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Elaine L. Chao, U.S. Secretary of Labor, will deliver the commencement address and receive an honorary doctor of humane letters degree at USC’s summer commencement exercises for its eight campuses at 10:30 a.m. Aug. 11 in the
Carolina Coliseum.
A separate hooding ceremony for doctoral candidates will be held at 8:30 a.m. Aug. 11 in the Koger Center. Gordon
Smith, dean of USC’s Graduate School, will be the speaker.
The University expects to award nearly 1,500 degrees to graduates from all eight campuses, including five associate degrees; 509 bachelor’s degrees; 473 master’s degrees; 13 graduate certificates; 14 specialist degrees; 76 doctoral degrees; and three law degrees from the Columbia campus.
Degree candidates from the fouryear and regional campuses include
100 baccalaureate and seven master’s degrees from USC Aiken; six associate degrees from USC
Beaufort; 17 associate degrees from
USC Lancaster; 13 associate degrees from USC Salkehatchie; 159 baccalaureate and three master’s degrees from USC Spartanburg; 48
Chao associate degrees from USC Sumter; and seven associate degrees from USC Union.
Chao, the wife of U.S. Sen. Mitch McConnell of
Kentucky, is the first Asian-American woman in U.S.
history to be appointed to a presidential cabinet post. When
President George W. Bush nominated Chao, he described her as a person with “strong executive talent, compassion, and commitment to helping people build better lives.” The
U.S. Senate confirmed her as labor secretary Jan. 29, 2001.
Chao earned a bachelor’s degree in economics from
Mount Holyoke College and an MBA from the Harvard
Business School. Chao also has studied at the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology, Dartmouth College, and Columbia
University.
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Chef Joe
Crompton watches children in
USC’s Summer at Carolina
Youth Programs spoon sauce over French bread pizzas.
During the sixweek program,
Crompton helped campers create international cuisine — including
Chinese stir fry and Spanish rice— each day for lunch.
USC’s sponsored program and research funding increased slightly in
2000–2001, hitting a record $122.8 million in preliminary data from the Office of Sponsored Programs and Research.
The total represents the 19th consecutive year of research funding increases for the University and translates into a 1 percent or $1 million increase above last year’s $121.8 million. Last year’s 25 percent increase in research funding pushed the University total above the $100 million mark for the first time.
“This year’s relatively small funding increase appears to track with patterns of previous years in which we have had larger growth steps every two to three years,” said Bill Harris, USC’s vice president for research. “We maintained this level of funding while losing several faculty members from the health sciences who possessed significant levels of external funding.
“This was an exceptionally difficult year for faculty retention, and the current faculty must be recognized for their outstanding efforts in helping the University grow its funding this year.”
The leading federal research agency sponsors of USC research were the Department of Defense, which provided more than $22 million (51 percent more than last year); the National Institutes of
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From Russia, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, and Kyrgyzstan with love: international teachers study English while learning about Southern hospitality.
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Theatre South Carolina makes a play for you with a Shakespeare farce, a classic tragedy, and a sophisticated comedy.
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Photos from Richard Greener collection offer rare glimpse of
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When Tom Hallman became USC Aiken’s interim chancellor last summer, he began talking to faculty and staff about their expectations for the campus.
Those initial conversations became a broader series of “grapevine meetings” in the fall where faculty and staff members met to talk about the campus’ needs and priorities. Named USC Aiken’s third chancellor in December, Hallman is now addressing topics such as changing demographics and student expectations that came up in the meetings.
“It was a great opportunity to hear what people had on their minds and what their concerns were,” said Hallman, who started at USC Aiken in 1983 as assistant to the chancellor for administration and external relations. “It has been a very, very valuable process. Without a doubt, it’s been worthwhile to know where people are coming from.”
Changing demographics surfaced as a major topic during the grapevine conversations. USC Aiken’s minority population has grown, making up about 24 percent of the student body, Hallman said.
“While we have grown in our percentage of minority faculty, we still have a ways to go there,” he said, “and we want to recognize that
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■ Age: 53
■ Family: married with two children
■ Education: master’s degree from The Citadel in educational administration; doctorate in higher education administration from USC
■ Experience: interim chancellor, July 1–Dec. 21, 2000; chancellor for administration, 1998–2000; associate chancellor for enrollment services and institutional planning, 1995–1998; associate chancellor for planning and administration, 1994–1995; associate chancellor for external programs and administration, 1990–1994; associate chancellor for administration, 1988–
1990; associate chancellor for business affairs, 1986–1988; assistant to the chancellor for business affairs, 1984–1986; assistant to the chancellor for administration and external relations, 1983–1984
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■ CONFERENCE ON CHILD ABUSE OFFERS CEU
CREDITS: Prevent Child Abuse South Carolina will sponsor its 26th annual Advanced Training Institute and Conference Sept. 26–28 at the Sheraton Hotel in
Columbia. Workshops will cover such topics as domestic violence and reaching men who are violent in the home, trends in South Carolina’s gang activity, protecting children with disabilities from abuse and neglect, and new research on the correlation between divorce and an increased prevalence of child sexual abuse. CEU credit will be offered for social workers and foster care workers, certified adoptions investigators, counselors and therapists, law enforcement personnel, and early childhood interventionists. For a brochure, call 733-5430.
■ MIDDLE EAST TOUR WILL VISIT ARCHAEOLOGICAL SITES: Nena Powell
Rice, director of outreach for the S.C. Institute of Archaeology and Anthropology at the University, will lead an archaeological tour of Egypt and Jordan
Nov. 1–16. The trip is not sponsored by the institute, but is a non-business tour Rice personally organized for the benefit of archaeology. The itinerary for the trip, which will include the Jordan Valley and Petra, has been set up through South Sinai Travel in Cairo and Adventure Travel in Summerville.
Local archaeologists will meet the group in Giza, Petra, and Luxor, and a fulltime Egyptologist and Jordanian specialist will accompany the group throughout both of the respective countries. The trip includes all air travel from New York and within Egypt and Jordan, overnight accommodations, all meals, visa fees, entrance fees, and services of English speaking Egyptian and
Jordanian guides. For information, contact Rice at 7-8170 or nrice@sc.edu.
■ ARCHAEOLOGY MONTH SETS STATEWIDE SCHEDULE: South Carolina’s colorful past will come to life at more than 50 locations throughout the state during S.C. Archaeology Month Sept. 8–Oct. 6. Coordinated by the S.C.
Institute of Archaeology and Anthropology at the University, events and programs will be developed by individuals and organizations to build public support for the preservation of the state’s heritage. Included in the month’s events will be tours, lectures, demonstrations, exhibits, canoe trips, and open excavations. The month’s activities will culminate with the 14th annual
Archaeology Festival Oct. 5–6 at Charles Towne Landing State Historic Site in
Charleston. A complete calendar of events is available by contacting Nena
Powell Rice, 7-8170, or nrice@sc.edu.
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Fennell, president of the Carolina Alumni Association; Corey USC’s Presidential Candidate Search Committee held its first Charleston Post and Courier.
meeting July 18 to discuss strategies for identifying “a deep and rich pool” of candidates for the University presidency.
Committee members also arranged for a direct mailing to the presidents and provosts of scores of prominent universi-
Ford, Student Government president; Ronald Harshbarger,
USC Beaufort faculty member; Miles Loadholt, USC trustee;
William Hubbard, a USC trustee and chair of the committee, told committee members that “our goal is to find an outstanding president for the University.” The committee ties and colleges to net more nominations.
