USC's new supercomputer has achieved a benchmark of 531.6 teraflops, or 531.6 trillion floating-point calculations per second, making it the nation’s fifth-fastest academic supercomputer.

Physician, health care entrepreneur and longtime USC volunteer Mitchell W. Lew ’83, MD ’87 has been elected to the USC Board of Trustees.

As a 19-year-old refugee from Ethiopia, Tadious Odissu was very specific when officials at a Turkish refugee camp questioned him about future plans. Odissu astonished them by saying he wanted to go to film school in California.

John Mork, founder and CEO of Denver-based Energy Corporation of America, has been elected chair of the USC Board of Trustees. He replaces Edward P. Roski Jr., who has chaired the board since June 2008.