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in adolescent health at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles to professor of pediatrics and medicine. He is survived by his wife Debbie Barak Neinstein, daughter Yael Afriat MBA ’05 (BUS), sons Aaron Neinstein MD ’07 (MED) and David Neinstein JD ’09 (LAW), five grandchildren and brother Jack Neinstein.
named USC’s medical school in 1999. He was preceded in death by his wife Virginia Ramo ’37 (EDU), who served on the USC Board of Trustees from 1971 until she passed away in 2009. In recognition of their decades of support, the Ramos were honored with USC’s highest award, the Presidential Medallion, in 2002.
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GOLOMB PHOTO BY WILL TAYLOR; NEINSTEIN PHOTO BY NATHAN CARTER; NIPARKO PHOTO BY DON MILICI; RAMO PHOTO COURTESY OF FIGUEROA PRESS
Solomon Golomb, 83 An electrical engineering professor at the USC Viterbi School of Engineering, Solomon Golomb was a pioneer in communications technology who helped spark the digital communications revolution. He died May 1 at age 83. Golomb began his career at the USC Viterbi School in 1963 and was one of the “Magnificent Seven”—the communications group that founded the USC Communications Sciences Institute in 1982. The first holder of the Viterbi Chair in Communications in 1999, he was known for his singular ability to apply advanced mathematics to problems in digital communications. Golomb received many awards over his career, including the National Medal of Science from President Barack Obama in 2013.
Lawrence Neinstein, 66 Lawrence S. Neinstein, former executive director of the USC Engemann Student Health Center, died April 27 at age 66. When Neinstein first arrived at USC, relatively few students depended on the university for their health care. That changed dramatically during the past two decades. Under Neinstein’s watch, USC’s student health services and facilities flourished and are now held up as a national model. He was widely regarded as an expert in the health of teenagers and young adults. Neinstein spent his entire professional career at USC, rising from a fellow tfm.usc.edu
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Tiber Alpert Professor and chair of the USC Rick and Tina Caruso Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery at Keck School of Medicine of USC, John K. Niparko died April 25 at age 61. An internationally renowned otoneurologic surgeon and researcher, he joined USC in 2013. An expert on hearing technologies, he built USC’s otolaryngology group into one of the nation’s finest, recruiting outstanding researchers from around the
country and spearheading a long-running national clinical trial of treatments for children with hearing loss. He is survived by his wife, Angela, sons Kevin and Nathan, sister Nancy and brother Steve.
Simon Ramo, 103 Simon Ramo was a USC professor and former chief scientist and technical director of the United States’ intercontinental ballistic missile program. The Santa Monica, California, resident died June 27 at age 103. Ramo joined the USC Viterbi School of Engineering in 2008 as the Presidential Chair and professor of electrical engineering. As a director of the W. M. Keck Foundation, he played a leading role in securing the $110 million gift that
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