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Joe Quattro hooks readers up
with Freshwater Fishes of South
Carolina, right. Page 3
Just his ticket: Mark Cooper, a
film studies scholar, is interim
director of the newly named
Moving Image Research
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A publication for faculty, staff, and friends of the University of South Carolina
• Columbia
• Aikenn
• Beaufort
• Lancaster
• Salkehatchie
• Sumter
Michael Amiridis, dean of the College of Engineering and Computing, has been named vice president for
academic affairs and provost. He will begin his new responsibilities by Aug. 15.
Amiridis, who joined the University in 1994 as an assistant professor, will succeed William “Ted” Moore,
who has been interim provost since Jan. 1. Moore will become chief financial officer and vice president for
finance and planning.
President Pastides said he is confident of Amiridis’ success as the University’s academic leader.
“I have known Dr. Amiridis in several capacities since I came to the University nearly 11 years ago, and
Amiridis
Photo credit
Deidre Martin
Staging history
Maggi Morehouse, left, a humanities scholar, an associate professor of history at USC Aiken, and assistant director of the film
Edgewood: Stage of Southern History, shares a moment off camera with Chris Saxon Koelker, director and writer, and Jayda Reown and Savannah Reown,
who plays Rachel Sullivan. Using the house as its narrator, the documentary tells the history of the Pickens-Salley House, USC Aiken’s administration
building, focusing on Lucy Pickens and Eulalie Salley. For more on the story, go to page 8.
Cornell administrator named VP
for research and graduate education
• Upstate
Advance Carolina aims
to put committees’
suggestions in motion
Amiridis tapped as new provost
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• Union
The next stage of Focus Carolina, the University’s strategic
planning effort, is beginning now. Called Advance Carolina,
it includes forming action steps to implement the recommendations submitted by Focus Carolina’s five
five committees.
Focus Carolina was launched last fall and included
faculty/staff/student/alumni committees on teaching and
learning; research, scholarship, and creative achievement;
service excellence; quality of life
in the University community; and
recognition and visibility. Committee chairs discussed their preliminary recommendations at two public
forums in April attended by faculty,
staff, and students.
“As a result of the five committees’ recommendations, we are
planning new initiatives on faculty
hiring and retention, new centers
Moore
and institutes, and a renewed
emphasis on arts and humanities at
USC Columbia,” said Ted Moore, interim provost and vice
president for finance and planning. “This will be an ongoing process beginning with the new academic year, and all
eight campuses of the USC system are reflecting the vision,
mission, and goals of Focus Carolina in their respective
planning efforts.”
Moore is directing the Focus Carolina effort, which
also includes several other University study teams that are
reviewing operations and administration (e.g., the way the
University allocates resources and conducts capital planning).
“When we complete this phase—Advance Carolina—we’ll
have a strategic plan that will help us optimize our budget
model, plan for capital projects, decide which academic
programs should be consolidated, eliminated, or expanded,
and much more,” Moore said.
All of the strategic planning recommendations will be
presented to the Board of Trustees. The board’s Strategic
Planning Committee, chaired by trustee Mack Whittle, is
working alongside the Advance Carolina efforts.
Chandler is new public health dean
Stephen Kresovich, vice provost for life sciences and a professor of plant breeding and
genetics at Cornell University, has been named vice president for
research and graduate education at Carolina, effective Oct. 1.
Kresovich replaces Rose Booze, who served as interim vice president for research since last August.
“I am really impressed with the breadth and comprehensive
nature of South Carolina’s research and graduate programs; there
are many pockets of excellence throughout the University,” said
Kresovich, who also has served as director of Cornell’s Institute for
Genomic Diversity and Institute for Biotechnology and Life Science
Technologies and was interim vice provost for research in 2007.
As vice provost for life sciences, Kresovich has led strategic
G. Thomas “Tommy” Chandler, interim dean of the Arnold School of Public Health since August
2007, has been named dean of the school, effective immediately.
During his two-year tenure as interim dean, the school has added a popular bachelor’s degree
program in public health and maintained its perennial place among the
top three schools and colleges within the University for external research
funding.
“There is a lot of opportunity before us, and I’m excited about the
University’s commitment to building a new academic home for the Arnold School within the next three years,” said Chandler, who first joined
Carolina in 1987 as a post-doctoral fellow in the Baruch Institute.
Currently, only a portion of the school’s faculty and labs are located
in the new Public Health Research Center on Assembly Street; many
more are located in the old Health Sciences building on Sumter Street.
Plans call for building an office/classroom building beside the Assem-
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Kresovich
Chandler
New COEE will foster discoveries to prevent, treat orthopaedic disorders
Matthews
A global medical technology company has announced a $5 million gift to the
University to help fund the Center of Economic Excellence in Rehabilitation and
Reconstruction Sciences. The project will bring together leading orthopaedists in
the Upstate and scientists and engineers from industry with researchers from the
University to conduct revolutionary research on the prevention and treatment of
orthopaedic injuries and disorders.
Representatives of Smith & Nephew, a global medical technology company
based in the U.K.; the Steadman Hawkins Clinic of the Carolinas; the Orthopedic
Research Foundation of the Carolinas (ORFC), a nonprofit foundation working
with orthopaedic clinics, including Steadman Hawkins; and University leaders announced the Smith & Nephew investment July 14 in Greenville and Columbia.
Smith & Nephew’s $5 million investment matches $5 million appropriated to
the Rehabilitation and Reconstruction Sciences Center through the S.C. Centers of
Economic Excellence (CoEE) Program in 2007.
President Pastides said researchers at the College of Engineering and Computing and the Arnold School of Public Health will play an integral role in research and
economic development.
“A comprehensive research university adds a crucial link to this exciting venture.
