Paying tribute to the wide range of intellectual and leadership achievements of the past year, the 32nd annual Academic Honors Convocation was held on April 23 at Town & Gown to recognize the best and the brightest among USC students, faculty and administrators.

“USC’s outstanding faculty and students all contribute to our academic community in a variety of ways — through their teaching, research, patient care, creative expression and professional innovation,” said USC President C. L. Max Nikias. “This evening’s honorees have distinguished themselves in one or more of these categories. Together they embody the university’s greatest aspirations.”

Nikias presented the Presidential Medallion, the university’s highest honor, to USC Trustee Verna B. Dauterive, and Inderbir Gill, chairman and professor of the Department of Urology at the Keck School of Medicine of USC.

Among the night’s other honorees was University Professor and Distinguished Professor Solomon Golomb, who received a special presentation by Nikias for his scholarly achievements, including his recent National Medal of Science award.

“His revolutionary work has profoundly shaped communications technology, enabling us to chat on our cellphones and receive vivid images from distant planets. Here at USC, we are so proud to call him one of our own,” Nikias said.

Below is a list of the award recipients, in the order the awards were given that evening:

National Medal of Science

SOLOMON GOLOMB
University Professor
Distinguished Professor of Electrical Engineering
Andrew and Erna Viterbi Chair in Communications
USC Viterbi School of Engineering
Distinguished Professor of Mathematics
USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences

Marshall Scholarship

ALEXANDER FULLMAN
Candidate: BA, Political Science
USC Dornsife

Luce Scholarship

TAMARA SHOGAOLU
Candidate: Master of Fine Arts
(Cinematic arts, film and television production)
USC School of Cinematic Arts

Emma Josephine Bradley Bovard Award

SHELBY LANE BACHMAN
Candidate: BS, Neuroscience
USC Dornsife

KATHERINE FU
Candidate: BA, Neuroscience
Candidate: BA, Biological Sciences
USC Dornsife

OLIVIA LASSOFF
Candidate: BA, Communication
USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism

JULIA SABO MANGIONE
Candidate: BA, International Relations
USC Dornsife

SARA MEGHJI
Candidate: BS, Biological Sciences
Candidate: BA, Spanish
USC Dornsife

AADRITA MUKERJI
Candidate: BA, Economics
USC Dornsife

University Trustees Award

ALEXANDER FULLMAN
Candidate: BA, Political Science
USC Dornsife

WALKER HOLLRAH
Candidate: BA, Economics
Candidate: BA, Psychology
USC Dornsife

JEFFREY SAKAMOTO
Candidate: BS, Biomedical Engineering
USC Viterbi

USC Provost’s Award

ANDREW ARIC ALONZO
BA, Psychology (2012)
USC Dornsife

PARIS JAMI-TEHRANI
Candidate: BA, Economics
USC Dornsife

Phi Kappa Phi Student Recognition Award

JACKSON BURGESS
Candidate: BA, English
(Creative writing)
Candidate: BA, Narrative Studies
USC Dornsife

DAVID MCCRACKEN
Candidate: Master of Fine Arts
(Cinematic arts, film and television production)
School of Cinematic Arts

ANU RAMACHANDRAN
Candidate: BA, Neuroscience
Candidate: BA, Philosophy
USC Dornsife

SHILI XU
Candidate: PhD, Pharmacology and Pharmaceutical Sciences
USC School of Pharmacy

Phi Beta Kappa Undergraduate Award

JASNEET AULAKH
Candidate: BA, English
Candidate: BA, History
Candidate: BA, Philosophy
USC Dornsife

ANU RAMACHANDRAN
Candidate: BA, Neuroscience
Candidate: BA, Philosophy
USC Dornsife

Rockwell Dennis Hunt Award

KENISHA STRONG
Candidate: Master of Education
(Postsecondary administration and student affairs)
USC Rossier School of Education

University Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award

AMIR AWAD ALLAM
Graduate Teaching Assistant
Department of Earth Sciences
USC Dornsife

XIAO HE
Graduate Teaching Assistant
Department of Linguistics
USC Dornsife

MÍCHEL ANGELA MARTINEZ
Graduate Teaching Assistant
Department of Political Science
USC Dornsife

Distinguished Professor

JAE JUNG
Fletcher Jones Foundation Distinguished Chair in Molecular Microbiology and Immunology
Director, USC Institute for Emerging Pathogens and Immune Diseases
Keck School of Medicine of USC
Professor of Pharmacology and Pharmaceutical Sciences
School of Pharmacy

TONY MAXWORTHY (posthumous)
Distinguished Professor of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering
Smith International Professor of Mechanical Engineering
USC Viterbi

M. HASHEM PESARAN
John E. Elliott Distinguished Chair in Economics
Professor of Economics
Director, USC Center for Applied Financial Economics
USC Dornsife

Faculty Lifetime Achievement Award

RICHARD CLARK
Professor Emeritus of Educational Psychology and Technology
USC Rossier

TERENCE LANGDON
William E. Leonhard Professor Emeritus of Engineering
Professor Emeritus of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering
Professor Emeritus of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science
USC Viterbi
Professor Emeritus of Earth Sciences
USC Dornsife

JOHN WILLS JR.
Professor Emeritus of History
USC Dornsife

Phi Kappa Phi Faculty Recognition Award

DANIELA BLEICHMAR
Associate Professor of Art History
Associate Professor of History
USC Dornsife

GELYA FRANK
Professor of Occupational Therapy
USC Division of Occupational Science and Occupational Therapy
Ostrow School of Dentistry of USC
Professor of Anthropology
USC Dornsife

MARCUS LEVITT
Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures
USC Dornsife

PAUL ROSENBLOOM
Professor of Computer Science
USC Viterbi

Provost’s Prize for Innovation in Educational Practice

MARILYN L. FLYNN
Dean
USC School of Social Work

KAREN SYMMS GALLAGHER
Emery Stoops and Joyce King Stoops Dean
USC Rossier

Provost’s Mentoring Award

SANDRA BALL-ROKEACH
Professor of Communication
Director, USC Communication Technology and Community Program
USC Annenberg

USC ASSOCIATES AWARD

USC Associates Award for Excellence in Teaching

YEHUDA GILAD
Associate Professor of Winds and Percussion
Guest Conductor, USC Thornton Chamber Orchestra
USC Thornton School of Music

JOHN WALSH
Associate Professor of Gerontology
USC Davis School of Gerontology

USC Associates Award for Creativity in Research and Scholarship

YVES DE CLERCK
Professor of Pediatrics
Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Keck School

PETER MANCALL
Andrew W. Mellon Professor of the Humanities
Vice Dean for the Humanities
Professor of History and Anthropology
Director, USC-Huntington Early Modern Studies Institute
USC Dornsife

Presidential Medallion

VERNA B. DAUTERIVE
USC trustee

INDERBIR GILL
Chairman and Professor, Department of Urology
Founding Executive Director, USC Institute of Urology
Associate Dean for Clinical Innovation
Keck School

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