Names of candidates will be confidential during the early stages of the search. The Freedom of Information Act
Caroline D. Strobel, chair, USC Columbia Faculty Senate;
Othniel Wienges, USC trustee; and G. Larry Wilson, Columbia businessman.
A Presidential Candidate Advisory Group also has been has been charged by the Board of Trustees with presenting four finalists for consideration. President Palms has requires that names of finalists be revealed. The committee will interview as many as 20 to 30 candidates, Hubbard said, appointed whose members include: James W. Brown, USC
Spartanburg, chair of social and behavioral science; Mark announced plans to retire as USC president June 1, 2002.
“Part of your role as members of this committee is to look as the process of narrowing the field progresses.
Sam Foster, a member of the search committee and a W. Buyck Jr., former USC trustee; Walter Edgar, USC
Columbia faculty member; William C. Harris, vice president for names,” Hubbard said. “We want a deep and rich pool of candidates—don’t ignore any suggestion that you get.”
USC trustee, was appointed affirmative action advocate, responsible for ensuring that the group takes appropriate for research; Judge Karen Henderson, USC alumna; Michael
B. McGee, athletics director; Shirley Mills, director of The committee approved a comprehensive advertisement for the position that will appear in the New York Times steps to consider women and minority candidates.
The committee met again Aug. 1 and will meet every two
Sunday section, the Wall Street Journal, the Chronicle of
Higher Education, Black Issues in Higher Education, and weeks through September.
In addition to Hubbard and Foster, search committee government and community relations; Dennis Pruitt, vice president for student and alumni services; Thomas E. Suggs, alumnus; and Carolyn West, associate vice provost for regional campuses and continuing education.
the Association for University Women publications. The ad members are: Herbert C. Adams, USC trustee; H. Thorne
Leslie Maxfield is the new director of USC’s Children’s Center, replacing Lisa Corning, who accepted an appointment with Richland
County First Steps.
Maxfield formerly was a faculty member in early childhood education at Klamath Community College in Klamath Falls, Ore. She takes the helm of USC’s Children’s Center at a crucial time. The center has plans to partner with Gateway, a for-profit childcare provider, to build a new facility on University-owned land on Blossom Street.
Maxfield
The two-story, 23,500-square-foot child development and research center will accommodate 165 infants through 5-year-olds, and an additional 35 6- to 12-year-olds for after-school care. It will include offices and flexible space for researchers in addition to classrooms for children and conference rooms for meeting with families. Children of neighborhood families and those affiliated with the University would be given enrollment priority.
A Columbia Planning Commission zoning hearing will be held at 5:15 p.m. Aug. 6 to consider USC’s request to build the center on the site of a former women’s club.
Officials at USC Aiken dedicated the new
Alexander Pendulum in the Ruth Patrick
Science Education Center July 18.
Bridgestone/Firestone South Carolina provided the funds for the new addition to the center in honor of Robert E. Alexander, the second chancellor of USC Aiken who retired in
June 2000. The gift is valued at $85,000.
The pendulum hangs three stories in the
Ruth Patrick Science Education Center and will serve as a teaching tool for the more than
60,000 children and teachers in the Aiken area who visit the center each year.
A pendulum is defined as a body that is suspended from a fixed support so that it swings freely back and forth under the influence of the earth’s gravity. The pendulum design is named for the French scientist Jean Foucault and gives visual evidence of the earth’s rotation.
Checking out the new pendulum are Tom Hallman, left, chancellor of USC Aiken; Steve Brooks, plant manager, Bridgestone/Firestone; and Robert
Alexander, chancellor emeritus.
“The more than 60,000 teachers and students who will pass through the center in the year ahead will have the opportunity to use both science and mathematics skills in working with this pendulum to determine information such as how to calculate the speed of the earth’s rotation for a particular latitude,” said USC Aiken Chancellor Tom Hallman.
“We are very fortunate to have the support of a company such as Bridgestone/Firestone to make this important teaching tool available to the students of this area.”
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When Andrea Lunsford visits USC for a workshop Aug. 21, she will bring with her a reputation as one of the top scholars of rhetoric in the country.
Lunsford, a professor and director of the Writing and Critical Thinking Program at
Stanford University, will spend the day working with new and experienced teaching assistants in the English department and meeting with faculty and graduate students to discuss scholarly works. She also will give a public lecture on rhetoric at 1:30 p.m. in the auditorium in
Gambrell Hall; a reception will follow.
“Andrea specializes in the history of rhetoric, especially in recovering the rhetorical contributions of women throughout the centuries,” said Christy Friend, an assistant professor and associate director of the First-
Year English Program. “What’s unusual about her is that she not only has this corpus of scholarly works but also uses her expertise to write some of the most prominent textbooks for teaching undergraduates to write.”
The English department recently adopted
■ What: Andrea Lunsford, professor and director of the Writing and Critical
Thinking Program at Stanford
University, who will discuss rhetoric
■ When: 1:30 p.m. Aug. 21, followed by a reception
■ Where: Auditorium, Gambrell Hall
■ Admission: Lunsford’s talk is free and open to all interested members of the University community.
Lunsford’s newest textbook, Everything’s an
Argument, co-written with John Ruszkiewicz, for use in English 101. The book draws on the historical tradition of classical rhetoric.
“From ancient times, classical rhetoric taught students not just to write papers in school but also to think about writing and speaking as part of what they were going to do as citizens,”
Friend said. “Classical rhetoric trains students in a broad range of abilities so they can speak and write clearly and persuasively not only in academic arenas but also in public arenas.”
Following that classical example, students using Everything’s an Argument might write a traditional academic research paper but also discuss how the movie, Hoop Dreams, makes a certain kind of argument and tries to persuade the audience in different ways.
“It’s a textbook that gives students the opportunity to look critically at various kinds of text and encourages them to write arguments for a variety of arenas,” Friend said. “It’s a more interdisciplinary approach to speaking and writing.”
New TAs in the English department will meet for three days during the workshop, listening to speakers and looking at samples of student papers. Experienced TAs will come in for meetings on the third day of the workshop, and Lunsford will address both groups as the keynote speaker that afternoon.
“We take the training of our TAs very seriously in the English department,” Friend said.
“To have Andrea share some of her scholarly expertise is a wonderful way to help ground our
TAs and give them the theoretical, historical, and scholarly background to make choices when they start teaching 101 courses.”
Bill Rivers, an associate professor of English, is director of the First-Year English Program.

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And then there are people like Teresa Moore, who create such a dramatic lifestyle change that they remake their body and their
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“I studied zoology as an undergraduate and had no interest at all from Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, in human physiology,” said Moore, exercise science. “I started and Tajikistan about America’s Great weight training in 1982 because I was out of shape. My interest in
Depression and the New Deal. Above, bodybuilding made me decide to go back to school to study nutrition
Craig Callender, a graduate student in and exercise science.” linguistics, helps Galina
Moore enrolled at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Khashchivskaya, a native of Ukraine, earning a master’s of public health degree in nutrition and a doctoral look up an old friend on the Internet degree in nutrition with a minor in exercise physiology.
She also entered—and won— in the EPI computer lab. The teachers spent six weeks on campus studying
English language and American culture.
numerous powerlifting and bodybuilding contests.
Her winning titles include the 1990 North
Carolina State Women’s
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Overall Champion; the 1997 and 1998 North Carolina
State Mixed Pairs Bodybuilding Overall Champion, with boyfriend Lee
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Middleweight Champion; the 2000 Mountaineer
Women’s Open Bodybuilding Middleweight and
Overall Champion; and the
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Women’s Middleweight and
Overall winner.