Researchers from many disciplines will work individually and together to develop
new procedures and materials that will change the scope of healthcare in the 21st
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TOPPER SITE IS SUBJECT OF PBS SERIES: The
University’s Topper archaeological dig site—home to some of
the most significant research on earliest man in America—was
the subject of an hour-long episode of Time Team America, a new
PBS television series.Topper is located in Allendale County along
the banks of the Savannah River. Based on a long-running British
series, Time Team America takes viewers inside some of the most
intriguing archaeological sites in America. “This was the first
one-hour national broadcast on Topper, which is some measure
of the importance of the site and the amount of public interest
in the archaeology of early humans in the Americas,” said Al
Goodyear, a University archaeologist whose research at the site
has captured international attention. Goodyear’s findings suggest
an occupation of an earlier pre-Clovis people dating back some
50,000 years or more, sparking much scientific debate and
interest among researchers, which continues to build. Among
these researchers is Dennis Stanford, head of the archaeology
division and director of the Paleo-Indian Program at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of Natural History. “The
University’s Topper Site is probably one of the most important
sites being excavated in the country today,” Stanford said. “It’s a
whole new chapter of history unfolding, and it’s unfolding right
here in Allendale.The Smithsonian stands for the acquisition and
dispersion of science and knowledge to human communities,
and that’s exactly what is happening here.”
Researchers awarded DOE grant for nuclear R&D
Researchers in the College of Engineering and Computing will receive nearly $497,500 over two years
from the U.S. Department of Energy in a new national program to accelerate nuclear-energy research
and development.
Frank Chen, a researcher in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, and Ken Reifsnider, chair of
the University’s Solid Oxide Fuel Cell Center of Excellence and director of the University’s Future Fuels
Initiative, will collaborate with Thad M. Adams and Kyle Brinkman at the Savannah River National
Laboratory. The study will address the use and storage of tritium for the Next Generation Nuclear Plant,
a DOE program to develop nuclear-power plants that will be environmentally safe and affordable.
Earlier this year, the college was selected for DOE’s Energy Frontier Research Center program, which
will focus on clean-energy research. Reifsnider will lead the center’s research, which is expected to bring
$12.5 million in federal funding.
MIT, the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Texas A&M, and the Georgia Institute of Technology are
among the universities receiving funds from the Nuclear Energy University Program.
U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu said the program will play a key role in addressing the globalclimate crisis.
“As a zero-carbon energy source, nuclear power must be part of our energy mix as we work toward
energy independence and meeting the challenge of global warming,” Chu said.
“The next generation of nuclear power plants—with the highest standards of safety, efficiency, and
environmental protection—will require the latest advancements in nuclear science and technology,” he
said. “These research and development university awards will ensure that the United States continues to
lead the world in the nuclear field for years to come.”
STOP SMOKING FOR FREE: In support of Healthy
Carolina, Campus Wellness will offer a free tobacco cessation
class for students, faculty, and staff in September.The class will
be from noon to 1 p.m. Sept. 14, 16, 21, 23, 28, and 30 in the
Strom Thurmond Wellness and Fitness Center Boardroom, 201F.
A trained Freshstart facilitator will guide participants to make a
successful attempt to quit. Freshstart is a tobacco cessation program developed by the American Cancer Society.The Freshstart
approach includes motivational activities, problem solving skills,
social support, and education about medication and approaches
to quitting. During one session, the campus registered dietitian
will address participants’ concerns about weight gain. Another
session will be devoted to physical activity as a way to deal with
withdrawal symptoms, reduce stress, and avoid weight gain.To
register, call Campus Wellness at 576-9393.
BEAUFORT’S RN PROGRAMS EARN CCNE
ACCREDITATION: USC Beaufort’s RN to BSN and baccalaureate RN programs have earned a five-year accreditation
from the Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education (CCNE).
The accreditation is retroactive to November 2008. “I am
delighted the Department of Nursing has so quickly achieved
this significant milestone,” said Susan Williams, program chair.
“It means that our program meets the same educational standards as all other accredited BSN programs across the nation.”
Williams chose to seek accreditation from CCNE because of
the organization’s commitment to baccalaureate and higher
degree programs. CCNE is recognized by the U.S. Secretary
of Education to accredit baccalaureate and graduate degree
programs in nursing.
RESTAURANTS OFFER SUMMER DINING:
Carolina Dining has four on-campus restaurants open this
summer:
• Colloquium Café, 7:30 a.m.–2:30 p.m. Monday–Friday
• Grand Market Place, 7:30 a.m.–6 p.m. Monday–Thursday
and 7:30 a.m.–2 p.m. Friday
• Preston’s @ Noon. 11:30 a.m.–2 p.m. Monday–Friday
• Hampton Street Café, 7:30 a.m.–2 p.m. Monday–Friday.
For more information, go to sc.edu/dining.
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Summer lab
FACULTY PRODUCE DOCUMENTARY:
Bobby Donaldson, history, and Lisa Martin-Stuart, theatre and
dance, on the Columbia campus and Howard Kingkade, English
and speech, at Lancaster collaborated on a 27-minute documentary titled In Their Own Words: A History of Harbison Institute, which
aired on S.C. ETV.The documentary combined interviews of
11 alumni who attended the African-American school between
1920 and 1940. Located in Irmo, the school was funded by the
Presbyterian Church in Pennsylvania. Using archival footage
from the S.C. Newsfilm Library, the film included sections
of an interview with Harold Boulware, a Harbison graduate
who became one of the chief attorneys in Briggs v. Elliot (later
consolidated into Brown v. Board of Education). Historical photos
were obtained from the South Caroliniana Library and the Presbyterian Historical Society, as well as from the alumni. Other
collaborators were Randy Lee, history, Columbia College, and
Reid Holland, history, Midlands Technical College. Helen Baldwin
Kingkade, theatre and speech, Midlands Technical College, a
Columbia campus speech instructor, directed the documentary.
CHRISTMAS EVE BECOMES PERMANENT
STATE HOLIDAY: On June 2, Gov. Mark Sanford signed
into law a bill that makes Christmas Eve an official, permanent
state holiday.Traditionally, state employees received Christmas
Eve off only if the governor signed a special proclamation each
year.This year, the University will observe the new, permanent
holiday on Dec. 23 because Christmas Eve was previously
scheduled as a University holiday in 2009.The University’s
holiday schedule is set each year to coincide with the academic
schedule. Faculty and staff receive 13 paid holidays as do other
state employees, but the dates on which the holidays are
observed vary.To view the list of University holidays, link to
http://hr.sc.edu/benefits/holiday schedule.html.
Chen
Physics senior Robert
Hedrick, seated, leads
a group of Carolina
Master Scholars in
a lab experiment
involving bacterial
fuel cells.Twenty-two
high school students
participated in this
year’s Carolina Master
Scholar Program for
Bionanotechnology, a
weeklong course
organized by chemistry professor Qian
Wang and now in its
fifth year. Along with
the biofuel cell experiment, students worked
on synthesizing gold
nanoparticles, virus
purification, and
protein/polymer
assemblies.
