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Student film looks at “Why We
Smoke.” Page 3
Latino children’s literature, right, is
topic of conference. Page 8
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Consultant outlines presidential search timeline
By Chris Horn
By late May or early June, as many as 60 candidates could be identified for the University presidency, a consultant told the Presidential
Candidate Search Committee at its April 1 meeting.
“We can’t hurry or speed up this part of the search,” said Bill Funk,
president of R. William Funk & Associates of Dallas, Texas, the firm
selected March 18 to assist the University’s search committee. “Some
of the better candidates might not even be considering the position
at this time. It’s a bit of a dance, a cajoling that goes on [to encourage
some people to become candidates].”
Funk addressed the committee to outline how the search will likely
unfold during the next several weeks as the pool of candidates builds.
Advertising for the University presidency has appeared in several
publications, and a Web site (www.sc.edu/presidentialsearch) dedicated to the search is online. Funk’s firm is soliciting additional nominations from about 600 leaders in higher education and will ask for more
nominations from the nation’s leading higher education associations.
“We’ve seen in the past 10 years that the size of candidate pools for
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■ 2008–09 budget
University will receive
decreased state funding
By Larry Wood
Women’s Leadership
Institute is May 1
The sixth-annual Women’s Leadership
Institute (WLI), sponsored by the Provost’s
Advisory Committee on Women’s Issues
(PACWI), will be held from 8 a.m. to
12:30 p.m. May 1 at the Russell House.
WLI is designed for faculty, support staff,
administrative staff, and students interested
in the advancement
and success of women
in leadership roles.
Panel discussions,
presentations, and a
networking luncheon
will promote greater
awareness of the challenges and opportunities women face in
their careers. RegisHelms
tration is free, and a
light breakfast and lunch will be provided.
Dori Helms, provost at Clemson, and
Carolina women faculty and staff in leadership roles will present on topics related to the
title of this year’s institute, “Claiming Our
Voice: Building a Foundation for Leadership.” In addition to Helms, panelists will
include Michelle Dodenhoff, associate vice
president for development; Judy Rink, a
professor of physical education; and Shirley
Staples Carter, a professor and director of the
School of Journalism and Mass Communications.
For more information, contact Susan
Schramm-Pate, PACWI faculty co-chair, at
sschramm@gwm.sc.edu.
April 10, 2008
Secret society
Jason Ayer
Second-year theatre student Sydney Mitchell will appear in Theatre
South Carolina’s A Cabal of Hypocrites, by Russian playwright Mikhail Bulgakov, April 18–27 in
Drayton Hall.The play is a poignant commentary on censorship framed around the turbulent life of
French playwright Moliere (see story page 8).
The Legislature has announced that the Columbia
campus will receive a 2.68 percent budget cut for
2008–09, President Sorensen said at the Faculty
Senate meeting April 2. Cuts could vary at the
University’s other campuses.
“We clearly will get a budget cut; that’s inescapable from the state appropriation,” he said, adding
that Provost Becker and Harris Pastides, vice president for research and health sciences, have been
meeting with their respective deans about possible
reductions.
No final decision has been made, and the
Legislature will not approve the budget until May
or June.
The House has included a 1 percent pay raise for
state employees in its draft of the budget, and the
Senate has considered making the increase slightly
larger, Sorensen said. “That’s a matter of discussion,” he said. “They haven’t agreed to anything.
I keep telling the Legislature we need to do better
for our faculty and staff. In comparison to other
universities in other states, we are not paid well.”
Sorensen also complimented Darrin Horn, the
University’s new head men’s basketball coach, on
his commitment to academics.
“Of the teams on the March madness final
teams, his team from Western Kentucky University was the only one of which the coach could say
honestly that 100 percent of his students during
his tenure as head coach had graduated,” Sorensen
said. “Our overall graduation rate is 63 percent
from the time students enroll here as freshmen and
receive a degree within a six-year period.
“Coach Horn will be a valuable member of the
community, and he will not restrict his involvement
in the University to the basketball court. I am elated
with his commitment to academic excellence.”
The next Faculty Senate meeting will be held at
2 p.m. April 28 in the School of Law Auditorium.
Faculty, student Art Auction is April 16
Numerous works of art, sculpture, photography, paintings, and ceramics made by the University’s art faculty and students will go to the highest bidders April 16 at the 53rd-annual USC Art
Auction.
The popular annual event will begin with a preview party in the Campus Room of Capstone
House at 6 p.m. Admission is free, and light refreshments will be provided. The auction will
begin at 7 p.m. The art will be on public display beginning at 1 p.m.
The auction is sponsored by the Department of Art in the College of Arts and Sciences. Proceeds from the auctioned works are divided between the artists and the art scholarship and gallery fund. Credit cards and checks will be accepted. Last year’s event raised more than $19,000.
For more information, contact Mana Hewitt, gallery director and organizer of this year’s
event, at 7-7480 or 7-4236.
Briefly
RETIREMENT AND INVESTMENT PLANNING
SESSIONS SET: One-on-one counseling sessions for
retirement and investment planning will be available from an
expert TIAA-CREF consultant during the spring semester from
9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. on the following dates: April 22, 23, 29, and
30; May 6, 7, 8, 20, and 21; and June 3, 4, 24, and 25.The sessions
are by appointment only and will be held at the Division of Human Resources’ Benefits Office, 1600 Hampton St., Suite 803.To
sign up, call 1-877-267-4505 and press “0” for assistance, or go
to www.tiaa-cref.org/moc.The sessions are designed to provide
personalized planning and guidance about meeting financial goals
through the use of mutual funds and annuity accounts.TIAACREF does not offer tax advice.
BOOKMAN ROAD ELEMENTARY RECEIVES
RILEY AWARD: The School Improvement Council (SIC) of
Elgin’s Bookman Road Elementary School received the Dick and
Tunky Riley School Improvement Award for 2008, presented at
the S.C. School Improvement Council’s Annual Conference in
Columbia.The Riley Award was created in 2002 to recognize
the contributions made to public education by the more than
15,000 SIC members who volunteer in every public school
in the state. Located in the College of Education, the SC-SIC
provides training, resources, and technical assistance to parent,
community, staff, and student members of legislatively mandated
SICs in each of South Carolina’s public schools.The Riley Award
is named in honor of former S.C. Governor and U.S. Education
Secretary Richard Riley and his late wife,Tunky, and recognizes
their longstanding commitment to quality public education.
CTE OFFERS GRANTS FOR TABLET PCs:
The Center for Teaching Excellence (CTE), in partnership with
Teaching and Technology Services (TTS), will offer grants to all
full-time faculty to submit proposals for projects that investigate
specific strategies for using Tablet PCs in teaching. Selected
applicants will receive use of a Gateway Tablet PC beginning
summer 2008 through spring 2009.The aim of this project is
to encourage creative consideration of how to use this specific
technology to improve teaching and learning.To apply to
participate in the program beginning summer 2008, submit an
application and proposal to the CTE by April 16. Applications
are available at www.sc.edu/cte. For more information, CTE staff
at 7-8322 or cte@sc.edu.
LEAN STUDY LOOKING FOR PARTICIPANTS:
The Department of Exercise Science is looking for men and
women who want to lose weight through a health promotion study.The study will promote long-term lifestyle changes
through physical activity and nutritional education. Participants
should be:
• 18–65 years old
• overweight
• have access to a computer and the Internet
• currently not in an exercise program
• currently not in a formal weight loss program.
Participation in the study is free. A commitment of nine months
is needed. For more information, call 7-2749.
JUDGES NEEDED FOR DISCOVERY DAY:
The Office of Undergraduate Research is looking for judges for
Discovery Day to be held April 25 in the Russell House. For
the morning oral presentations from 9:15 to 11:30, judges are
needed for music/fine arts, anthropology, political science,
psychology, history, biology, medicine, and engineering. For
the afternoon poster session from noon to 3 p.m., judges are
needed for anthropology, biological sciences (general), biomedical, earth and marine science, engineering, chemistry, physics,
neuroscience, social and behavioral psychology, law, business,
and political science.To volunteer to be a judge, send an e-mail
to jmorris@sc.edu and include name, times available (morning,
afternoon, or both), area of expertise, or categories of interest.
CTE OFFERS GRANTS FOR CLASSROOM
RESPONSE SYSTEMS: The Center for Teaching Excellence (CTE) will offer grants to all full-time faculty to investigate
the use of classroom response systems in their teaching. Faculty
members receiving the grants will be loaned a set of iClicker
classroom response systems for the summer semesters. A
classroom response system allows an instructor to obtain instant feedback from students using remote control devices and
a portable receiver.The systems can be used to ask questions
during class and receive immediate feedback from students.To
apply, go to www.sc.edu/cte.The deadline is April 17. For more
information, contact the CTE at 7-8322 or cte@sc.edu.
AE&C TO HOLD INFORMATIONAL LUNCHEON:
The Office of Academic Enrichment & Conferences (AE&C)
will sponsor an informational luncheon April 17 at Preston’s in
the Russell House. AE&C supports the University’s mission of
outreach and engagement by providing noncredit opportunities,
conference and event services, and youth academic programs.To
register, go to http://ced.sc.edu or call 7-9444.
INDEPENDENT STUDY FORM UPDATED:
The registrar’s office has updated the independent study form
for undergraduates.The revised form includes a check box for
identifying independent studies involving undergraduate research and scholarship.The form is available at registrar.sc.edu/
html/forms/forms.stm under “Undergraduate Independent Study
Contract (AS-6U)” or at registrar.sc.edu/pdf/AS-6up.pdf.
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April 10, 2008
Scheidt named Outstanding Woman of the Year
Tara Scheidt, a junior from China Grove, N.C., majoring in
international business and economics, has been named the
University’s Outstanding Woman of the Year for
2008.
University officials honored Scheidt and four
finalists. The award is given annually to an undergraduate who demonstrates exemplary academic
achievement, service, and leadership and who is
involved in campus and community activities.
