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Friday, February 21, 2014
By Amy E. Hamaker [caption id="attachment_1304" align="alignright" width="216"] USC President C. L. Max Nikias describes USC’s strengths and challenges at his annual address to the Health Sciences Campus faculty on Feb. 11.Photo/Tom DeSanto[/caption] The future of online education in higher learning, the global and local nature of university activities and... Read More »
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Friday, February 21, 2014
By Jon Nalick Owen Bennett-Jones, freelance British journalist and a host of “Newshour” on the BBC World Service, captivated audiences in Mayer Auditorium as he told tales of how local culture can shape — or sabotage — efforts to improve education and health worldwide. He described how a leader in... Read More »
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Friday, February 21, 2014
By Ryan Ball [caption id="attachment_1294" align="alignleft" width="72"] Nancy WarnerPhoto/Ryan Ball[/caption] Picking at her smoked salmon with chopsticks at the faculty center named for Hugh A. Edmondson, MD, who preceded her as chair of the Department of Pathology at the Keck School of Medicine of USC, Nancy Warner, MD, Hastings Professor... Read More »
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Friday, February 21, 2014
Robert Allen has been named chief financial officer for Keck Hospital of USC and USC Norris Cancer Hospital. (more…)... Read More »
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Friday, February 21, 2014
By Ryan Ball When the ARCS (Achievement Rewards for College Scientists) Foundation Inc. was established in 1958 to provide financial awards to U.S. graduate and undergraduate students for innovative pursuits in science, engineering and medical research, the Soviet Union had just launched Sputnik and the United States feared it might... Read More »
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Friday, February 21, 2014
Six researchers from the Keck School of Medicine of USC were recently selected to join the Society for Pediatric Research. Membership in the society is based on peer nomination and election, and marks the member’s standing as an internationally recognized pediatric researcher. The newest members will be honored at the... Read More »
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Friday, February 21, 2014
USC recently created the USC Health System Board, a new body that will provide high-level direction for the operations and strategic development of the University’s medical enterprise and joint ventures for surgical centers. With the 2013 addition of USC Verdugo Hills Hospital, the clinical enterprise now includes three hospitals, more... Read More »
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Thursday, February 20, 2014
Members of the Asian Pacific American Medical Student Association dance in colorful costumes at Harry and Celesta Pappas Quad on Jan. 30 to celebrate the beginning of the lunar new year and the Chinese Year of the Horse. [caption id="attachment_1270" align="alignleft" width="432"] Photo/Sara Reeve[/caption]... Read More »
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Thursday, February 6, 2014
Keck School of Medicine of USC has named one of its own, Rohit Varma, MD, MPH, to become chair of the Department of Ophthalmology and director of the USC Eye Institute as well as to serve as professor of ophthalmology and preventive medicine and hold the Grace and Emery Beardsley... Read More »
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Thursday, February 6, 2014
By Hope Hamashige [caption id="attachment_1273" align="alignright" width="72"] Helen Hislop[/caption] Helen Hislop, PhD, a pioneering former chair of Biokinesiology and Physical Therapy, a division at the Ostrow School of Dentistry of USC, died on Nov. 15 in North Carolina at the age of 84. Hislop spent 30 years at USC, heading... Read More »
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Thursday, February 6, 2014
By Alison Trinidad For the first time, scientists and engineers have identified a critical cancer-causing component in the virus that causes Kaposi’s sarcoma, the most common cancer among HIV-infected people. The discovery lays the foundation for developing drugs that prevent Kaposi’s sarcoma and other related cancers. “The mechanism behind the... Read More »