Archaeologists find two
cannons at Mars Bluff site
Archaeologists from the S.C. Institute of Archaeology
and Anthropology at the University have concluded their
spring operations along the Pee Dee River, where they
have located the Mars Bluff Naval Yard and two of three
cannons from the gunboat CSS Pee Dee.
The archaeology team, under the joint direction of
Christopher Amer and Jonathan Leader, will return in
October to locate the final Brooke rifled cannon and
continue the land search for navy yard foundations and
the smithy. Until then, the researchers, which include
students from East Carolina University, Francis Marion
University, and the University, will analyze the artifacts
recovered from the naval yard and the river and prepare
for the conservation of the cannons once they are raised.
Conservation of the smaller finds is under way under
Leader’s supervision.
The fall underwater archaeology operation will push
back the raising of the cannons to early spring 2010.
The project of the S.C. Institute for Archaeology and
Anthropology is funded in part by a $200,000 grant from
the Drs. Bruce and Lee Foundation in Florence.
For more information about SCIAA, its research
projects, and outreach programs, go to www.cas.sc.edu/
sciaa/ or call 7-8170.
Upstate plans topping out
ceremony for College of
Business and Economics
USC Upstate will hold a topping out of the George Dean Johnson Jr. College of Business and Economics at 9:30 a.m. July 31
to celebrate the last piece of steel being placed in the building’s
structure. Guests can sign the beam, hear remarks, and tour
the first-floor footprint of the building.
The $30 million facility, which bears the name of the chairman of Johnson Development Associates, is under construction on Saint John Street and is expected to be completed in
May 2010.
The George Dean Johnson Jr. College of Business and
Economics currently enrolls nearly 850 majors and is rapidly
growing. The college is accredited by the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business International (AACSB).
The AACSB International accreditation ensures quality and
promotes excellence and continuous improvement in undergraduate and graduate education for business administration
and accounting. USC Upstate is one of 42 institutions worldwide with undergraduate-only programs that are accredited.
Few business schools in the nation with a predominantly
undergraduate mission are accredited by this international
association. For more information, go to www.uscupstate.edu/
johnsoncollege.
University 101 promotes sustainability, environment
As part of its goal to promote a more sustainable future, the Sustainable Universities through the School of the Environment will offer University 101 instructors the opportunity to have a “Sustainable Living” presentation given in class for fall
2009.
The presentation, given by graduate students, is an interactive exercise and will include topics such as worldwide
sustainability, population growth, and environmental impacts of consumption and waste. The goal is to stimulate thought
and discussion on these issues.
The presentation will begin with an overview of worldwide sustainability issues. Population growth trends will be demonstrated using a world map with dried beans used to indicate individual population size. The discussion will focus on the
environmental impact of consumption and waste across cultures (e.g., the United States has approximately 5 percent of
world’s population but uses 25 percent of the world’s resources).
Students will be asked to calculate their own ecological footprint as an introduction to a discussion of how each person
affects the earth. The discussion that follows can focus on local issues, personal choices, or plans for future action.
To schedule a presentation, contact Hillary Sparks at hsparks@environ.sc.edu.
Hook, line, and sinker
Module in VIP asks
individuals to identify
ethnicity and race
New book offers comprehensive
look at state’s fish population
By Chris Horn
For someone well versed on South Carolina’s 151 fish species,
Joe Quattro admits that he has little time for recreational
fishing.
But the biology professor’s loss is everyone else’s gain:
Quattro was one of four authors who devoted some five years
to create Freshwater Fishes of South Carolina, a new book
published by USC Press that is a definite keeper. It’s the first
comprehensive volume on the state’s fish population since
before the Civil War.
“There was a physician, J.E. Holbrook, who dabbled in
natural science and wrote a book in the 1850s that attempted
to catalog and describe the state’s fishes,” Quattro said. “Our
book is exhaustive: we used something like 250,000 location
records.”
Freshwater Fishes includes more than 350 photos, illustrations, maps, and charts that depict all of the state’s fish species
and their range, while offering highly detailed descriptions
of their appearance and information on their habitats. It also
includes state records for sport fish as well as practical information for aquarists and others interested in collecting and
studying native species.
Quattro, whose research focuses on using genetics to define
fish population units, was most surprised by the number of
non-native species in South Carolina’s rivers and lakes.
“Fifteen percent of the Santee River’s 110 species were
introduced, and across the state, 12 to 18 percent of fish species in any given habitat are introduced species,” he said. “I
think it’s a reflection of how many dams we have and the corresponding amount of surface water. That attracts fishermen,
and they’re the ones who typically introduce new species to a
body of water.”
In terms of species diversity, the Savannah River is tops
with 113 species; the Edisto River has the fewest species with
87. Overall, the state has 28 families of fish, including a few of
the darter and minnow variety that might be familiar only to
naturalists and the most die-hard of fishing enthusiasts. While
Photo illustration showing Joe Quattro and the new book’s cover.
some species, such as striped bass, are being protected from
overfishing, there have been no documented fish extinctions in
South Carolina, Quattro said.
Fish species diversity in the United States is highest in the
Mississippi River and second highest in the Southeast, Quattro
said. “We have all kinds of habitat in this state, from the Pee
Dee to the Piedmont and the Lowcountry watersheds,” he said.
Quattro, who used to fly-fish when he had more time, has
fond memories of skipping school in his youth to fish with
his dad. Far from stunting his academic growth, those forays
might have fed his future development as a fish geneticist.
Freshwater Fishes in South Carolina is available through
the University Press (sc.edu/uscpress) and in many bookstores.
All faculty, staff, and students throughout the University system have been presented with a module in
VIP that asks individuals to identify their ethnicity
and race. The University is undertaking this effort
to comply with a federal mandate that will ensure
all educational institutions across the United States
collect and report data in newly established and/or
redefined categories.
Although most faculty and staff have similar data
on file already, that data was gathered through a question format or categories that are no longer in use.
The two-part question format now in use asks (1)
if a person is Hispanic or Latino and (2) presents five
categories of race with which an individual can identify (American Indian or Alaska native, Asian, black
or African American, native Hawaiian or other Pacific
islander, and/or white); selection of multiple races is
permitted.
