<p>One of the country's oldest scientific societies, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, has named fifteen USC professors as Fellows of the Society. The honorees come from Dornsife, Viterbi, Keck and the Davis School of Gerontology.</p>
<p>AAAS was established in 1848.</p>
<p>Earlier this year it was announced Midori Goto, holder of the Jascha Heifetz Chair in Violin, was named a Fellow of the American Aademy of Arts and Sciences. She is a Distinguished
Professor in the USC Thornton School of Music. Professor Goto is Chairman of the Strings Department at Thornton.</p>
<p>Also named to the Academy was Ernest Wilson, Dean of the Annenberg School. He holds the Walter Annenberg Chair in Communication. In the past he has served as a consultant to the World Bank and worked with the U.S. Information Agency.</p>
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<p>In the USC Department of Mathematics Assistant Professor Miodrag Lovanov was awarded the 2011 Simion Stoilow Prize from the Romanian Academy. The prize recognizes particularly important achievements in mathematics. It honors the memory of the great Romanian mathematician and diplomat Simion Stoilow who was born in 1873.</p>