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F. Marc Rattray, right,
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February 3, 2005
ERIC awards nearly
$500,000 in seed
grants for research
By Chris Horn
Nearly half a million dollars in seed grants were recently awarded through USC’s Environmental Research Initiative Committee (ERIC), and proposals for a second round
of awards will be solicited in the spring.
The initiative, created by Harris Pastides, vice president for research and health
sciences, will make available a total of $1.5 million over three years for grants to University researchers engaged in interdisciplinary research on
environmental topics. Twenty-six proposals were received in
the first round of funding; six were recommended for awards
after an exhaustive internal and external review process.
“To be considered, the proposed research has to cross at
least two departments; the larger grants have to involve faculty from three colleges,” said Bruce Coull, dean of the School
of the Environment and co-chair of ERIC with Will Graf, a
geography professor. “Obviously, we’re trying to foster more
interdisciplinary environmental research projects that will be
able to compete for external funding.”
Coull
❝
Some prestigious universities have
congratulated us on how innovative this
[initiative] is. A lot of people are saying,
‘We wish we had a project like this.’
❞
—Bruce Coull
The art of dance
Bessie Mae (1989), acrylic on canvas, is one of the works by Jonathan Green featured in the Columbia
City Ballet’s Off the Wall & Onto the Stage: Dancing the Art of Jonathan Green. The new exhibit at USC’s
McKissick Museum traces the evolution of the ballet from the canvas to the stage. See story page 5.
EPI receives 10-year reaccreditation
By Marshall Swanson
USC’s English Programs for Internationals (EPI) has received an unprecedented 10-year reaccreditation
from the Commission on English Language Program Accreditation (CEA) and has been selected to train
nine new international students under a program administered by the U.S. State Department.
USC’s EPI is one of only two intensive English programs in the United States to receive a 10-year reaccreditation. The other program is at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. Most reaccreditations are
for one year.
“I feel wonderful about the reaccreditation and that we are one of only two programs that achieved it for
10 years,” said EPI director Alexandra Rowe. “It’s a real stamp of approval and an indication of how good
the program is here at USC.”
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Many USC faculty were involved in reviewing proposals
and culling the number for serious funding consideration to
13. External reviewers were then used to make final funding
Graf
recommendations.
“Some prestigious universities have congratulated us on how innovative this [initiative] is,” Coull said. “A lot of people are saying, ‘We wish we had a project like this.’”
“The funded proposals share several common characteristics,” Graf said. “They
represent team-building efforts that cross disciplinary boundaries, focus on important
environmental quality issues, and are likely to lead to external funding.”
The first six projects funded through ERIC are:
■ “NIEHS SuperFund Basic Research Program—Center Grants Competition: Community and Environmental Health Risks Associated with SuperFund Sites in Southeastern Coastal Systems,” $149,961. Principal investigator: John Vena, epidemiology and biostatistics, with Wilfred Karmaus and Andrew Lawson, epidemiology
and biostatistics; Walter Piegorsch, statistics; Susan Cutter, geography; Lee
Ferguson, Timothy Shaw, and John Ferry, chemistry and biochemistry; Joe
Quattro, biological sciences; and Tom Chandler, Margorie Aelion, Charles
Feigley, Kris Zierold, Lee Newman, Alan Decho, and Craig Stow, environmental health sciences.
■ “Predicting Biodegradation of Phenanthrene Using Stable Carbon Isotopes: Incorporation of Mathematical Modeling,” $74,648. Principal investigator: Marjorie
Aelion, environmental health sciences, with Joseph Flora, civil and environmental
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■ LiteraryMama.com
Online magazine is edited by mothers, for mothers
By Marshall Swanson
Kim Truett
Amy Hudock helped give birth to the Web site.
As she approached motherhood, Amy Hudock was told by other women,
“Your whole life is about to change,” but they didn’t tell her how it would
change.
Others would say, “You don’t know what you’re getting into,” but
wouldn’t tell her why.
Now when pregnant women ask Hudock, the mother of a 3-year-old
girl, what they need to know, she is herself apt to grapple with a reply.
Instead, the visiting assistant professor in the Department of English
is likely to tell them to read LiteraryMama.com to get a diversity of opinions about motherhood, rather than just relying on her own.
Hudock is the editor-in-chief of the online literary magazine, which
she describes as “by mother writers for mother writers, and others.”
Its goal is to publish highly skilled writing that is literary about a
topic—motherhood—that frequently has many voices, all of which aren’t
represented in the mainstream media, she said.
In addition to the lack of diversity of authors on motherhood in most
glossy women’s magazines, she added, the subject is a topic that sometimes has not been perceived as being literary, nor is it given enough
attention by the academy.
LiteraryMama.com contains creative fiction, poetry, reviews, profiles,
and literary criticism on mother writing already published in scholarly
journals, plus Literary Reflections, which is a section of mothers writing
about life and motherhood and how the two come together.
“I see LiteraryMama.com as a magazine having the same purpose as
one by African-American or Asian-American writers: to assert a voice
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HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSE IS TOPIC OF
UPSTATE WORKSHOP: Two guest speakers will
talk about the human rights crisis in Africa, including
Rwanda, Northern Uganda, and the genocide in the
Darfur region of Sudan, as part of a diversity workshop
at 1:30 p.m. Feb. 11 at USC Upstate. The speakers will
be John Prendergast, who worked as special advisor
to the Department of State during President Clinton’s
administration and as director of African Affairs for the
National Security Council, and Senator Mobina Jaffer,
Canadian senator representing British Columbia and
the Canadian government’s special envoy for the peace
process in Sudan. They will address human rights abuses,
including the rape and displacement of women and
children, in these conflict-ridden regions. The speakers
also will comment on their individual roles in the signing
of the North/South peace deal in Sudan, the perceived
impact of the peace agreement on the crisis in Darfur,
and the challenges facing the international community.
For more information, call 52-5352.
USC UPSTATE HONORS
DISTINGUISHED ALUMNI:
USC Upstate honored Jane
Bottsford and Lisa Leary with
Distinguished Alumni Awards at
the convocation for December
graduates. Criteria for the award
include outstanding career
accomplishments, civic service
within their local communities,
and service to USC Upstate.
Bottsford
Bottsford, ’69, was a member
of the first graduating class to
earn an associate’s degree in
nursing. She established both
the first Neuro Intensive Care
Unit and the Infection Control
Department at Spartanburg
Regional Healthcare System. She
is director of the Sclerotherapy
Service for Spartanburg Vein
Care. Leary, ’85 and ’87, earned
both an associate’s degree and a
Leary
bachelor’s degree in nursing from
USC Upstate. As a breast health clinical nurse specialist,
she navigates breast cancer patients and their families
on the journey to become breast cancer survivors.
Cancer nursing has been Leary’s career focus, and she
is the coordinator for the Breast Health Program at
Spartanburg Regional Healthcare System.
ASSISTIVE TECHNOLOGY EXPO SET:
The S.C. Assistive Technology Expo 2005 will be held
from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. March 9 in University Center/
McAlister Square, 225 South Pleasantburg Drive, in
Greenville. The expo will feature exhibitors showcasing
the latest in technology, equipment, devices, services,
and computer access for people with disabilities and
age-related limitations. A variety of workshops on
assistive technology topics will be held during the
day. Topics include “New Technology for Hearing
Impairments,” “Driving and Vehicle Modifications,” and
“Physical Accessibility: Opening Doors to Recreational
and Fitness Opportunities.” CEUs will be offered for
some of the workshops. The expo is free and open to
the public, and no preregistration is required. For more
information or to request special accommodations,
e-mail the S.C. Assistive Technology Project at
youngs@cdd.sc.edu or call 803-935-5263. Requests for
special accommodations should be made by Feb. 22.
RIDGEWAY NAMED OUTSTANDING SENIOR
AT USC AIKEN: Victoria Nixon (Tori) Ridgeway
was named outstanding senior graduate at USC Aiken
and spoke at the convocation ceremony in December.
Ridgeway, of Barnwell, graduated magna cum laude with
a BA in special education. Ridgeway is the first person
at USC Aiken to graduate with a degree in special
education. Throughout her career at USC Aiken, she has
been listed on the Dean’s List and President’s List for
academic achievement. She is a member of the Council
for Exceptional Children, the professional organization
for special educators.
USC AIKEN STUDENT RECEIVES BETA
GAMMA SIGMA SCHOLARSHIP: Plamen Peev,
a student at USC Aiken, recently received the Beta
Gamma Sigma Student of the Year Scholarship. Peev,
a senior marketing major, also is captain of the USC
Aiken men’s soccer team and is an ESPN Academic
All-American. Peev, who is from Karlovo, Bulgaria,
will graduate in May 2005. The scholarship is awarded
annually and is based on academic performance and
service. Applicants must be members of Beta Gamma
Sigma, a business honor society open only to students in
the top 10 percent of their major.