Although we readily acknowledge that any classification system for demographic data has limitations,
these categories and question design are consistent
with guidance from the U.S. Office of Management
and Budget based on years of research and public
comment.
The University is required to collect and report
aggregate (not individual) ethnic/race data to the
U.S. Department of Education as part of its annual
reporting. We greatly appreciate your response to this
process in VIP so that our records can be as complete and accurate as possible. Should you have any
questions or concerns, please direct them to NERF@
mailbox.sc.edu.
Sincerely,
Barbara Rogers Blaney, University registrar
Judy Owens, Human Resources
Mike Kelly, project manager
History professor looks at implications of technology
By Marshall Swanson
Cocky’s Reading Express
receives $10,000 grant
The Central Carolina Community Foundation (CCCF)
chose Cocky’s Reading ExpressTM (CRE) as a recipient
of a $10,000 community impact grant that will measure CRE’s impact on the reading scores of elementary school children in Fairfield and Lee counties.
“This brings us another step closer to meeting our
mission to eliminate illiteracy in South Carolina,” said
Samantha Hastings, director of the School of Library
and Information Science. “The financial support from
CCCF helps us show the impact that CRE has on our
children.”
Student government leaders started CRE four
years ago. The program is a literacy collaboration
among the School of Library and Information Science,
the S.C. Center for Children’s Books and Literacy, and
USC Student Government. CRE has successfully taken
the message of early literacy to more than 11,000
elementary school children across South Carolina.
CCCF is a nonprofit organization serving 11
counties in the Midlands by distributing grants and
scholarships and linking the resources of donors,
nonprofits, and community leaders to areas of need.
To support CRE, call 7-6898.
For Allison Marsh, the debate over tech issues—from using cell
phones while driving to negative fallout from the Internet or
television—isn’t new.
It only points to the ongoing need
for education to teach people how to
view the complexities of technology
and make informed decisions about
how they want to interact with it.
Technology can have trade-offs: bringing new advances and conveniences
but also raising concerns about negative implications.
“We need to train people to underMarsh
stand the risks and understand the
benefits and consequences of technology,” she said. “Teaching history is a great way to do that.”
The assistant professor of history joined the University last
year to teach public history at a time when the research and
provost’s offices were thinking about inter-college and interdisciplinary opportunities to work questions about technology into the curriculum, including promoting the history of
science.
Marsh will supervise the museum tract within the history
department’s public history program, which trains historians
who interact with the public in informal learning situations
such as museums.
The Richmond, Va., native arrived in Columbia well
equipped to train historians and provide leadership in constructive ways of thinking about technology.
She holds bachelor’s degrees in engineering and history
from Swarthmore; a Ph.D. in the history of science, medicine,
and technology from Johns Hopkins University; and has
experience in several jobs ranging from technical consulting to
working as a curator at the Smithsonian Institution.
Marsh quotes Melvin Kranzberg, a founder of the Society
for the History of Technology, who once wrote that technology
is “neither good nor bad, nor is it neutral.”
“We’re always confronting technology, whether it’s bows
and arrows or nanotechnology,” Marsh said. “We just have to
think about how to use it in a responsible manner.”
The engineering profession has a healthy respect for
understanding the responsible use of technology, Marsh said.
What’s lacking now is training the rest of the world to think
about technology in the same way.
“One of our faults is in how we approach technology. We’re
passive observers who don’t think enough about new gadgets
and what they mean. We have options, but we tend to blame
technology before blaming ourselves and giving ourselves
more control over technology. Instead of turning off cell
phones, people complain that they’re constantly ringing.”
Education is a starting point for dealing with technology,
Marsh’s work includes exhibits
and research for upcoming book
In addition to supervising the museum track within
the history department’s master of public history
program, Allison Marsh is working with Carolina’s
McKissick Museum on the Summer 2010 exhibit
Order Now! Decorating the Modern Home, which
will show how Americans have defined their personal
tastes through their mail-order purchases.
She also is working with the Fall Line Consortium
on the exhibit From the Pee Dee to the Savannah,
which will showcase the history of South Carolina’s
fall line region, the area where the Coastal Plain meets
the Piedmont. The exhibit will open this fall at the
State Museum.
A book in its formative stages will look at factory
tours in America. The tours became popular in the
1890s when more personal time off from work and
development of the country’s infrastructure in transportation, lodging, and restaurants made vacations
more popular.
Marsh said, but science education also needs to break out
of its mold of only being taught as pure science and should
instead be taught throughout all the disciplines because technology plays a role everywhere.
Science and technology also need to be taught in a way that
shows they are not static but are an evolving process in which
society plays a part in their evolution.
“We need to think about how science and technology are
going to change, how our understanding is going to change.
We also need to think about how science and technology are
going to change our understanding of society, because it works
both ways,” Marsh said.
People do themselves a disservice by saying they aren’t
good at science or math and, therefore, aren’t going to worry
about technology, Marsh said. “Technology is still going to
confront them during their daily lives. Unless we’re willing to
forgo all modern conveniences, we’re going to be working with
technology, and we need to accept that the burden is on us to
think about what it means.”
In addition to helping promote the history of science, historians must also now get more people interested in studying
technology in different ways, Marsh added.
“From museum work to policy decision-making, how do we
get people into government positions who can make informed
decisions on the implications of technology?” she asked.
July 16, 2009
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July & August
Calendar
■ Miscellany
J l 22 Bl
July
Blood
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drive:
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Carolina
li FFaculty
lt
and Staff Red Cross Blood Drive,
8 a.m.–6 p.m., Russell House, Ballroom
AB. To sign up, call Amie Ritner at
7-8315.
July 27 Health and wellness:
“Mezedakia Appetizers,” cooking class
presented by Columbia’s Cooking.
5:30–8:30 p.m., Discovery I Building,
915 Greene St., Room 101. Cost is $30
per person. For tickets, call 6-5618.
July 28 Healthy Carolina: Farmers
Market, 10 a.m.–2 p.m., Davis Field,
next to Russell House. For more
information, contact Holly Harring at
7-0597 or harrinha@mailbox.sc.edu.
July 28 Health and wellness:
“The World of Filo,” cooking class
presented by Columbia’s Cooking.
5:30–8:30 p.m., Discover I Building,
915 Greene St., Room 101. Cost
is $30 per person. For tickets, call
6-5618.
Jamie Foxx brings his “Blame It” tour to the Colonial Life Arena Sept. 18.
