Alumni

Winner of a Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award, USC Dornsife’s Thorsten Becker will continue research into the science — and sound — of earthquakes. His research seeks to help scientists understand where fault ruptures originate.

Faculty

Winner of the Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award, USC Dornsife’s Stephan Haas will continue his research on graphene — touted as a ‘miracle material’ — that could lead to more sophisticated functionality in modern electronics.