Scheidt, a student in the Honors College, holds a
Cooper Scholarship, one of the highest undergraduate scholarships awarded by the University. To be
awarded a Cooper Scholarship, a freshman student
Scheidt
must have a minimum 1350 SAT. Cooper Scholars
receive $4,000 annually for four years of study.
A student in the Moore School of Business, Scheidt is the
president of the Global Business Council, a student research
group of the Palmetto Institute, an economic research firm
aimed at increasing South Carolina inhabitants’ per-capita
income. She plans to work in international finance after she
graduates in May 2009.
Scheidt is a member of the USAV women’s club
volleyball team at the University, Fellowship of
Christian Athletes, and Alpha Lambda Delta honor
society, which twice selected Scheidt as one of 50
undergraduate emerging leaders nationally.
This year’s finalists were Devon Berry, a senior
Honors College student from Charlotte majoring
in mechanical engineering; Angela Bingham, a
sophomore McNair Scholar from Forest City, N.C.,
majoring in pharmacy; Amanda Kay Seals, a senior
McNair Scholar and Rotary Scholar from Clinton,
Tenn., whose interdisciplinary major includes
studying poverty and development; and Melisa Selin Tanverdi,
a junior Honors College student from Columbia majoring in
biology.
Lancaster awarded grant for Catawba Indian pottery programs
The Duke Energy Foundation has awarded $5,000 to USC
Lancaster’s Native American Studies Program to help the
campus further develop its Catawba Indian pottery collection.
Funds will be used to acquire pottery, expand exhibit areas,
and create programs highlighting the cultural and artistic
traditions of the Catawba people.
The Catawba pottery tradition stretches back hundreds,
if not thousands, of years. Early European explorers in the
Carolinas encountered Native Catawbas, or Iswas, making pottery from clay gathered from the river that today bears their
people’s name. Today’s potters have preserved this art, the
oldest continuous ceramics tradition east of the Mississippi,
making pottery as their ancestors have done for generations.
USC Lancaster’s Native American Studies Program offers
courses, campus programs, workshops, and exhibits highlighting the history and culture of the Catawba Indians and other
Native American communities in South Carolina.
“We are so grateful to Rick Jiran and the Duke Energy
Saxophone Conference
convenes April 16–19
The North American Saxophone Alliance’s Biennial Conference will be April 16–19 at Carolina.
Many of the events are restricted to registered participants,
but concerts by the USC Symphonic Orchestra on April 16,
USC Symphonic Bands on April 17, and the Walt Weiskopf
Quartet on April 19 will be open to the public. All public offerings will be held at 7:30 p.m. at
the Koger Center.
The conference will draw
approximately 400 participants
from across the United States
and from Canada, Panama, and
France. The School of Music’s
saxophone department, under
the direction of Clifford Leaman, professor of saxophone,
will sponsor the events.
“The North American
Saxophone Alliance’s Biennial
Walt Weiskopf
Conference is the largest gathering of professional and amateur saxophonists on the continent
at this time,” Leaman said. “The 2008 conference will be the
largest in the history of the organization, with over 100 hours
of performances, competitions, lectures, and master classes.
We are thrilled to have an event of such magnitude at the
School of Music.”
The conference will include workshops, masterclasses,
performances, and competitions for both students and professionals. The masterclasses will be taught by American saxophonists Frederick Hemke, Debra Richtmeyer, Tim Roberts,
and Steven Mauk. French saxophonist Jean Michel Goury also
will be a featured guest.
Tickets for the Weiskopf Quartet and the USC Symphony
Orchestra are available at the Coliseum box office. Weiskopf
tickets are $20 for adults and $5 for students. Symphony
tickets are $25 for the general public; $20 for seniors and
University faculty and staff; and $8 for students. To charge
tickets, call 803-251-2222.
For more information, go to www.music.sc.edu/fs/leaman/
NASAHome.html, or call Leaman at 576-5893.
Foundation for their continued support of our program,” said
Native American Studies Director Stephen Criswell. “Duke
Energy’s donation in early 2006 provided us with the resources we needed to begin creating our program. Subsequent
grants have helped us build a Catawba pottery collection and
to develop our successful campus events.”
Events have included two Native American Studies Week
celebrations and the Day of the Catawba Festival.
Criswell and his colleagues will sponsor a third Native
American Studies Week April 21–25 (see article below), and
the Catawba Cultural Center will hold its 2008 Day of the
Catawba Festival on the Lancaster campus in mid-November.
In fall 2008, portions of the USC Lancaster Catawba pottery collection will be exhibited as part of a campus exhibit
highlighting the work of the late Georgia Harris, a Catawba
potter and National Heritage Fellow. The exhibition is sponsored in part through a grant from the National Endowment
for the Arts.
Native American Studies Week
to be held at USC Lancaster
USC Lancaster will sponsor events for Native American
Studies Week April 21–25. All events are free and open
to the public and will take place on the Lancaster campus
or at Chastain Studios, 107 S. Main St., Lancaster. The
schedule is:
■ April 21
• Lecture, “The Etowah Site,” Adam King, S.C. Institute
of Archaeology, 11 a.m., Medford, Room 212
• Catawba Pottery and Storytelling, presented by Keith
Brown, Catawba potter, 4 p.m., Medford, Room 212
• Film, Smoke Signals, 5:30 p.m., Medford, Room 217
■ April 22
• Lecture, “Native American Literature,” Jim Charles,
faculty member in English Education at USC Upstate,
1 p.m., Bradley, Room 113
• Exhibit and Reception, “Lewis and Clark Expedition,”
6:30 p.m., Medford Library
■ April 23
• Lecture, “Southeastern Native Americans and Jim
Crow,” Theda Perdue, UNC Chapel Hill, 2:30 p.m.,
Hubbard, Room 220
■ April 24
• Lecture, “Colonial Indian Slavery in the Carolinas,”
Brooke Harris, Culture and Heritage Museums in York
County, 1 p.m., Bradley, Room 113
■ April 25
• Lecture, “Catawba Valley Archaeology,” David Moore,
Warren-Wilson College, 11 a.m., Chastain Studios
• Catawba Pottery and Storytelling, presented by Beckee
Garris, Catawba Cultural Center, 1 p.m., Chastain Studios
• USC Lancaster Student Research Presentations and Art
Exhibit, 2 p.m., Chastain Studios.
For more information call 803-313-7108, e-mail
criswese@gwm.sc.edu, or go to http://usclancaster.
sc.edu.
Psychology department among Top 10 in research grants
The University’s Department of Psychology is ranked for the first time among the top 10 of 650 psychology departments nationally
in federal research expenditures.
In fiscal year 2006, the psychology department accounted for more than $9.4 million in research grant expenditures, moving
ahead of psychology departments at UCLA, the University of Texas, and Vanderbilt University. The figures are based on a standardized database reported by the National Science Foundation.
As recently as fiscal year 2003, the psychology department was ranked No. 64 in research expenditures. The improvement in
grant funding has been attributed to successful grant proposals by many psychology faculty and the effects of progressive departmental policies and leadership.
Vietnam War Memorial Wall to be on exhibit at Upstate
Student documentary
to be screened April 25
Media arts professor Susan Hogue and her undergraduate
students are putting the finishing touches on Why We Smoke,
a documentary produced by an all-student crew.
The film’s inaugural screening will be at 5 p.m. April 25 in
McMaster College, Room 239.
Why We Smoke is a 30-minute film that features interviews with people who have an interest in smoking, including
experts in the University’s Department of Psychology who
discuss the mechanisms of smoking addiction; media experts;
and smokers located both on and off campus who reveal their
reasons for continued smoking.
“The film crew was interested in the reasons smokers
continue a dangerous habit, which is well documented in
scientific findings,” Hogue said. “It features historic footage
and advertising revealing just how long we have grappled with
this national addiction, which kills more than 3,000 people
per day in smoking-related illnesses.”
One of Hogue’s students, senior biology major E.J. Idolor,
found getting smokers to talk on camera was challenging.
“Although a lot of people smoke, they don’t want to be on
camera smoking,” said Idolor, whose minor is media arts. “We
each chose a smoker to interview, and I asked a lot of people,
but they didn’t want to be on camera. Finally, a friend of
mine reluctantly agreed. She says in the documentary that at
first she didn’t want to do it—she didn’t want people to think
that she was a bad person or that she was ugly because she
smoked. I assured her that’s not what we were doing. We just
wanted to explore why people smoke. My friend suffers from
depression, and she says she smokes because it gets her mind
off the stressful things going on in her life.”
Why We Smoke is the third film made by Hogue and her
undergraduate student film crews. The first, Promises Made,
was shown at 20 film festivals in the United States and Canada
and on an international Web site. The second film, Rx, was
recently accepted into the ReelHeART International Film
Festival in Toronto in June.
Hogue’s undergraduates have experienced the full range of
documentary film making to include filming, editing, scoring
and sound engineering, scripting, marketing, and Web design.
Their latest film is funded by the S.C. Tobacco Collaborative and the Department of Art and is sponsored by Healthy
Carolina and The Free Times.
Register now for Master
Scholars Adventure Series
The Summer 2008 Carolina Master Scholars Adventure
Series for grades 6 through 12 begins in June. Early-bird
registration has begun and will continue through April
18. The series schedule is:
■ June 8–13 Adventures in Medicine (grades 9–12)
■ June 8–13 Adventures in Pharmacy (grades 9–12)
■ June 8–13 Adventures in Journalism: CJI
(grades 7–12)
■ June 15–20 Adventures in Law (grades 6–9)
■ June 15–20 Adventures in Marine Science (grades 6–9)
■ June 22–27 Adventures in Visual Arts Computing
(grades 6–9)
■ June 22–27 Adventures in Math (grades 6–9)
■ July 6–11 Adventures in Robotics/Vex (grades 6–9)
■ July 6–11 Adventures in Writing (grades 6–9)
■ July 13–18 Adventures in Bionanotechnology
(grades 9–12)
■ July 13–18 Adventures in Exercise Science
(grades 9–12)
■ July 20–25 Adventures in Computer Gaming (grades
8–12)
■ July 20–25 Adventures in Advancement (grades 8–12)
■ July 20–25 Adventures in Culinary Arts (grades 8–12)
■ July 27–Aug. 1 Adventures in China/Special
(grades 8–12).
