<p>These new professors left preemptive establishments like Ross School of Business @ Michigan, Haas School of Business @ Cal, Sloan School of Management @ MIT, Graduate School of Business @ Stanford, Yale School of Management, etc. to come teach at Marshall.</p>
<p>I am currently a MBA student working closely with a professor who graduated with a double degree (MBA/PHD) at Stanford in the 1970s and he said that the excitement and feeling around campus currently at USC is much like the feeling of Stanford during the Silicon Valley growth.</p>
<p>Don't listen to the people who bash USC based on previous reputation or generalizations. Talk to people who are going to school now or have recently graduated. </p>
<p>The USC Thornton School of Music welcomes new faculty:</p>
<p>Ambrose Akinmusire
He will be an Associate Professor of Trumpet (Jazz)
Winner of the 2012 Downbeat Critics Poll for Trumpet
Winner of the Thelonius Monk International Jazz Competition
Bachelor of Music from Thornton School of Music
MM from Manhattan School of Music</p>
<p>Kenneth J. Foster
He will be an Associate Professor and the director of a new graduate program in arts leadership.
He has been the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Director.
Previously held other arts leadership positions including directing the Kirkland Fine Arts Center in Illinois
Received the Fan Taylor Award
Has led national arts organizations
MA from NYU</p>
<p>Previously noted on this board will be the addition of Glenn Dicterow, Concertmaster of the New York Philharmonic, to the strings faculty and his wife, Karen Dreyfus. Ms. Dreyfus is a noted violinist and a professor at the Manhattan School of Music. They will join the faculty in 2013.</p>
<p>Lady Susan Digby joins the Thornton School of Music faculty in fall 2012. She has served as the acting Director of Music at Queen’s College, Cambridge. Professor Digby has been a Churchill Fellow and Founder of the Voices Foundation. She is a member of the Royal Society of the Arts. At Thornton she will teach English Choral Literature
with Nick Strimple.</p>
<p>Lady (Baroness) Digby will join her husband, Lord John Eatwell, at USC.</p>
<p>Dr. Lucio Soibelman has been appointed the new Chairman of the Viterbi Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. Professor Soibelman comes to SC from Carnegie Mellon University where he was Professor of Engineering. He received his Ph.D. from MIT in Civil Engineering Systems. Ten years of his career were spent in private industry in Brazil.</p>
<p>He has written articles in his field and served on various boards. Dr. Soibelman has received the National Science Foundation Career Award, the ASCE Civil Engineering Award and the American Council on Education Award.</p>
<p>A new chairman of the Viterbi Department of Computer Science has been announced. Professor Gaurav Sukhatme received his B.S. from IIT in Bombay and his MS and Ph.D. in Computer Science from SC. He is a Fellow of IEEE and received the National Science Foundation Career Award. He also received the Okawa Foundation Research Award. Dr. Sukhame is the Co-Director of the USC Embedded Systems Laboratory and a Professor of Computer Science.</p>