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■ Women’s leadership
Good mentoring is based on principles
and social interaction, not gender
By Mary Anne Fitzpatrick, dean, College of Arts and Sciences
I have spent my entire career in academe. As a graduate student, I had a dynamic doctoral advisor who was consistently
available for advice and help. As a beginning faculty member,
I had colleagues in my own academic department and senior
scholars in my discipline who took an interest in my career
and in my growth as a scholar and an educator. As an administrator, I had the great good fortune to work with some of the
best and most principled administrators in higher education.
In turn, I have served as a mentor to students, staff, and
young faculty. At every stage of my career, I have
been in a variety of mentoring relationships focused
on the giving and receiving of support, help, and
advice about professional matters.
Recently, I discussed the nature of mentoring
with one of my junior colleagues. We decided that
successful mentoring was not necessarily about
matching partners on socio-demographic factors. We often read, for example, that only women
should mentor women. In Greek legend, when
Odysseus left to fight in the Trojan War, he entrusted his friend Mentor with the guardianship of his
Fitzpatrick
son Telemachos. Mentor was a man in the original
myth, but gender has an interesting twist. When the goddess
Athena visited Telemachos, she took the guise of Mentor. The
woman mentored even as she felt it necessary to cover her
identity. Naturally, mentoring is left not only to men, nor do
women need to appear as males in order to be helpful. Given
my age and research trajectory, it probably comes as no surprise that all of my mentors were men as there were few senior
women in the departments where I worked.
Based on this experience, I believe that mentoring is a
process facilitated by a few basic communication principles
and social interaction stances. These relationships are more
successful to the degree that the mentor:
■ listens. Mentors must develop the ability to listen actively
to what the protégé is saying. It is common to assume that
mentoring is simply giving advice. On the contrary, in a successful partnership, both spend time trying to understand the
point of view and frame of reference of the other. A mentor
should be able to tell the difference between when you need
to vent and when you really want help resolving a difficult
problem. He or she should know enough about you and your
situation to let you know when you are spinning your wheels,
wasting your time, or losing all meaningful perspective.
■ makes the necessary commitment of time, energy,
and expertise in helping another. Like any relationship, mentoring involves a commitment on the part of both
partners. Mentors need to be ready to invest the time needed
in order to understand the partner and to think
consistently about the stages of his or her career.
■ does not remove all obstacles but does
remove those obstacles that are unproductive. For professional growth, it is often
important that individuals make mistakes and
learn from them. A mentor can tell the difference
between mistakes you need to make in order to
learn and mistakes you are better off avoiding.
■ discusses the long-term goals of the
protégé. Mentors often want their protégé to
succeed even more than the protégé does. Although
admirable, a mentor should not assume that they know exactly
what their junior colleague would like to achieve. One of the
keys to a successful mentoring partnership is to keep calibrating
where you want to go. But mentors should help junior partners
achieve their potential and meet their own goals and not the
goals of the mentor for them.
■ is a consistent source of encouragement, inspiration, and perspective. One of the most important parts of
this process involves giving support and being encouraging.
There are real pressures on students and younger colleagues
to achieve, and having a mentor in their corner makes an
enormous difference to them. It certainly did to me.
Mary Anne Fitzpatrick is dean of the College of Arts and
Sciences and Carolina Educational Foundation Distinguished
Professor of Psychology.
Brown v. Board, democracy are panel topics
Carter
Sullivan
A panel discussion focusing on Brown v. Board of Education and American democracy will be held at
3 p.m. Feb. 6 at McKissick Museum.
The event is the last in a series of programs held in conjunction with the exhibition “Courage: The
Carolina Story that Changed America” on view at McKissick Museum and part of the yearlong commemoration of the 50th anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education. The discussion is free and open to
the public, and light refreshments will be served.
From the Grassroots to the Supreme Court: Brown v. Board of Education and American Democracy
is a semi-centennial essay collection from USC’s Institute of Southern Studies and published by Duke
University Press. The collection will be the focus of the panel discussion by historians and authors Peter
Lau, Patricia Sullivan, and Waldo Martin. Dan T. Carter, USC’s Education Foundation Professor of History, will be the moderator.
McKissick Museum will open at 2 p.m., allowing visitors the hour before the panel discussion and
immediately afterwards, until 5 p.m., to tour the exhibition, which explores the origins of the historic
case and sheds light on South Carolina’s connection with the notion of equal education in classrooms
throughout America.
The exhibit tells the story of the Rev. Joseph A. De Laine, who led the fight against segregated schools
in Clarendon County. His efforts in the 1950s spearheaded the first legal case to be filed, Briggs v. Elliot.
Valinda W. Littlefield, from USC’s history department and African American Studies Program, was a
consultant for the exhibit, which originated from the Levine Museum of the New South in Charlotte, N.C.
McKissick Museum was the only South Carolina venue for the exhibit.
Program sponsors include the African American Studies Program, the School of Law, the College
of Education, the Department of History, McKissick Museum, the Institute for Southern Studies, and
Women’s Studies.
■ IT bulletin
Computer Services to offer wireless training
Computer Services will offer training to help faculty and staff become connected to USC’s wireless network. Training
sessions will begin Feb. 14, and classes will be limited to 30 people. Early registration is recommended. To sign up for
wireless training, go to csd.sc.edu/ars/training/classCalendar.php. Other sessions will be offered throughout the spring
semester. Before attending a training session, participants should have the following:
■ wireless-ready laptop with the recommended wireless cards installed. Visit csd.sc.edu/wireless/instructions_faculty.
shtml for preferred wireless cards and installation instructions.
■ all Microsoft security updates installed. Visit windowsupdate.microsoft.com to install these updates.
■ McAfee software. All current virus patches will need to be installed. McAfee is free for students, faculty, and staff. Go
to csd.sc.edu/virus/download.shtml to download.
To make sure a laptop is USC wireless ready, to go csd.sc.edu/wireless. For a map of wireless areas on campus, go to
csd.sc.edu/wireless/map.shtml. Being connected to the USC Wireless Network may not be as simple as other authentication processes. Computer Services has ensured that access to the network is as secure, safe, and reliable as possible.
For more information or questions, call the Computer Services Public Relations Office at 7-7474.
Theatre South
Carolina presents
The Illusion Feb. 4–13
The Illusion will make its Columbia premiere Feb. 4 at USC.
Theatre South Carolina is bringing the play to life at Drayton Hall Theater, and USC MFA graduate Tyler Marchant is
returning to direct the production.
Written by Tony Kushner, author of the Pulitzer Prize–
winning Angels in America, The Illusion is about an aging,
ailing father who has disowned his son but now wants to see
him and tell him that he loves him.
A sorcerer offers the father a vision of three episodes from
his son’s life. Parts of the episodes are very funny, while other
parts are strange and mystifying. Names change; relationships change; and each of the scenes takes place in a different
setting. Only with the final vision does the audience discover
the truth.
“The Illusion is a play about love,” Marchant said. “Near
the end, the sorcerer says, ‘Love, which seems the realest
❝‘The Illusion’ is a play about love. ❞
—Tyler Marchant
Michael Brown
Brittnee Sieman, as Mrs. Page, F. Marc Rattray, as Falstaff, and Andrea Price-Baxley, as Mrs. Ford, give Shakespeare a 1950s spin.
thing, is really nothing at all.’ This is also a play about the theatre, a place where artist and audience work together to create
reality out of make-believe.”
“Kushner based The Illusion on L’Illusion Comique, a
17th-century work written by Pierre Corneille, although no
line in The Illusion is Corneille’s,” said Jim Hunter, theatre
department chair. “Kushner pares away the ornamentation of
the 17th-century French theater and, in many ways, produces
a new play.”
Marchant is the associate artistic director of Primary
Stages in New York City, where he has been since 1999. He
also is the director of the New American Writer’s Group,
where he has worked with several well-known playwrights to
develop and create new plays for the American Theatre. For
the last four years, he has served as the vice president of the
Association of Non-Profit Theatres in New York.
His directing credits include the musical Violet at the Connecticut Repertory Theatre and the world premiere of Stephen
Belber’s play One Million Butterflies at Primary Stages.
“We’ve been working for some time to bring back some
of our MFAs to work under professional contracts in our
theaters,” Hunter said. “Tyler has had an impressive career.
Columbians will be able to say, ‘We knew him when.’”
The Illusion’s cast of eight includes USC faculty, students,
and community members. Nic Ularu is in charge of set design.
Seventeenth-century period costumes are by MFA student
Kelly Fitzpatrick.
■ If you go
What: The Illusion, a play by Tony Kushner
When: Feb. 4–13, 8 p.m. Tuesday–Saturday, 3 p.m. Sunday
Where: Drayton Hall Theater
Admission: Tickets are $14, with discounts for senior
citizens (60 and over), military, USC faculty and staff, and
all students. For tickets, call the box office at 7-2551.