Acceptance is selective and based on academic criteria. Applications are available at saeu.sc.edu/adventures.
The Office of Academic Enrichment and Conferences
in partnership with The State newspaper and the Office
of Research and Health Sciences at Carolina is offering
a limited number of scholarships for students (6th–12th
grades) to attend the Carolina Master Scholars Summer
Adventure Series. The deadline for entry is April 11.
Students will be considered for any scholarships for
which they might be eligible based upon the standards
indicated on the application. Each scholarship award
provides a $450 credit to attend one 2008 Adventure
Series course.
For an application or more information, contact
the Office of Academic Enrichment and Conferences at
7-9444 or confs@gwm.sc.edu or go to saeu.sc.edu/adventures.
On April 15, nearly 1,000 motorcycle
riders will gather, dressed in denim and
leather with plenty of American flag adornments, in preparation to proudly escort
the semi-tractor trailer carrying The Wall
That Heals, a half-scale replica of the black
granite Vietnam Veterans Memorial on
the National Mall in Washington, D.C. The
wall will be on exhibit April 17–20 at USC
Upstate.
As many as 10 states will be represented among the riders when they assemble
in the parking lot of Ingles at Landrum
Exit I at 11:30 p.m. Before the arrival of the
73-foot truck carrying The Wall That Heals
at 12:30 p.m., the riders will recall a few
war stories.
At 1:30 p.m., the convoy will begin its
journey down S.C. Highway 14 to U.S.
Highway 176 to East Campus Boulevard
with an anticipated arrival time on the
A half-scale replica of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial will be at USC Upstate April 17–20.
USC Upstate campus at 2:30 p.m.
“As USC Upstate celebrates the 40th anniversary of its
of death of the veteran, on the wall will be available from 9
founding this year, we are reminded of what our country was
a.m. to 6 p.m. each day.
going through in 1967, around the time America was fully
Providing a comprehensive educational aspect for the visiinvolved in the Vietnam War,” said Frieda Davison, chair of
tor, the mobile traveling museum, housed in the semi-trailer,
the USC Upstate 40th Anniversary Celebration Committee
contains war memorabilia display cases, maps of Vietnam, and
and dean of the USC Upstate Library.
a history of the war. A 20-foot by 20-foot white canvas tent
She added that the visit by The Wall That Heals is timely
attached to the trailer is an information center where visitors
and appropriate “because it is important for our students, faccan find names, either in a directory or by asking one of the
ulty, alumni, and the community to know the many obstacles
volunteers. A variety of other useful materials, such as a book
our first students faced.”
about MIAs, also is available to assist visitors in their search.
The 40th Anniversary Celebration Committee also felt that
In addition, the Military History Club of the Carolinas
many people in the Upstate region might not have had the op(MHCC) will provide vintage military vehicles with personnel
portunity to visit the black granite Vietnam Veterans Memoin period uniforms for display. The public can visit the Wall 24
rial in Washington, D.C.
hours a day during its four-day exhibit. The exhibit is free and
While on exhibit at USC Upstate, the Wall will be located
open to the public.
behind the Administration Building on the Main Quad.
For information, go to www.uscupstate.edu/40 or contact
Assistance in locating names, which are arranged by the date
Frieda Davison at 854-503-5610 or fdavison@uscupstate.edu.
Colloquiums to take place April 16 and 17
A senior investigator with the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) and
a biostatistics professor from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health will speak on the
Columbia campus April 16 and 17. Both events are free and open to the public.
Germaine Buck Louis will speak at a Research Consortium on Children and Families colloquium at
3 p.m. April 16 in the Coker Life Sciences Building, Room 005. Her husband, Thomas A. Louis, will speak
in the statistics department at 2 p.m. April 17 in Davis College, Room 309.
Germaine Louis is the chief and senior investigator of the Epidemiology Branch and acting director of
the Division of Epidemiology, Statistics, and Prevention Research, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), National Institutes of Health. Before joining the
Germaine Louis
NICHD in 2000, she was a professor for 13 years in the Department of Social and Preventive Medicine at
the University at Buffalo, State of New York. She has master’s and doctoral degrees in epidemiology from
the university.
At the April 16 colloquium, she will talk about research happenings and opportunities in epidemiology,
biostatistics, and health behavioral research at the NICHD. Her visit is sponsored by the USC Research
Consortium on Children and Families and the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics in the Arnold
School of Public Health.
Her research interests focus on the interplay between environmental exposures, behavior, and human
reproduction and development. She has conducted several studies focusing on environmental contaminants and sensitive reproductive and developmental outcomes. She also engages in methodological
research aimed at the assessment of mixtures and health outcomes, parental interactions of exposure,
modeling dependent pregnancy outcomes, and use of technologies for field-based research.
Thomas Louis
Thomas Louis is professor of biostatistics at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
Earlier in his career, he held faculty positions at Boston University, the Harvard School of Public Health, and the University of
Minnesota School of Public Health. He also was a senior statistical scientist with the Rand Corp.
At the April 17 colloquium, he will talk about the performance of optimal Bayesian ranking methods. His research includes risk
assessment, environmental and public policy, Bayesian methods, and the analysis of longitudinal data in both experimental and
observational studies. He has published more than 200 chapters, books, and articles. He earned a Ph.D. in mathematical statistics
from Columbia University.
■ USC Symphony
Season finale includes guest saxophone soloists
composition at the Curtis Institute of
The USC Symphony’s season
Music in Philadelphia.
finale will showcase the talents of two
Lulloff is a distinguished proaward-winning saxophone soloists.
fessor of saxophone and chair of
The performances of Timothy
What: USC Symphony season finale
woodwinds at the Michigan State
McAllister and Joseph Lulloff will kick
concert
University College of Music. He also
off the North American Saxophone
When: 7:30 p.m. April 16
is a member of the summer artist
Alliance (NASA) Biennial Conference,
Where: Koger Center
faculty at the Brevard Music Center
being held at the University
Admission: Tickets are $25 general public;
in Brevard, N.C.; is past president of
April 16–19. (See story page 2.)
$20 faculty, staff, and senior citizens; $8
NASA; and is a Yamaha Performing
The concert begins at 7:30 p.m.
students. For tickets, call the charge line at
Artist. He will perform Sunscapes,
April 16 in the Koger Center. Under
251-2222, go online to capitoltickets.com,
by composer, pianist, conductor,
the direction of Donald Portnoy, the
or go to the Carolina Coliseum box office.
and lecturer Don Freund. Freund is
symphony will accompany the soloists
department chair and professor of
and also perform Brahms’ Academic
composition at the Indiana UniverFestival Overture and Ravel’s Bolero.
sity School of Music.
McAllister is a professor of saxophone at the University
For more about the NASA conference, including a full
of Arizona School of Music, the soprano chair of the PRISM
schedule of performances, go to www.music.sc.edu/fs/leaQuartet, and co-founder of the QUORUM Chamber Arts Colman/NASAHome.html.
lective. He will perform Soprano Sax Concerto, by Brooklyn-born composer Jennifer Higdon. Higdon teaches music
■ If you go
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April & May
Calendar
■ Lectures
■ Lectures
April 10 Archaeology and anthropology,
“The Materiality of Identity at an 18th-century French
Colonial Outpost in the North American Interior,” Michael
Nassaney, professor of anthropology, University of Massachusetts. 3:30 p.m., Hamilton Building, Room 319. Part
of the Colonial Frontiers conference (see April 11 and 12
event below).
April 18 Chemistry and biochemistry,
“Revolutionary Developments from Atomic
to Extended Structural Imaging,” Thomas D.
Tullius, Boston University, 4 p.m., Jones Physical Science Center, Room 006. Refreshments
at 3:45 p.m.
April 10 Physics and astronomy, Igor Zliznyak,
Brookhaven National Laboratory, 3:30 p.m., Jones Physical
Science Center, Room 209.
April 10 Chemical engineering, Educational Lecture
Seminar, “Computing in the Chemical Engineering Curriculum,” Bruce Fynlayson, University of Washington, 3:30 p.m.,
Faculty Lounge, Swearingen Engineering Center.
April 10 Social work, I. DeQuincey Newman Lecture on
Peace and Justice, Cornel Pewewardy, lecturer, educator,
musician, and member of the Comanche Nation of Oklahoma. Presented by the I. DeQuincey Newman Institute for
Peace and Social Justice. 6–8 p.m., School of Law
Auditorium.
April 11 Chemistry and biochemistry, Kenneth
Poeppelmeier, professor of chemistry, Northwestern
University, 4 p.m., Jones Physical Science Center, Room 006.
Refreshments at 3:45 p.m.
April 11 and 12 Archaeology and anthropology,
conference, “Social Archaeology of Southeastern Colonial
Frontiers,” 15 invited scholars will present papers that
examine the intersection of Native American, Euro-American, and African-American cultures in the Southeast during
Colonial times. Presenters will emphasize how archaeology
can address the complex development of frontiers in ways
that are not always accessible through the written record.
Welcome and introductory comments, 8:30 a.m., Gambrell
Hall, Room 429. Free and open to the public.
April 15 Professional Development, “GRANT: National Institutes of Health Policies and Procedures Overview,” provides an
overview of the NIH proposal preparation and award administration. Topics include policies, procedures, and regulations specific
to NIH. Taught by the Arnold School of Public Health’s Dan
Christmus, senior program sponsored administrator, and Kristi
Harmon, coordinator for grant development and technical assistance. 1:30–4:30 p.m., 1600 Hampton St., Room 101. Free. For
more information, call 7-6578 or go to hr.sc.edu/profdevp.html.
