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The seven-person jury, overseen by the chairwoman of the Centro de Investigaciones Sociológicas (Sociological Research Center) and comprised of sociology and political science academics, unanimously voted for Castells.
Castells is the author of 22 academic books and editor or co-author of 21 additional books as well as more than 100 articles in academic journals.
Wave Action
Maria Todorovska, a research professor in the Astani Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, was among 18 prominent women in civil engineering selected worldwide as role models for aspiring female engineering students.
Todorovska was named in a paper published in the International Journal of Engineering Education, a British journal. The author was Yin Kiong Hoh, a faculty member at the National Institute of Education of the Nanyang Technological University, a major research university in Singapore.
Todorovska is internationally known for her research in earthquake engineering and engineering seismology. Her research interests include seismic wave propagation in soils and structures, structural health monitoring, soil-structure interaction, strong ground motion, probabilistic seismic hazard analysis and seismic monitoring and data processing.
Child’s Work
Two research scientists at Childrens Hospital Los Angeles have been elected into the Society for Pediatric Research.
Anat Erdreich-Epstein and Michele D. Kipke will be formally honored at the organization’s annual meeting on May 2 in Baltimore, Md.
Erdreich-Epstein is director of basic and translational pediatric brain tumor research at Childrens Hospital and an associate professor of pediatrics and pathology at the Keck School of Medicine of USC. She earned a bachelor’s degree in medical sciences and a Ph.D. in biochemistry from the Hebrew University-Hadassah Medical School in Israel.
Kipke recently assumed the role of director of the Center for Community Translation. She is the principal investigator for several studies, including research on HIV prevention and obesity.
Kipke earned a bachelor’s degree in psychology from New York University and a Ph.D. in experimental/health psychology from Yeshiva University in New York.
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Los Angeles Times featured research by Gary Painter of the USC Lusk Center for Real Estate which found that from 2000 to 2005 the number of recently arrived immigrants increased by 27 percent in smaller metropolitan cities, while the number decreased by 6 percent in larger traditional gateway cities like Los Angeles and New York. However, immigrants in the smaller cities were less likely to buy homes than their counterparts in larger cities. “There has been tremendous growth in the population of immigrants in these smaller metropolitan areas,” Painter said, adding that “the networks are certainly much newer in these smaller metro areas.”
Los Angeles Times featured KUSC-FM host Alan Chapman, noting that he has been with the station since 1992 and is one of its “marquee voices.” “KUSC in the most recent ratings turns out to be the No. 1 public radio station in the United States,” Chapman said. “I wasn’t surprised, because over the last year we’d seen it going in that direction. I think our secret is we play good music and people like it. You have a staff of people who actually are committed to it. Music is our lives.”
The Nation ran an op-ed by Marc Cooper of the USC Annenberg School about the recent earthquake in Chile. “The most treacherous aftershock of Chile’s devastating earthquake was the yawning divide between rich and poor — a fissure that has been mostly papered over by several decades of denial and delusion,” Cooper wrote. “One needed look no further than the Twitter torrent gushing from the broken country within hours of the temblor. As swarms of desperate Chileans sacked and emptied the shelves of every market and pharmacy in the hardest-hit, isolated southern region, there was a virtual tsunami of tweets, laden with class- and race-charged epithets, demanding that the army shoot to kill all ‘delinquents,’ along with a flurry of nostalgic pleas for a return to military dictatorship.”
Associated Press featured a case that was taken on by the USC Gould School’s Post-Conviction Justice Project, involving a woman who defenders believe was wrongfully convicted of murder. Few inmates maintain their innocence throughout their incarceration, something that client Rosie Sanchez did, said Michael Brennan of the USC Gould School. Gould School student Jennifer Farrell helped to secure the woman’s release by convincing Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger to defer to the parole board’s decision to release her. “When you’re innocent, you can express remorse for the victim, but no insight,” Farrell said. “Rosie thought about just saying that she did it, making up reasons for why. But she decided not to lie. If she gave up on the truth, she wouldn’t have anything left.” Napa Valley Register also covered the story.
The San Diego Union-Tribune reported that the Keck School of USC received a $100,000 grant from the St. Baldrick’s Foundation, which raises money for children’s cancer research and treatment, to create a follow-up care center that will track pediatric cancer patients into adulthood.
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