Engineer and USC Trustee Elected to National Academy
The election of Sugar and Dapkus brings the number of NAE members associated with USC to 26.
Dapkus, who holds appointments in the departments of electrical engineering/electrophysics and materials science, directs USC’s Center for Photonic Technology.
“Dan has been a pioneer in the field of using light – photons – to perform tasks that previously were done by electrons and is now a pioneer in the emerging field of nanotechnology,” said Dean C. L. Max Nikias.
Dapkus is also a fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE) and Optical Society of America. In 2003 he was elected a fellow of the American Physical Society and the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
He received the 2001 IEEE David Sarnoff Technical Field Award in Electronics for his work in photonic materials and devices. In 1992 he received the Lockheed Senior Research Award and in 1993 became the holder of the Keck chair.
SUGAR IS CHAIRMAN of the board of Northrop Grumman Corp. and the firm’s chief executive officer. Previously, he served as president and chief operating officer. He joined the company following its acquisition of Litton Industries Inc., a diversified defense and technology company.
Prior to joining Litton, Sugar was president and chief operating officer of TRW Aerospace and Information Systems, and a member of the chief executive office of TRW Inc., a global automotive, aerospace and information systems company.
Sugar graduated with honors in electrical engineering from UCLA. In 2003, he received USC’s Daniel J. Epstein Engineering Management 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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