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Student Newspaper of the University of Southern California Since 1912 | www.dailytrojan.com | VOL. 175, NO. 35 | Friday March 2, 2012 InDEX 2 · Quick Hits 4 · Opinion 5 · Lifestyle 8 · Classifieds 10 · Sudoku 12 · Sports Seussical: The Lorax captures the magic of the book. Basket case: Trojans lose their eighth straight game in a 58-80 fall to Washington. sports 12 lifestyle 5 opinion 4 weather Mostly Sunny hi 68 lo 50 today tomorrow Mostly Sunny hi 73 lo 54 Multidiscipinary By Yasamin Azarakhsh Daily Trojan USC’s National Center for Risk and Economic Analysis of Terrorism Events held an informational session to increase awareness on campus and to recruit potential researchers on Thursday. CREATE, operated jointly by the Sol Price School of Public Policy and Viterbi School of Engineering, is the first of 12 Centers of Excellence, sponsored by the Department of Homeland Security, in the country. With 30 research projects a year, CREATE trains more than 100 students in homeland security issues. It provides education opportunities for graduate students looking to specialize in homeland security and to earn professional certifications, CREATE Director Stephen Hora said. Some of their current projects Center aims to evaluate security risks Operated by the Price School and Viterbi, CREATE oversees 30 research projects each year. | see Create, page 3 | By Annalise Mantz Daily Trojan A team of 10 USC students will compete at the White House to win $100,000 from the U.S. Department of Energy on Friday. The team, made up of graduate student members of the USC Student Energy Club, entered the DOE-sponsored Better Buildings Case Competition in early February. The competition centers on two student-created proposals for making an office building and the Walter Reed Army Medical Center, the U.S. Army’s flagship medical center in Washington, D.C., more energy efficient. The team will see if four weeks of hard work will pay off Friday, when they present their project in front of a panel of energy experts in Washington. Nineteen universities, including UCLA and UC Berkeley, are participating in the challenge. Because the competition involves elements of architecture, engineering, finance and public policy, the students on USC’s team come from a diverse group of backgrounds. Of the 10 team members, two are MBA students, one is a public policy student, three are architects and four are Students visit White House to compete The USC Student Energy Club is one of 19 teams in the Better Buildings Case Competition. | see energy, page 3 | White house By Austin Byron Daily Trojan National Institutes of Health funding for research at USC increased more than 10 percent over the 2011 fiscal year, primarily because of new research facilities and projects. USC received $202 million in NIH funding, and its funding ranks 11th among all private higher education institutions, according to the NIH. NIH grants are used to support the direct and indirect costs of research and are awarded to USC for use by faculty members and administration. Elizabeth Fini, vice dean for research at the Keck School of Medicine, said the increase in NIH funding can be attributed to the construction of the new research facilities the university added over the last year. “We received 14 percent more funding than last year when counting grants from all sponsors,” Fini said. “This can be attributed to the opening of four new research buildings and the recruitment of a new generation of researchers into these new facilities, thus expanding the number of research faculty who are competitive for grants.” Part of the new funding from the NIH will be used for the construction and development of the National Cancer Institute Physical Science-Oncology Center at USC, Fini said. “Recently the National Cancer Institute of the NIH designated USC as one of 12 Physical Science-Oncology Centers across the country and funded the program with a $16-million grant to be used over five years,” Fini said. “The five-year grant will allow [researchers] to focus on creating a set of virtual cancer models based on measurements from individual cancer patients, [and] the models then would be used to simulate cancer growth and predict drug responses for each patient.” Fini said that given the current budget cuts in the federal government, NIH funding for the 2012 fiscal year will not increase as substantially as in 2011. “We have some catching up to do, and times are tough at NIH,” Fini said. “Nevertheless, the Keck School has taken a positive stance, [and] we are projecting a 1 to 3 percent increase [in funding] in parallel with the 2012 NIH budget increase.” Because of the predicted decrease in the growth of funding from the NIH, Fini said this year the university will try to increase its research funding from other foundations and corporations. “We also receive funding from foundations, such as the American Cancer Society, Autism Speaks and Fight for Sight,” Fini said. “Industry sponsorship is currently a small part of our portfolio, but we see this as an opportunity to expand and fill the gap opened by difficult times at NIH.” Kelsi Chesney, an undeclared freshman, said the university’s increased funding from the NIH shows the growth of USC as a private research university. “I’m excited that USC keeps securing more funding from the NIH because it shows that [the university] really cares about its student and faculty research projects,” Chesney said. University increases health grants by 10 percent USC receives the 11th-greatest amount of funding among private institutions of higher education. Research National Institutes of Health Funding at USC 2011 2010 2009 2008 $202,364,190 $195,318,935 $179,694,019 $165,539,780 Priyanka Patel | Daily Trojan Speaking up Alumna Geraldine Knatz, executive director for the Port of Los Angeles, speaks to attendees of the USC Women’s Conference about working in a male-dominated field. The sold-out conference brought together more than 1,600 women in venues across campus on Thursday. Does USC marginalize conservative students? Point/Counterpoint Source: National Institutes of Health Christina Ellis | Daily Trojan