April 15 Hospitality, Retail, and
Sport Management, The Dean’s
Executive Lecture, “The Opportunities from Sustainable Tourism,” with
guest lecturer Peter Beattie, senior
scholar in residence at Carolina
and former premier of Queensland,
Australia. Lecture will focus on
the emerging role of eco-tourism
and clean green tourism as the
long-term tourism growth market.
Opening remarks by Chad Prosser,
director of the S.C. Department of
Parks, Recreation, and Tourism.
3 p.m., School of Law Auditorium.
Beattie
April 16 Research Consortium
on Children and Families,
colloquium, “Research Happenings
and Opportunities in Epidemiology,
Biostatistics, and Health Behavioral
Research, Eunice Kennedy Shriver
National Institute of Child Health
Prosser
and Human Development,” Germaine
M. Buck Louis, senior investigator and chief, Epidemiology
Branch, Division of Epidemiology, Statistics, and Prevention
Research, National Institute of Child Health and Human
Development. 3–4:30 p.m., Coker Life Sciences, Room 005.
Presented by USC Research Consortium on Children and
Families and the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics of the Arnold School of Public Health. (See story page 3.)
April 17 Mathematics, “Discrete and Continuous Similarity Measures and Shape Analysis,” Paul G. Mezey, editor of
the Journal of Mathematical Chemistry, and Canada Research
Chair in Scientific Modeling and Simulation, Department of
Chemistry and Department of Physics and Physical Oceanography, Memorial University of Newfoundland. 3:30 p.m.,
LeConte College, Room 412. Sponsored by the Department of Mathematics’ Industrial Mathematics Institute.
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April 19 Archaeology and anthropology,
34th-annual Conference on S.C. Archaeology,
keynote speakers will be R.P. Stephen Davis
and Brett Riggs, both are faculty members at
UNC Chapel Hill who conduct archaeological
research on historic Catawba towns in Lancaster County. Later that day, the Archaeological Society of
South Carolina will celebrate its 40th anniversary, beginning
with three sessions of presentations: a session on Historic
Native American Archaeology tied to the 2008 Archaeology Month theme, “S.C. Native Americans from the 16th
Century to the Present”; a session honoring the career of
Tommy Charles, who has led the archaeology community
in South Carolina in public outreach for decades; and a
general session. An awards ceremony and business meeting
will follow. 8:30 a.m. registration, 9 a.m. conference begins,
2:30 p.m. keynote address, 3:30 p.m. awards, 4 p.m. business
meeting. Gambrell Hall, Room 153. Conference registration
is $10 faculty, staff, and public; $5 students and seniors. After
the conference, participants are invited to a Lowcountry
boil and oyster roast, 6–10 p.m., Saluda Shoals Park, Lexington County. Cost is $20. For more information or to attend
the Lowcountry boil, contact Nena Rice at nrice.sc.edu or
7-8170.
April 23 Southern Studies, reading, book signing, and
reception with historical novelist John Jakes. First in a series
of six public appearances this spring by
contemporary Southern
novelists. Sponsored
by the USC Institute
for Southern Studies
and the Friends of the
Richland County Public
Library. 6 p.m., Richland
County Public Library,
downtown Columbia.
Free and open to the
public.
April 24 Physics and
Author John Jakes was a research fellow
astronomy, “Softin the history department at Carolina
from 1989 to 1996.
Pulse Refocusing and
Decoherence for SolidState Quantum Computation,” Leonid P. Pryadko, University
of California-Riverside, 3:30 p.m., Jones Physical Science
Center, Room 409.
April 25 Chemistry and biochemistry, “Nanostructural Design of Photocatalysts and Photoelectrochemical
Cells,” Thomas Mallouk, DuPont Professor of Materials
Chemistry and Physics, Pennsylvania State University,
3:30 p.m., Jones Physical Science Center, Room 006.
Refreshments at 3:45 p.m.
April 25 Human Resources, Administrative Professionals
Conference, for administrative professionals and administrative support staff. Instructors will be Iwana Ridgill, who
will provide training in customer service, professionalism,
and self-motivation; and Merry Taylor, a private consultant.
8:45 a.m.–1:30 p.m., West Quad Learning Center. Cost is
$45, which includes continental breakfast, lunch, and breaks.
For more information, call Professional Development at
7-6578 or go to hr.sc.edu/conference.html.
Largely unknown, Colbie Caillat became a household name after she put
her song Bubbly on MySpace.
■ Concerts
April 10 School of Music: Chamber Singers, Andrew
Pittman, conductor. 5:30 p.m., Good Shepherd Episcopal
Church, 1512 Blanding St., downtown Columbia.
April 10 School of Music: University Band, George
Brozak, conductor. Featured selections include Third Suite,
by Robert Jager; Chorale and Shaker Dance, by John Zdechlik;
An Irish Rhapsody, by Clare Grundman; and As Summer
Was Just Beginning, by Larry Daehn. 7:30 p.m., First Baptist Church of Columbia, 1306 Hampton St., downtown
Columbia.
April 11 School of Music: USC Concert Choir Previews Prelude to Olympics China Concert, featuring Wind
on the Island and Kalevala Fragments, the first- and secondprize winners from the University’s 2007 international
choral composition contest. Jonathan Santore’s Kalevala
Fragments is a setting of an English translation of the prologue of the Finnish national epic. Santore is professor of
music theory and composition at Plymouth State University
in New Hampshire. Wind on the Island, by Mike D’Ambrosio,
is a setting of a poem by the Nobel Prize–winning Chilean
poet Pablo Neruda. D’Ambrosio is a faculty member at
Jacksonville State University in Alabama. Also included on
the program will be the Suite de Lorca, by the Finnish composer Einojuhane Rautavaara, and two Chinese folksongs.
April 12 School of Music: Carolina Alive, Larry Wyatt,
conductor. 7:30 p.m., School of Music, Recital Hall.
April 14 Carolina Productions: Burkina Electric, West
African Band, noon, Russell House Patio.
April 14 Carolina Productions: Colbie Caillat, 8 p.m.,
Koger Center.
April 15 Carolina Productions: Acoustic Café, 9:30 p.m.,
Russell House, Starbucks.
April 16 Carolina Productions: Mobile, Canadian rock
band, 6 p.m., Russell House Patio.
April 17 School of Music: USC Symphonic and Concert
Bands, NASA Convention Concert, 7:30 p.m., Koger Center.
April 18 School of Music: University Chorus, Carol
Krueger, conductor. Concert will include the premiere of
a song composed by chorus member Christian Traylor and
based on a poem by chorus member Nathan Gunter written in memory of the Carolina and Clemson students who
were killed in a beach house fire last fall. 7:30 p.m., Union
United Methodist Church, 7582 Woodrow St., Irmo.
April 21 School of Music: USC Concert Choir, Nick
Gosey, conductor. 3:30 p.m., Rutledge Chapel, Horseshoe.
April 24 School of Music: Graduate Vocal Ensemble, Clay
Price, conductor. 5:30 p.m., School of Music, Recital Hall.
■ Theatre/opera/dance
April 26 Library science,
Inaugural Latino Children’s Literature Conference. “Connecting
Cultures and Celebrating Cuentos.” Award-winning Latina artist and
children’s book author Yuyi Morales will
present a storytelling and family event, 7
p.m., April 25, Lexington County Public
Library. For more information, go to
www.libsci.sc.edu/latinoconf/schedule.htm. (See story page 8.)
April 10–12 Dance: Dimensions:The South Carolina
Contemporary Dance Festival, statewide festival dedicated
to contemporary dance, sponsored by Vibrations Dance
Company, Koger Center. Gala performance, 7:30 p.m., April
11. For more information, go to www.sccdancefestival.com.
Morales
April 18–27 Theatre South Carolina: A Cabal of Hypocrites, a semi-biographical play about the French playwright
Moliére, written in 1930 by Russian playwright Mikhail
Bulgakov. Robert Richmond, visiting assistant professor in
the Department of Theatre and Dance, will direct. Drayton
Hall Theater. Show times are 8 p.m. Monday–Saturday and 3
p.m. Sunday. Tickets are $16 for the public; $14 for military,
faculty, and staff; and $10 for students. Tickets are available
at the Longstreet Theatre box office. (See story page 8.)
Amanda Heiney, a senior photography
major, produced a series of vintage car
images, including the one at right for
Ocho Foto: New Work by USCPhotography
Students. The group exhibition features the
work of students in Advanced Photography
II, taught by Kathleen Robbins, assistant
professor of art/photographyThe students
were responsible for securing a local
venue, making all curatorial decisions, and
involving the community in the event.
The exhibit can be seen at City Art Gallery
in the Vista through April 12.
■ Miscellany
April 10–13 Carolina Productions: Movies, One Missed
Call, 6 p.m., and National Treasure 2: Book of Secrets, 9 p.m.,
Russell House Theater. Free with USC ID.
April 11 McCutchen House: “A Night in Tuscany,”
foods from the Tuscany region of Italy, five-course dinner
paired with appropriate wines, prepared and demonstrated
by chefs. One seating at 6 p.m. Reservations required. For
more information, call 7-8225.
April 14 Spring workshop: Fulbright Grant, 4 p.m.,
Harper College, Gressette Room. Presented by the Office
of Fellowships and Scholar Programs.
April 16 Spring workshop: National Science Foundation
Graduate Fellowships, 4 p.m., Harper College, Gressette
Room. Presented by the Office of Fellowships and Scholar
Programs.
April 16 Carolina Productions: Movie, The Kite Runner,
special screening, 8 p.m., Russell House Theater. Free with
USC ID.
April 17 Wellness: Mammography screenings for women,
9 a.m.–4 p.m., Women’s Imaging Center mammography bus,
Greene Street. Sponsored by Faculty and Staff Wellness
Promotion and Lexington Medical Center. For more information or to schedule an appointment, call 7-6518.
April 17–20 Carolina Productions: Movies, The Bucket
List, 6 p.m., and Charlie Wilson’s War, 9 p.m., Russell House
Theater. Free with USC ID.
