Student News
Luce Scholar
Sam Bazzi, a senior majoring in international relations and economics,
received a Henry Luce Foundation Scholarship. The highly competitive
awards support 15 students doing internships in Asia. Bazzi, interested
in economic development, hoped to go to Southeast Asia.
CALIS in the News
USA Today’s April 12 Life section featured a workshop run by USC
College’s Center for Active Learning in International Studies. The
workshop showed teachers how they might use the film “Hotel Rwanda” in
the classroom.
Earthquake Research
In November 2004, undergraduate interns in the Southern California
Earthquake Center Undergraduate Studies in Earthquake Information
Technology program competed at the Sigma Xi Student Research Conference
in Montreal. The interns won first place for their poster and software
demonstration entitled “Software Engineering for Earthquake Research.”
Pictured are participants along with advisers Tom Jordan, director of
SCEC, and Sue Perry, program manager.
Trusten Award
Biology faculty selected molecular biologist Ronda Bransteitter to
receive the 2005 William E. Trusten Student Award, the department’s top
graduate student honor.
Student Research Showcased
In May, five undergraduates from an environmental studies course shared
their Yosemite presentations at a meeting of the Los Angeles
Geographical Society. The USC students were: Sean Carney, Elizabeth
Hurst, Daniel Kenny, Miguel Ordenana and Emese Schloegl.
Women in Chemistry
Chemist Lyudmila Slipchenko received the 2005 Anna Louise Hoffman Award
for Outstanding Achievement in Graduate Research from Iota Sigma Pi,
the national honor society for women in chemistry. The award recognizes
women who have demonstrated superior scholastic achievement and high
professional competence in the field. Slipchenko and adviser Anna
Krylov have co-authored papers about their discovery of the first
organic triradical molecule.
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