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Division alumna selected to “Women of the Year” ⟩
March 16, 2011
Alumni Awards
Congratulations to USC Division alumna Terri Chew Nishimura MA (’85), OTR/L, for being selected by The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors and The Los Angeles County Commission for Women as one of a dozen "Women of the Year" who have made a difference in the lives of women in Los Angeles…
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Aziz-Zadeh awarded grant to fund stroke rehabilitation ⟩
July 8, 2010
Associations and Bodies Awards Faculty Research
The American Heart Association has awarded assistant professor Lisa Aziz-Zadeh a three-year $231,000 grant to understand how individuals with stroke process actions.
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Congratulations to our fellow division: PT gets first endowed chair! ⟩
October 28, 2009
Dr. Jim Gordon, Associate Dean and Chair, announced that a $1 million gift from Tracy Sykes (DPT class of 1998) and her husband Gene Sykes has established the first endowed faculty chair for the Division of Biokinesiology & Physical Therapy. Dr. Linda Fetters has been named the inaugural holder…
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$1.25 million Autism Grant ⟩
October 22, 2009
Autism Awards Faculty Research
Olga Solomon PhD, Research Assistant Professor, received a NIH grant for $1.25 million to study Autism in an urban context. This two year multi-method, ethnographic research project examines health and service disparities in Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) diagnosis of African American children…
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New Pressure Ulcer Prevention Study Grant ⟩
November 24, 2008
Awards Faculty Lifestyle Redesign Research
USC OS/OT is awarded a grant to study Lifestyle Redesign® intervention for people with spinal cord injury. As discovered by a team of researchers led by USC OS/OT in a 3-year, NIDRR-funded qualitative study, "Daily Living Context and Pressure Sores in Consumers with SCI," the ordinary daily…
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The Division Awarded OSEP Early Intervention Grant ⟩
November 24, 2008
Awards Clinical Community and Partners Research Students
A new grant in the amount of $800,000 has been awarded to researchers in the USC Division of Occupational Science and Occupational Therapy by the Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP), an agency of the U.S. Department of Education. The grant, which will run from 2008 to 2013, is titled…
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