■ Exhibits
■ Around the campuses
Through April 17 City Art: Ocho Foto, photo exhibit of
new work by Carolina students in the Advanced Photography II course. City Art gallery is located at 1224 Lincoln St.
in the Vista. For more information, call 252-3613 or go to
www.cityartonline.com.
April 18–19 USC Aiken: DuPont Planetarium shows, In
My Backyard, 7 p.m., and Cruising the Constellations, 8 p.m.
Ruth Patrick Science Education Center. For more information, call 56-3769.
Through April 26 McKissick Museum: Grandeur Saved:
Photographs of the Aiken-Rhett House, 16 large-scale, color
photographs of the Aiken-Rhett House in historic Charleston by contemporary photographer Michael Eastman.
Through May 3 McKissick Museum: Spring for Art!, an
invitational exhibit and sale of works by artists on themes
reflecting the South Carolina Midlands. Sponsored by the
McKissick Museum Advisory Council; proceeds benefit the
museum’s collection and exhibition programs.
■ Sports
April 18 Men’s Baseball: Ole Miss, 7 p.m., Sarge Frye Field.
April 19 Men’s Baseball: Ole Miss, 4 p.m., Sarge Frye Field.
April 19 Football: Garnet and Black Spring Game, 1 p.m.
April 20 Men’s Baseball: Ole Miss, noon, Sarge Frye Field.
April 18 Carolina Productions: David Coleman, The
Dating Doctor, 8 p.m., Russell House Ballroom.
April 19 McCutchen House: “Baking 101.” For more
information, call 7-8225.
April 21 Carolina Productions: Amy Anderson, comedienne, 9 p.m., Russell House Theater.
April 22 and 24 Healthy cooking: “Italy in the Spring,”
includes Italian-inspired recipes for risottos, pastas, sauces,
and desserts. Presented by Columbia’s Cooking!, Carolina’s
healthy cooking program. 11 a.m.–1:30 p.m. April 22,
5:30 p.m.–8 p.m. April 24. Cost is $30 per class. To register,
contact Brook Harmon at 734-4432 or brookharmon@
sc.edu.
April 23 Healthy cooking: “Healthy Pizza,” cooking
presentation sponsored by Columbia’s Cooking!, Carolina’s
healthy cooking program. 5:30–7:30 p.m. Cost is $20. To
register, contact Brook Harmon at 734-4432 or brookharmon.sc.edu.
April 25 Undergraduate research: Discovery Day,
annual showcase of undergraduate research in all disciplines
at Carolina. Oral presentations and creative performances
will be held in the morning and the poster session in the afternoon. Russell House. For more information, go to www.
sc.edu/our/discovery.shtml. Free and open to all faculty,
staff, students, and the public.
April 25 Film screening: Why We Smoke, a documentary
created by students of Carolina media arts professor Susan
Hogue, 5 p.m., McMaster College, Room 239. Refreshments
will follow screening. Free and open to the public. (See
story page 3.)
April 23 Men’s Baseball: Wofford, 7 p.m., Sarge Frye Field.
June and July Women’s Soccer Camps: Day Camp,
for girls ages 5–12; JR Elite and Elite Training Camp, for girls
in grades 5–8; and a Premier Level Camp, for girls in grades
9–12. Conducted by Carolina Women’s Soccer Coach
Shelley Smith and her staff. For more information, call the
soccer office at 7-1940. To register, go online at
GamecocksOnline.com.
■ Around the campuses
April 12 USC Salkehatchie: Baseball and Barbecue,
11 a.m., Science Building Atrium, West Campus. For more
information, contact Jane Brewer at JTBrewer@gwm.sc.edu
or 58-1170.
April 14 USC Aiken: University Band Concert, 8 p.m.,
Etherredge Center. For more information, call 56-3305.
April 15 USC Salkehatchie: Lowcountry Community
Players Reader’s Theatre, 12:15 p.m., Marvin Park. East
Campus.
April 21 USC Salkehatchie: Student Government Association Administrative Forum, 12:15 p.m., Education Building,
West Campus.
April 21–25 USC Lancaster: Native American Studies
Week, free and open to the public. For more information,
call 803-313-7108, e-mail criswese@gwm.sc.edu, or go to
usclancaster.sc.edu. (See story page 2.)
April 22 USC Aiken: Workshop, “How to Write a Business Plan,” 8:30 a.m.–12:30 p.m., Penland Administration
Building, Room 106. Presented by the Small Business Development Center at USC Aiken. Cost is $40, and registration is required. For more information or to register, call
56-3646 or e-mail SBDC@usca.edu.
April 23 USC Lancaster: Spring Fling, 11 a.m.–2 p.m.,
Student Center.
April 24 USC Aiken: Concert, O.A.R., island-vibe roots
rock band, 8 p.m., USC Aiken Convocation Center. For
more information, go to www.uscatix.com.
April 25 USC Salkehatchie: USC Salkehatchie Olympics,
East vs. West, 12:15 p.m., The Grove, West Campus.
April 25 USC Upstate: Concert, “How Can I Keep From
Singing?,” USC Upstate University Singers and Chamber
Choir, performance to include a variety of selections including music of the Renaissance, classical pieces, folk songs, and
contemporary works. The concert will be under the direction of David Guthrie, director of the University Singers
and Chamber Choir, and accompanied by Therese Akkerman, staff accompanist. 7:30 p.m. instrumental prelude, 8
p.m. concert. Performing Arts Center Theater. Tickets to the
concert are free; to reserve, call the Performing Arts box
office at 52-5695.
April 29 USC Upstate: Workshop, “Celebrating the
Science of Art and Caring,” will focus on the science and
art of caring with particular emphasis on Jean Watson’s
Transpersonal Caring-Healing Model. The workshop is for
nurses and other health professionals interested in the science of human caring. Sponsored by the Mary Black School
of Nursing at USC Upstate. 8 a.m.–4 p.m., Summit Pointe
Conference Center. Cost to attend is $100. For more information or to register, call Crystal Green at 864-560-6282.
April 16 USC Salkehatchie: Student Government Association Water Works!, 12:15 p.m., Marvin Park, East Campus.
April 17 USC Salkehatchie: Lowcountry Community
Players Reader’s Theatre, 12:15 p.m., Science Building
Atrium, West Campus.
April 17 USC Salkehatchie: Scholarship and Awards
Reception, 6 p.m., Conference Center. West Campus.
April 17–19 and 20 USC Upstate: Musical comedy,
Urinetown, winner of three Tony Awards, featuring music and
lyrics by Mark Hollmann and book and lyrics by Greg Kotis.
8:15 p.m. April 17–19, 3:15 p.m. April 20. USC Upstate, Humanities and Performing Arts Center. For more information,
contact Steve Knight, assistant professor of theatre at USC
Upstate, at sknight@uscupstate.edu. For tickets, call the
USC Upstate box office at 52-5695.
April 18 USC Aiken: Concert, Messiah, Masterworks
Chorale, 8 p.m., St. John’s United Methodist Church, Aiken.
For more information, call 561-3305.
■ List your events
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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
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information is 11 business days prior to the publication
date of issue. The next publication date is April 24.
■ Online calendar
USC Calendar of Events is at http://events.sc.edu.
To add events here, contact Denise Wellman at
denisew@gwm.sc.edu or 7-0169.
If you require special accommodations, please contact the program sponsor.
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Briefs
Two students named Goldwater Scholars
Joseph H. Montoya, left, and Oliver R. Gothe, right, both
Honors College students, have been named 2008 Barry
M. Goldwater Scholars.William W. Kay, center, another
Honors College student, received an honorable mention.
The scholars were selected from a field of 1,035 mathematics, science, and engineering students nationwide.The
one- and two-year scholarships are valued at up to $7,500
per year and are awarded to students intending to pursue
careers in research and/or college-level teaching. Carolina
students have won 34 Goldwater Scholarships since 1990.
Gothe is a junior physics and chemistry major with a minor
in mathematics who immigrated to South Carolina from
Germany when he was 15. He aspires to conduct research
in biomedical applications of nanotechnology and to teach
and train future scientists. Montoya is a junior majoring
in chemical engineering and minoring in mathematics
and music performance. His ongoing research interest is
catalysis. Kay, a senior majoring in mathematics, anticipates
obtaining s Ph.D in mathematics.
Kim Truett
■ Engineering and computing
College to sponsor series of public energy forums
To help citizens gain a better understanding of the United
States’ energy options and the ramifications of its choices,
the College of Engineering and Computing is sponsoring five
public forums across South Carolina, beginning April 30.
Forums on Our Energy Future will focus on nuclear power
(April 30 at USC Aiken), coal (May 14 at Florence-Darlington
Technical College), hydrogen (June 4 on the Columbia campus), renewable energy (June 25 at USC Upstate), and energy
conservation (July 23 at Claflin University).
“Our energy resources in the years ahead will draw from
multiple materials and technologies,” said Michael Amiridis,
dean of the College of Engineering and Computing. “Coal,
nuclear, and hydroelectric will probably be accompanied by
solar, wind, ethanol, hydrogen, biomass, and other forms, and
we need to discuss how these different forms will each have a
role.”
The forums will feature presentations from knowledgeable
representatives for each form of energy, followed by an alternative response from another group. Because this is a presidential election year, representatives from the Democratic
and Republican parties also will offer responses reflecting the
views of their respective parties on the energy form discussed.
“It’s our hope that people who attend these forums will
acquire a better understanding of the relevant science and
technology policies associated with each of these forms of
energy,” said Chris Toumey, a research associate in the College
of Engineering and Computing who has organized the energy
forums.