In 1998, Moore joined
Moore flexes for a June contest photo.
the USC faculty as a clinical assistant professor in exercise science. She also decided to become more serious about competitive bodybuilding.
Her latest wins came this summer. On June 9, she took first place in the middleweight class and first place overall in women’s bodybuilding at the S.C. Bodybuilding and Fitness Championship at the Koger Center. On June 16, she took second place in the National
Physique Committee (NPC) Junior Nationals Championships in St.
Louis, Mo. Moore began preparing for the two June contests Jan. 2.
“First, I cleaned up my diet,” she explained. “I eat five to six wellbalanced, low-fat meals a day. I gear the amount of protein I eat for the activity level and the bodyweight. For example, runners would need less protein than a bodybuilder. I eat a lot of complex carbohydrates, such as potatoes, sweet potatoes, and brown rice and whole grain cereals such as oatmeal.
“I also eat a lot of vegetables, lots of salads and dark green, leafy vegetables such as spinach, plus tomatoes, mushrooms, and bell peppers. Lots of broccoli, string beans. Go ‘low fat’ but never go ‘no fat’—the body needs some fat to survive.”
As a contest gets closer, Moore increases her aerobic activity.
“At first, I keep it at one-half hour, five to seven days a week.
Then I increase it to 45 minutes twice a day. I use the Stairmaster or elliptical machine. You never want to quit aerobics because that keeps you in cardiovascular condition. When I’m preparing for a contest, I stay on a similar weight training schedule throughout, but train with heavier weights.”
Moore is a member of the NPC, the amateur organization of bodybuilding and fitness for the International Federation of Bodybuilding. She holds the position of women’s chair and apprentice judge coordinator in North Carolina and is a judge for most of the
North Carolina and many South Carolina competitions. In April, she was a judge for the Mr./Ms. USC Bodybuilding and Fitness Championship.
Moore’s next competition is the NPC National Championships in
Atlanta Nov. 11.
Kathy Henry Dowell can be reached at 7-3686 or kdowell@gwm.sc.edu.
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What’s the best way to teach 50 English teachers from
Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, and Tajikistan about
America’s Great Depression and the New Deal?
Bring in the expert, Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
Ed Beardsley, professor emeritus of history, presented his living interpretation of the late president for the teachers who have been on the Columbia campus for the past six weeks through a program sponsored by the American Councils for International
Education.
Each of the teachers—44 women and six men— received Awards for Excellence in Teaching from the
Councils to travel to the United States for English language training and to experience American culture. Thirty came from Russia, and the other 20 from Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, and Kyrgyzstan.
For most, it’s their first trip to the United States.
“They are wonderful teachers with wonderful ideas,” said Margaret Perkins, sponsored programs coordinator in English Programs for Internationals
(EPI), noting that they’re good students, too.
“They’ve been like sponges.”
“Many of them have been teaching for 20 years,” she added. “Winning the award is quite coveted.”
The sponsoring organization asked USC to concentrate on three goals during the program:
English language training, methodology, and special topics.
Working with teachers from EPI and professors in the English department, the teachers—who teach
English and American studies—attended classes from
8:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. every day, working on language training, picking up tips from local teachers, and learning, especially, about computers.
“Maybe 10 of them had some experience with computers, but it was all new to the rest. But they took to it like a duck takes to water and did great,”
Perkins said.
Each week, the teachers, who stayed in Preston
College, looked at special topics involving professors from throughout the University. In addition to
Beardsley’s performance as part of history week,
Blease Graham, dean of the College of Criminal
Justice, discussed government and law. John
McFadden, the Benjamin E. Mays professor in the
College of Education, talked about leadership. Jane
White, associate professor in the Department of
Instruction and Teacher Education, demonstrated an economics lesson, and Don Greiner, associate provost and dean of undergraduate affairs and an English professor, talked about American literature.
Outside the classroom, the teachers traveled to
This year is the first that USC has sponsored the four-year-old exchange program offered by the
American Councils for International Education.
In addition to the 50 teachers on the Columbia campus, 40 other teachers from Russia and other independent states spent six weeks studying in Montana. During the last weekend of
July, the teachers in Montana traveled to
Columbia to share ideas at a series of joint meetings. At those meetings, American teachers who have been chosen by the American Councils for International Education to visit Russia and eight newly independent states this fall got a chance to meet and mingle with their international peers.
Atlanta and to Charleston to visit Drayton Hall and the beach, toured the Statehouse and talked with Sen.
Warren Giese, and visited Riverbanks Zoo with children from the Epworth Children’s Home. They also watched American movies, including Forrest
Gump and Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, and caught
Workshop Theater’s production of Bubbling Brown
Sugar.
They even learned how to line dance with the
Carolina Stampede.
On Sundays, the teachers ate dinner with Columbia-area families. “That was wonderful,” Perkins said.
“The American families enjoyed it so much that they wanted to do other things with them, taking the teachers to thrift shops, the movies, and to church and inviting them to cook Russian food for them.”
After a weekend in New York City, the group will fly to Washington before returning home later in
August.
For EPI staff members in the classroom, the program has been as much about learning as it has about teaching. “It’s been a colleague-to-colleague experience,” Perkins said. “They have shown us what they do in their classrooms, and we’ve learned from them, too.”
For the EPI program as a whole, collaboration has been key. “With the University and Columbia communities sharing expertise, EPI has provided a teacher training program of such scope that the professional synergy has been electric,” Perkins said.
Larry Wood can be reached at 7-3478 or larryw@gwm.sc.edu.
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■ Name: Wendel D. Frick
■ Position: Master craftsman, building modification
■ Years at USC: 16; I used to do some small crop farming, and I also built houses with my father and grandfather and other family members. We built a lot of houses in the Chapin area around Lake Murray.
■ What do you do at USC? I specialize in building cabinets and counters, but we do all kinds of carpentry projects. Our shop isn’t all that modern, but if you give us the wood, we can produce some very nice things.
■ What’s been the most difficult job
you’ve tackled? The toughest job was the desks in the lobby at Carolina Plaza. They have round and semi-round edges, and it really took a lot of work to get it right.
That’s also the job I’m most proud of. Every job I do here gives me some satisfaction.
■ What do you like most about your
work: I enjoy teaching other people how to do things. If somebody won’t learn under me, they might as well give up because I’ll spend however much time it takes.
■ What do you wish other people at USC
understood about your work? How long it takes to do a job. I could rush through any project, but I don’t want to do a slop job. It takes time to do this kind of work right.
We’ve got some good fellows working here, and we stay busy. In the 16 years I’ve been here, I’ve worked just as hard as I did when
I was building houses.
■ What are some of your hobbies? I like to hunt walking sticks in the woods. I also go to flea markets and auction sales—once you get that fever, that’s it, you can’t stop.
Some of the things I buy I let my daughter resell on eBay. I build swings and picnic tables on the side, and I’ve got four minnow ponds; I sell bait in the spring. I also cut firewood for sale in the winter. I’ve also done some volunteer work for Habitat for
Humanity.
■ What would be your dream job? I would still work with wood. That’s the way
I was born, and that’s the way I’ll die. I enjoyed all those years of building with my father and grandfather, cousins and uncles.
Shakespeare’s Merry Wives of Windsor brings back the character of Falstaff for a comic romp.
Theatre South Carolina’s 2001–2002 season will feature a
Shakespeare farce, slapstick existentialism, a South Carolina premiere, a classic tragedy, and a sophisticated comedy.