Shakespeare meets I Love Lucy
in Opera at USC’s new production
By Larry Wood
What do Lucy and Ethel, classic comediennes of the
1950s, have in common with an opera based on Shakespeare’s late 16th-century comedy classic The Merry
Wives of Windsor?
Seems director Ellen Schlaefer has some “splaining”
to do.
“I think Alice Ford and Meg Page were the original
Lucy and Ethel,” said Schlaefer, who has transported the
opera’s two main characters from Elizabethan England
to the American suburbs of the 1950s for Opera at USC’s
production of The Merry Wives of Windsor Feb. 4 and 6.
“Their antics as they repel the advances of the lecherous
Falstaff made me think of the comedic pair from I Love
Lucy immediately. And their husbands, Mr. Ford and Mr.
Page, have as much trouble keeping up with their wives
as Ricky and Fred do. The 1950s is a fun time period, and
this is a fun opera. It’s a good match.”
In the comic opera’s updated setting, Windsor,
England, becomes South Windsor, Conn., a suburb of
Hartford, then the insurance capital of the world. One of
the husbands is an insurance executive, and the young
lovers are a high-school student and a college freshman
at the University of Connecticut. There’s a beatnik poet
from New Haven, and the nostalgic chorus of neighbors
includes a carhop, a milkman, and a Fuller Brush salesman.
Andy Mills of USC’s theatre department has designed
a clever set that brings the fabulous ’50s to life. Costumer
Janet Kile has re-created the fashions of the period with
both vintage and specially built pieces. “We’ve raided our
closets and everybody else’s,” Schlaefer said.
F. Marc Rattray, founder and director of the Lexington Youth Chorale and director of music at St. Andrew’s
Presbyterian Church in Irmo, plays Falstaff. Andrea
Price-Baxley plays Alice Ford, and graduate student
Brittnee Siemon plays Meg Page. Both are DMA candidates. Graduate students Raphael Rada and G. Scott Wild
play their husbands. Graduate students Jaeyoon Kim and
Lisa Sain Odom perform the roles of high-school sweethearts Fenton and Ann.
Although the student performers are “buying into
the ’50s theme 100 percent,” Schlaefer said, they don’t
always “get” the ’50s references.
“It’s a little disconcerting that my frame of reference
and the students’ frame of reference don’t overlap,”
Schlaefer said. “I have a prop or two that are vintage. So
■ If you go
What: The Merry Wives of Windsor (1849), an opera
by Otto Nicolai
When: 7:30 p.m. Feb 4 and 3 p.m. Feb. 6
Where: Keenan Theater, 3455 Pine Belt Road
Admission: $10 for the public and $5 for students
and senior citizens
Information: 7-5369 or www.music.sc.edu.
for someone who’s never picked up their grandmother’s
old heavy telephone and is used to something that fits
in their pocket, you get, ‘This is too heavy. I can’t carry
it.’ But I’m really pleased at how they’ve responded, and
I have a few visual tricks in the production that I hope
people will enjoy.”
After her first production for Opera at USC last fall,
Schlaefer received “more e-mails, phone calls, and oldfashioned handwritten letters from people saying how
much fun they had. And they had fun because the kids on
stage were having fun.
“I’d love for people to take two and a half hours out
of their day and try something different if they’ve never
been to the opera,” Schlaefer said. “Atlanta’s not in the
Super Bowl, and it’s the middle of winter, so why not?”
Schlaefer added that parking at Keenan High School,
where Merry Wives will be performed, is ample and
convenient in keeping with the show’s nostalgic setting.
“We’re back to the ’50s style of easy parking,” she said.
Andrea Price-Baxley with Raphael Rada playing her husband.
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Photo courtesy of Theatre South Carolina
MFA students Demetrius Troy, left, and E.G. Heard appear in
The Illusion.
BEAUFORT STUDENT GROUP TO HOST GULLAH
BREAKFAST: The USC Beaufort African American Student Association
(AASA) will sponsor the second-annual Gullah Breakfast from 8 to
10:30 a.m. Feb. 16 at the Beaufort (North) Campus. The traditional meal will
be served in the lobby of the Performing Arts Center from 8 to 9:30 a.m.
Tickets are $3.50. Following the breakfast, Anita Singleton-Prather and the
Gullah Kinfolk will perform from 9:30 to 10:30 a.m. in the USC Beaufort
Performing Arts Center. Tickets are $10 for faculty, staff, and the public and
$7 for USC Beaufort students. Tickets for both events are available at the
bookstore on both campuses. Proceeds benefit the AASA Scholarship Fund.
For information, call Ariel Willis, AASA president, at 843-521-3168.
TRIO WORKSHOP IS FEB. 19: The
USC TRIO Programs will offer a financial aid
workshop at 10 a.m. Feb. 19 at the Richland
County Public Library on Assembly Street.
Trained counselors will help individuals
complete the federal financial aid application
forms for the 2005–06 school year. Federal
and state financial aid information will be
available. The workshop is free and open to
the public. For more information, call Philip
Blackwell at 7-5127.
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February & March
Calendar
■ Lectures/seminars
■ Around the campuses
Feb. 3 Statistics,“Pooled Testing with Covariates,” Joshua
Tebbs, Kansas State University, 2 p.m., LeConte College,
Room 210A.
Feb. 4 USC Aiken: Prague Symphony Orchestra, featuring
soloists Martin Kasik on piano and Hana Kotkova on violin.
Serge Baudo is the music director, and Petr Altrichter is the
conductor. 8 p.m., Etherredge Center. For more information, call 56-3305.
Feb. 4 Computer science and engineering,“An Overview of HPC and Self-Adapting Numerical Software,” Jack
Dongarra, University of Tennessee, 2:30–4 p.m., Swearingen
Engineering Center, Amoco Hall.
Feb. 3 USC Aiken: Faculty Artist Recital, 7:30 p.m.,
O’Connell Theater.
Feb. 4 USC Aiken: Prague Symphony Orchestra, 8 p.m.,
Etherredge Center. For more information, call 56-3305.
Feb. 4 Chemistry and biochemistry, sabbatical seminar,
Ken Shimizu, chemistry, 4 p.m., Jones Physical Sciences Center, Room 006. Refreshments served at 3:45 p.m.
Feb. 10 Statistics, Ryan Elmore, Australia National University, 2 p.m., LeConte College, Room 210A.
Feb. 11 Chemistry and biochemistry,“Chemoselectivity in Promoting Visual Detection of Biomolecules and
Understanding Biochemical Mechanisms,” Robert Strongin,
Louisiana State University, 4 p.m., Jones Physical Sciences
Center, Room 006. Refreshments served at 3:45 p.m.
Feb. 14 Biomedical sciences,“The Agony of Ecstasy and
Methamphetamine Toxicity,” Bryan Yamamoto, Department
of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics, Boston
University, 4 p.m., Building One, B-1 Classroom, USC School
of Medicine campus.
Feb. 14 Biomedical science,“How Does Stress Affect
Memory and the Hippocampus?” David Diamond, Department of Psychology, Cognitive and Neural Sciences Division, University of South Florida, 4 p.m., Building One, B-1
Classroom, USC School of Medicine campus.
Feb. 16 Women’s studies,“Profiles in Activism: Women
and the NAACP,” Patricia Sullivan, history, 3:30 p.m., Gambrell Hall, Room 250. Reception will follow lecture.
Feb. 18 Chemistry and biochemistry,“Exploring the
Pathological Consequences of Lipid Oxidation: A Chemistry
Perspective,” Robert G. Salomon, Millis Science Center,
Case Western Reserve University, 4 p.m., Jones Physical Sciences Center, Room 006. Refreshments served at 3:45 p.m.
Feb. 18 Computer science and engineering, “PowerAware Embedded Real-Time Systems,” Kang G. Shin, Kevin
and Nancy O’Connor Professor of Computer Science,
University of Michigan, 2:30–4 p.m., Swearingen Engineering
Center, Amoco Hall.
■ Theatre/opera/dance
Feb. 4 and 6 OPERA at USC:
The Merry Wives of Windsor, by Otto
Nicolai, based on Shakespeare’s
comedy. Directed by Ellen Schlaefer.
Performance times are 7:30 p.m.
Feb. 4, 3 p.m. Feb. 6. Keenan High
School Theater. Tickets are $10 for
the general public, $5 for students
and senior citizens. For more information, call Laveta Gibson at 6-5763.
(See story page 3.)
Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s The Lovers will be on view at the Columbia Museum.
■ Exhibits
Through Feb. 8 McMaster Gallery:“Montage: Works
by Philip Dunn,” digital images by Dunn, chair of USC’s art
department. McMaster Gallery is located on the first floor
of McMaster College, which is home to the art department.
Visitors should enter through the Senate Street entrance.
Gallery hours are 9 a.m.–4:30 p.m. weekdays and 1–4 p.m.
Sundays. Free. For more information, call 7-7480.