■ Graduate Student Day presentation winners
Winners in the annual Graduate Student Day presentation contest received $750
for first place, $500 for second, and $250 for third. The winners are:
■ Environmental and Earth Sciences—Clio Andris, first, geography,
Site suitability modeling: Integrating GIS, Raster quantification, and interactive
methods; and Michelle Gierach, second, marine science, Analysis of the
upper ocean response to Hurricane Katrina (2005) using a 1/25¦ nested Gulf of
Mexico HYCOM
■ Health Sciences & Policy—Erin Rivers, first, exercise science, Examining the efficacy and feasibility of an intense mobility intervention in individuals
with chronic stroke: A pilot study; India Rose and Gregory Dominick,
second, health promotion education and behavior, Using a multi-level conceptualization of health literacy to explore older African-American men’s knowledge,
information seeking, and message needs about prostate cancer prevention;
Mark Cairns and Jamie McClellan, third, exercise science, Glucose and
lipid metabolism in a mouse model of cancer cachexia; and Sarah Huggins and Jelanie Kerr, first runner-up, health promotion education and
behavior, Neighborhood Stress and its Relationship to Risk Behaviors among
Adolescents in Columbia, SC
■ Molecular, Biomedical, and Materials Research—Sandhya Sanduja, first, biological sciences, The mRNA decay factor Tristetraprolin (TTP)
induces cellular senescence by targeting E6-AP ubiquitin ligase; Muhammad
Qazi, second, electrical engineering, Two dimensional signatures for molecular
identification; and Benjamin Bey, third, environmental health science, An
efficient method for extracting high molecular DNA from microbial mats
■ Social Science—Matthew Cazessus and Naomi Kolberg, first,
sociology, Wrenches in the rust belt: Spatio-temporal clustering of government
strikes, 1977–1981; Colin Townsend, second, anthropology, Drumming for
the Egungun: (Re)inventing identity at Oyotunji village; and Nicoleta Hodis,
third, instructional and teacher education, Societas Romana: A community of
learners in a Latin I class
■ Biological, Biochemical, and Biomedical Research—Brian Furmanski, first, chemistry and biochemistry, Differential uptake and selective
permeability of fsarochromanone (FC101), a novel membrane permeable
anticancer naturally fluorescent compound in tumor and normal cells; John
Propst, second, biomedical sciences, Focused in vivogenetic analysis of
implanted engineered myofascial constructs; and Joseph Ellsworth, third,
chemistry and biochemistry, Coordination polymers: A structural and optical
investigation via systematic modification of organic ligands
■ Computer Science, Physics, and Statistics—Michael Paolone,
first, physics and astronomy, A search for modified proton structure in dense
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■ Earth & Eenvironmental Studies—Ipsita Gupta, first, geological sciences, How old are these waters really: Numerical studies of brine migration in
the Alberta Basin, Canada; Adena Leibman and Mark Roberts, second,
marine science, Temporal variation in nesting beach contribution to a South
Carolina subadult loggerhead sea turtle (Caretta caretta) feeding assemblage;
and Sherif Abd El-Gawad, third, civil and environmental engineering,
Numerical simulation of large scale gravity flows
■ Health & Physiology—Julie Conder, first, experimental psychology,
Regional brain activation during spatial language processing: A fMRI study;
G. William Lyerly, second, exercise science, Effects of combined aerobic
and resistance exercise training on lean tissue mass in HIV-infected men; and
Brandy Duncan, third, exercise science, The effect of intensive mobility
training booster session in an individual with chronic spinal cord injury
■ Communication, Journalism, and Linguistics—Daphney Barr
and Alexis Koskan, first, journalism and mass communications, Mobilizing
for disaster: An examination of disaster/emergency preparedness information
on television news Web sites; and Carlos Gelormini Lezama, second,
linguistics. Is there a repeated name penalty in Spanish?
■ Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences—Srideep Ganguly,
first, economics, Financial linkages between the United States and Latin
America: Evidence from Daily Data; Douglas Weiss, second, criminology
and criminal justice, The impact of time served in prison on criminal recidivism;
and Billy Terry, third, geography, Keeping the cruise industry afloat: The
case of Filipino seafarers
■ Electrical & Chemical Engineering—Kevin Beard, first, chemical
engineering, Synthesis and structural analysis of improved fuel cell catalysts
prepared by electroless deposition methods; and Casey Hetrick, second,
chemical engineering, Catalytic oxidation of m-dichlorobenzene over V2O5/
TiO2 catalysts in the presence of steam
■ Humanities—Travis Rieder, first, philosophy, Ethical theory outside the
ivory tower: An exercise in informing intuitions; and Catharina Wuetig,
second, comparative literature, Too real to be read: Transnational identity
claims in Maxim Biller’s banned novel Esra.
For a list of departmental winners, go to www.gradschool.sc.edu/
GSD/2008.AwardsCeremonyProgram.pdf.
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university presidencies has dropped somewhat,” Funk said.
“We’re now seeing about 40 to 60 active candidates—people
who are qualified and interested—in a typical search.”
Once the full list of candidates is developed for Carolina’s
presidency, each member of the University’s search committee will be asked to list his or her top six to eight candidates.
Search committee members will have access to a proprietary
database with resumes and other information about each
candidate.
“Usually, four or five candidates are on everyone’s list, and
two to four are on a majority of the lists,” Funk said. “Other
candidates might be advocated by one or two [search committee members].”
The 10 to 15 candidates on that shorter list will be asked for
references, which will be vetted by committee members. The
group will be further narrowed to about eight for off-campus
face-to-face interviews.
“Something very visceral happens at this point,” Funk said.
“You’ve probably met [the candidates] only through resumes
up to that point.”
A series of one-and-a-half hour interviews with each
candidate will likely be held over a two-day period. Based on
the results of those interviews, the field of candidates will be
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helium nuclei; Alicia Ruvinsky, second, computer science and engineering,
Understanding mixed societies: Playing humans against agents; and Bin Ni,
third, computer science and engineering, Coding-aware routing in wireless mesh
networks
PRAYER BREAKFAST CELEBRATES DIVERSE
FAITHS: The School of Music Flute Quartet, the Concert
Choir directed by Larry Wyatt, and a student ensemble known
as the Free Spirit Drum Circle will provide the music for the
University’s annual prayer breakfast April 15.The breakfast will
begin at 7:30 a.m. in the Russell House Ballroom.The theme
will be A Celebration of Faiths. Participants will include faculty,
staff, undergraduate students, a master’s degree candidate, and a
doctoral candidate from the following faiths: Protestant, Greek
Orthodox, Baha’i, Muslim, Jewish, Hindu, and Sikh.The program
will feature glimpses into the daily expressions of these different
faith traditions through explanation, prayer, and music.Tickets
are $3 for students and $6 for faculty and staff and are available
at the Russell House Information Desk. Carolina Cards can be
used to buy tickets, and University departments can buy tickets
with an IIT by calling 7-8182.
MOORE SCHOOL EARNS TOP RANKING FOR 19TH
YEAR: The International Master of Business Administration
(IMBA) program at the Moore School of Business is the nation’s
top-ranked public university MBA program for international
business and No. 2 among all institutions in that specialty,
according to U.S.News & World Report.The program has been
ranked either No. 1 or No. 2 for 19 consecutive years. Rounding
out the top 10 is the University of Pennsylvania (Wharton) in
third place, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor (Ross) in fourth,
Duke University (Fuqua) in fifth, Columbia University in sixth,
Harvard University and New York University tied for seventh,
the University of Southern California (Marshall) in ninth, and
the University of California at Berkeley (Haas) in the 10th
spot.Thunderbird School of Global Management (Garvin) of
Arizona led the rankings.The ranking appears in the 2009 issue
of U.S.News & World Report’s America’s Best Graduate Schools,
available on newsstands.
BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING SERIES BEGINS:
The biomedical engineering program will begin its seminar
series at 2 p.m. April 25 in the Swearingen Engineering Building
Faculty Lounge. Naren Vyavahare, the Hunter Endowed Chair
and a professor in the Clemson University Department of
Bioengineering, will present “Targeted Therapies for Pathology
and Regeneration of Elastic Tissues.” Vyavahare also is director
of the Cardiovascular Implant Research Laboratory at Clemson.
His research has focused on cardiovascular pathology and
implants for 15 years, and he has published more than 100
scientific articles in this area.The seminar is free and open to
the public.
STUDENT NURSES RAISING FUNDS IN
MEMORY OF STUDENT: The Student Nursing Association is raising money to establish a College of Nursing Fund in
memory of Rebecca Chappell, a freshman nursing student who
died Jan. 22 after a 15-month battle with leukemia.The association is selling “Remember Rebecca” wristbands for $2 with all
of the proceeds earmarked for the Rebecca Chappell memory
fund.Wristbands are available in the Student Nursing Association office (Room 218 in the College of Nursing) and Gloria
Fowler’s office (Room 214). Contact Lauren Monroe at 803447-7860 or monroel@mailbox.sc.edu for more information.
STUDENTS DANCE THEIR WAY TO NEW
YORK: Only three years since it began its dance degree program, the University has been chosen to have students perform
at the National College Dance Festival to be held June 4–6 in
New York City. University dance students competed for the
opportunity at the American College Dance Festival Southeast
Regional Conference. Under the direction of dance instructor
Stacey Calvert, the students performed the ballet Twist, choreographed by Alan Hineline. Only three college dance programs
were invited to perform at the national festival. USC Dance
recently performed Twist at its “Evening of Dance Masterpieces”
concert. For more information about the National College
Dance Festival, go to www.acdfa.org.
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reduced to a short list of three to five finalists, Funk said. The
finalists will be asked to sign releases that allow the search
committee to conduct credit and other background checks as
well as contact non-directed references.
S.C. Freedom of Information law requires public universities in the state to disclose the names of finalists for all
positions.
“This can be difficult for sitting presidents—a little less
so for provosts—who are finalists,” Funk said. “The reality
of having to go public [as a candidate] can cause someone to
withdraw.”
Mack Whittle, a search committee member and University trustee, asked Funk about the board’s strategic plan for
Carolina. “Does our strategic plan need more articulation? Do
we have in place what we need?” he asked.
“Candidates want to know if you have one, how far you are
with it, and if there is room for them to put their mark on it,”
Funk said, adding that the University’s current strategic plan
was adequate. “Candidates always want to know what a board
wants, what the funding climate is like within the state, and
how intrusive or supportive a board is.”
