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Randolph Hall

Randolph Hall is the Vice Provost for Research Advancement. rwhall@usc.edu

Hall's experience includes serving as the founder/principal investigator for two national research centers, the Center for Risk and Economic Analysis of Terrorism Events (CREATE), and the National Center for Metropolitan Transportation Research (METRANS). He also served as senior associate dean for research in the Viterbi School of Engineering for four years. Hall was chair of Industrial and Systems Engineering during a period when the faculty size grew by 50%, and when it became the first named academic department at the University of Southern California, upon receipt of a $10 million gift from Daniel J. Epstein.

Hall is the author of Queueing Methods for Services and Manufacturing (Prentice Hall, 1997) and the editor of Handbook of Transportation Science (Springer, 2003) and Patient Flow, Reducing Delay in Healthcare Delivery (Springer, 2006). He has been funded by the National Science Foundation, U.S. Departments of Homeland Security and Transportation, California Department of Transportation, Los Angeles County Department of Health Services and L.A. Care. Dr. Hall has numerous publications in the areas of transportation, logistics, system engineering, and queueing. Hall received his Ph.D. (1982) and M.S. (1980) in civil engineering from U.C. Berkeley. He received his B.S. in industrial engineering and operations research from U.C. Berkeley in 1979.

Steven Moldin

Steven Moldin is Executive Director of the USC Washington, DC Office of Research Advancement. moldin@usc.edu

Moldin directs USC's research advancement efforts in Washington, D.C. He has conducted research at New York State Psychiatric Institute/Columbia University and was a faculty member at Washington University School of Medicine. In 1995, Moldin joined the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), one of the National Institutes of Health, to manage an extramural research portfolio. He left in 2006, having led the Office of Human Genetics & Genomic Resources and having served as Associate Director of the Division of Neuroscience and Basic Behavioral Science. Moldin was responsible for the fiscal and scientific management of a $200 million grants and contracts portfolio, and increased the yearly funding of NIMH’s human genetics research portfolio by 56% over two years.

Moldin is an associate editor of Genes, Brain, and Behavior and serves on the editorial board of the American Journal of Medical Genetics. Moldin has published over 50 papers and book chapters in the areas of psychiatric genetics, schizophrenia, autism and neuroscience. He is co-editor of Methods in Genomic Neuroscience and Understanding Autism: From Basic Neuroscience to Treatment.

Moldin received his B.A. magna cum laude with distinction and Phi Beta Kappa in psychology from Boston University (1983), his M.A. in psychology from Yeshiva University (1985), and his Ph.D. in clinical psychology from Yeshiva University (1988). He completed an internship at Hillside Hospital - Long Island Jewish Medical Center (1988) and received postdoctoral training in genetics at Washington University School of Medicine (1988-1991).

Dennis Atkinson

Dennis Atkinson is Director of Corporate Research Advancement. djatkins@usc.edu

Prior to joining USC, Atkinson served as Manager of Academic Research in the Western United States for the Applied Science Laboratory of General Electric Healthcare, as well as Manager of Research Collaborations for the Magnetic Resonance Division of Siemens Medical Systems. He was instrumental in helping to create USC's world-class cardiac imaging and spectroscopy program.

As a medical physicist, Atkinson has contributed to development of Magnetic Resonance Imaging and has published over 50 papers. He holds an M.Sc. in biomedical engineering from Pennsylvania State University, and a B.Sc. in electrical engineering from General Motors Institute.

Justin Pearlman

Justin Pearlman is Assistant Vice Provost for Research Advancement in the Humanities and Social Sciences. pearlman@usc.edu

He received his Ph.D. in political science from Duke University, and his B.S. from Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service. His research focuses on the intersection of political institutions, globalization, and regulatory regimes, particularly in the area of environmental policy. His research has been supported by the National Science Foundation and Mellon Foundation.

Pearlman has served as a consultant to Mexico’s Ministry of the Environment. Previously, he conducted research at the United States Institute of Peace in Washington, DC, and at the Carnegie Foundation in New York.

James Murday

James Murday is Associate Director for physical sciences of the USC Washington, DC Office of Research Advancement. murday@usc.edu

Prior to USC, Murday's career at the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) included leading the Surface Chemistry programs (1975-1987) and the Chemistry Division (1988-2006, when he retired from Federal service).

Additional responsibilities included tenures as Director of Research for the Department of Defense, Research and Engineering; Chief Scientist, Office of Naval Research; Director, National Nanotechnology Coordination Office; and Executive Secretary to the U.S. National Science and Technology Council's Subcommittee on Nanometer Science Engineering and Technology (NSET).

He holds a PhD in experimental solid state physics from Cornell in 1970 and a B.S. in physics from Case Institute of Technology in 1964. His research interests have spanned nuclear magnetic resonance, surface science, and nanoscale science and technology. He has published over 100 papers and reports on those topics. He is a member of the ACS, APS, MRS, and AVS professional societies.

Leora Rosen

Leora Rosen, a social anthropologist who most recently was with the National Institute of Justice, is the Director of Research Advancement in Social Science, Policy and Humanities in USC’s Office of Research Advancement in Washington, D.C. lrosen@usc.edu

Rosen earned a Bachelor of Arts and Ph.D. in social anthropology from the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa, and a master’s degree in public health from Columbia University.

At the National Institute of Justice, she was a senior analyst in its violence and victimization research division. Earlier, she spent 13 years at the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research studying the health and well-being of active duty Army personnel and their families.

Last updated: Tuesday, October 20, 2009, 2:38pm PDT