The USC Athletic Department celebrated the groundbreaking of the Uytengsu Aquatics Center on Friday, November 2, 2012. The facility will bea new, world-class home for the Trojan men’s and women’s swimming, diving and water polo teams. The $8 million gift from Wilfred “Fred” Uytengsu ’83 is the largest ever made to the department by a…Continue Reading Uytengsu Aquatics Center Breaks Ground
At a reception held at the Town and Gown, Pinchas Cohen, a preeminent researcher and leader in the field of gerontology, was welcomed to the university and officially installed as the William and Sylvia Kugel Dean’s Chair in Gerontology. Cohen’s appointment as dean of the USC Davis School of Gerontology became effective Aug. 1, 2012. Formerly…Continue Reading Pinchas Cohen Recognized as the William and Sylvia Kugel Dean’s Chair in Gerontology
Keck School of Medicine of USC Dean Carmen A. Puliafito, recipient of the 2012 António Champalimaud Vision Award, was recognized for this recent achievement at a reception held on the Health Sciences Campus. The award, officially bestowed at a ceremony in Lisbon, Portugal, on Sept. 14, 2012, acknowledges Dr. Puliafito’s role in the invention and…Continue Reading Carmen Puliafito Honored with International Vision Award
The late television executive Brandon Tartikoff was responsible for bringing Cheers, Seinfeld, Law & Order, The Cosby Show, Miami Vice and many others to the screen. On Oct. 18, 2012, the USC School of Cinematic Arts hosted a dedication ceremony for The Brandon Tartikoff Legacy Collection, a vast assortment of correspondence and other memorabilia donated…Continue Reading The Brandon Tartikoff Legacy Collection Dedicated at USC
USC President C. L. Max Nikias joined Distinguished Professor George A. Olah, winner of the 1994 Nobel Prize in Chemistry and holder of the university’s Donald P. and Katherine B. Loker Chair in Organic Chemistry, along with a host of others to celebrate the 35th anniversary of the USC Loker Hydrocarbon Research Institute on Oct….Continue Reading USC Loker Hydrocarbon Research Institute Marks Its 35th Anniversary
Robert Gates, former U.S. secretary of defense and U.S. Presidential Medal of Freedom honoree, offered his unique perspective on foreign and domestic policy to a gathering of some 500 USC trustees, faculty, staff and students at the USC President’s Distinguished Lecture at Town and Gown on Oct. 17. The only person to have served as…Continue Reading USC President’s Distinguished Lecture: Robert Gates
On Oct. 16, 2012, President Nikias officially welcomed Andrew McMahon to the Trojan Family. Chair of the university’s newly created Department of Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine, and director of the Eli and Edythe Broad Center for Regenerative Medicine and Stem Cell Research at USC, McMahon comes to USC from Harvard University, where he…Continue Reading USC Welcomes Andrew McMahon
On Oct. 6, 2012, President C. L. Max Nikias addressed a star-studded gathering hosted by DreamWorks Studios to celebrate the USC Institute of Urology. Characterizing the institute as “a place where the extraordinary has become ordinary,” Nikias noted that faculty at the institute are trailblazers in robotic surgery and have pioneered many other advances in…Continue Reading USC Institute of Urology Reception
The USC Mork Family Scholars were hosted by the USC Wrigley Institute for Environmental Studies during a weekend-long excursion to Catalina Island from Oct. 5-7, 2012. While there, the students were welcomed by USC Trustee John Mork and his wife, Julie Mork, and USC President C. L. Max Nikias and his wife, Mrs. Niki C….Continue Reading Mork Scholars Retreat on Catalina Island
Members of the Trojan Family gathered in Bovard Auditorium on Oct. 3, 2012, to celebrate the life of the late USC trustee Kenneth Leventhal, namesake of the USC Elaine and Kenneth Leventhal School of Accounting. President Nikias presented a eulogy at the event and also read aloud a special citation from the university to the…Continue Reading USC Celebrates the Life of Kenneth Leventhal