School of Pharmacy Wins National Awards
At the association’s meeting in San Diego, USC student Brandi Chock was one of four students nationwide to be awarded the APhA-Academy of Student Pharmacist Student Leadership Award.
Chock, a 2009 Pharm.D. candidate, is the president of the USC chapter of the APhA/CPhA. She was recognized along with the other national winners at a special dinner in Sacramento this month along with her faculty adviser, professor Michael Wincor.
Also at the meeting, USC won four prestigious group awards. The 2008-09 Project CHANCE Award was presented to the School of Pharmacy in recognition of student work in safety-net clinics. The school also took the National Operation Immunization Award for efforts to vaccinate and to educate Californians about immunization.
Student work also was recognized with the Region 8 Heartburn Awareness Challenge Award and the Region 8 Operation Diabetes Award. Both honors recognize students for their superior efforts to improve the health of the community in these specific areas.
The Rho Chi Society, the national academic honors society in pharmacy, awarded the USC Theta Chapter a project proposal award for its submission, “Mental Health and Sleep Disorders.” On hand to accept the award at the Rho Chi annual meeting in San Diego was Amy Eng, president of the USC Rho Chi chapter.
School of Pharmacy professor Ron Alkana was named to the Rho Chi Alumni Honor Roll, and Wincor was elected Region 8 councilor on the organization’s national executive board.
In addition, the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists honored USC student Christina Phan with the organization’s Annual Leadership Award.
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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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