Shakespeare’s The Merry Wives of Windsor will open the season
Sept. 29–Oct. 7.
It has been said that Queen Elizabeth so liked the character of
Falstaff in Shakespeare’s Henry IV that she demanded an encore.
Falstaff returns a big man with bigger appetites and a very small purse, who is not nearly as clever as he thinks he is. Mistress Page and Mistress Ford lead Falstaff on a merry chase, with love hanging in the balance.
The performance is to be a gala production in celebration of
USC’s bicentennial, with invited guest performers and added performances. Jim O’Connor, chair of the Department of Theatre,
Speech, and Dance, is the director.
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, by Tom Stoppard, is set for Nov. 11–18. Imagine this—Abbott and Costello meet the melancholy Dane. Stoppard turns Hamlet upside-down, and out of
Shakespeare’s classic tragedy comes a modern, existential comedy.
He retells Hamlet’s story from the point of view of two bumbling, bewildered bit players.
Theatre South Carolina presented Stoppard’s Arcadia two seasons ago. Stoppard won an Oscar for his screenplay for the movie,
Shakespeare in Love. His latest play, The Invention of Love, is now on Broadway, but the playwright had his first great success with
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead.
Karl Rutherford will direct.
Bee-Luther-Hatchee, by Thomas Gibbons, will receive its South
Carolina premiere Feb. 8–17. The play is a very contemporary take on eternal questions: What is truth? What is genuine anymore? And who should profit from the truth if it can be found?
Shelita Burns is a successful editor of neglected and obscure
African-American fiction. When her first nonfiction offering wins a prestigious award, surprising discoveries lead to dramatic encounters tracing the paper-thin boundary between truth and fiction.
David Wiles, an assistant professor of theatre, is the director.
Sophocles’ eternal tragedy Antigone will be performed March 1–9.
She is immovable, exemplary, rigid, fanatical, vulnerable, hysterical, extreme, brilliant, courageous, and, ultimately, soul-lit. She is
Antigone, daughter of Oedipus, in the play Sophocles named for her in 441 B.C. Antigone insists on burying her brother slain in a bloody civil war, and Creon, her uncle and the new king, forbids burial of the nephew he has decreed a traitor.
Antigone is a distillation of the conflict between private conscience and public duty, a tragedy of the demands of family bonds, and an everlasting work of art.
The director will be announced.
Hay Fever, by Noel Coward, will run April 19–28. A wacky weekend in the country and sneezing is the least of the play’s bright comedy.
Four guests arrive at a summer home. Each hopes for a romantic weekend. Nothing turns out the way it was planned. They—and the audience—meet the Bliss family: a retired actress, her novelist husband, and two strange children. Revel in wit and innuendo, flirtation and surprise, in one of Noel Coward’s most popular plays.
Guest artist Paul Mullins, of the New Jersey Shakespeare company and off-Broadway, will direct.
Ticket prices for faculty, staff, military, and senior citizens are $10 for the first weekend and $8 thereafter. A season subscription is $40.
Ticket prices for students are $9 for the first weekend and $6 thereafter. A season subscription is $30.
Ticket prices for the general public are $12 for the first weekend and $10 thereafter. A season subscription is $50.
Box office hours are noon–6:30 p.m. Monday–Friday in
Longstreet Theater, beginning the Monday before the first performance. The box office reopens in the performing theater one hour before each performance. For information, call 7-2551.
Theatre South Carolina will bring Antigone to the stage March 1–9.
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Two of the 17 pictures found at the Harvard University library, at right, that depict the USC campus in 1874 show the Horseshoe and Longstreet Theater. Discovery of the photos shed light on a period of the University’s history that has been difficult for historians to research.
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■ Sept. 6 USC Salkehatchie Bicentennial Convocation: noon,
Salkehatchie Science Building, Allendale campus.
■ Sept. 7–8 The Sandlapper Singers Conference on Poetry and
Song: The conference will feature world-renowned composer Libby
Larsen, Sandlapper Singers artistic director Lillian Quackenbush, and student composers. Columbia College and USC locations.
■ Sept. 8 The Poet, the Composer, the Premier … A Musical
Celebration of the Poetry of James Dickey: The event will feature the world premier of the choral drama, Falling, by the Sandlapper
Singers, 7:30 p.m. Koger Center.
■ Sept. 11 University Day: A Summit on the Future of Higher
Education: Public sessions will include a morning convocation at
10 a.m. on the Horseshoe and closing keynote address by Henrie
Monteith Treadwell at 4 p.m. Location TBA.
■ Through Sept. 15 Ray Bradbury Exhibit: The exhibition is from the collection of Ann Hardin, featuring Bradbury’s science fiction and other writings. Thomas Cooper Library.
■ Sept. 15 Parents Weekend: The annual event is sponsored by the USC Department of Student Life. Columbia campus.
■ Sept. 20–24 The South and the New Millennium: The Southern
Studies Forum will be presented by the USC Institute for Southern
Studies. Columbia campus.
■ Sept. 20–Oct. 7 The Merry Wives of Windsor: The gala bicentennial production will feature artists from Theatre South
Carolina, the Shakespeare Theatre of Washington, D.C., and other companies. Drayton Hall Theatre. (See story on page 4.)
■ Sept. 21–Nov. 5 “Ernest Hemingway and the Thirties”: The exhibition is from the Speiser and Easterling-Hallman collection, opening with a two-day symposium Sept. 21. Thomas Cooper Library.
■ Sept. 28–29 USC School of Medicine 20th Anniversary
Celebration: The event will include alumni reunions, open house, registration for Med School 101, and special events. School of
Medicine campus.
■ Aug. 2–4 Pineapple Productions: Moose Mating, a play by
David Grae, 8 p.m., Longstreet Theater, $5 general admission.
Tickets available now through Pineapple Productions’ box office at
254-2068 or at the door the night of the performance.
■ Aug. 10 Board of Trustees meetings: Building and Grounds
Committee, 10 a.m.; Executive Committee (if needed), 1:30 p.m.; full board, 2 p.m., Carolina Plaza Board Room. Subject to change. To confirm time, date, and location, contact Russ McKinney at 7-1234.
■ LIST YOUR EVENTS: The TIMES calendar welcomes submissions of listings for campus events. Listings should include a name and phone number so we can follow up if necessary. Items should be sent to TIMES
Calendar at University Publications, 701 Byrnes Building, e-mailed to kdowell@gwm.sc.edu, or faxed to 7-8212. If you have questions, call Kathy Dowell at 7-3686. The deadline for receipt of information is 11 days prior to the publication date of issue. The final publication date for the summer is Aug. 23.
If you require special accommodations, please contact the program sponsor.
■ Through Oct. 28: Works by Eddie Arning.
■ Through Jan. 2002: “Catawba Clay: Pottery from the Catawba
Nation,” organized by the North Carolina Pottery Center in
Seagrove, N.C., this exhibit features the ceramic works of Catawba
Indian potters spanning four centuries.
■ Through Sept. 15 Thomas Cooper Library: Ray Bradbury exhibit on loan from the collection of Ann Hardin, featuring Bradbury’s science fiction and other writings. Free. Bradbury will visit USC
Aug. 20 to speak at this year’s First-Year Reading Experience 2001, meet with a group of middle school students, and address the
Thomas Cooper Society.
■ Through Sept. 23 Columbia Museum of Art : Burn: Artists Play with Fire, an exhibition of contemporary art featuring work containing elements of fire such as smoke, ash, and flame.
