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.

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.

The USC Stevens Institute for Innovation announces the winners of their curriculum grant fund, Innovation Inside.

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. 

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.

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).

 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).

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.

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).

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.

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.

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. 

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.