Foxx won the Academy Award as Best Actor in 2005 for his performance in
Ray, a biopic about singer and songwriter Ray Charles. Foxx’s latest album,
Unpredictable, was released the same year.
■ 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@mailbox.
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 Aug. 6.
■ Online calendar
USC Calendar of Events is at http://events.sc.edu.
To add events here, contact Janie Kerzan at
mcdowj@mailbox.sc.edu or 7-0169.
If you require special accommodations, please contact the program sponsor.
■ Concerts
July 18 Concert
series: Danielle
Howle, 6 p.m.,
Finlay Park, Downtown Columbia,
free.
July 25 Concert
series: Love
Handles, with
J’Ouvert Steel
Band, 6 p.m.,
Finlay Park,
Downtown
Columbia, free.
Columbia native and folk-influenced singer
and songwriter Danielle Howle will perform
at Finlay Park July 18.
July 29 Health and wellness:
“Soups, Stews, and Casseroles,”
cooking class presented by
Columbia’s Cooking. 5:30–8:30 p.m.,
Discover I Building, 915 Greene St., Room 101. Cost is $30
per person. For tickets, call 6-5618.
July 30 Health and wellness: “Vegetable Dishes: Mains
and Sides,” cooking class presented by Columbia’s Cooking.
5:30–8:30 p.m., Discover I Building, 915 Greene St., Room
101. Cost is $30 per person. For tickets, call 6-5618.
July 31 Dance: Summer Dance Institute at Carolina, performance, 6 p.m., Koger Center.
Aug. 3–7 Health and wellness: “Culinary Camp for
Kids,” a hands-on cooking class presented by Columbia’s
Cooking. Lunch is provided. 8:30 a.m.–12:30 p.m., Discovery
I Building, Cancer Prevention and Control Program Demonstration Kitchen, first floor. Cost is $55 per person. For
more information or to register, call 6-5618 or go to http://
cpcp.sph.sc.edu/cooking.
Aug. 17 Health and wellness: “Mezedakia Appetizers,”
cooking class presented by Columbia’s Cooking,
5:30–8:30 p.m., Discover I Building, 915 Greene St., Room
101. Cost is $30 per person. For tickets, call 6-5618.
The Soul Mites have played their own soulful brand of funk to blues across
the Southeast for more than a decade. Every member of the band—from
left, bassist Thom Harman, drummer Chuck Stiles, guitarist Frank Robinson,
and lead singer Tim Davis—is a Carolina graduate. Harman is a writer and
editor in the University’s Publications Office.The Mites will perform Aug. 1
at Finlay Park’s Sizzlin’ Summer Concert Series. If you can’t wait that long,
listen now at www.myspace.com/thesoulmites.
Through Aug. 10 Thomas Cooper Library: Radical
Errors: Edgar Allan Poe at 200, exhibit is drawn from the
collections of Rare Books
and Special Collections and
showcases the earliest of
Poe’s works held at the University and is especially strong
in showing how many of his
writings first appeared in
contemporary periodicals of
all variations and for different
audiences. West Gallery.
Through Aug. 15 McKissick Museum: Saving Face:
Wood engraving of Edgar Allan
Conserving University of South
Poe by Alan James Robinson,
Carolina Portraits, this collecfrom 1984 limited edition of
The Black Cat.
tion is a result of an effort by
several University departments to survey, catalog, and conserve many University portraits after the University’s Board
of Trustees authorized the conservation of 15 presidential
portraits needing care, including the portrait of William Patterson, painted by Raymond Goodbred, and the portrait of
James H. Thornwell, by William Scarborough.
Through Aug. 15 South Caroliniana Library: Lintheads: Life in the South Carolina Mill Villages, examines the living and working conditions of South Carolina mill workers
in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Lumpkin Foyer.
Cover from a set of Star Trek episodes on laser disc, one
of 800 items of a science fiction collection donated to
Rare Books and Special Collections by Professor of
History Emerita Jessica Kross.
Through Aug. 15 Thomas Cooper Library: Recent Gifts
and Acquisitions, 2008–09, more than 80 items selected from
some 10,000 items received or acquired during the year by
Rare Books and Special Collections. Graniteville Room.
August–September Thomas Cooper Library: Persepolis: An Exhibition for the First-Year Reading Experience 2009,
East Gallery, Main Level.
Aug. 1
Concert
series: Tootie
and the Jones,
with the Soul
Mites, 6 p.m.,
Finlay Park,
Downtown
Columbia, free.
Through Sept. 14 Thomas Cooper Library: Memoir
and Biography: Interpreting Political Lives, a new exhibit by
S. C. Political Collections (SCPC) showcases books by and
about individuals whose papers are held by SCPC, including Speaker of the S.C. House Sol Blatt, U.S. Congressman
Bryan Dorn, S.C. House member Harriet Keyserling, Justice
Bruce Littlejohn’s four books, S.C. Governor Bob McNair,
and editorial cartoonist Kate Salley Palmer. Main Level,
outside the East Gallery.
Through Jan. 16, 2010 McKissick Museum: Urban
Archaeology in Columbia.
Photo by Jonathan Sharpe
July 16, 2009
■ Exhibits
Aug. 17 Outdoor event: North Inlet Kayak Tours, a
naturalist-guided tour through the creeks of North Inlet,
includes instruction in basic kayaking, a natural history
overview, and educational highlights of the North Inlet ecosystem. Sponsored by the North Inlet-Winyah Bay NERR
and the Baruch Institute, 8:30–12:30 p.m., Hobcaw Barony,
Georgetown. Cost is $50 per person, which includes kayak,
paddle, personal floatation device, and water. For more
information or to get tickets, call 843-546-6219, ext. 0.
Sept. 18 Colonial Life Arena: A night of live music
with Academy Award–winner Jamie Foxx, part of his
50-city North American Tour. 8 p.m. Tickets range from
$39.75 to $59.75 and are on sale now. For more information, go to http://www.thecolonialcenter.com.
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The Lintheads exhibit poster features a stereograph showing
workers in the Olympia Cotton Mill in Columbia, circa 1905.
Film-studies scholar
named director
of Moving Image
Research Collections
In an effort to expand and enhance film resources, University Libraries has announced Mark Cooper, a film studies
scholar at the University, as interim director of its newly
named Moving Image Research Collections.