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Full text | Student Newspaper of the University of Southern California Since 1912 | www.dailytrojan.com | VOL. 175, NO. 35 | Friday March 2, 2012 InDEX 2 · Quick Hits 4 · Opinion 5 · Lifestyle 8 · Classifieds 10 · Sudoku 12 · Sports Seussical: The Lorax captures the magic of the book. Basket case: Trojans lose their eighth straight game in a 58-80 fall to Washington. sports 12 lifestyle 5 opinion 4 weather Mostly Sunny hi 68 lo 50 today tomorrow Mostly Sunny hi 73 lo 54 Multidiscipinary By Yasamin Azarakhsh Daily Trojan USC’s National Center for Risk and Economic Analysis of Terrorism Events held an informational session to increase awareness on campus and to recruit potential researchers on Thursday. CREATE, operated jointly by the Sol Price School of Public Policy and Viterbi School of Engineering, is the first of 12 Centers of Excellence, sponsored by the Department of Homeland Security, in the country. With 30 research projects a year, CREATE trains more than 100 students in homeland security issues. It provides education opportunities for graduate students looking to specialize in homeland security and to earn professional certifications, CREATE Director Stephen Hora said. Some of their current projects Center aims to evaluate security risks Operated by the Price School and Viterbi, CREATE oversees 30 research projects each year. | see Create, page 3 | By Annalise Mantz Daily Trojan A team of 10 USC students will compete at the White House to win $100,000 from the U.S. Department of Energy on Friday. The team, made up of graduate student members of the USC Student Energy Club, entered the DOE-sponsored Better Buildings Case Competition in early February. The competition centers on two student-created proposals for making an office building and the Walter Reed Army Medical Center, the U.S. Army’s flagship medical center in Washington, D.C., more energy efficient. The team will see if four weeks of hard work will pay off Friday, when they present their project in front of a panel of energy experts in Washington. Nineteen universities, including UCLA and UC Berkeley, are participating in the challenge. Because the competition involves elements of architecture, engineering, finance and public policy, the students on USC’s team come from a diverse group of backgrounds. Of the 10 team members, two are MBA students, one is a public policy student, three are architects and four are Students visit White House to compete The USC Student Energy Club is one of 19 teams in the Better Buildings Case Competition. | see energy, page 3 | White house By Austin Byron Daily Trojan National Institutes of Health funding for research at USC increased more than 10 percent over the 2011 fiscal year, primarily because of new research facilities and projects. USC received $202 million in NIH funding, and its funding ranks 11th among all private higher education institutions, according to the NIH. NIH grants are used to support the direct and indirect costs of research and are awarded to USC for use by faculty members and administration. Elizabeth Fini, vice dean for research at the Keck School of Medicine, said the increase in NIH funding can be attributed to the construction of the new research facilities the university added over the last year. “We received 14 percent more funding than last year when counting grants from all sponsors,” Fini said. “This can be attributed to the opening of four new research buildings and the recruitment of a new generation of researchers into these new facilities, thus expanding the number of research faculty who are competitive for grants.” Part of the new funding from the NIH will be used for the construction and development of the National Cancer Institute Physical Science-Oncology Center at USC, Fini said. “Recently the National Cancer Institute of the NIH designated USC as one of 12 Physical Science-Oncology Centers across the country and funded the program with a $16-million grant to be used over five years,” Fini said. “The five-year grant will allow [researchers] to focus on creating a set of virtual cancer models based on measurements from individual cancer patients, [and] the models then would be used to simulate cancer growth and predict drug responses for each patient.” Fini said that given the current budget cuts in the federal government, NIH funding for the 2012 fiscal year will not increase as substantially as in 2011. “We have some catching up to do, and times are tough at NIH,” Fini said. “Nevertheless, the Keck School has taken a positive stance, [and] we are projecting a 1 to 3 percent increase [in funding] in parallel with the 2012 NIH budget increase.” Because of the predicted decrease in the growth of funding from the NIH, Fini said this year the university will try to increase its research funding from other foundations and corporations. “We also receive funding from foundations, such as the American Cancer Society, Autism Speaks and Fight for Sight,” Fini said. “Industry sponsorship is currently a small part of our portfolio, but we see this as an opportunity to expand and fill the gap opened by difficult times at NIH.” Kelsi Chesney, an undeclared freshman, said the university’s increased funding from the NIH shows the growth of USC as a private research university. “I’m excited that USC keeps securing more funding from the NIH because it shows that [the university] really cares about its student and faculty research projects,” Chesney said. University increases health grants by 10 percent USC receives the 11th-greatest amount of funding among private institutions of higher education. Research National Institutes of Health Funding at USC 2011 2010 2009 2008 $202,364,190 $195,318,935 $179,694,019 $165,539,780 Priyanka Patel | Daily Trojan Speaking up Alumna Geraldine Knatz, executive director for the Port of Los Angeles, speaks to attendees of the USC Women’s Conference about working in a male-dominated field. The sold-out conference brought together more than 1,600 women in venues across campus on Thursday. Does USC marginalize conservative students? Point/Counterpoint Source: National Institutes of Health Christina Ellis | Daily Trojan |