| Previous Press Releases |
| April 30, 2008 - PROJECT:POSSIBILITY SHOWCASES BREAKTHROUGH OPEN-SOURCE SOFTWARE FOR DISABLED COMMUNITIES |
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| October 2, 2007 - USC Students to Exhibit Imagination |
The USC Stevens Institute for Innovation prepares to host the first annual USC Student Innovator Showcase and Competition, Thursday, October 11, 2007, during Trojan Parents Weekend.
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| October 11, 2007 - Developing the Next Generation of Innovators |
The USC Stevens Institute for Innovation is pioneering a new approach it innovation university-wide. Today, USC Stevens hosted the first annual USC Student Innovator Showcase hosting over thirty presentations and reaching over 200 hundred students across the University.
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| January 30, 2008 - Innovation Inside Awards Announced |
The USC Stevens Institute for Innovation announces the winners of their curriculum grant fund, Innovation Inside.
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| January 8, 2008 - USC Computer-Generated Imagery In PBS Nova Documentary |
Providence
Pictures, an Emmy award-winning production company, licensed and used USC
Computer-Generated Imagery (CGI) in a new NOVA documentary entitled, Secrets
of the Parthenon. |
| December 11, 2007 - UOP and USC Announce Partnership Agreement |
The University of Southern California announced a landmark licensing
agreement today, enabling UOP, a Honeywell company, and USC to collaboratively develop
an improved methanol and dimethyl ether production process and a large-scale
industrial recycling of carbon dioxide generating methanol and tradable carbon
credits at the same time. |
| October 8, 2007 - The USC Stevens Institute for Innovation Opens Shop on USC Health Sciences Campus |
In a move that demonstrates the University of Southern California’s
strengthened commitment to advancing breakthrough research in the
biosciences, the USC Stevens Institute for Innovation announced today
the opening of an office in the new Harlyne Norris Tower at USC’s
Health Sciences Campus (HSC).
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| August 2, 2007 - Aguru Images, Inc. licenses Light Stage and Linear Light Source technologies developed at the University of Southern California |
Aguru Images, Inc. announced today that it has licensed Light Stage and Linear Light Source technologies developed at the University of Southern California's Institute for Creative Technologies (USC ICT). |
| July 20, 2007 - University of Southern California Position on the Patent Reform Act of 2007 |
America's universities are the principal source of the basic research that expands the frontiers of knowledge and produces discoveries that enhance our national security, strengthen our economic competitiveness, and enrich the lives of our citizens. USC, as a leading U.S. research institution, is committed to these missions. |
| June 20, 2007 - Abraxis Bioscience Exclusively Licenses Intellectual Property Portfolio Designed To Personalize Treatment For Colorectal Cancer From The University Of Southern California |
Abraxis BioScience, Inc. (NASDAQ:ABBI),
an integrated, global biopharmaceutical company, today announced an agreement
with the University of Southern California (USC) that provides Abraxis with the
exclusive worldwide development and commercialization rights for an
intellectual property portfolio of diagnostic protein biomarkers for therapy
response, therapy toxicity and disease recurrence in colorectal cancers (CRCs).
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| March 27, 2007 - USC Stevens Institute for Innovation Launches; Showcases Breakthrough Innovations |
During a day long celebration of innovation at the University of Southern California, USC President Steven B. Sample announced the strategic plan, mission and vision for the newly-named USC Stevens Institute for Innovation, the university's bold, new approach to harness and advance breakthrough research and innovation for societal impact. |
| March 27, 2007 - Executive Takes Key Role at USC Stevens |
Joseph
Koepnick former CEO of Stanford spinout Staccato Systems Inc. and longtime
senior licensing associate at Stanford's office of technology licensing, has
joined the USC Stevens Institute for Technology Commercialization as director
of licensing. He will oversee intellectual property licensing throughout USC. |
| March 27, 2007 - USC Stevens Names MIT’s Krisztina Holly Executive Director |
Krisztina Holly, formerly executive
director of the Deshpande Center for Technological Innovation at the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a veteran of successful technology
start-ups, has been named executive director of USC Stevens. |
| March 19, 2007 - USC, UCLA Vice Provosts, Krisztina Holly And Kathryn Atchison, Join Entretech Board |
Entretech (www.entretech.org), a leading business
development organization supporting high technology companies throughout Greater
Los Angeles, announced the appointment of two new board members,
Krisztina Holly, Vice Provost and Executive Director of the USC Stevens
Institute for Innovation, and Kathryn A. Atchison, Vice Provost of Intellectual
Property and Industry Relations, and Associate Vice Chancellor for Research at
UCLA. Holly and Atchison join 10 other Board members deeply
rooted in the local business and technology communities, including Fred Farina,
who represents the Office of Technology Transfer at Caltech. |
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