The Presidential Candidate Search Committee is scheduled
to meet again in early May and early June.
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■ ARTICLES
Meili Steele, “The Social Imaginary and Public Reason,” Divinatio: Studia Culturologica Series.
Dennis L. Poole, social work, “Organizational networks of
collaboration for community-based living,” Nonprofit Management
& Leadership.
Meera Narasimhan, neuropsychiatry and behavioral science,
“Schizophrenia, Metabolic Syndrome, and Antipsychotics: Challenges, Controversies, and Clinical Management,”Psychiatric Times.
Xuemei Sui and Steven N. Blair, exercise science, James N.
Laditka, epidemiology and biostatistics, and James W. Hardin,
“Estimated Functional Capacity Predicts Mortality in Older
Adults,” Journal of the American Geriatric Society.
Marsha Dowda and Russell R. Pate, exercise science, Karin
A. Pfeiffer, and Rod K. Dishman, “Associations among Physical
Activity, Health Indicators, and Employment in 12th Grade Girls,”
Journal of Women’s Health.
J. Mark Davis, E. Angela Murphy, and James A. Carson,
exercise science, Abdul Ghaffar and Eugene P. Mayer, pathology, microbiology, and immunology, A.S. Brown, and Martin D.
Carmichael, “Susceptibility to HSV-1 infection and exercise stress
in females: role of estrogen,” Journal of Applied Physiology.
Melbourne, Australia, and “Protein Oxidation and Modification: Mechanisms,
Measurement, and Biological Consequences,” Society for Free Radical Biology and Medicine, Washington, D.C.
Steven P. Hooker, exercise science, J.A. Reed, C-A. Arant, and A.E. Price,
“Comparing demographic features of trail-users obtained via direct
observation with current census data,” American Public Health Association,
Washington, D.C.
■ Lighter times
■ PRESENTATIONS
Ran Wei, journalism and mass communications, and Shuhua
Zhou (University of Alabama), “Responding to arousing bird flu
stories: Processing the epidemic and perception of the stories,” Association
for Education in Journalism & Mass Communication Southeast Colloquium,
Auburn University, Alabama.
P. Lee Ferguson, chemistry and biochemistry, “Fate and effects of singlewalled carbon nanotubes in the estuarine environment,” NanoEco conference, Ascona, Switzerland.
Benjamin. S.Twining, chemistry and biochemistry, S.B. Baines, and S.Vogt,
“Role of diatoms in nickel biogeochemistry in the Pacific Ocean,” 2008
Ocean Sciences Meeting, Orlando, Fla.
Barbara Rogers Blaney, registrar, “The Registrar and Retention,” American Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers, Orlando,
Fla.
Meera Narasimhan, neuropsychiatry and behavioral science, “Neurobiology of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder,” International Women’s
Mental Health Congress, Melbourne, Australia.
Richard D. Adams, chemistry and biochemistry, “New Directions for
Hydrogen Activation and Catalytic Hydrogenations,” invited lecture,
Deaprtamento de Quimica, Research and Advanced Studies Center of
the National Polytechnic Institute (Cinvestav) and Universidad Nacional
Autonoma de Mexico.
John Baynes, exercise science, “Succination of Protein—Biomarker of
Oxidative Stress and Risk Factor for Mitochondrial Dysfunction in Diabetes,”
Baker Heart Research Institute and St.Vincent’s Institute of the University of
Thank goodness it was a glass ceiling. I didn't like what I saw.
Patricia A. Sharpe and Harriet Williams, exercise science, M.L. Granner,
and J.R. Hussey, “Massage therapy effects on well-being and stress perception
among older adults,” American Public Health Association, Washington, D.C.
■ OTHER
Georgia Doran, graduate career management, Moore School of Business,
named a finalist honoree for the 2008 Outstanding Freshman Advocate
Award.
Reginald Bain, music, was guest composer at the Eastman School of
Music’s Center for Computer Music, where his works The Music of the
Primes and Strange Attractors & Logarithmic Spirals were presented in concert,
Rochester, N.Y.
Tan Ye, languages, literatures, and cultures and Center for Asian Studies,
received the 2008 International of the Year Award at the Columbia International Gala, Columbia.
■ 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.
Poetry collection wins S.C. Poetry Book Prize
The first book-length collection of poetry from Ed Madden, an associate professor of English and associate
director of women’s and gender studies at the University, has been selected as the third-annual winner of
the S.C. Poetry Book Prize.
Selected for the prize by Afaa Weaver, a professor of English at Simmons College in Boston and founder
of the Zora Neale Hurston Literary Center, Signals was published by the USC Press (88 pages, $14.95
paperback). The annual book prize is coordinated by the S.C. Poetry Initiative at the University.
In a release announcing the book’s publication, the USC Press described Madden’s lyric poems as
“deeply rooted in the recognizable landscapes and legacies of the American South,” adding that the poems
“couple daring engagements in topics of race and sexuality with tender reflections on personal and cultural
histories.
“Madden’s adopted home of South Carolina rises to the surface in poems set at Folly Beach, Fort Moult- Madden
rie, Lake Keowee, and Middleton Place. His interrogations of social oppression conjure the ubiquitous iconography of the bygone Confederacy, a first encounter with the miniseries Roots, and a cameo appearance by Strom Thurmond.”
Madden is writer-in-residence at the Riverbanks Botanical Gardens in Columbia. He is the author of Tiresian Poetics and
coeditor of Geographies and Genders in Irish Studies. He was selected by editor Natasha Trethewey for inclusion in the anthology
Best New Poets of 2007.
Chaudhry gets ASCE award
M. Hanif Chaudhry, chair of the Department Civil and Environmental Engineering in the College of Engineering and
Computing and associate dean (International Programs and Continuing
Education), received the 2008 Hunter
Rouse Hydraulic Engineering Award.
The award is the most prestigious award the American Society of
Civil Engineers (ASCE) gives in water
resources. Chaudhry will receive the
award, along with a check for $2,000,
at the Environmental and Water
Resources Institute (EWRI) of ASCE
Chaudhry
Annual Congress May 14 in Honolulu,
Hawaii.
The citation from ASCE to Chaudhry reads: “For over three
decades of service to the hydraulic engineering community
as an outstanding researcher, exemplary teacher, author of
several widely used textbooks, and a highly regarded practicing engineer.”
In selecting Chaudhry for the award, the committee particularly noted his contributions to hydraulic engineering.
South’s archaelogy work
recognized by Historic
Beaufort Foundation
The Historic Beaufort Foundation presented Stanley
South with its Osterhout Archaeological Stewardship
Award in recognition of his work helping to preserve the
archaeological heritage of Beaufort County.
South, an archaeologist with the S.C. Institute of Archaeology and Anthropology at the University, received
the honor during the foundation’s 42nd-annual luncheon
meeting in Beaufort.
The award is named for a U.S. Marine Corps major
who in 1943 was instrumental in helping to preserve the
remains of the 16th-century Spanish settlement known
as Santa Elena and a French outpost named Charlesfort,
which were thought by Osterhout to be on the Parris
Island Marine Base near Beaufort.
South later did extensive archaeological work on both
sites with Carolina colleague Chester DePratter. In 2005,
their efforts led to the designation of Santa Elena as a
National Historic Site.
Beaufort’s Upshaw named
Zonta Woman of the Year
Chancellor Jane Upshaw at USC Beaufort has been
named Zonta’s 2007 Woman of the Year. Zonta is an
international organization of professional women working together to advance the status of women around the
globe.
Upshaw was recognized for
her community service. She
is a past president of Literacy
Volunteers of the Lowcountry and
the past chair of the Hilton Head
Island/Bluffton Chamber of Commerce. She sits on the governing
boards of the Coastal Business
Education Technology Alliance,
Hilton Head Regional Medical
Center, and the National Bank of
Upshaw
South Carolina.
Lynn McGee, Beaufort’s vice
chancellor for University Advancement, commented on
the chancellor’s impact on the communities served by the
Beaufort campus.
“Dr. Upshaw has made a difference in our community
by focusing her personal and professional efforts on a
critical need: educational opportunity,” she said. “Dr.
Upshaw invested countless hours traveling across the
state to bring a baccalaureate degree-granting institution
to the Lowcountry. Her hard work, visionary leadership,
belief in the Lowcountry’s strengths, and willingness to
take risks have been a critical force behind the building
of a four year university for an underserved region of the
state.”
For more information about Zonta, go to www.zonta.
org/site/PageServer.
Hohman named interim
vice chancellor of
student development
Robert J. Hohman has been named interim vice chancellor for student development at USC Beaufort following
the retirement of Gail Quick, who formerly held the
position.
In his new position, Hohman will be responsible for
overseeing all facets of student development operations
including recruitment, admissions, and student life.
“USC Beaufort is very fortunate to have someone of
Dr. Bob Hohman’s dedication and experience to step in
and capably fill this critical position for our institution,”
said Jane Upshaw, chancellor of USC Beaufort.
Hohman joined USC Beaufort in 1995. In 2004, he
was named director of advising at the south campus in
Bluffton. Most recently, he was assistant vice chancellor
for student development.
An accomplished educator and administrator,
Hohman has written extensively about education,
including articles about curriculum development, student
behavior, and teacher education. He has a BS in sociology
from St. Vincent College, a M.Ed. in guidance from
Indiana State University of Pennsylvania, and a Ph.D. in
educational administration from Bowling Green State
University.
■ In Memoriam: Kenneth E. Toombs
Kenneth E. Toombs, 79, director emeritus of University
Libraries, died March 4 in Columbia. A memorial service
was held March 8 at Dunbar Funeral Home, Devine
Street Chapel.
Toombs joined University Libraries as director in 1967
and oversaw the addition of the millionth volume to the
libraries’ collections and the building of the Thomas Cooper Library and the Law Library. A nationally recognized
academic library building consultant, he was co-founder
of the Southeastern Library Network, was listed in Who’s
Who in Library Science and Who’s Who in America, and
received the Rothrock Award, the highest honor in the
Southeastern Library Association for his contribution
to the Solinet System, a database to identify and catalog
library books.