Museum hours are 10 a.m.–5 p.m. Tuesday–Saturday and 1–5 p.m. Sunday. Admission is $5 adults, $4 seniors, $2 students, free for museum members and children five years old and younger. The first Saturday of the month is free to all. For more information, call
799-2810 or visit www.columbiamuseum.org.
■ Until further notice: At the Visitor Center, Carolina Plaza,
Assembly and Pendleton streets.
• BBQ regions of South Carolina
• Class of ’41 memorabilia
• Faculty and alumni art
• Prominent alumni of the College of Journalism and Mass
Communications
• Student photography, oil paintings, and ceramics
• The USC Press
• The USC Master Plan
• Rhodes Scholar Caroline Parler
• Interactive multimedia showcasing the University’s academic programs, history, housing, and facilities
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■ Through August 25 Finlay Park: Summer Concert Series,
Saturdays, 7 p.m., free. Bring your picnic baskets and lawn chairs for a pleasant evening of live music.
■ Aug. 1–Sept. 30 USC Sumter: Upstairs Gallery will feature an exhibit of selected works from the campus’ permanent art collection. Hours are 8:30 a.m.–5 p.m. Monday–Friday. For information, call Cara-lin Getty, director of galleries, at 55-3727.
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“When you open a window,” H. Thorne Compton said,
“you never know what’s going to blow in.”
Through the University’s bicentennial celebration, the window opened on USC’s history has resulted in “several wonderful things blowing in,” including a unique and before unknown collection of 19th-century photographs of the Horseshoe from the period just after the Civil War.
The pictures turned up at the Harvard University library during research on the life of Richard T. Greener, USC’s first black faculty member from 1873 to 1877, and have become an important part of the University’s archival records.
As a special project of the observance, the Bicentennial
Commission commissioned Jon Tuttle, a Francis Marion
University English professor, to write a play about Greener.
When work on the production began, Compton, who is chair of the bicentennial’s Executive Committee, sought assistance from Michael Mounter, a doctoral candidate in the Department of History who is writing his dissertation on Greener.
Not long afterward, Mounter called Compton to tell him about a reference he had found in the Harvard library’s catalog to “17 views of the University of South Carolina.”
“He had no idea what it might be and had no way of accessing it; so, we arranged for Thomas Cooper Library to get it temporarily through an interlibrary loan,” Compton said.
It turned out the listing was 17 photos of the Horseshoe in 1874, taken by William Main Jr., then a faculty colleague and friend of Greener’s. Each of the pictures had a precise description and comments, all in Greener’s distinctive cursive handwriting.
Greener had given the pictures to Harvard before his death. Some glass plate negative duplicates of the pictures also were on file in the USC Archives, although how or when the University acquired the duplicates isn’t known, said University Archivist Elizabeth West.
West said discovery of the additional photos was thrilling, not only because the priceless images were not known to exist but also because they provide new information on the University’s history.
For example, one of the pictures is an interior shot of the South Caroliniana Library with a notation by Greener that a flag shown behind a desk was used by the South
Carolina College cadets at Fort Sumter in 1861.
The discovery of the pictures was all the more significant, Compton said, because it fell within the period of
Reconstruction at the University, which has been an anomaly in the University’s history.
Records of much of the University during Reconstruction or the Radical University, as it is sometimes referred to, no longer exist because they were destroyed after
Democrats returned to power and closed the institution, reopening it later as a whites-only school.
“We’ve spent a lot of time trying very hard to find out about the period of Reconstruction in the University’s history, and Greener has given us a way to begin to know it in a different fashion,” Compton said.
In addition to the Greener photos, other historical finds have come to light as a result of the bicentennial, including contact with a New York woman whose grandfather was a student of Greener’s, and correspondence with a researcher of the J.P. Morgan Library who has studied the life of
Greener’s daughter, Belle DeCosta Green, who once worked as an art buyer for Morgan in Europe.
Marshall Swanson can be reached at 7-0138 or mswanson@gwm.sc.edu.
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■ STUDENTS MAKE WAVES AT SOLAR BOAT
COMPETITION: For the second year in a row,
USC engineering students have captured the
Solar Splash world championship. Jonney
Grunnet, a graduate student from Waterloo, Iowa, and Kristy Reece, a senior from Spartanburg, represented USC in the competition of solar/ electric boating held June 20–24 in Buffalo, N.Y.
The victory also marks the third year in the past four that the team, led by mechanical engineering professor Jeff Morehouse, has won the title.
■ PAYNE ENDOWMENT PROVIDES SCORES FOR MUSIC LIBRARY: Proceeds from the Music Library’s Dorothy K. Payne Endowment were used this year to purchase 58 ozalid scores by the Italian composer Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco
(1895–1968). All of the scores are inscribed by the composer. Thirty-two of the items are “greeting card” scores that are short pieces for various instruments based on the name of an individual, usually a composer or performer. Castelnuovo-Tedesco relocated to the United States from his native
Florence in 1939 and became well known as a composer of orchestral, dramatic, chamber, and film music. In the United States, he became a teacher of film music techniques. Among his students were Henry Mancini, Andre
Previn, and John Williams. The new items, combined with materials already in the library, have formed the largest Castelnuovo-Tedesco collection in the world.
■ NANOCENTER MOURNS CONSTANCE PRYNNE: Constance
Prynne, acting administrative coordinator for the USC NanoCenter, died unexpectedly at her home in Lexington July 25. In addition to providing administrative support for the center’s director, Richard
D. Adams, Prynne worked with Adams in his capacity as North
American editor of the Journal of Organometallic Chemistry. She also had worked with many faculty at the University for more than
20 years. She was known for her excellent computer skills and her commitment to excellence in her work. A memorial service may be announced by the family at a later date. Donations can be made to the American Heart Association or a charity of one’s choice.
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An engineering faculty member is testing a common compound that could prove effective as an environmental coating for destroying harmful pollutants on indoor and outdoor surfaces.
Adrienne Cooper, an assistant professor in the Department of
Civil and Environmental Engineering, is studying the oxidizing effects of titanium dioxide (TiO
2
) on organic chemicals and other contaminants. TiO
2
is the most common white pigment in the world, used in paint, ink, paper, and in food and cosmetics to give opacity and brightness.
The substance also has powerful germ-killing and pollutantdestroying properties.
“We’ve been conducting experiments with TiO
2
as a photocatalyst for detoxification of gold mining waste and have found that it works moderately well,” Cooper said. “We think it holds even more promise as an environmental surface coating.”
When TiO
2
is exposed to sunlight and water, OH-, a very strong oxidant, is produced. These OH- free radicals bond with organic compounds and oxidize them completely.
“Substances as powerful as cyanide have been oxidized with this process,” Cooper said.
TiO
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conceivably could be used as a coating for swimming pools and parking lots where its exposure to sunlight and water would release a constant stream of free radicals to disinfect and detoxify harmful substances.
“You can imagine oil, grease, and gas dripped onto a parking lot, mixed with rainwater, and detoxified by the TiO
2 could prevent non-point source pollution.”
,” Cooper said. “It
Cooper also envisions TiO
2
being used to coat interior walls where its disinfectant properties would be beneficial.
Cooper, who earned her Ph.D. in environmental engineering from the University of Florida, joined USC three years ago and recently received a National Science Foundation CAREER Award, which will provide $75,000 per year in academic support for five years.
continued from page 1 having a faculty and staff that mirror the makeup of our student body is a desirable thing.”
