Boone family gifts fund research, teaching excellence
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George and MaryLou Boone, USC alumni and benefactors to the Keck School of Medicine, have recently made two separate $1 million gifts.
The first gift establishes the George and MaryLou Boone Parkinson’s Disease and Movement Disorders Research Center and supports the research of Michael Jakowec and Giselle Petzinger, both assistant professors of neurology.
Jakowec and Petzinger focus their research on neuroplasticity and the benefits of exercise in managing Parkinson’s disease and other movement disorders.
The gift will help fund their current laboratory research and allow the researchers to explore additional avenues of study.
The second $1 million gift endows the George N. and MaryLou Boone Professorship in Medical Excellence. The professorship was created based upon an innovative model for rewarding and preserving quality patient care in an era of managed health care.
George Boone, a graduate of the USC School of Dentistry, was a practicing orthodontist in San Marino until 1969, when he went into the real estate business.
He is a charter member of the School of Urban and Regional Planning’s Lusk Center for Real Estate Development.
Boone and his wife, MaryLou, also a graduate of the School of Dentistry, are founding members of the USC Presidential Associates and have endowed the George and MaryLou Boone Chair in Craniofacial Molecular Biology at the dental school. George Boone is also a Life Trustee of USC.
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The Chronicle of Higher Education mentioned USC’s $6 billion fundraising campaign. The story noted that USC had already raised $1 billion in a “quiet phase,” including the $200 million naming gift from USC Trustee and alumnus David Dornsife and wife Dana Dornsife to the USC Dornsife College.
The Guardian (U.K.) highlighted two major gifts to USC in a list of the 10 biggest philanthropic benefactors in America. The list included the $200 million naming gift from USC Trustee and alumnus David Dornsife and wife Dana Dornsife to the USC Dornsife College, and the $110 million gift from USC Trustee and USC Viterbi School alumnus John Mork and wife Julie to create the USC Mork Family Scholars Program.
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Los Angeles Times featured the Oscar Senti-meter, a tool developed by the USC Annenberg School, Los Angeles Times and IBM that analyzes thousands of tweets about the Academy Awards nominees. The story noted that Mexican actor Demian Bechir received an enormous boost on Twitter the day of the nominations, with a total of 6,893 tweets mentioning him, a 47-fold increase from the day before. The story noted the tool uses language-recognition technology developed in collaboration with USC Viterbi School’s Signal Analysis and Interpretation Lab.
The Times of India (India) featured a three-day medical emergency training workshop organized in association with USC. At the workshop, held at GCS Medical College in India, 50 doctors and more than 100 paramedics learned how to improve emergency support systems. William Mallon of the Keck School of USC said that discussion topics included the use of portable ultrasonic devices to scan patients. “The ultrasound applications help physicians make accurate and timely decisions,” he noted. Daily News & Analysis (India) also featured the workshop.
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