Chair in Natural Sciences

4:00 p.m., Seeley G. Mudd Building Rm. 123

3/4/2009:

Organic-Materials Chemistry Seminar:

Carbon Dioxide Coordination, Activation, and Functionalization at Reactive Uranium Complexes

Dr. Karsten Meyer, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg

12:00 p.m., Olah Library

Loker Hydrocarbon Institute
University of Southern California
University Park
Los Angeles, CA 90089-1661

Phone: 740-5962

Fax: 740-6679