While the minority population has increased, the number of nontraditional students—25 years old or older—on campus has decreased from a high of about 40 percent 10 or 12 years ago to about 25 percent today. That percentage probably will go a little lower, Hallman added.
“We now have more 18- to 24-year-olds on campus. We also now own the student housing complex, and it puts some unique demands on us,” he said. “As long as we thought we were a commuter campus for people with families and jobs, our programming went one direction, but now that we see ourselves with more of a traditional college population, we have to be aware of that.
“As the makeup of our student body changes—and it has changed significantly—we need to be constantly testing to be sure that policies and practices are still appropriate for the students we’re now serving.”
Helping students make a successful transition to college life and meeting their expectations are other topics faculty and staff brought up during the grapevine sessions.
“We have the most qualified student body in the history of the institution,” Hallman said, “but there are still some shortcomings in terms of how well we communicate what college life is all about.
“We need to figure out ways to make sure that more and more of
[our students] are successful without depending solely upon the historic measures of poor grades and poor performance. We need to be more closely engaged with our students in the pursuit of success.”
Hallman doesn’t anticipate any significant changes in USC
Aiken’s academic programs. Some additions may include new degree programs leading to certification in middle school education and special education in the School of Education and a collaborative master of educational technology degree with the College of
Education on the Columbia campus.
“We believe that our mission is to prepare people for a rapidly changing global society in a liberal arts and sciences context,”
Hallman said. “We’re constantly checking to see that our general education program is meeting the expectations we have for it.”
USC Aiken’s physical campus grew significantly during the past
20 years, and Hallman said he expects that growth to continue with the construction of a proposed $17 million convocation center. The center, which will seat 4,000–5,000, will be the first development on new campus property across the Robert Bell Parkway.
A combination of state and private money will fund the center, whose construction could begin as early as next fall.
“We don’t have a place where we can gather the entire campus easily. Our commencements are ticketed events because we can’t seat everyone who wants to come,” Hallman said. “Our athletic teams are playing in a facility that was designed for a student body of about
1,000. We’re three times that now. Also, the community has need for a large assembly facility.
“We believe the convocation center will serve a multitude of purposes—instruction, academic, and community service—and will be a large contributor to the success of our area.”
Hallman said the key to USC Aiken’s continued success is its size, allowing faculty, staff, and students to relate to one another individually.
“The grapevine sessions that I talked about earlier—the participatory planning process—would be considerably harder to do on a larger campus,” Hallman said.
“I think our campus has staked our some territory in terms of its size.
To the degree that we can build on that asset, we will be successful.”
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Health, $12.1 million (about the same as last year); the Department of Education, $9.8
million (32 percent more than last year); and the National Science Foundation, $9.3
million (17 percent less than last year).
State agency support of University research was about $16 million, representing a 9 percent decline from last year.
“As we implement a strategic vision for
USC’s research enterprise that will allow us to increase our standing among public universities, we continue to rely heavily upon directed appropriations and legislative influence to secure funding,” Harris said. “While important, we must strive for the right balance of peer-review and investigator-initiated awards with large capital projects, directed appropriations, and philanthropy.
“Our NSF funding has decreased, and
NIH was essentially constant. Both agencies had major budget increases last year and major initiatives, and these results suggest we were not prepared to respond—probably because we need a much stronger presence in the life sciences, computer science, and information technology.”
As a percentage of total funding, federal research dollars accounted for slightly more than 75 percent of USC’s 2001 total, followed by state and local government funds at 13.5
percent, and private funds (foundations and industry) at nearly 10 percent.
Of the $122.8 million total, nearly $84 million funded research; about $27.5 million funded service and equipment; about $8.7
million was used for training projects; and
$2.6 million funded graduate assistantships.
Factors such as the availability of highquality research space and competitive salaries affect USC’s ability to recruit and retain distinguished faculty in the life sciences, engineering, and computer-related areas. These faculty are the key to any significant growth potential in USC’s research portfolio, Harris said.
“We are concerned that certain units may be reaching saturation in terms of external funding per FTE or per square foot of research space,” he said.
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Before joining the Labor Department, Chao was a
Distinguished Fellow at The Heritage Foundation, a
Washington-based public policy research and educational institute. Her career in public service includes being president and chief executive officer of the United
Way; director of the Peace Corps, where she established the first Peace Corps programs in Lithuania, Estonia, and Latvia; deputy secretary at the U.S. Department of
Transportation; and chair of the Federal Maritime
Administration.
Chao began her career in banking and was a vice president at BankAmerica Capital Markets Group in San
Francisco and a transportation banker with Citicorp in
New York. In 1983, she was selected a White House
Fellow.
Chao was selected as one of the Ten Outstanding
Young Women of America for 1987 and received the
Outstanding Young Achiever Award from the National
Council on Women in 1986. In 1993, she received the
Harvard University Graduate School of Business
Alumni Achievement Award, the highest honor awarded by that university.
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■ JOB VACANCIES: For up-to-date information on USC Columbia vacancies, call 777-JOBS (5627) or visit the employment office, 508
Assembly St. For positions at other campuses, contact the personnel office at that campus. Vacancies also are posted on the human resources
Web site at http://hr.sc.edu.
■ SIMPSON IS ROY VISITING SCHOLAR: The USC Libraries’ W. Ormiston
Roy Memorial Visiting Research Fellow for 2001 is Kenneth Simpson.
Simpson teaches Scottish literature at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow,
Scotland, where he is Director of the Centre for Scottish Cultural Studies. For several years, Simpson has organized Strathclyde’s annual Robert Burns conference, which is held in January. He has visited the United States several times, most recently as Neag Visiting Professor of British Studies at the
University of Connecticut. This summer Simpson will be working on the Burns correspondence with Ross Roy, curator of the library’s Burns Collection.
Simpson’s books include The Protean Scot (1988), The Poetry of Robert
Burns (1994), Burns Now (1994), and Love and Liberty: Robert Burns, A
Bicentenary Celebration (1996). The Roy Fellowship was established at
Thomas Cooper Library by Roy and his wife in memory of Roy’s grandfather and, since 1990, has brought a scholar to USC each year to conduct research in the Roy Collection.
■ CARLISLE FLOYD COLLECTION EXPANDS: The South Caroliniana Library has received a major addition to its Carlisle Floyd Collection. Considered one of the library’s most significant 20th-century collections, these materials document the life and works of Carlisle Floyd, a Latta native who is considered one of the few masters of American opera. His musical drama, Susannah, is regarded as the most enduring work yet written by an American for the lyric stage. Floyd resides in Tallahassee, Fla., following a 24-year residency as the
M.D. Anderson Professor in the School of Music at the University of Houston and co-director of the Houston Opera Studio. The new materials include twoand-a-half linear feet of libretti, stage bills, reviews, letters, and photographs that detail the performance of his works nationally and internationally for almost half a century. Of special interest is material relating to the production of his revision of The Passion of Jonathan Wade, an opera set in Columbia, and of his most recent work, Cold Sassy Tree.
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■ BOOKS AND CHAPTERS: Russ R. Pate, exercise science, “Physical Activity in
American Youth: Status, Determinants, and Promotion,” The Development of
Social Sciences in the 21st Century, Frank H. Fu, editor, Hong Kong Baptist
University, Hong Kong.
Paul Allen Miller, French and classics (comparative literature), Carnivalizing
Difference: Bakhtin and the Other, co-editor with Peter Barta, Charles Platter, and
David Shepherd, Routledge, London.
of the Environment, “Developing an environmental management system for a multiple-university consortium,” Journal of Cleaner Production-ELSEVIER.