Toombs is survived by his wife, Teresa; daughters
Susan Shealy, Cheri Morris, and Teresa Heilman; nine
grandchildren; and one great grandchild.
Memorials can be made to the Alzheimer’s Association, 225 N. Michigan Ave., Suite 1700, Chicago, Ill.
60601-7633; the Parkinson’s Disease Foundation, 1359
Broadway, Suite 1509, New York, N.Y. 10018; the Kenneth E. Toombs Fellowship Fund in Library and Information Science at the University; or to Palmetto Health
Hospice, Box 7275, Columbia, 29202.
An online guest book is at www.dunbarfunerals.com.
April 10, 2008
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■ Theatre South Carolina
Season ends with poignant
play, A Cabal of Hypocrites
Theatre South Carolina will conclude its 2007–08 mainstage season with
Mikhail Bulgakov’s A Cabal of Hypocrites, a poignant commentary on
censorship framed around the turbulent life of French playwright Moliere.
The production will be performed at Drayton Hall Theater April 18–27
with shows at 8 p.m. Monday–Saturday and 3 p.m. Sunday. Tickets are
$16 for the public; $14 for military and University faculty and staff; and
$10 for students. Tickets are available at the Longstreet Theater box office.
Robert Richmond, visiting assistant professor, will direct.
“The ominous presence of censorship is as present today as ever,” said
Jim Hunter, chair of the Department of Theatre and Dance. “A Cabal of
Hypocrites tackles the very relevant topic in an entertaining and insightful
theatrical journey.”
The play was written in 1936 by Russian playwright Bulgakov under
Stalinist rule. Bulgakov’s best-known work was The Master and the Margarita, a satirical critique of Soviet society. He wrote A Cabal of Hypocrites as a statement on censorship and the struggle for artistic freedom in
a communist society.
In the play, Moliere has recently published Tartuffe and is enjoying
the favor of King Louis XIV; however, he also has gained the disapproval
of church officials, who deem the play heretical. The officials form a cabal,
or a secret group, and intend to harm Moliere’s person and his reputation.
Richmond took the liberty of inserting snippets of Tartuffe throughout the
play, creating a play within a play.
“More than simply a biography about the rise and fall of Moliere, or a
dated commentary on the suppression of artists in 1930’s Russia, A Cabal
of Hypocrites serves as a reflection on the very fundamental American
ideal of free speech,” Richmond said. “Censorship is still alive today, as is
reflected by the highly publicized challenge of the popular Harry Potter
series and the banning of other well-known books, such as Arthur Miller’s
The Crucible and Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird.”
A Cabal of Hypocrites was seen as a dangerous criticism on Stalinist
Russia and was banned after only seven performances.
The cast is composed completely of theater students. Nathan Bennett, a graduate student, will perform the role of Moliere. The staging will
combine the classical 17th-century feel of Moliere’s plays with “dream-like
and nightmarish” aspects. Vanessa Streeter, a graduate student, is designing the costumes. They are in the French neo-classical style but with highly
stylistic alterations to reflect the play’s themes.
“The director and I wanted to reflect the hypocrisy and degradation in
the play visually through the costumes,” Streeter said. “So, we used period
silhouettes, but we added sheer materials so that the costumes can be seen
through, just as the cabal’s hypocrisy can be seen through by the end of the
play.”
Originally from Hastings, England, Richmond has directed more than
30 productions for Aquila Theatre, a New York–based company that produces classical works. He directed the mainstage production of Oh! What A
Lovely War last November.
For more information about the Theatre South Carolina program, go
to www.cas.sc.edu/thea/. For more information on A Cabal of Hypocrites,
call Kevin Bush, director of marketing, at 7-9353.
Student speak
■ Name: Erin Rivers
Opera and fantasy make beautiful music
together in Mozart classic, The Magic Flute
By Larry Wood
Opera at USC will present one of the genre’s bestloved and most familiar works, The Magic Flute, in a
somewhat unfamiliar setting, Longstreet Theater.
Performing in Longstreet will allow the cast, made
up mostly of students, to showcase their talents in a
theater-in-the-round setting instead of the traditional proscenium stage. Working in the round has
presented director Ellen Schlaefer several challenges
in staging the production, the final presentation of
the 2007–08 Opera at USC season.
“It’s a unique space,” Schlaefer said. “I am excited
by the challenges posed by Longstreet. It’s a good
opportunity for our students to stretch and grow as
performers.”
Designing for an opera in the round, Anita Tripathi Easterling, who has worked in Longstreet on other
theatrical productions, has created a nontraditional
set for Mozart’s fantasy world. “We’ll tell our story
with suggested elements this time, and because the
opera is a fantasy, the set lends itself to a different
treatment,” Schlaefer said. “Visually, it’s going to be
very satisfying.”
Without a traditional pit, the slightly smaller
orchestra will share the house with the audience,
performing on a platform behind the singers. “One
of the obvious challenges is that the conductor is not
in the focal point to coordinate the orchestra and the
singers,” Schlaefer said.
But performing in the round offers rewards, too.
“The student performers will enjoy being very close to
the audience and visa versa,” Schlaefer said.
The Magic Flute follows Prince Tamino’s struggle
to become worthy of his beloved Pamina by enduring a series of trials and tribulations. Prince Tamino
is helped by the benevolent Sarastro and a secretive brotherhood modeled upon the Freemasons of
Mozart’s Vienna, but he is opposed by the Queen of
the Night, setting up a classic struggle between darkness and night, good and evil.
“It’s a love story,” Schlaefer said, “the search for a
better world where everything is in balance.”
Written in the form of a singspiel, The Magic
Flute includes both spoken dialogue and singing. The
cast will speak the dialogue in English and sing in
German with supertitles in English.
Evan McCormack and Whitney Vance, both
graduate students, will sing the roles of the lovers
Tamino and Pamina. Jennifer Bryant and Lindsay
Hilliard will share the role of Tamino’s adversary, the
Queen of the Night. Tyrone B. Wallace, Jr. will sing
the role of Sarastro.
Heidi O’Hare from UNC Charlotte is the costume
designer, and Carolina alumnus Aaron Pelzer is the
lighting designer.
Evan McCormack,
a master of music
candidate in opera
theatre, will sing
the role of Prince
Tamino in The
Magic Flute.
Michael Brown
■ If you go
What: Mozart’s The Magic Flute
When: 7:30 p.m. April 25 and 3 p.m. April 27
Where: Longstreet Theater
Tickets: $18 for the public; $15 for senior
citizens (ages 55 and older), military, and University faculty and staff; and $5 for students.
For tickets, call 7-0058 or 7-5369.
“The Magic Flute is one of the most popular
operas in the repertoire,” Schlaefer said. “It has really
beautiful music. It’s got a good beat, too, and you can
dance to some of the songs. You really can.”
■ Year: First-year doctoral student
■ Major: Exercise science
■ Hometown: Cheraw
■ You’re one of the first-place winners
from this year’s Graduate Student Day
in early April, so congratulations! What
was the theme of your presentation? I
presented on the research we’re conducting with
chronic stroke clients in which we are trying to
determine the effect of an intensive mobility
intervention. We want to see if providing intense
physical therapy for several consecutive days will
improve their balance, their mobility, and their
gait. In the past, the practice has been to give
rehabilitation over a long period of time but not
to expect any additional recovery after six to nine
months. Now, we find that recovery of physical ability can happen years
after [a stroke].
■ How did you become interested in this kind of research? Working with people with chronic neurological conditions—victims of stroke or
people who have a spinal cord injury—requires you to be creative. You have
to be patient, too. The rewarding part of it is that even small improvements
in physical condition can make a big difference in their lives.
■ Is this similar to what you will focus on with your Ph.D.?
I think I want to look at the population with incomplete spinal cord injuries to see what physiological changes they undergo as a result of intensive
exercise. These are people who have some sensory and motor function
below the site of their injury. At this point, I don’t know what changes, if
any, someone would experience from the intensive therapy.
■ What was it like to present at Graduate Student Day? Were
you nervous? There was a pretty good crowd that attended, and this was
good practice for presenting. I presented at the National Physical Therapy
Association in Nashville back in February, so it was pretty similar to that.
■ How long will it take you to complete your Ph.D.? That’s a good
question. I just finished my doctor of physical therapy degree here, so I’m
on a fast track with the Ph.D.—about three years, I think. After that I want
to work in a clinical setting for a while and then go into academia where I
mainly want to teach and do some research. I’m working some weekends
now at HealthSouth Rehabilitation Hospital here in Columbia.
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April 10, 2008
Latina artist and children’s book author Yuyi Morales created this illustration for Little Night.
Latino children’s literature conference is April 26
The University’s inaugural Celebration of Latino Children’s Literature conference, sponsored by the School of
Library and Information Science and the College of Education, will be held April 26 in the Russell House.
The conference will provide a forum for presenting current research related to the education and information
needs of Latino children and the social influences of Latino children’s literature upon the developing child. The
conference theme is “Connecting Cultures and Celebrating Cuentos.”
Award-winning Latina artist and children’s book author Yuyi Morales will present a storytelling and family
event April 25 at the Lexington County Public Library. The community event will begin at 7 p.m.
Kathy Short from the University of Arizona will deliver the keynote address. Breakout sessions will include
topics for both researchers and practitioners related to Latino children’s literature and literacy. Research posters,
created by undergraduate and graduate students from the School of Library and Information Science and the
College of Education, will be presented throughout the conference.
During the luncheon, Latina author Lucía González will read from her forthcoming bilingual picture book,
The Storyteller’s Candle/La velita de los cuentos,
Julia López-Robertson, an assistant professor in the Department of Instruction and Teacher Education, and
Jamie Campbell Naidoo, an assistant professor in the School of Library and Information Science, are conference
co-chairs.