2007-2008
July 2008
New Faculty Joining the Viterbi School of Engineering include 3 new WiSE Faculty Andrea Armani, Burcin Becerik, and Michelle Povinelli arrive at USC in Fall 2008.
May 2008
Professor of Computer Science, Maja Mataric, is the the director of the Viterbi School's Center for Robotics and Embedded Systems and Senior Associate Dean for Research. She recently appeared on Paul Peterson's Channel 35 weekly discussion show to explain her vision of mechanical creatures who can help the elderly.
April 2008
WiSE Program Thanks Carolyn Webb de Macias
Urbashi Mitra and Lorraine Turcotte Honored with 2008 USC-Mellon Awards for Excellence in Mentoring
March 2008
USC Ph.D. student Lisa Alpert (Earth Sciences) and her family were featured in the US News and World Report 2009 Edition "America's Best Graduate Schools" as a recipient of a WiSE Child Care Subsidy.
WiSE Faculty Yolanda Gil and Jean Morrison honored as 2008 "Remarkable Women"
February 2008
USC Awarded $3.9M for Undersea Lab led by Katrina Edwards
With a $3.9 million grant from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, USC College researcher Katrina Edwards will lead a first-of-its-kind drilling expedition to study subseafloor life.
January 2008
Professor Amy Rechenmacher Wins NSF Early Career Award
Amy Rechenmacher, an assistant professor in the Sonny Astani Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, has won a highly competitive National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) award for her work in granular behavior and geotechnical engineering applications.
November 2007
USC ranks 9th in percentage of BS BME degrees awarded to women
Surpassing the national average, 50% of the USC Biomedical Engineering Bachelors degrees were awarded to women. This information was reported in the October 2007 issue of the ASEE Prism magazine.
Six from USC Attend Women in Computing Conference
CS Department, WiSE, and Viterbi join forces to send students to annual gathering.
October 2007
Two Women Faculty to Join Viterbi in 2008
Two women faculty specializing in photonics and health care systems engineering will become assistant professors in the Viterbi School of Engineering in 2008: Michelle Lynn Povinelli of Stanford University and Shinyi Wu of The RAND Corp.
Maja Mataric Among 5 USC Faculty Named as Fellows of the AAAS
Mataric, professor of computer science and neuroscience, was honored "for research in robotics, service to K-12 education, and as president of the Academic Senate and senior associate dean for research (in the USC Viterbi School)."
WiSE Faculty featured in the Fall 2007 issue of the USC Viterbi Engineer Magazine
Yolanda Gil: Taming Torrents of Data
Ellis Meng: Out of Sight Implants for the Eye
September 2007
Two Promising Young Faculty Named to Viterbi School Early Career Chairs
Ellis Meng, assistant professor of biomedical engineering, has been named to an early career chair for her exceptional research contributions.
ISI's Pegasus Grid Workflow System Sprouts $1.7 Million NSF Wings
The U.S. Office of CyberInfrastructure recently gave a 3-year grant to Ewa Deelman's project, which, says Deelman, "automatically chains dependent tasks together, so that a single scientist can complete complex computations that once required many different people."
August 2007
Incoming Epstein Faculty Member Wins RAND honor
Shinyi Wu, a RAND Corporation engineer who joins the Viterbi School's Daniel J. Epstein Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering faculty in January, 2008, was recently honored by RAND for "outstanding contributions to furthering RAND's mission of improving policy and decision making through research and analysis."
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