Elizabeth J. Mayer-Davis and Cheryl L. Addy, epidemiology and biostatistics,
Barbara E. Ainsworth, exercise science, S. Levin, and F.C. Wheeler, “Behavioral and Demographic Correlates of Diabetes, Hypertension and Overweight Among the
Catawba Indian Nation,” Ethnicity & Disease.
Hal French, religious studies, Zen and the Art of Anything (paperback edition),
Broadway Books, New York City.
■ ARTICLES: Walter Scrivens, chemistry and biochemistry, A.M.
Cassell, and J.M. Tour, “Graphic
Electrodes Containing Nanometersized Metal Particles and Their Use in the Synthesis of Single-Walled
■ PRESENTATIONS: Hal French, religious studies, “Zen and the Art of Anything,”
Esalen Institute, Big Sur, Calif.
Pamela Melton, law (library), “Two to Tango: The Following Part of Leading in
Library Partnerships,” American Association of Law Libraries, Minneapolis, Minn.
Nicholas Vazsonyi, Germanic,
Slavic, and East Asian languages and literatures, “Searching for
Common Ground: Diskurse zur
Carbon Nanotube Composites,”
Chemical Materials, and, with K.
Levon, D. Weng, J. Mao, H.K. Lee, and J.M. Tour, “Stratification of
Fullerenes,” Mater. Res. Soc.
Symp. Proc.
Barbara E. Ainsworth, exercise science, W. Zhu, and G. Timm,
“Rasch Calibration and Optimal
Categorization of an Instrument deutschen Identität 1750–1871,”
Otto-von-Guericke Universität,
Magdeburg, Germany.
■ OTHER: Lizette Mujica Laughlin,
Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese, attended a seminar sponsored by the National Foreign Language
Center in Washington, D.C., and the
Defense Language Institute on
“Reading for Heritage Learners.”
Measuring Women’s Exercise
Perseverance and Barriers,”
Research Quarterly for Exercise and
Louise Jennings, education, awarded a National Academy of
Education/Spencer Post-doctoral
Fellowship and, with Heidi Mills,
Sport, and, with J.E. McLaughlin,
G.A. King, E.T. Howley, and D.R.
Bassett Jr., “Validation of the
COSMED K4 b2 Portable Metabolic
System,” International Journal of
Sports Medicine.
Russ R. Pate, exercise science, and
J.R. Sirard (USC graduate student),
“Physical Activity Assessment in
Children and Adolescents,” Sports Medicine.
education, a grant from the
National Council for Teachers of
English for their collaborative research on inquiry-based instructional practices.
Thanks, Frank. I appreciate your taking the blame on such short notice.
Manuela K. Kress-Shull, rehabilitation counseling
(neuropsychiatry and behavioral science), appointed to the board of the Mental Health Association in South
Carolina and to the board of Work In Progress.
Rhonda B. Jeffries and Susan L. Schramm, education, “Valuing Multicultural
Feminism: Guidelines for Cross-Cultural Mentoring in Education,” The Journal of
Communication and Minority Issues.
Timothy J. Bergen, education, has received a Fulbright Scholar Award to teach at the Royal University of Phnom Penh in Cambodia this fall.
Agnes C. Mueller, Germanic, Slavic, and East Asian languages and literatures,
“Brinkmanns US-Poetik im postkolonialen Diskurs,“ COMPASS. Mainzer Hefte für
Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft.
Pamela Melton, law (library), appointed to the Board of Trustees of the Richland
County Public Library.
J. Mark Davis and J. Larry Durstine, exercise science, T. Kaufman, and J.R.
Burke, “Exercise-induced neuromuscular dysfunction under reflex conditions,”
European Journal of Applied Physiology.
Patricia Jerman, S.C. Sustainable Universities Initiative, and Phil Barnes, School
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TIMES, 701 Byrnes Building, Columbia campus. Or e-mail to: chorn@gwm.sc.edu.
Bill Harris, USC’s vice president for research, is heading to
Ireland in September to lead that country’s efforts to establish a
“We see this as a ‘win-win’ situation as it will provide a learning and development experience for both Ireland and me,”
Harris said. “Part of my responsibility at USC has been helping science foundation similar to the United States’ National
Science Foundation. The initial focus of Science the city of Columbia and the state of South Carolina to develop a more diversified economy, and this will Foundation Ireland will be biotechnology, information science, and communications technology.
surely be like a graduate education for me in this area.” Harris will take a one-year leave of absence from
USC to serve as director-general of Science Foundation Ireland. The position is considered one of the most important in Ireland, and he will be working
Harris has been working with leaders in Ireland for the past year to lay the groundwork for establishing a science foundation there. In the past 20 years, closely with the university community, government leaders, and the private sector. A goal will be connecting more effectively the private sector and the university basic research community.
Harris
While in Ireland, Harris will continue as executive director of
Irish political and industrial leaders have transformed the Irish economy to become one of the most successful in Europe.
Ireland also has established ties with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to develop Media Lab Europe and, through its science foundation, plans collaborations with USC’s Research Foundation and will be involved in developing further the USC Nanoscience Center, the new media focus, and on other activities he has initiated this past year.
other U.S. universities.
Patricia G. McNeely, the Eleanor M.
and R. Frank Mundy Professor and director of the electronic and print journalism sequence in the College of
Journalism and Mass Communications, has won a national teaching honor for excellence in journalism education.
She will receive the National
Distinguished Educator Award Aug. 6 in Washington, D.C., from the Newspaper
Division of the
McNeely
Association for
Education in Journalism and Mass
Communication.
“McNeely’s many contributions to journalism education—in the classroom and through the wealth of service that has advanced the academy and the profession—have been significant in setting the standard for outstanding journalism,” said Frank
E. Fee Jr., a University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill professor of journalism and chair of the Teaching
Standards Committee of the association’s newspaper division.
McNeely has been head of both the newspaper and magazine divisions of the association and a member of the association’s executive committee.
McNeely is the third faculty member in the college to win national teaching honors in recent months. Last spring,
Jerry Jewler was chosen Advertising
Educator of the Year by the American
Advertising Federation, and Henry Price was chosen Journalism Professor of the
Year by The Freedom Forum.
“It is remarkable that three members of just one USC college have won national awards for teaching in recent months,” said Ronald T. Farrar, interim dean.
McNeely is the first woman awarded tenure in the college, the first woman to become a full professor, and the first woman in the college to hold an endowed chair.
McNeely has been a staff writer for
The State, The Columbia Record, and
The Greenville News, and has worked summers for The Atlanta Journal and
Constitution, The Washington Post, The
Philadelphia Inquirer, The Charlotte
Observer, and The Charleston Post and
Courier.
She is senior state director of Voter
News Service, which is owned by ABC,
CBS, CNN, Fox, NBC, and the
Associated Press. She is also the author of Fighting Words: A Media History of
South Carolina and Palmetto Press:
The History of South Carolina’s
Newspapers and Press Association.
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■ VACATION PHOTO DEADLINE IS AUG. 14:
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Floor, Byrnes. We’ll return your photographs after publication. Thanks.
■ USC AIKEN OFFERS TRIP TO CHICAGO: The Department of Continuing
Education at USC Aiken will sponsor a trip to Chicago Oct. 25–28. The trip will include a visit to the Van Gogh and Gaugin exhibit at the Studio of the South at the Art Institute of Chicago. Other activities will include an architectural river cruise. Travelers will stay at the Hotel Burnham in the theater district. The cost is $779 per person and includes airfare, hotel, one dinner, museum tour, and architectural tour. For more information, call 803-641-3563.