Feb. 11–April 10 Columbia Museum of Art:“Victorian
Visions, Artworks from the National Museums and Galleries of Wales,” includes works by Victorian masters such
as Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Sir Edward Poynter, Sir Edward
Burne-Jones, James Abbot McNeill Whistler, and William
Morris. The museum is located at the northwest corner of
Main and Hampton streets. Museum hours are 10 a.m.–
5 p.m. Wednesday, Thursday, and Saturday; 10 a.m.–9 p.m.
Friday; 1–5 p.m. Sunday; closed Monday and Tuesday. Admission is $5 adults, $2 students, $4 senior citizens, free for
museum members and children under 6. Every Saturday is
free. For more information, go to columbiamuseum.org or
call 799-2810.
Through Feb. 26, 2005 McKissick Museum:“Courage:
The Carolina Story That Changed America,” explores the
origins of the landmark case Brown v. Board of Education.The
museum, which is free and open to the public, is open
8:30 a.m.–5 p.m. Monday–Friday and 11 a.m.–3 p.m. Saturday. The museum is closed Sunday and all holidays. For more
information, call 7-7251 or go to the museum’s Web site at
cla.sc.edu/MCKS/index.html.
■ Sports
Feb. 5 Women’s softball: Stephen F. Austin, noon,
Beckham Field.
Feb. 5 Women’s equestrian: Georgia, 1 p.m.,
One Wood Farm.
Feb. 5 Women’s softball: Coastal Carolina, 2 p.m.,
Beckham Field.
Nicolai
Feb. 4–13 Theatre South Carolina: The Illusion, a
comedy by Tony Kushner, author of Angels in America. 8 p.m.
Tuesday–Saturday, 3 p.m. Sunday. Drayton Hall Theater. Tickets are $14 general public; $12 USC faculty and staff, senior
citizens, and the military; and $10 students. For tickets, call
7-2551. (See story page 3.)
■ Miscellaneous
Feb. 6 McKissick Museum:“From the Grassroots to the
Supreme Court: Brown v. Board of Education and American
Democracy,” a panel discussion with historians and authors
Peter Lau, Patricia Sullivan, and Waldo Martin; moderated by
Dan T. Carter, history. 3 p.m., free and open to the public.
Feb. 14–25 Computer Services:Wireless training class,
free. Class times and registration information can be found
online at csd.sc.edu/ars/training/classCalendar.php.
Feb. 6 Women’s softball:TBA, 1 p.m., Beckham Field.
Feb. 6 Women’s basketball:Auburn, 3 p.m.,
Colonial Center.
Feb. 8 Women’s softball: Charlotte, 5 p.m.,
Beckham Field.
Feb. 11 Men’s baseball: Longwood, 3 p.m.,
Sarge Frye Field.
Feb. 12 Men’s baseball: Longwood, 1:30 p.m.,
Sarge Frye Field.
Feb. 12 Men’s basketball:Auburn, 7:30 p.m.,
Colonial Center.
Feb. 13 Men’s baseball: Longwood, 1:30 p.m.,
Sarge Frye Field.
Feb. 13 Women’s basketball: LSU, 2 p.m.,
Colonial Center.
Through Feb. 11 USC Upstate: Faculty art exhibit,
University Gallery. Artist lecture will be held at 4 p.m. Jan.
20 in the gallery. A reception will follow in the Humanities
and Performing Arts Center Lobby. For more information,
call Jane Nodine at 52-5838.
Feb. 12 USC Aiken:“Evening of Love Songs, Desserts,
and Champagne,” Masterworks Chorale, 8 p.m., Etherredge
Center Lobby. For more information, call 56-3305.
Pulpit, a photograph by Deborah Willis.
Feb. 15 USC Upstate: Slide show and lecture, “Reflections in Black: Black History through Photographs,” by
award-winning photographer Deborah Willis, professor at
the Tisch School of the Arts and curator for exhibitions at
the Smithsonian Center for African-American History and
Culture, 7 p.m., CLC Ballroom. Free and open to the public.
For more information, call 52-5106.
Feb. 18–March 25 USC Upstate: Exhibit, paintings by
Paul Ryan, Humanities and Performing Arts Center (HPAC).
On Feb. 24, Ryan will give an artist lecture at 4 p.m., HPAC
101. A reception will follow in the Art Gallery. These events
are free and open to the public. For more information, call
Jane Nodine at 52-5838.
Through Feb. 28 USC Lancaster: Exhibit, “Printing and
the Renaissance World.” The exhibit illustrates the development and impact of printing. Medford Library, free.
Through March 1 USC Sumter: Exhibit, digital images
by USC Columbia art professor Chris Robinson, University
Gallery, Anderson Library. Gallery hours are 8 a.m.–8 p.m.
Monday–Thursday, 8 a.m.–1 p.m. Friday, and 2–6 p.m. Sunday.
The gallery is closed Saturday. For more information, call
Cara-lin Getty at 55-3727.
Through March 31 USC Sumter:A suite of images produced by Arizona-based artist Rebecca Rhees using tintype
photographic techniques, Upstairs Gallery, Administration
Building. Gallery hours are 8:30 a.m.–5 p.m. Monday–Friday,
closed Saturday and Sunday. For more information, call
Cara-lin Getty at 55-3727.
Feb. 16 Women’s softball:Virginia Tech, 3 p.m.,
Beckham Field.
Feb. 16 Women’s softball:Virginia Tech, 5 p.m.,
Beckham Field.
■ Concerts
Feb. 19 Men’s baseball: Radford, 1:30 p.m., Sarge Frye Field.
February 3, 2005
Feb. 6 USC Upstate:The USC Upstate Gospel Choir
annual concert, directed by Warren Carson, 4 p.m., Performing Arts Center, free and open to the public. Seating is
limited to 500 people, and early arrival is strongly recommended.
Through March 31 USC Sumter:“The Digital Eye,” a
juried digital photography exhibit featuring winning contest
entries, Umpteenth Gallery, Arts and Letters Building.
Gallery hours are 8:30 a.m.–5 p.m. Monday–Friday, closed
Saturday and Sunday. For more information, call Laura
Cardello at 55-3858.
Feb. 15 Men’s basketball: Kentucky, 9 p.m.,
Colonial Center.
Feb. 18 Men’s baseball: Radford, 3 p.m., Sarge Frye Field.
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Feb. 5 USC Sumter: Gospel Fest 2005, featuring music
performed by Benedict College Gospel Choir and Sumter
area gospel choirs, 6 p.m., Nettles Building auditorium, free
and open to the public. For more information, call Shannon
Mewborn at 55-3763.
Feb. 12 School of Music: University Chorus Concert,
7:30 p.m., Westminster Presbyterian Church, 1715 Broad
River Road, free.
■ 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, 920 Sumter St.; 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 business days prior
to the publication date of issue. The next publication date is Feb. 17.
■ Online calendar
USC Calendar of Events at events.sc.edu.
If you require special accommodations, please contact the program sponsor.
■ Make your own print
From 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. every Tuesday and
Thursday during the run of “Off the Wall &
Onto the Stage: The Evolution of a Ballet,”
McKissick Museum will sponsor printmaking workshops for students, faculty, staff,
and the public.
“Participants can come in and see the exhibit and learn more about it, but then they
can learn about the process of printmaking,” said Jason Shaiman, chief curator of
exhibitions at McKissick Museum.
The workshops will feature hands-on
activities giving participants a chance to
learn about lithography and serigraphy and
other processes of printmaking and intaglio.
“People can make a print and take it
with them and learn something more about
the arts,” Shaiman said.
Jonathan Green’s ’s Love of the Harvest.
From the canvas to the stage: McKissick
exhibit examines the evolution of art into ballet
By Larry Wood
The process by which art leaps off the canvas and onto the
ballet stage is the subject of a new exhibit at McKissick
Museum.
“Off the Stage & Onto the Wall: The Evolution of a Ballet”
tells the story of how William Starrett, the artistic director
for the Columbia City Ballet, translated art by Jonathan
Green, whose works celebrate Gullah culture and life, into a
new ballet. The exhibit will be on display though March 19.
The ballet, “Off the Wall & Onto the Stage: Dancing the Art
of Jonathan Green,” makes its world premiere Feb. 4–5 by
the Columbia City Ballet.
“It’s amazing how William’s vision to interpret Green’s
paintings developed,” said Jason Shaiman, chief curator of
exhibitions at McKissick Museum.
The exhibit is divided into three segments. The first part
examines Gullah culture and how Green fits within that culture. “We’re trying to set the tone and give people a historical
and regional context so they can understand the underlying
premise of Jonathan’s works and the ballet,” Shaiman said.
The second part of the exhibit follows the physical evolution of the ballet.