Cooper, an associate professor with a joint appointment
in film and media studies and English, will help University
Libraries broaden film collections and improve access to
existing resources. His appointment is for two years.
“Mark Cooper’s leadership will be valuable as we work to
expand our film resources,” said Tom McNally, dean of University Libraries. “Our collections of newsfilm, feature films,
and home movies are extensive. Dr. Cooper will be working
on digitization and preservation of and access to these collections. In addition, he will develop the means to integrate
film resources into the teaching, research, and learning at
the University.”
Camellia book added
to Phelps Collection
The first published description of a camellia, dated 1712, has
been added to the Phelps Memorial Collection in the Department of Rare Books and Special Collections. The book is
Engelbert Kaempfer’s Amoenitatum Exoticarum, published in
Germany in 1712, which also has a full-page engraving of the
camellia bloom.
The new acquisition was purchased with funds through the
Ethelind Pope Brown Natural History Endowment, a memorial
to their mother from another South Carolina family. Like the
Phelpses, Brown of Belton had a special interest and eye for
flower illustration, donating to the library an important series
of 18th-century natural history watercolors.
The Phelps Memorial Collection was built by Mrs. Sheffield
Phelps of the Rose Hill estate in Aiken, Her daughter, Claudia
Lea Phelps, donated the collection to the library in 1959 after
her mother’s death.
“It is a world-class collection, documenting how this muchloved flower was brought from the Far East to Europe and
America, and the Phelps books are always specially appreciated
by visitors and also by art students,” said Patrick Scott, director
of special collections. “The collection had all the most famous
camellia books except Kaempfer, but we had never expected we
would be able to fill that gap.”
Kaempfer (1651–1716) was a German-born physician and
naturalist, who traveled widely as chief surgeon to the Dutch
East Indies Company, in Persia, India, and Siam (Thailand).
From 1690 to 1692, he spent two years in Japan, and after
returning to Europe in 1693, he wrote several books recording what he had discovered, including the Amoenitatum and a
This full-page engraving of a camellia bloom was printed in
Germany in 1712.
two-volume History of Japan, published in England after his
death.
Web exhibits about the Phelps Collection, the history of
camellias, and the Ethelind Pope Brown Natural History Watercolors are linked from the Rare Books Web page at
www.sc.edu/library/spcoll/rarebook.html.
U.S. Sen. Ernest Hollings
autographs a copy of Making
Government Work for former
S.C. Superintendent of
Education Inez Tenenbaum
and her husband, Sam.
Mark Cooper calls the University’s film
collections “world class.”
With an interdisciplinary background in American studies and East Asian studies, as well as film and media studies,
Cooper is well suited to work with faculty members and
students from a broad range of disciplines.
“I’m especially excited to help newcomers to movingimage research discover the treasures the collections hold
for them, whether they are undergraduates or established
scholars in other fields,” Cooper said.
Cooper said he also looks forward to working on the
preservation of the film collections, which he calls “world
class.” The collections include the Fox Movietone News
collection; early newsreels from S.C. television stations WISTV, WBTW-TV, and WLTX-TV; a collection of 35mm and
16mm films by Roman Vishniac, a pioneer in micro-cinematography; and an assortment of astounding films by amateur
filmmakers in the American South.
“The University of South Carolina is in the vanguard of
institutions preparing to digitize for preservation and access
not just particular films but entire archives of films,” Cooper
said. “I’m thrilled to join an incredibly dedicated staff and
contribute to the preservation of our world-class film collections and make them available to the broadest possible
public.”
After earning his doctorate from Brown University in
1998, Cooper taught at Florida State University before joining the University’s faculty in 2007.
As a film studies scholar, Cooper specializes in the filmmaking institutions of early Hollywood. He has written two
books on the subject, including Love Rules: Silent Hollywood and the Rise of the Managerial Class (2003) and
Universal Women: Filmmaking and Institutional Change
in Early Hollywood, which will be released by University of
Illinois Press next year. The forthcoming text examines the
rise and fall of women directors at the Universal Film Manufacturing Co. between 1912 and 1919.
For more information on the University Libraries and
the Moving Image Research Collections, go to www.sc.edu/
library/mirc/.
S.C. Political Collections to unveil ‘Memoir
and Biography: Interpreting Political Lives’
“Memoir and Biography: Interpreting Political Lives” will be on display July 1–Sept. 14 at Thomas Cooper Library. The
exhibition will showcase books by and about individuals whose papers are held by the University’s S.C. Political Collections
(SCPC).
Included is Speaker Blatt: His Challenges Were Greater (1978), John Cauthen’s biography of Sol Blatt, the powerful,
longtime speaker of the S.C. House. Also in the exhibition are former U.S. Sen. Ernest “Fritz” Hollings’ books: The Case
Against Hunger (1970) and Making Government Work (2008). S.C. House member Harriet Keyserling’s memoir, Against
the Tide (1998), and Mark Sanford’s memoir, The Trust Committed To Me (2000), are also on display, along with many
others.
Established in 1991, SCPC collects, preserves, and encourages research on private papers documenting South Carolinians
and their government at the national and state levels in the post-World War II era.
Collections include records of South Carolina’s leaders in Congress and the General Assembly, the state’s political parties, and other individuals and organizations that play substantive roles in politics and government.
For more information on “Memoir and Biography” or other SCPC exhibits, contact Herbert Hartsook at 7-0577 or go to
www.sc.edu/library/scpc/.
July 16, 2009
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I’ve had the privilege of watching him take on new challenges
and handle each with professionalism, leadership, and collegiality,” Pastides said.
Amiridis said it is a privilege to have been chosen the
University’s provost.
“When I first arrived at the University of South Carolina 15
years ago, I could never have imagined as an assistant professor that I would reach the provost’s position one day,” he said.
“Today, I’m honored to be chosen to serve in this role, and I
accepted President Pastides’ offer with a great sense of responsibility toward the institution and its constituencies.”
Amiridis’ research focuses on heterogeneous catalysis, a
field of chemistry with industrial and environmental significance. His research is supported by the National Science
Foundation, the U.S. Department of Energy, and the private
sector.
As dean, Amiridis has been instrumental in increasing the
college’s enrollment by more than 25 percent over the past
three years and creating new academic programs in biomedical engineering, engineering science, and nuclear engineering.
He has worked to create successful international programs in
Japan, Taiwan, Egypt, and Jordan and strengthened the college’s record in outreach activities for K–12 students.