■ USC ALUMNI INVITED TO DINE WITH COACH HOLTZ: USC alumni are invited to have dinner with head football coach Lou Holtz from 6 to 8 p.m.
Aug. 23 in the Zone of Williams-Brice Stadium. The cost is $25 for Carolina
Alumni Association members. A limit of two tickets per member applies, and ticket availability is limited. Holtz will discuss his plans for the upcoming football season. The deadline to purchase tickets is Aug. 15. Early registration is encouraged. To reserve tickets, call 7-4111 or send a check to the Carolina
Alumni Association, 1527 Senate St., Columbia, 29208.
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Established in April 2000, USC’s Office of Research Compliance (ORC) is making plans to more thoroughly evaluate research proposals involving human subjects and to take a more proactive role in research oversight.
Ever-increasing regulations from federal research agencies—and several much-publicized stiff penalties for research violations at other universities—convinced USC officials of the need to establish the office. Tommy Coggins, former associate director of the Office of
Sponsored Programs and Research (SPAR), is director of the research compliance office.
“In the past, research compliance functions were spread among several people in SPAR, but
Coggins today’s oversight climate demands a full-time, hands-on approach,” Coggins said. “There are lots of expectations at the federal level, particularly concerning use of human subjects, and it’s our responsibility to satisfy those concerns.”
Only a small percentage of USC researchers’ use of human subjects is clinical in nature; most University scientists who involve human subjects in their studies are engaged in behavioral and social science research.
“If you’re doing research that involves surveys, checking medical records, or uses any identifiable private information, your research involves human subjects,” Coggins said.
At USC, Departmental Ethics Committees have overseen unfunded research involving human subjects; USC’s Institutional Review Board has monitored funded research involving human subjects. In the future, all research with human subjects—funded and unfunded—likely will come under the purview of the IRB, Coggins said.
Later on, Coggins hopes to hire a compliance specialist to assist researchers in developing research projects that pass muster with stringent governmental guidelines.
In addition to increasing its scrutiny of research using human subjects, ORC also will update the University’s
Misconduct in Science Policy. On average, University officials annually deal with one to three allegations of research misconduct.
To educate faculty researchers about the changing regulatory environment in research, ORC will launch a Web site and offer Web-based, self-paced tutorials on the use of human subjects in research. Eventually, all researchers using human subjects will need certification, Coggins said.
“We want to raise the consciousness level among the faculty that these changing federal regulations affect us all and we have to take them seriously,” Coggins said.
Chris Horn can be reached at 7-3687 or chorn@gwm.sc.edu.
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Once the nurse practitioner students discovered their patient’s pupils were different sizes—one dilated, one tiny—they were delighted with the challenge.
Their patient was a geriatric mannequin, part of the new equipment in the College of Nursing’s renovated client simulation laboratory. The difference in pupil size offered the students a chance to use their diagnostic skills.
“Could mean concussion,” one student murmured, as she studied the patient’s eyes.
“Or other brain trauma,” offered another student.
Except for the dozen or so textbooks scattered on the desktops in the center of the room, the lab is a
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NURS 704 students were the first to use the new lab this summer.
realistic health care facility complete with beds, separate examination rooms, and some very malleable mannequins. Located in the Williams-Brice College of Nursing building, the area includes a large common classroom area, seven beds along surrounding walls, and seven separate examination rooms, including one room that is used solely to study geriatric patient care.
Having this learning laboratory in the College of Nursing is not new. For years students have practiced CPR and other care skills on adult mannequins in an area designated for just that purpose.
What is new is the lab’s location and its equipment.
“We’ve moved the lab to the first floor from the third, doubled the square footage, and tried to simulate the hospital setting as closely as possible,” said June Headley, director of the college’s Information Resource Center. “There are new exam tables, newly refurbished hospital beds, and lots of new models for simulating exams.”
The college also is in the process of obtaining several new mannequins—pediatric, geriatric, middle-aged—many with soft intravenous arm and leg panels that can be punctured with a needle.
Others will have interchangeable parts. And soon, on the wall above each bed, will be a panel like that found in a hospital, complete with functioning suction and simulated oxygen.
“What we had before was a space with a few exam rooms and one sink for the entire lab,” said Headley, who oversaw the new lab’s redesign. “Now there’s a sink in every exam room and several other sinks in the common classroom area. It was hard to encourage students to wash their hands at the end of each exam with only one sink. The new lab provides us with the opportunity to teach proper precautions while in the simulation environment. This will reinforce the importance of hand washing in the actual hospital setting.”
Adjacent to the lab is a new cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) room. The CPR and
Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLA) certification courses offered through the College are taken via CD-ROM. The mannequins here are equipped with sensors that attach to a computer.
The CPR course, a requirement for all nursing students, will be offered to the public beginning in late summer. The cost to take the CPR course will be $50, and the cost for the
ACLS course will be $150. USC students, faculty, and staff will get a discount.
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With South Carolina’s graying population expected to double in size in 25 years, faculty and students at USC’s School of Medicine soon will receive more comprehensive training in serving the needs of geriatric patients.
A four-year $2 million grant from the Donald W. Reynolds Foundation to the School of
Medicine will fund a series of initiatives aimed at producing a new generation of doctors better able to diagnose and treat health issues of the elderly. The grant comes on the heels of a
$100,000 award to USC from the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) for geriatric medical education.
“These two grants move us up in terms of being leaders among medical schools in geriatric education,” said Paul Eleazer, a professor in internal medicine and geriatrics at the medical school and principal investigator of the project. “We were one of only 10 schools to receive the Reynolds grant and among 20 to receive the AAMC grant.”
As part of the grant, 15 USC medical school faculty members will develop specific expertise in their respective disciplines in caring for older patients. After their development period, these faculty will develop medical student and resident education modules. In addition, practicing physicians will be invited to continuing education conferences focused on geriatric care.
During the four-year period of the grant, it’s expected that 525 medical students, 152 residents, and 80 community-based physicians will receive specialized training in geriatric care.
The education modules will cover topics such as:
■ end-of-life care, cultural issues in aging, interviewing the older patient, and elder abuse
■ special considerations for physical exam in older persons
■ physiology of aging and preventive health
■ pre-operative and post-operative assessment and care of older patients
■ depression and mental status evaluation of older patients.
While USC’s medical school has been a leader in offering geriatrics as a specialty, Eleazer said, medical students in all disciplines will benefit from having specialized training to understand geriatric medical needs.
The push to educate medical students about the nuances of geriatric health care is being driven by changing demographics: South Carolina’s 60 and older population is expected to reach nearly 1.3 million by 2025, roughly double the current number. Nationwide, the number of Americans 65 and older is expected to hit 70 million by 2050.
“Just as the health issues for little kids are different from adults, the medical needs of older people are different,” Eleazer said. “They develop some of the same diseases as younger adults, such as congestive heart failure and breast cancer, but these conditions should be treated differently in geriatric patients.
“Their psychosocial issues are more complex, too, and physicians must be aware of these differences to provide quality care.”
The Donald W. Reynolds Foundation is a national philanthropic organization founded in 1954 by the late media entrepreneur for whom it is named. Reynolds was the founder and principal owner of the Donrey Media Group. When he died in 1993, the company included more than 70 businesses, the majority of which were in the communications/media field. Headquartered in Las
Vegas, the Reynolds Foundation is one of the largest private foundations in the United States.