2008 News Archive

Viterbi School faculty and administrators traveled to Mexico City to initiate a collaborative agreement with the National Autonomous University of Mexico

Michael Arbib, Terence Langdon and Aristides Requicha share honor from leading scientific society.

A new facility with the latest scanning electron microscopes will position USC to become a national leader in nanoscience and energy.

For five semesters now, the Viterbi School has offered extra support for freshmen and sophomores facing intimidating engineering final exams.

Undergraduate and graduate engineering students learn the value of teaching in a Viterbi School community outreach program.

S.D. Shibulal, co-founder and chief operating officer of Infosys Technologies, Ltd., spent a full day meeting with Viterbi people - the dean, BOC members, faculty, researchers and students.

The 'Bekey tribe' of faculty and research scholars gathered recently to celebrate the legacy of a giant in robotics.

USC's participation in the Southern California ShakeOut drill let campus participants practice what they should do in the event of a major shake-up in Los Angeles.

Andrew J. Viterbi, USC trustee and benefactor of the Viterbi School, makes his research and personal papers available online at USC.

Top university officials gather to honor USC trustee and Viterbi School namesake for winning the National Medal of Science.

Matthew O'Donnell, dean of engineering at the University of Washington, Seattle, discusses a promising new approach for ultra high resolution imaging at BME's third annual keynote address.

USC research scientists at the Viterbi School of Engineering developed a groundbreaking new prosthetic hand mechanism they said has the potential to revolutionize the fields of prosthetics and robotics.

Elizabeth So (BS BMEC 2007), Kevin Everage (BS BME 2008), and Julie Szpira (BS BME 2007) all work as Patent Examiners in the US Patent & Trademark Office (USPTO) near Washington DC.

The Department of Biomedical Engineering would like to invite you to the Fred S. Grodins Keynote Lecture on Wednesday, October 22, 2008: Can Ultrasound Become the Dominant Molecular Imaging Modality, Matthew O'Donnell, Ph.D.

The Viterbi School of Engineering moved from 12th to 11th in the world in engineering, technology and computer science programs in the recently released 2008 Shanghai Jiao Tong University rankings.

A three-year award from the National Cancer Institute will support development and testing of a novel ultrasound probe for the detection of prostate cancer.

BME researcher will lead one of the four initial projects planned by a new Engineering Research Center for Technologies for Successful Aging with Disability.

Congratulations to our students who recently received national recognition!

Francisco Valero-Cuevas will lead a four-year study on "Reverse Engineering the Human Hand," funded by the NSF's Emerging Frontiers in Research and Innovation Office.

Comprehensive coverage of the award of the 2007 National Medal of Science to USC Trustee and Engineering School namesake Dr. Andrew J. Viterbi, including the White House ceremony and preceding black-tie reception.

President George W. Bush has announced that USC trustee and namesake of the Viterbi School of Engineering Andrew J. Viterbi is one of the recipients of the nation's highest honor for science and technology.

A $5.9 million grant will keep one of the Viterbi School's longest running research success stories running for at least another five years.

A team of physicians and faculty from Keck and the USC Viterbi School will join Childrens Hospital in a new study to understand blood flow in people with sickle cell anemia.

Undergraduate engineering students fulfill course requirements while getting a taste of Rome's timelessness, turbulent history and engineering marvels in overseas study program.

Students in this year's USC-IIT Kharagpur summer exchange program said the hands-on work was valuable and, in some cases, helped them decide whether to pursue an advanced degree.

Dr. Dong Song, Research Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering, has been awarded a 1-year grant by the USC Zumberge Fund to initiate a research project entitled "Nonlinear Dynamic Modeling of Hippocampal System Function during Learned Behavior and Memory Formation."

As many as five outstanding seniors studying electrical or biomedical engineering at the San Luis Obispo college will this fall be able to speed their paths to USC MS degrees through the new Viterbi Integrated Masters of Science Program

Research center's business director brings together Army, industry, academia and a foundation to create a lab-bench-to-marketplace competition judged by a blue-ribbon panel

Wonderland Awards commemorate Lewis Carroll's works. This year's winner, Arvind Iyer, wrote a series of 18 limericks similar to Carroll's style to receive the $1,500 first-place prize.

Dr. Ellis Meng and her interdisciplinary team have invented a simple polymer device that attaches to the eye and delivers drugs to the site of disease via a flexible tube inserted into the side of the eye. For more, see http://www.rsc.org/Publishing/ChemTech/Volume/2008/07/eye_drug_delivery.asp

Three Viterbi School doctoral students will have their careers generously supported for three years as recipients of Alfred E. Mann Innovation in Engineering Doctoral Fellowships.

IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBS) is the world's largest international society of Biomedical Engineers.

"Seven years ago we set a very lofty target...I am extremely pleased to tell you that as of the end of this March, our fundraising total stood at $300,955,609 in cash and pledges."

Parents, siblings, children and friends — some from across the globe — cheer 1,860 newly minted Viterbi School graduates, who have now become part of USC's global Trojan family.

The Viterbi School's Distance Education Network's largest-ever graduating class marked a 30 percent increase over 2007 — which had been 30 percent above 2006.

Graduating seniors and student leaders were recognized for their exceptional achievements in a special Viterbi Awards ceremony held on campus.

The accomplishments of five Biomedical Engineering Seniors were recognized at the Undergraduate Viterbi Awards ceremony.

Congratulations to the six BME seniors receiving USC Student Recognition awards!

Professor Kirk Shung was named today as a recipient of the 2008 Viterbi School Senior Research Award. Dr. Shung was cited as "one of the true pioneers of biomedical ultrasonics".

Dean Yortsos recognizes exceptional teaching, research and service in the Viterbi School in his annual "State of the School" speech and awards luncheon.

Biomedical engineering students present their work at the 12th Annual Fred S. Grodins Graduate Research Symposium.

The 12th Annual Fred S. Grodins Symposium of graduate student research from the Viterbi School’s Department of Biomedical Engineering took place on April 5 at a new venue this year – the Galen Center. As in the past, this year’s event was organized by a committee of BME doctoral students selected by department chair Michael Khoo.

Dr. Valero-Cuevas traces precision hand manipulation skills to specialized neural circuits in the brain.

In a novel experiment, a USC biomedical engineering professor examines the intricate circuitry between precision hand manipulation skills and specialized neural circuits in the brain.

Actor Alan Alda shares some tips with Viterbi School engineering students on the art of public speaking.

The former director and chief operating officer of the Alfred E. Mann Institute for Biomedical Engineering at USC who was on the biomedical engineering faculty and a member of the USC Viterbi School of Engineering’s Board of Councilors was 73.