He also pioneered programs to increase the representation
of women and minorities in the sciences and engineering. In
the state, he has a strong record in economic development
through the S.C. Centers of Economic Excellence program.
Amiridis earned his diploma from the Aristotelian University of Thessaloniki, Greece, and his doctorate from the
University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he received awards
for teaching excellence.
At Carolina, Amiridis has received the Mortar Board’s
Excellence in Teaching Award, the Michael J. Mungo Undergraduate Teaching Award, the Samuel Litman Distinguished
Professor Award, and the Michael J. Mungo Graduate Teaching Award. In 1995, the National Science Foundation awarded
Amiridis the CAREER Award.
Amiridis is married to Argiri Aggelopoulou Amridis, and
they have a daughter, Aspasia, and a son, Dimitri.
Amiridis’ appointment comes after a two-month internal
search. In addition to Amiridis, the finalists for the University’s top academic post included Mary Ann Fitzpatrick, dean
of the College of Arts and Sciences, and Davis Baird, dean of
Honors College.
“Each candidate had impressive academic and leadership
skills, and I believe that we could not have found more qualified candidates in a national search,” Pastides said.
Chandler
■ providing high-quality academic training to students to
help address an anticipated public health worker shortage of
250,000 by 2020
■ finding resources to improve diversity of minorities who are
underrepresented in the school’s student body, faculty, and
staff
■ encouraging development of novel cross-college interdisci-
plinary research and education programs
■ meeting ambitious fund-raising goals
■ bringing prominent public health speakers to campus for
open public forums
■ working with the School of Medicine to create significant ex-
posure of medical students to public health concepts and tools
■ leveraging the Greenville Hospital System initiative to bring
quality graduate public health education to the Upstate
■ moving the Arnold School’s ranking to the top five in the
South within five years through recruiting and retaining quality faculty with expertise in “southern-state” health issues such
as childhood obesity, diabetes, stroke, tobacco use, domestic
violence, physical inactivity in children and adults, inadequate
nutrition, environmental degradation, and poor design of built
environments for health.
July 16, 2009
An all-media exhibition that focuses on the theme of the natural world in contemporary art will be on display at the USC Beaufort
Gallery July 17–Aug. 14.
Earth Inspired 2009 features the work of artists working in the Lowcountry region of South Carolina and Georgia. Proceeds
from the juried exhibit will benefit the Coastal Conservation League. The league works to protect the natural environment of the
Lowcountry coastal plain and to enhance the quality of community life by working with individuals, businesses, and government
to ensure balanced solutions.
The exhibit’s opening reception will be from 6 to 8 p.m. July 17 at the gallery in the Performing Arts Center, located at 801
Carteret St., Beaufort. The event, as well as the exhibit itself, is free and open to the public.
For more information, contact Nicole Blowers at villageartists@gmail.com or 843-986-4203. Some of the artists’ colorful
works will be featured in the next Times.
Briefly
PLAN FOR RETIREMENT NOW: A TIAA-CREF
consultant will be available from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. July 29–30 in
the Columbia Campus Benefits Office, Suite 803,
1600 Hampton St., to discuss meeting financial goals with
products such as mutual funds and annuities. For August and
September dates, go to the Division of Human Resources’
Announcements Web page at hr.sc.edu/announce.html.To
schedule an appointment, go to the TIAA-CREF Web site at
www.tiaa-cref.org/moc or call 1-877-267-4505, ext. 255202.
STUDENTS IN TRANSITION CONFERENCE
IS SET FOR FALL: The 16th National Conference on Students in Transition will be November 6–8 in Salt Lake City, Utah.
The conference will focus on the latest concepts, ideas, research
results, assessment strategies, and institutional initiatives focused
on student success and learning for all students in transition. For
more information, go to http://sc.edu/fye/events/sit/.
GRILL OPEN FOR LUNCH: The McCutchen House
Garden Grill is open from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Monday–
Friday through July 31, weather permitting. Menu items include
McCutchen House barbecue sandwich, Cuban sandwich,
Certified Angus Beef burgers, salads, and cold wraps.
CAMPS OFFER ACADEMIC CHALLENGES:
Spaces are still available for several summer camps for children.
Registration is open for Camp Success, which will explore
engineering and technology, Aug. 2–7. Camp Success is for rising
sixth, seventh, and eighth graders.The cost is $300 with a $100
deposit, which will be applied to the fee. For more information,
go to saeu.sc.edu/adventures/pups.html. Spaces also are available
for the Carolina Master Scholars Adventure Series in Math and
Problem Solving,Vex Robotics, and Writing July 19–24. For more
information, go to saeu.sc.edu/adventures/ADVSeries.html. For
registration information, call 7-9444 or send an e-mail to
pups@mailbox.sc.edu.
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bly Street facility that will allow the school to gather all of its
faculty and centers in one location.
President Harris Pastides was dean of the Arnold School
when Chandler was chair of the school’s Department of Environmental Health Sciences.
“I was impressed with Dr. Chandler’s leadership as department chair then, and I’ve been even more impressed with
his leadership as interim dean,” President Pastides said. “I’m
looking forward to the school’s accomplishments in the years
ahead under his direction.”
Immediate challenges facing the school include a need to
replace several faculty who have left or retired in recent years,
Chandler said.
“We’ve lost 17 tenure-track faculty in the past three years
so a top priority is to reload our faculty appointments, especially in three departments that have been especially hard
hit: health services, policy, and management; environmental
health sciences; and epidemiology and biostatistics,” he said.
“We’re hoping to add four to five new faculty per year during
the next five years.”
Chandler’s other goals for the school include:
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century,” he said. “Moreover, through spin-offs, the creation of
new jobs and intellectual property, this center will impact not
only physical health but also the economic health of our state.”
A major function of the center will be the accelerated
transfer of innovation from the Smith & Nephew laboratories
to the medical marketplace. University researchers, working
with Steadman Hawkins physicians, will expedite the process
of turning research into intellectual property and licensing.
Moreover, center officials expect that product evaluations—
especially how a product impacts quality of life—will spawn
new innovations and enhancements.
With all of the funding in place for the Rehabilitation and
Reconstruction Sciences Center, the University will be able to
move forward with recruiting a world-renowned researcher to
spearhead the effort. That person will become the CoEE Endowed Chair in Reconstructive Methodologies and Materials.
