<p>Three scholars from England will join the faculty at the Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences. Lady Susan Eatwell has accepted an appointment at the Thornton School of Music. </p>
<p>From Oxford are Ralph Wedgewood and Gabriel Uzquiano-Cruz. Wedgewood is currently a professor of philosophy and a fellow at Merton College. He is considered a leader in normative ethics and both moral and general epistemology. Professor Wedgewood was a Leverhulme Research Fellow and a recipient of the Jean Hampton Prize, among other honors. </p>
<p>Cruz is currently a professor in philosophy at Oxford and a fellow at Pembroke College. He is an expert in the new field of plural quantification. His research interests lie in logic, metaphysics and philosophy of mathematics.</p>
<p>These scholars will help expand courses in the new undergraduate major in philosophy, politics and law.</p>
<p>Lord John Eatwell, president of Queen's College, Cambridge will join the Dornsife faculty in the Dept. of Economics. He had previously taught economics at Cambridge and is a professor of financial policy in the Judge Business School. Lord Eatwell has held high positions in the British Labour Party and also helped establish the Institute for Public Policy Research. He will teach both a graduate and an undergraduate course. The undergraduate course will be in the School of International Relations.</p>
<p>The Thornton School of Music will welcome Lady Susan Digby Eatwell to the faculty. She has been the acting director of music at Queens' College. Lady Digby is a Churchill Fellow and the founder of Voices Foundation. She is also a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and a member of the Society of Musicians. At Thornton Professor Digby will teach an undergraduate course on English choral literature with Nick Strimple and act as a guest lecturer for other classes.</p>
<p>Two law scholars will join USC in fall 2011. Lee Epstein in a noted scholar of law and judicial politics. Joining her at the Gould School of Law will be Nancy Staudt, who is known for her expertise in the field of tax and tax policy.</p>
<p>Epstein currently holds the Rogers Professorship at Northwestern University. She is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Academy of Political and Social Science. She is the recipient of the Pretchett Award for the best book published on law and courts. Dr. Epstein is co-editor of the Journal of Law, Economics & Organization, a member of the Board of Directors of the American Academy of Political and Social Science and past president of the Midwest Politcal Science Association. Those are just a few of her honors.</p>
<p>Dr. Staudt has been on the faculty at Washington Univ. at St. Louis and most recently at Northwestern. She will be the Edward Lewis Professor of Law. Dr. Staudt has published widely in the areas of political economy, tax law and tax policy. She has received several research grants, including those from the NSF. Professor Staudt earned a JD cum laude from the Univ. of Minnesota and a Ph.D. in public policy from the Univ. of Chicago. She also clerked for the Honorable John Noonan on the U.S. court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.</p>
<p>Basically USC invites these professors to guest lecture or something in LA in the dead of British winter and after a few walks on the beach in 70 degree weather, they have to whip them and chain them to the tires of the British Airways jet to get them back home. Half of Britain wishes it were in LA. USC knows what it is doing with that Dornsife gift. More power to them!</p>
<p>USC Annenberg continues to expand the sports journalism program. Alan Abrahamson, a veteran Olympics reporter and award-winning sportwriter, will join the faculty this summer.
Abrahamson was a columnist for NBC’s online website and 17 years at the Los Angeles Times. The Vancouver Olympic Games marked his sixth Olympics. He is the sole U.S. based writer on the international Olympic Committee’s press commission.</p>
<p>Mr. Abrahamson co-wrote with Michael Phelps "No Limits"and with Apolo Ohno “Zero Regrets: Be Greater Than Yesterday”. Both are NYTimes bestsellers.</p>
<p>At SC he will lend his expertise to the Master of Arts in Specialized Journalism program.</p>
<p>“Abrahamson’s appointment reinforces USC Annenberg’s focus on examining the intersection
of sports and media in society,” remarked Geneva Overholser, Director of the School of Journalism.</p>
<pre><code>This is a true story. A few years ago a highly recruited football player was deciding between USC and an eastern university. He visited the area during a particularly cold winter in his home state and stayed with relatives. One sunny afternoon he decided to drive to the beach and see the Pacific Ocean.
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<p>That day the Victoria Secret models were jogging along the beach to keep “in shape” for a later photo session. It did not take long for the player to decide California was the better choice to spend his college years. lol</p>
<p>hahaha yeah unfortunately my summer break doesn’t begin until 3-4 weeks, so i’ve been trying, and failing, to be studious. </p>
<p>that being said, that’s impressive. Oxford is a top philosophy school (#2 in the world), so i’m betting that this will surely boost USC’s ranking (assuming that they’re tenure track as opposed to just visiting scholars, which since they’re being called faculty i assume that they are.) Oddly enough, UCLA and USC are tied equally for Philosophy of Language (which i think is surprising since i know that UCLA is extremely renown for it, but not USC) but USC has a ton of categories it isn’t even ranked on, which is why it’s rankings are so low. Hopefully the new rankings haven’t been conducted yet so that this can up USC’s rankings since they only happen like once every two years.</p>
<p>that being said, kudos to USC. I might stop by one of these days and chat it up with one of these professors :)</p>
<p>The professor to keep watching is Dr. Antonio Damasio who is doing amazing research in neuroscience. He is the Dornsife Professor of Neuroscience and the director of the USC Brain and Creativity Institute. His honors would take nearly all this space to list.</p>
<p>The above are not visiting professors.
