2011-2012
News & Impact
USC WiSE faculty and students are regularly making headlines for their research and achievements. Please visit the links below for recent news about the WiSE Program and WiSE-affiliated faculty.
November 2011
Anna Krylov, Professor of Chemistry, was elected as a 2011 Fellow of the American Physical Society and was awarded a Bessel research award from the Humboldt foundation and a 2012 ACS Physical Chemistry Division Award in Theoretical Chemistry.
October 2011
The research of Ellis Meng, Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Chair of the Viterbi WiSE Committee, appeared in the November 2, 2011 issue of USC News -- "Scientist’s Revolutionary Drug Pump Draws NSF Support."
The research of David Bottjer, Professor of Earth Sciences and member of the USC Dornsife WiSE Committee, appeared in the October 7, 2011 issue of USC News -- "And the Microbes Shall Inherit the Earth."
The research of Maja Mataric, Senior Associate Dean for Research and Professor of Computer Science, was featured in the October 17, 2011 Los Angeles Times article "Robots Built to Help Autistic Children." For the complete article, please click here.
Meghan Miller, Assistant Professor of Earth Sciences, has won a Career Award through the National Science Foundation for her project, "SLAB Structure and Dynamics of Arcuate Shaped Subduction Zones."
Dorit Hochbaum, Professor of Industrial and Systems Engineering, has won the INFORMS Computer Science Prize for 2011. This award recognizes the best English language paper dealing with the Operations Research/Computer Science interface. Stan Settles, Chair of the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, writes, "The Epstein Department is particularly proud of Professor Hochbaum's recognition from this well-respected society in our field." The ICS Prize will be presented at the 2011 INFORMS Annual Meeting in Charlotte at the ICS Business Meeting. Dr. Hochbaum will also make a presentation in a special prize session. Dr. Hochbaum's paper was entitled: "Polynomial Time Algorithms for Ratio Regions and a Variant of Normalized Cut," which has been published in IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence in 2010.
September 2011
Professor Katrina Edwards was featured in the USC News article, A Search for Life at the Earth’s Extremes. Professor Edwards will "take a search expedition this month into the heart of the Mid-Atlantic Ocean to explore the very limits of life on Earth."
August 2011
On August 12 the USC Young Researchers Program run through the Department of Earth Sciences, and a benificiary of WiSE support, concluded its summer session with a poster session displaying the completed projects of its participants. WiSE was thrilled by the success of many of these talented young women. Please click HERE to read further about the success of this excellent program.
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