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1st Place: Paul Dooley (faculty sponsor: Frank Ticheli, music composition), “Pomo Canyon Air, for Orchestra”
2nd Place: Roger Zare (faculty sponsor: Rick Lesemann, music composition), “The Other Rainbow”
Honorable Mention: Claudia Zhang (faculty sponsor: Zoey Wu, East Asian Languages and Cultures), “Ancient Modernism”
Interdisciplinary Award: Julianne Gale (faculty sponsors: Joseph R. Hawkins, gender studies, and Philip J. Ethington, history), “Who Am I? Trans Identity in Los Angeles”
Humanities
1st Place: Georgiana Nikias, Hannah Marcuson and Kristin Butler (faculty sponsor: Lynn Swartz Dodd, religion), “Khirbet Mazra’a: The Lost Excavation”
2nd Place: Brigid McManama (faculty sponsor: Stephanie Bower, The Writing Program), “Imag(in)ing Race After Slavery: Race and Service in the White House”
Honorable Mention: Celeste DeFreitas and Brian Ronge (faculty sponsor: Rachel Walker, linguistics), “Silent Speech Gestures in Kinyarwanda”
Honorable Mention: Georgiana Nikias (faculty sponsor: Dodd, religion), “The Lost Shawabti: A Scribe’s Ancient Egyptian Funerary Figurine”
Interdisciplinary Award: Shaun Lea (faculty sponsor: Dodd, religion), “Andean Dye Project: The Mysteries of Textiles”
Life Sciences
1st Place: Stephanie Bughi and Jatturong Wichianson (faculty sponsors: Donna Spruijt-Metz and Selena Michel, health promotion and disease prevention), “Prevalence of Night-Eating Syndrome Among College Undergraduate Students”
2nd Place: Anna Maria Maglunog (faculty sponsor: Samantha Butler, biological sciences), “The Role of Netrin-1 in Commissural Axon Guidance”
Honorable Mention: Raymond Jone (faculty sponsor: Albert Herrera, biological sciences), “Modeling and Characterizing Synapse Elimination Using Xenopus laevis”
Honorable Mention: Ryan Kohlbrenner and Ricardo Mestres (faculty sponsor: William McClure, biological sciences), “Effects of Prenatal Stress on Cell Quantity in the Nucleus Accumbens and Cingulate Cortex Area 3 in the Animal Model of Schizophrenia”
Interdisciplinary Award: Mahira Kakajiwala (faculty sponsor: Jed Fuhrman, marine environmental biology), “Spatial and Temporal Diversity of Marine Viruses in the San Pedro Channel”
Physical Sciences, Math and Engineering
1st Place: Suet Ying Christin Chong and Pavitra Krishnaswamy (faculty sponsors: Martin Gundersen, electrical engineering, physics and astronomy and materials science; Laura Marcu, biomedical engineering), “Long-Term Effects of Nanosecond Electroperturbation Therapy on Cancer Cells”
2nd Place: Krystal Sly (faculty sponsor: Mark E. Thompson, chemistry), “The Effect of Varying the Cathode Composition on Organic Solar Cell Performance”
Honorable Mention: Timothy Kowalczyk (faculty sponsor: Anna Krylov, chemistry), “Electronic Structure and Spectroscopy of Carbon Trioxide”
Honorable Mention: Dolce Wang (faculty sponsor: Steve Nutt, materials science), “A Shocking Demand”
Interdisciplinary Award: Kristy Akullian, Randy Robertson, Edgar Evangelista, Joshua Garcia, Ee Ling Ooi, Thomas Robinson, Ifraz Haqque, Justin Perez, Aaron Kositsky (faculty sponsor: Thomas Jordan, Southern California Earthquake Center), “SCEC/UseIT: Software Engineering to Create an Earthquake Monitoring System”
Social Sciences I
1st Place: Daniel Goldman (faculty sponsor: Jo Ann Farver, psychology), “Alcohol, Expectancies, Dispositional Aggression and Aggressive Behaviors”
2nd Place: Shaheen Munir (faculty sponsors: Franklin Manis and Jo Ann Farver, psychology), “Cross-Language Transfer of Reading Skills in Three Treatment Groups”
Honorable Mention: Tommy Cavanagh (faculty sponsors: Farver and Michael Dawson, psychology), “Awareness and Physiological Arousal in a Classical Conditioning Experiment”
Honorable Mention: Fiona Torrance (faculty sponsor: Sandra Chrystal, Center for Management Communication), “Independent Study in Corporate Blogging”
Interdisciplinary Award: Lauren Baron (faculty sponsor: Thomas Lyon, law and psychology), “The Ability of Child Witnesses Alleging Sexual Abuse to Make Numerosity Judgment”
Social Sciences II
1st Place: Meredith Goldin (faculty sponsors: Norman Miller and Joy Stratton, psychology), “Impact of Subtyping Salience on Consensus Estimation and the Black Sheep Effect”
2nd Place: Kareem El Sawy (faculty sponsor: Constantin Vaitsos, Information and Operations Management), “Issues in Outsourcing Management: A Balanced Scorecard”
Honorable Mention: Matthew Borba (faculty sponsor: Stan Huey Jr., psychology), “The Therapeutic Alliance and Treatment Outcomes in Multisystemic Therapy”
Honorable Mention: Elizabeth Cook, Archana Prakash, Kathleen Benton and Karina Godoy (faculty sponsor: Carole Shammas, history), “Fire in the Built Environment: United States 1790 to the Present”
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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.
The New York Times featured the USC U.S.-China Institute documentary “Assignment: China — The Week that Changed the World.” The documentary, part of a series, examines media coverage of the 1972 Nixon trip that reshaped U.S.-China relations after a quarter century of isolation and hostility. “People look back now and take it for granted that the outcome was preordained,” said the institute’s Mike Chinoy, who produced the documentary. Voice of America also featured the story.
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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