Dr. Wedgewood will be Professor of Philosophy. Dr. Uzquiano-Cruz will also be Professor of Philosophy.</p>
<p>Also, added to the philosophy department will be an assistant professor, Dr. Karen Lewis. She has interest in interdisciplinary cognitive science. She has worked in linguistics, cognitive psychology and philosophy. She has a degree from Queens University and a Ph.D. in Philosophy from Rutgers.</p>
<p>Dr. Kate Flint has been appointed Provost Professor of English and Art History in the Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences. She recently served as Chair of the English Department at Rutgers University. Before her time at Rutgers she taught at Oxford University.</p>
<p>Professor Flint’s interests are in Victorian literary history, women’s writing and transatlantic studies. Among many writings, she is the general editor of the forthcoming Victorian volume of the New Cambridge History of English Literature. She has been the recipient of the British Academy’s Crawshay Prize. Flint is a Fellow of the National Humanities Center and a Fellow of the Huntington Library in San Marino, CA.</p>
<p>Dr. Flint earned her B.A., M.A. and Ph.D from Oxford University. She also earned an M.A. from the Courtauld Institute, London University.</p>
<p>Dr. Lee Epstein was named Provost Professor of Law and Political Science, with appointments in the USC Gould School of Law andthe USC Dornsife College.</p>
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Duke may have been conservative and anticipated a higher yield (accepting fewer students), figuring they could go to the wait list to end up with their target class size rather than over enrolling and having to figure out how they are going to accommodate the extra students. [/unquote]</p>
<p>This was on the Duke discussion thread re wait list.</p>
<p>It still boggles my mind that USC does not employ a waitlist. How can it ever properly calibrate a class? Underenrolled or overenrolled are the only two outcomes; without a waitlist, I would think it impossible to precisely hit the mark.</p>
<p>In case you weren’t aware, USC added two nobel laureates to its faculty ranks in the past year: Daniel McFadden and Murray Gell-Mann. (Though Gell-Mann has positions at two other universities, and some consider him to be in the twilight of his career. That doesn’t mean folks at USC aren’t thrilled to be working with him.)</p>
<p>After an extensive national search Dean Howard Gillman has announced Dr. Roberta Marinelli will be the new director of the Wrigley Institute at Catalina Island.</p>
<p>Since 2005 Dr. Marinelli has served as the program director of the Antarctic Organisms and Ecosystems Program at the National Science Foundation Palmer and McMurdo stations in Antarctica. Prior to that appointment she was on the faculty at the University of Maryland’s Center for Environmental Science.</p>
<p>Dr. Marinelli will also oversee the George Boone Center for Science and Environmental Leadership as well as implement an expansion of research programs in environmental studies at USC.</p>
<p>Professor Marinelli will begin her directorship in July 2011.</p>
<p>The Daniel Epstein Chair in the Viterbi School of Engineering is now held by Dr. Dorit S. Hochbaum. She will continue her research interests in the Dept. of Industrial Systems Engineering. Dr. Hochbaum was formerly the Chair of the Management Science Group at the Haas School of Business at the Univ. of California at Berkeley.</p>
<p>Professor Hochbaum has distinguished herself in the fields of mathematics and management. Her research interests are in computer algorithms and discrete optimization. She earned her MS at Hebrew University in Jerusalem and her Ph.D at the Wharton School at the Univ. of Pennsylvania. Other honors include an honorary doctorate from the Univ. of Copenhagen and a Fellowship of the Institute of Operations Research.</p>
<p>Vasilis Marmarelis has returned to USC’s faculty and the Viterbi School of Engineering. Professor Marmarelis is the co-director of the Biomedical Resource Simulation. He holds appointments in both the Department of Biomedical Engineering and Electrical Engineering.</p>
<p>Dr. Marmarelis has authored many books and articles in his field. His research interests are mainly in system analysis and signal processing. He is a Fellow of the IEEE and a Fellow of the AIMBE. Professor Marmarelis received his M.S and Ph.D. degrees from Cal Tech.</p>
<p>Last January USC and the SETI Institute entered into a joint research partnership. The affiliation will provide opportunities for collaboration, student mentorship and access to technology.</p>
<p>Jill Tarter, Director of the Center for SETI Research, will join the USC academic community. Tarter hopes to develop a course in astrobiology and collaborate across disciplines. She has received the Lifetime Achievement Award from Women in Aerospace, public service medals and the Carl Sagan Prize. She is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the CA Academy of Sciences.</p>
<p>Professor Tarter had previously served as a project scientist at NASA and now is on the management board for the Allen Telescope Array.</p>
<p>Dr. Tarter earned a B.S. in Engineering Physics at Cornell, M.S. and her Ph.D. from U. C. Berkeley.</p>
<p>Dr. Tarter commented, “USC is a fantastic opportunity. I’m excited to be part of a university that places such value on research and programs that explore the possibilities of our universe. The physical, faculty and student resources provide an infinite stock of creativity and ingenuity for solving problems.”</p>
<p>On another thread can be found a list of new facutly in the USC Keck School of Medicine. A long thread lists new faculty in the Dornsife School of Letters, Arts and Sciences.</p>