“We have large reproductions of three of Green’s paintings used in the ballet, and then we’ll take it a step further by
showing photographs of rehearsals of the ballet to show how
William brought the paintings to life,” Shaiman said. “Then I
photographed the dancers dressed in their costumes and had
them mimic the poses in the paintings. Those images were
made into life-size cutouts and placed in front of the reproductions. It makes the works come to life as if the characters
have walked right out of the paintings.”
The second part also features a five-minute segment of a
documentary Shaiman worked on with Karla Berry, Jimmy
Henderson, and graduate student Matt Sefick in media arts.
It include interviews with Green, Starrett, and Marlena
Smalls of Beaufort, who will appear in the ballet as a Gullah
songstress. Smalls also played Bubba’s mother in the movie
Forrest Gump.
The third part of the exhibit focuses on a printmaking
collaborative between Green and USC’s Department of Art.
Green created four original works of art on paper for a fundraising project. Mary Robinson, a printmaking professor,
and Gene Speer, who teaches printmaking, worked with
students to create a limited-edition series of 75 serigraphs of
each of the four paintings. One hundred of those prints will
go to USC’s art department for sale.
“It gave Green another relationship with the art department and an opportunity for students to work with a professional artist and to enhance their educations,” Shaiman said.
The exhibit will show the four finished prints but also will
take one of the prints and examine four different stages of
the printmaking process in another five-minute segment of
the documentary.
“We can use it as an education tool to show the work
that goes into printmaking and help teach people how the
prints are produced,” Shaiman said. “The long version of the
documentary will be part of a Time-Warner public school
initiative to teach people about Jonathan Green, the ballet,
printmaking, and our exhibit. Getting it in the public schools
will give students a better understanding. We’re really
excited.”
For more information, go to www.cla.sc.edu/MCKS.
Black History Month
spotlights drama,
comedy, literature
The story of one woman’s struggle for freedom, a comedy
tour, and an exhibition of African-American literature are
some of the highlights of Black History Month.
A performance of Harriet Tubman: The Chosen One will
be held at 8 p.m. Feb. 16 in the Russell House Ballroom. The
one-woman show, sponsored by Carolina Productions, will
take the audience through history and tell the story of the
Underground Railroad and how one woman’s remarkable
determination made history.
Roosevelt Johnson’s nationally known comedy tour will
be featured at 8 p.m. Feb. 23 in the Russell House Ballroom. The Keepin’ It Real Comedy Show will include such
performers as Darren “DS” Sanders, B Phlat, and Co Coa
Brown, each of whom has been featured on shows such as
Black Entertainment Television’s Comic View and HBO’s
Russell Simmons Def Comedy Jam. The event is sponsored
by Carolina Productions.
An exhibition of African-American literature will be on
display on the second floor of the Russell House through
February. The exhibit includes a comprehensive collection of
African-American biographies, novels, and poetry.
Other events during Black History Month include:
■ blood drive, 10 a.m.–3 p.m. Feb. 3, Greene Street, sponsored by the Office of Multicultural Student Affairs
■ panel discussion, “Brown v. Board of Education,”
3 p.m. Feb. 6, McKissick Museum, featuring authors and
historians, with Dan T. Carter, USC’s Education Foundation
Professor of History, as moderator
■ expo, “Hair and Beauty,” 7:30 p.m. Feb. 8, Russell House
Ballroom, sponsored by the USC NAACP. Admission is $2
students, $3 general admission.
■ “Open Mic” Poetry Slam, 7 p.m. Feb. 9, Russell House,
Room 322/326, sponsored by SAVVY
■ formal dinner and dance, “African-American Heritage
Gala, Feb. 10, sponsored by USC NAACP. Tickets are $5 in
advance, $10 at the door. Information: 544-3652.
■ Eighth-annual Black History Month Step Off,
8 p.m. Feb. 11, Colonial Center, showcases the historical traditions of African-American fraternities and sororities while
exposing at-risk youths to positive alternatives to street
gangs. USC, Allen, Benedict, Claflin, S.C. State, Clemson,
and other colleges and universities from the Southeast will
participate. General admission tickets are available at the
Colonial Center, $13 in advance and $16 the day of the show.
Tickets also are at the Columbia and Lexington Play It Again
Sports stores.
■ film, Sweet Honey and the Rock: Raise Your Voice, a film
by award-winning director Robert Stanley, 7 and 9 p.m. Feb
14 and 15, Nickelodeon Theater, South Main Street. Admission is $5.50 for students, $6.50 general admission.
■ film, A Place of Our Own, a film by Stanley Nelson,
noon–2 p.m. Feb. 15, Russell House Theater
■ Black History Month Quiz Bowl, 7 p.m. Feb. 17, Russell House, Room 322/326, sponsored by USC NAACP
USC Aiken play celebrates woman’s amazing life
The University Theatre Players at USC Aiken will perform
From the Mississippi Delta at 8 p.m. Feb. 9–11 and at 3 and
8 p.m. Feb. 13 in the O’Connell Theater in the Etherredge
Center.
The play is by Endesha Ida Mae Holland. Dewey ScottWiley is the director.
The play tells the story of Aint Baby, the town midwife,
and her daughter, Phelia, who was born into the depths of
poverty in the heart of the segregated South. After a misfortunate turn of events, Phelia became a rebel, getting expelled
from high school, turning to prostitution, and serving jail
time for shoplifting and assault. She is transformed by opportunity and courage as the Civil Rights movement sweeps
through the Delta.
With her passion now focused on the Civil Rights movement, Phelia uses her newfound voice and her ability to persevere to enroll in college in Minnesota and finish graduate
school with a doctorate in theatre arts.
Tickets are $12 for adults, $10 for seniors, and $7 for
students. For more information or for tickets, call the
Etherredge Center Box Office at 56-3305.
■ “Fighting Two Wars,” a program honoring African
Americans in World War II, 12:15 p.m. Feb. 17. To be simultaneously broadcast and viewed by two-way video from both
the Allendale and Walterboro campuses. African-American
soldiers from Allendale County who were in World War II
will be special guests in Allendale, with Tuskegee Airmen
from Colleton County as special guests in Walterboro.
■ Fences, a play by August Wilson and performed by the
student acting group Write Direction, 8 p.m. Feb. 21, Russell
House Ballroom
■ “Keeping it Real Lecture,” featuring Joelle DavisCarter, director at the University of Maryland, 6 p.m. Feb.
22, Russell House Theater, sponsored by the Office of Multicultural Student Affairs
■ “One Mic” Coffee House, featuring poet Hayden
Greene, 7 p.m. Feb. 24, Capstone Conference Center, sponsored by the Greek Life Office and the Office of Multicultural
Student Affairs
Courtesy USC Aiken
Actors rehearse a scene from From the Mississippi Delta to be performed
at USC Aiken.
■ “Chamber of Oppression,” interactive skits to address
various forms of oppression, 8 p.m. March 1, Russell House
Ballroom, sponsored by the Association of African American
Students.
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EPI
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Rowe expressed confidence that the reaccreditation and
the program’s selection by the State Department to train
specially selected international students will help the program
and the University recover from the decline in international
students after the 9-11 terrorist attacks.
USC was one of the first three universities to be accredited
for five years by the CEA in December 1999, and when it won
its reaccreditation last December, it did so by passing all 52
standards, Rowe said.
“Overall, the EPI serves as a very good model for other intensive English programs in the United States,” said the CEA’s
report. “The administrative faculty and staff team are to be
commended for their ongoing dedication to the program and
each other, and for their continuing commitment to maintaining high professional standards.”
Rowe said the EPI program’s link with the USC linguistics
program and its research on student achievement are distinguishing characteristics that separate it from other English
programs in the United States.
“The research allows us to say our students do achieve and
they do it in a specified period of time,” Rowe said. “That is a
question we often get. Of course, our faculty and staff also are
very professional and have been in the field for an average of
about 15 years.”
Rowe believes EPI’s 10-year reaccreditation was responsible for its selection by the State Department to train nine
international students later this semester under the State
Department’s PLUS Program (Partnerships for Learning
Undergraduate Studies).
The new program, part of the Partnerships for Learning
initiative of the State Department’s Bureau of Educational
and Cultural Affairs, provides the opportunity to study in the
United States to highly motivated undergraduate students
from the Middle East, North Africa, and South Asia who may
not otherwise have access to American higher education.
The program selects outstanding students who have
completed at least two years of undergraduate study at a home
institution and provides full scholarships for enhancing their
English language and study skills at American institutions and
two years of study leading toward a bachelor of arts degree
from selected U.S. colleges and universities.
Rowe said the University’s EPI intensive English enroll-
Magazine
Staff spotlight
■ Name: Libby Shropshier
■ What’s your title? I’m manager of marketing
and recruiting for the Professional MBA (PMBA)
program in the Moore School of Business. I also
coordinate marketing, recruiting, and logistics with
our partners at Tec de Monterrey in Guadalajara,
Mexico, for the joint Executive IMBA program.
