USC Team Earns Harvard Fellowships
The fellows – including 18 humanists, 13 scientists, 12 creative artists and eight social scientists – work individually and across disciplines on projects chosen for both quality and long-term impact. Their projects range from a photographic series on 21st-century American workers to research on cardiovascular development.
Beginning in August, concert pianist/engineer Chew and computer science researcher François will spend the academic year in Cambridge working on musical interfaces, including a new one (Multimodal Interaction for Musical Improvisation) developed in collaboration with Dennis Thurmond, director of piano pedagogy in the USC Thornton School of Music.
Chew and her husband François have formed a thematic cluster studying the interactive visualization of musical structure, one of two such clusters hosted this year by the Radcliffe Institute. The second cluster will study Ethiopian music culture.
Chew is an associate professor in the Epstein Industrial and Systems Engineering Department at the USC Viterbi School of Engineering. François, a USC Viterbi alumnus, is a research assistant professor in the USC Department of Computer Science Research.
“We are delighted to welcome these distinguished scholars, scientists and artists to Radcliffe,” said Barbara J. Grosz, dean of science at the Radcliffe Institute. “We look forward to seeing new friendships and collaborations form and to witnessing the ways the fellows’ interactions … influence their work.”
Drew Gilpin Faust, dean of the Radcliffe Institute and president-elect of Harvard, said, “In my years as dean, I have been privileged to watch the fellows interact with one another and with faculty members in various departments across Harvard.
“From the vantage point of the Harvard presidency, I will continue to watch and admire their path-breaking work and interdisciplinary approaches.”
Unique among the nation’s centers for advanced studies, the Radcliffe Institute hosts artists, musicians and fiction writers as well as academic researchers and professionals. Selected from a pool of more than 775 applicants, the 2007–08 fellows are a diverse group of distinguished and emerging scholars and artists from the United States and other countries.
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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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