■ How long have you been with the University? Twenty years. I’ve been with the business school
the entire time. My first position
here was as business manager to a
research group doing information
management. I also worked in the
graduate programs area of the business school, managing the assistantship and fellowship programs
for about 12 years. I’ve been in my
current position for four years.
Michael Brown
EPI instructor Kathy Bledsoe works with Hae-Ryong Jeon, an EPI student
from Korea, in her beginning to intermediate English course.The class has
students from several Latin American countries,Taiwan,Thailand and Turkey.
ment had gone from 122 students before 9-11 to about 50
today. Last year, the United States saw its first decrease in
30 years in international student enrollment at colleges and
universities nationwide, a “brain drain” that could eventually
cause the United States to lose its cutting edge in technology
and in undergraduate education in engineering, science, and
mathematics.
In another effort to reverse the decline in international
students, the University also organized an ad hoc international recruiting committee last summer to pool its efforts in
recruiting students from abroad. Rowe said the effort includes
combining resources from a variety of departments on campus
following its endorsement by Kip Howard, assistant vice provost for enrollment management.
“Kip Howard has been supportive of this effort, and I think
it’s been working well,” Rowe said.
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that has been disregarded by mainstream literary critics and
reviewers,” Hudock said.
Hudock works on the magazine with Andrea Buchanan,
who is managing editor and Web designer from her home
in Philadelphia. Buchanan is the author of the book Mother
Shock (Seal Press), a literary memoir about motherhood.
LiteraryMama.com also draws on 18 other editors who stay in
touch via several listservs.
Hudock is a North Carolina native and former married
stay-at-home mom who is now a working single mother. She
taught at the University of Georgia, Marshall University in
West Virginia, and the University of California at Berkeley
before returning to USC, where she received her Ph.D. and
also taught as a graduate student.
While in Berkeley she met other women online who were
interested in writing about motherhood. They coalesced into a
mother writing support group that grew online and eventually
morphed into LiteraryMama.com. The Web site was launched
about a year ago.
“We weren’t able to get our work published because the
glossy parenting magazines only wanted articles that showed
only a small part of motherhood, and we wanted a place where
we could publish our work and find work we wanted to read,”
said Hudock, adding that LiteraryMama.com’s writing challenges the mainstream media to rethink its narrow focus of
what mothers think and do.
“I’ve heard negative things about motherhood, and I’ve
also heard the sickly sweet version, and neither one is the only
reality,” she said. “There is something in the middle that includes both the good and bad and those other times when it’s
simply hard, difficult work. I’ve learned that it’s not either or.”
❝I’ve heard negative things about motherhood,
and I’ve also heard the sickly sweet version, and
neither one is the only reality.
❞
—Amy Hudock
In addition to the Web site’s original content, in the future
Hudock hopes to use LiteraryMama.com as a repository and
resource guide for lists of syllabi from motherhood courses
taught at colleges and universities across the country.
She also wants to offer online courses in writing about
motherhood, provide an extensive bibliography of mother
writers and the criticism of mother writers, and create a literary Society for the Study of Mother Writers that would help
bridge the gap between them and the academy.
“I think of myself as a coordinator who is bringing different groups of women together because I have the advantage
of having been in many of those groups,” said Hudock, who
describes motherhood as a heroic spiritual and psychological
journey requiring sacrifice and an expansion of one’s individual boundaries.
Hudock sees her background of having taught at many
different places and having different experiences as a mother
as a strength that allows her to work with a variety of groups
in the conversation about what it means to be a mother, what
it means to be a woman, and how motherhood changes that
identity. “LiteraryMama is part of that conversation,” she said.
■ Can you describe what you
do as manager of marketShropshier
ing and recruiting? The PMBA
program, which was started in 1970, offers students
the opportunity to earn an MBA degree while maintaining full-time employment. I am responsible for
promotion and student enrollments statewide.
■ What are your duties? We exhibit at trade
shows, business expos, and professional conferences/conventions. The program also is a member
of some chambers of commerce around the state. I
attend these chambers’ events because it’s a great
way to meet business people in the area. I am the
contact for all of our applicants and assist them with
the admission process.
■ Who are the students in the program? Our
students have an average of six years of work experience. There are about 280 students enrolled in the
program from around the state. Our students come
from a wide range of industries and positions within
those companies. All undergraduate degrees are
represented by our students. Some of our students
have a science or technical background and want an
MBA degree to advance within their company.
■ What do you do with the IMBA program?
The Executive IMBA program was launched in August 2004 in partnership with Tec de Monterrey, a
well-respected university system in Mexico. Classes
are held on the Guadalajara campus, and our
students are business people who live there. They
attend classes every third weekend and are taught
by USC and Tec faculty. There also are three weeklong seminars included in the curriculum. I manage
the development of the seminars—two are held on
our campus and the other abroad. I also oversee the
EIMBA admission process.
■What’s the best part of the job? I’m very
much a people oriented person. I enjoy all the trade
shows and meeting people. It’s a lot of fun to talk to
people about the program. It’s rewarding to work
with a prospective student through the admission
process and then meet them once they enroll. We
have a very interesting, diverse group of students.
■Any outside interests? I’m very excited that my
daughter Ivy has been admitted to the USC School
of Nursing next fall. I love to garden and work in the
yard year-round. Reading is also a favorite pastime.
Times • Vol. 16, No. 2 • February 3, 2005
Times is published 20 times a year for the faculty
and staff of the University of South Carolina by
the Department of University Publications,
Laurence W. Pearce, director. lpearce@gwm.sc.edu.
Director of periodicals: Chris Horn chorn@gwm.sc.edu
ERIC
Managing editor: Larry Wood larryw@gwm.sc.edu
Design editor: Betty Lynn Compton blc@gwm.sc.edu
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penko, geological sciences; and Miguel Goñi, geological
sciences.
ology and biostatistics; and other scientists from Ukraine,
France, and Scotland.
■ “Communities, Toxins, and Enzymes: Structural, Functional, and Evolutionary Relations,” $75,000. Principal investigator: John Dawson, chemistry and biochemistry, with Bert
Ely, biological sciences; Lukasz Lebioda, chemistry and
biochemistry; and David Lincoln, Sarah Ann Woodin,
and Yung Pin Chin, biological sciences.
■ “Characterizing the Hydrologic Properties of Faults in
Single- and Multiple-Aquifer Systems,” $73,753. Principal
investigator: Charles Pierce, civil and environmental
engineering, with Erik Anderson, civil and environmental
engineering, and Pradeep Talwani, geological sciences.
■ “Radioactive Contaminants, Antioxidants, and Mutation: A
Comparative Analysis of Birds, Flies, and Humans of Chernobyl,” $39,776. Principal investigator: Tim Mousseau,
biological sciences, with Clarke Millette and Mike Wyatt,
School of Medicine; Travis Glenn, Savannah River Ecology Lab; John Baynes, chemistry and biochemistry; Mike
Walla, chemistry and biochemistry; John Vena, epidemi-
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■ “Assessing Contaminant Impacts at the Molecular Level
Using Grass Shrimp as a Marine Sentinel,” $73,934. Principal
investigator: Joseph Quattro, biological sciences, with P.L.
Ferguson, chemistry and biochemistry; Tom Chandler,
environmental health sciences; Geoff Scott and T.W. Greig,
NOAA; R.W. Chapman, MUSC/Hollings Marine Lab; and P.
Sandifer, NOAA/Hollings Marine Lab.
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Prewett, Sumter; Terry Young, Union.
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■ BOOKS AND CHAPTERS
Jill Frank, political science, A Democracy of Distinction: Aristotle and the Work
of Politics, University of Chicago Press, Chicago.
Jeremiah Hackett, philosophy, “Robert Grosseteste and Roger Bacon
on the Posterior Analytics [of Aristotle],” Knowledge and Science: Problems of
Epistemology in Medieval Philosophy, Matthias Lutz-Bchmann, A. Fidora, and P.
Antolic, editors, Akademie Verlag, Berlin.
Robert Johnson, education, and J. Penny, “Split-half reliability,” The Encyclopedia of Social Measurement, K. Kempf-Leonard, editor, Elsevier Science,
Burlington, Mass.
■ ARTICLES
Salvador Macias, psychology, Sumter, “The Rediscovery of the Role of
Development in Psychobiology,” a review of Review of Psychiatry,Vol. 23: Developmental Psychobiology, by B.J. Casey, Washington D.C., American Psychiatric
Publishing, PsycCRITIQUES: Contemporary Psychology.
Marco Valtorta, computer science and engineering,YoungGyun Kim (USC Ph.D. graduate now at S.C. State University)
and Jiri Vomlel (Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic),
“A Prototypical System for Soft Evidential Update,” Applied
Intelligence.
Kevin J. Swick and Lora Bailey, education, “Communicating
effectively with parents and families who are homeless,” Early
Childhood Education Journal.
Bruce E. Konkle, journalism and mass communications, “The
Scholastic Publication Adviser’s Ultimate Role,” Quill & Scroll.
María C. Mabrey, languages, literatures, and cultures, “Extranjeridad, feminismo e ideología de la descreencia: parodia y
querella al poder en Cristina Peri Rossi y Rosa Montero,”
Journal of South Eastern Council of Latin American Studies.
Steven P. Hooker, prevention research center and exercise
science, “Self-Reported Physical Activity Among South Carolinian Adults Trying to Maintain or Lose Weight,” Southern Medical
Journal, and, “Health care provider counseling for physical
activity and weight loss by body mass index in South Carolina
adults,” e-Journal of the South Carolina Medical Association.
Terry K. Peterson, education, “Time Alone is Not on the Side of Many
Students, Unless We Use It Differently and in Partnership,” Council of Urban
Boards of Education Conference, San Antonio, Texas.
Dave Marlow, English, Upstate, and James M. Nyce (Emporia State University), “Speak now forever record your piece: Information use in technical
trouble tickets,” American Association for Information Science and Technology, Providence, R.I.
Michelle Maher, Joshua Gold, and Andrea Chen, education, “The
Tenuous Tightrope Act: Integrating Family Concerns with Academic Success
in Doctoral Study,” Hawaii International Conference on Education, Waikiki,
Hawaii.
■ OTHER
Bill Drake, speech, Upstate, received the Order of the Palmetto, South
Carolina’s highest civilian award, from Gov. Mark Sanford.
Robert E. Markland, management science, in 2004 marked 21 years of
continuous service in an editorial capacity for the academic journal Decision
Sciences. He was editor from 1984 to1989 and associate editor for the past
15 years.
Hoyt N. Wheeler, management science, has been awarded a Fulbright Distinguished Chair in American Studies, affiliated with the faculty of law at the
University of Frankfurt am Main in Germany, for the academic year 2005–06.
■ Lighter times
■ PRESENTATIONS
Bruce E. Konkle, journalism and mass communications,
“Scholastic Journalism Articles In School Activities From
1934–1967: What Many Educators in the U.S. Read About the
Student Press,” Association for Education in Journalism and
Mass Communications Scholastic Journalism Division, St. Petersburg, Fla.
Betty Glad, political science, “Can Tyrants be Deterred?” Central Intelligence Agency, Langley Field,Va.
Stephen Bajjaly, library and information science, “Community Networks:
Harness the Power,” North Suburban Library System, Chicago, Ill.
Joyce Wiley, political science, Upstate, “The Changing Environment for Iraqi
Women,” Middle East Studies Association, San Francisco, Calif.
Chioma Ugochukwu, journalism and mass communications, Upstate,
“Nigerian Television Programming Flows through the Decades: 1960s–
2000s,” Association of African Studies/Association Canadienne des Etudes
Africaines, New Orleans, La.
Hans-Conrad zur Loye, chemistry and biochemistry, A. Goforth (USC
graduate student), R. Hipp (USC undergraduate student), and M. Smith (USC
crystallographer), “Solvothermal Synthesis and Structural Determination of
Several Novel Mixed Metal halobismuthate Materials,” Southeast Regional
Meeting of the American Chemical Society, Durham, N.C., and, same
conference, with S. Mugavero (USC graduate student) and M. Smith (USC
crystallographer), “Crystal Growth and Preparation of Novel Lanthanum
Containing Oxides.”
Linda Randolph, education, Upstate, Rosemary Wells, Mo Willems, and
Esme Codell, “Children’s Literature at NAEYC,” National Association for the
Education of Young Children, Anaheim, Calif.
Jennifer Little and Nicole Jacques, library science, Aiken, “If you pay
them, they will come: Information Literacy Workshops for Faculty,” N.C.
Library Association/Southeastern Library Association, Charlotte, N.C.
Jane Addison, instructor, languages, literature, and composition, Upstate,
“The Writing Center as Womb: The Importance of Subjectivity in the Writing
Center,” National Council of Teachers of English, Indianapolis, Ind.
www.sc.edu/usctimes
MacArthur “genius grant”
recipient Stanley Cavell,
right, is the keynote
speaker for “Thinking
on the Boundaries,”
USC’s seventh-annual
comparative literature
conference slated for
Feb. 10–12.This year’s
conference will examine
philosophy in film and
literature. Cavell, an
emeritus professor of philosophy at Harvard
University, has written influentially in all three
fields. Find the full article and conference
schedule at www.sc.edu/usctimes/articles/200412/lit_and_film_conf.html.
We float ideas. We don’t ask to see if they fly.
Manoj K. Malhotra, management science, has been appointed associate
editor for Decision Sciences journal.
Hillary McDonald, business (Division of Research), has been named president of Columbia Green Foundation, an organization that works with the
city of Columbia, neighborhood associations, and garden clubs to promote
beautification projects.
Mun Y.Yi, management science, was recently appointed as an associate editor of the International Journal of Human-Computer Studies.
Jane Nodine, visual arts, Upstate, was one of three judges for the 2004–05
Scholastic Art Awards, a statewide competition for students in grades seven
through 12 in writing and art.
Billy F. Kiker, economics, was honored in a special 2004 issue of the journal
Economics of Education Review.The journal is edited by Elchanan Cohn, economics, who wrote that Kiker was recognized for “his contributions to the
field … and seminal essays on the roots of the concept of human capital.”
Jeremiah Hackett, philosophy, appointed secretary/treasurer of the
Society for Medieval and Renaissance Philosophy, a national organization that
promotes research, study, and teaching of philosophy for the period 500 CE
to 1600 CE. USC’s Department of Philosophy will be the society’s home for
the next three years.
Joseph Pappin III, continuing education academic programs, received an
Earhart Fellowship Research grant toward completion of a book manuscript
on Edmund Burke’s political philosophy.
■ Job vacancies
For up-to-date information on USC Columbia vacancies and
vacancies at other campuses, go to uscjobs.sc.edu. The employment office is located at 1600 Hampton St.
Beaufort professor awarded
grant to study academic tracking
Lynn Mulkey, a professor of sociology at USC Beaufort,
recently obtained funding from the National Institutes of
Health to investigate how American schools sort students for
instruction in ways that foster, impede, or are indifferent to
their cognitive growth.
The award of $413,000 was made
to Mulkey and her collaborators, Lala
Carr Steelman, a professor of sociology
at USC Columbia, and Sophia Catsambis, an associate professor of sociology
at Queens College and Graduate Center of the City University of New York.
The project, “Mapping Tracking,” will provide documentation of
previously uncharted territory about
the nature and influences of tracking
Mulkey
(ability grouping) in the early grades
and promises strong policy implications. The research will
analyze data from a national survey of more than 17,000 students undertaken by the U.S. Dept. of Education. It anticipates
resolution to some of the controversies over tracking in U.S.
schools.
Foote named new
director of academic
support at Aiken
Stephanie Foote has been named director of academic
support services and the First Year Program at USC
Aiken.
Foote holds a master’s degree in education from USC
and a BA from Coastal Carolina University. Foote joins
USC Aiken from Stony Brook University in New York,
where she was associate director of Student Orientation
and Family Programs for four years.
She holds memberships in several professional organizations, including the National Orientation Director’s
Association (NODA) and the
National Association of Student Personnel Administrators
(NASPA). Foote also was named
Outstanding New Professional
in 2003 by the American College
Personnel Association’s Commission for Admissions, Orientation,
and First Year Experience.
“I’m excited to have the opportunity to work at USC Aiken
Foote
and look forward to helping USC
Aiken students have a successful college experience,”
Foote said.
“Ms. Foote brings experience, enthusiasm, and a
fresh, innovative approach to this important new position
at USC Aiken,” said Suzanne Ozment, executive vice
chancellor for academic affairs at USC Aiken. “She is well
qualified to help us expand services and develop new
programs to enhance student success.”
Columbia pediatrician
receives USC School
of Medicine award
Tom Austin of Columbia recently received the 2004 William Weston Distinguished Service Award for Excellence
in Pediatrics. The annual award is sponsored by the USC
School of Medicine’s Department of Pediatrics.
A graduate of Baylor University School of Medicine
and a native of Alice, Texas, Austin came to Columbia in
1971 after completing his pediatric residency training at
Johns Hopkins Hospital. During his 33 years of practice
in Columbia, he established the first pediatric intensivecare unit and the first neonatal intensive-care unit in
the Midlands, both at Richland Memorial Hospital. A
sought-after consultant for pediatricians throughout the
Midlands, Austin ran the pediatric residency program at
Palmetto Richland for seven years and has held academic
faculty appointments at USC and the Medical University
of South Carolina.
A founder and later president of the S.C. Perinatal
Association, Austin was president of the S.C. Pediatric
Society and chair of the Governor’s Maternal, Infant,
and Child Health Council. A member of numerous
pediatric and neonatal organizations, Austin has been
awarded the S.C. Chapter of the American Academy of
Pediatrics’ Career Achievement Award and the Order of
the Palmetto.
The Weston Award was begun in 1980 to recognize
pediatricians “whose life best exemplifies the ideals of
professional excellence, dedication, and service to the
children of South Carolina.” The award was named after
William Weston, a native of Columbia who, in 1912,
became the first full-time pediatrician in the Southeast.
Physician completes Duke program
Damon Daniels, a faculty member in the USC School of
Medicine’s Department of Family and Preventive Medicine, recently completed the Health Leadership Program
at Duke University.
The program enables health-care professionals to
develop strong community health-planning skills on a
part-time basis by combining on-site and distance-based
learning. Program participants meet with other successful health-care professionals and learn how to develop
and implement innovative programs to serve the health
needs of a specific community.
As a graduate of the program, Daniels is prepared
to work with community groups on community health
projects. Health Leadership Program graduates also have
the skills to train future health-care professionals on
collaborative, community-based, and patient-centered
approaches to health care.
February 3, 2005
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Student speak
Part memorial, part learning tool
West Forum Web site embodies spirit of bipartisan learning
By Marshall Swanson
■ Name: Julia Sellers
■ Class: Junior
■ Major: Journalism (print)
■ Hometown: Lugoff
■ You were just named winner of the Mike
Wilkerson Memorial Scholarship from the
S.C. chapter of the International Society of
Business Communicators. Congratulations!
Thank you, I feel so undeserving of it, and I had no
idea that I’d even been nominated for it. It was just
a huge blessing.
■ How will you use the scholarship? This
semester is paid for, so I’m planning to put the
$1,500 toward summer school classes. I also have a
LIFE Scholarship and the Jacobs-Daughtry Scholarship, which I won as a senior in high school and
have held for the past three years. That’s awarded
to students who are active with their high-school
newspapers.
■ So how did you get interested in print
journalism? When I was in eighth grade, we were
studying slander and libel in history, and I really got
into it. I was so disappointed when I couldn’t take
a journalism elective in ninth grade, but I started
working for my high-school newspaper in 10th
grade. So I can thank that history class, I guess.
The USC Department of Political Science established the John
C. West Forum on Politics and Policy in 2002 to enrich the
Palmetto State’s political life. The intent was to create a nonpartisan, nonprofit civic leadership incubator that would help
foster a quality political environment in the state.
The forum, which West, a former
S.C. governor and U.S. ambassador
to Saudi Arabia, helped get started,
provides seminars and panel discussions about political issues, records
and publishes interviews with civic
leaders, and sponsors other events
designed to foster civic involvement.
It also includes a comprehensive Web
site at westforum.sc.edu/.
When West died last March at age
81, some observers might have thought West
his passing would mark the end of the
forum. In fact, the forum will continue
for at least the next three years, and
the site has become a unique tribute
to West, a devoted USC supporter
frequently mentioned as one of the
Palmetto State’s most progressive
governors.
“I can’t recall any former elected officials who regularly taught a course in
the department or who were involved
Starr
in the department in the same way
John West was,” said department chair
Harvey Starr.
“There are other governors who
have established centers at some
schools, and they might occasionally lecture. But for years John West
had an agreement with us to give 10
lectures each semester, and the West
Foundation regularly helped us while
providing fellowships for political science and international studies graduGraham
ate students.”
The political science department offered a West forum
political science topics course last fall called “Civic Political
Involvement,” taught by West Forum director Blease Graham.
WEST FORUM CONTINUES THIS SPRING:
Events in the John C. West Forum on Politics and Policy
will continue this spring on a schedule to be announced
at westforum.sc.edu/. The forum’s Maxcy College
Seminars will bring three outstanding South Carolina
civic leaders to the campus for informal discussions with
Maxcy residents and interested members of the USC
community.
The course’s study materials were interviews with West and
others, lectures, class discussion, field experiences, and guest
appearances by prominent civic leaders.
The West Forum Web site, which is maintained by Graham
and West Forum associate director Robert Angel, contains a
variety of materials on West, including interviews with him,
photos with audio and text of other S.C. public service notables, West Forum presentations by key S.C. political figures,
and remembrances of the governor from some 20 people.
The site is a unique way to honor West’s memory, Graham
said, who thinks of it as a learning resource that is also a
tribute to West.
“It’s really people talking about public service and the importance of civic involvement using Gov. West’s contributions
in the political science department and his career as a model
and example around which to focus that kind of discussion,”
Graham said. “West is no longer here to provide lectures, but
we are continuing to develop learning resources and academic
field work opportunities for students that encourage the life of
the citizen.”
West had been a presence in the department since his
ambassadorship to Saudi Arabia ended some 22 years ago,
said Graham, who noted that the former governor was unique
in that he carried on a full-time law practice but also kept his
hand in academe.
“In many ways, his passion was the University, learning,
and political discussion to match the intellectual world with
the rough-and-tumble world of politics,” Graham said.
Although the forum and its Web site represent a continuation of West’s interests, it isn’t hero worship, Graham added.
“It’s more of an emphasis on the importance of the life of the
citizen from the standpoint of nonpartisan political perspectives, environments, and discussions,” he said.
Be prepared
■ And you’ve worked for the Gamecock
student newspaper, too. That’s right, I’m on the
Gamecock staff, and I work for the Southern Interscholastic Press Association and the S.C. Scholastic
Press Association.
Sgt. Jeffrey Asbill,
with the S.C. National
Guard’s 43rd Weapons
of Mass Destruction
Civil Support Team,
participates in a
seminar on the
Columbia campus
with USC’s Center
for Public Health
Preparedness.The
center’s next lunchand-learn seminar
will be Feb. 15 at the
Russell House.
■ It’s also noteworthy that you’re on the
dean’s list and a member of Alpha Lambda
Delta honor society. So you’re planning to
graduate in May 2006; what are your plans
from there? I would love to cover politics, but I’m
not sure in what type of media outlet. I interned
with the Associated Press, covering the state legislature, and I really enjoyed that. Some people say
there’s no money in print journalism, but I think
people will always read, and there will always be a
place for someone who can write.
Teleconference to focus on transitions for first-year, transfer students
The National Resource Center for The First-Year Experience
and Students in Transition will sponsor a series of live, interactive teleconferences available via satellite, Web cast, video,
or DVD this spring.
The series will focus on a range of student transitions and
offer strategies for transforming the college experience. From
students beginning their academic journeys to students transferring between post-secondary institutions, the teleconferences will examine ways to ease students’ transitions and help
them reach their potentials.
Participants can view one, two, or all three teleconference
broadcasts or order videos or DVDs of the broadcasts for viewing at other times. For details and registration information, go
to www.sc.edu/fye/events/teleconference. The schedule is:
■ “Facilitating Transfer Student Success: Creating
Effective Partnerships,” March 3. A large percentage of
students transfer during their college careers. This teleconference explores the challenges of the transfer for students and
institutions. An expert panel will untangle the transfer process
and offer strategies to help students and institutions overcome
transfer shock. The panel will share exemplary programs
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that have helped students succeed as they move from one
institution to another. Panel members include Frankie Santos
Laanan, assistant professor of higher education, Iowa State
University; Mark Allen Poisel, associate vice president for
academic development and retention, University of Central
Florida; and Diane Savoca, coordinator of student transition,
St. Louis Community College at Florissant Valley.
■ “Learning Communities: Pathways to Deep Learning and Campus Transformation,” March 24. All
institutions seek to stimulate their students to achieve deep
learning. The question is how to achieve it. Panelists will
discuss a proven vehicle to deeper learning that is now taking
center stage for many students at many institutions: learning
communities. The panelists will provide inspiration for creating collaborative campus environments that break down the
walls between disparate disciplines and between academic and
student affairs, leading the charge for transforming campuses
and spurring students to excellence. Panelists include Jean
Henscheid, fellow, National Resource Center for The FirstYear Experience and Students in Transition and managing
editor of About Campus; Jean McGregor, senior scholar,
Washington Center for Improving the Quality of Undergraduate Education; and John Tagg, associate professor, English,
Palomar College, San Marcos, Calif.
■ “First Encounters: Creating Purposeful Strategies
to Engage New Students,” April 21. Even before students
are accepted for enrollment, institutions communicate directly
and indirectly their values, culture, and rules of procedure.
This teleconference will focus on formal and informal vehicles
such as official letters, summer reading programs, student
blogs, convocations, and other rituals that convey information
to entering students about academics and student life. The
time frame covers initial exchanges through the first few weeks
of the term. Panelists will discuss the significance of these first
encounters, propose a range of purposeful strategies that address specific challenges, and offer some exemplary programs
on today’s college campuses. Panelists include Peter Magolda,
associate professor, Department of Educational Leadership,
Miami University, Ohio; Gail Mellow, president, La Guardia
Community College, New York; and Richard Mullendore,
professor, College Student Affairs Administration, University
of Georgia.