A top researcher will be named the CoEE Endowed Chair
in Reconstructive Methodologies and Materials and will
lead the center, drawing from the collaboration’s strength in
securing grant funding and attracting researchers, as well as
its work with medical informatics and epidemiology, exerciseinduced injuries, nutrition and performance, rehabilitation,
and biomedical engineering, Pastides said.
Mike Matthews, the principal investigator for the center
and a professor in the College of Engineering and Computing,
said the collaboration creates the entire infrastructure necessary to translate scientific discoveries into solutions that will
improve the lives of patients worldwide.
“New therapies can now be initiated by public health and
biomedical engineering research partners at the University
of South Carolina, developed and advanced with the research
and development expertise at Smith & Nephew, and studied
carefully in the ORFC and Steadman Hawkins clinical environment with patients,” Matthews said.
The CoEE program awards lottery funds to the state’s three
senior research universities to create cutting-edge research
centers in areas that are likely to advance the state’s economy
and create well-paying jobs. The program also enables the
universities to recruit some of the world’s leading researchers,
known as CoEE endowed chairs. Each center is awarded from
$2 million to $5 million in lottery funds by the state, which
must be matched on a dollar-for-dollar basis with non-state
investment from private or federal sources.
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planning, fund raising, faculty hiring, new facilities planning,
development of shared core research facilities, and support
of educational and training activities for Cornell’s New Life
Sciences Initiative.
President Pastides hailed Kresovich’s background in research administration and teaching and his record in research
productivity.
“Carolina’s research enterprise has built an impressive
record of sponsored research and awards, particularly in the
past several years, and Stephen Kresovich has the necessary
skills to help keep this enterprise moving aggressively forward,” Pastides said. “We’re also excited about the synergies
of combining graduate education with the vice president for
research position.”
Kresovich sees his primary role at Carolina as one of advocacy and network building.
“What I need to do is serve as a representative for the faculty. Anything I can do to recruit, retain, or otherwise optimize
working conditions for the University’s faculty is the most
important thing I can do,” he said. “I plan to work nationally
and internationally to find new sources of funds that will help
us take on more initiatives.
“As part of that, it will be imperative for me to know and
work closely with key players and key initiatives across the
campus and throughout the University system. I like building
teams that can bring a vision to reality.”
In his own research, Kresovich has collaborated with
faculty at Clemson University and has met faculty with similar
interests at the Medical University of South Carolina and the
College of Charleston. He envisions the University cultivating
more inter-institutional research partnerships and tailoring its
graduate programs to the needs of the state.
“I’m really impressed by Carolina’s commitment to serve
the state and link its research with economic development—
that message came across from the president and all of the
deans and faculty members I met,” Kresovich said.
Kresovich received his bachelor’s degree in biology from
Washington and Jefferson College, a master’s in agronomy
at Texas A&M University, and a Ph.D. in crop physiology and
genetics from Ohio State University in 1982.
Following graduation, he conducted research in crop
breeding and biotechnology at Battelle Memorial Institute and
Texas A&M University. Before joining the Cornell faculty, he
was laboratory director at two U.S. National Genetic Resources Program gene banks in New York (1987–93) and in Georgia
(1993–98).
Kresovich’s internationally recognized research focuses on
conservation genetics and improvement of crop plants including sorghum, maize, and pearl millet. He is a fellow of the
American Association for the Advancement of Science and the
Crop Science Society of America.
Kresovich is married to Janice Kilburn, a lecturer at Ithaca
College who earned a Ph.D. in school psychology. They have
two sons, Jacob and Alexander, who both are 2008 Cornell
graduates.
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Faculty/staff news
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Lawrence B. Glickman, history, “Bernard Baruch and the Transformation
of American Liberalism,” S.C. Jewish Historical Society, Georgetown.
Ron Prinz, psychology, “Parenting Strategies and Interventions for the Child
Welfare System,” Strengthening Early Childhood Mental Health Supports in
the Child Welfare System: Putting New Knowledge to Work, National Center
for Children in Poverty and the Annie E. Casey Foundation, New York City.
■ BOOKS AND CHAPTERS
■ OTHER
Shane R.Thye, sociology, Edward J. Lawler (Cornell University), and
Jeongkoo Yoon (Ewha University, South Korea), Social Commitments in a
Depersonalized World, Russell Sage Foundation, New York City.
Lawrence B. Glickman, history, Buying Power: A History of Consumer
Activism in America, University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Ill.
Lana A. Burgess, McKissick Museum, appointed to the Board of the Committee on Museum Professional Training, a professional standing committee
of the American Association of Museums.
Robert F.Valois, public health (health promotion, education, and behavior),
appointed to the Board of Associate Editors for the American Journal of
Health Education, the journal of the American Association for Health Education, Reston,Va.
■ ARTICLES
Timothy A. Roy, environmental and health sciences, Beaufort, Karen
Hammerstrom, and John Schaum, “Percutaneous Absorption of
2,3,7,8-Tetrachlorobenzo-p-dioxin (TCDD) from Soil,” Journal of
Toxicology and Environmental Health A.
Robert F.Valois, public health (health promotion, education, and
behavior), Peter Vanable and Michael Carey (Syracuse University),
Ralph DiClemente and Laura Salazar (Emory University), and Daniel
Romer and Michael Hennessey (University of Pennsylvania), “Testretest reliability of self-reported sexual HIV/STD-related measures
among African-American adolescents in four U.S. cities,” Journal of
Adolescent Health.
Daniela B. Friedman and Sara J. Corwin, health promotion, education, and behavior, James Laditka, epidemiology and biostatistics,
Sarah Laditka, health services policy and management, R. Hunter,
S.L. Ivey, Bei Wu, W. Tseng, R. Liu, and
A.E. Mathews, “Getting the Message Out About Cognitive Health: A
Cross-Cultural Comparison of Older Adults’ Media Awareness and
Communication Needs on How to Maintain a Healthy Brain,” The
Gerontologist.
Daniela B. Friedman and Sara J. Corwin, health promotion,
education, and behavior, I.D. Rose, and G.M. Dominick, “Prostate
Cancer Communication Strategies Recommended by Older AfricanAmerican Men in South Carolina: A Qualitative Analysis,” Journal of
Cancer Education.
James Thrasher, health promotion, education, and behavior,
M. Boado, E.M. Sebrie, and E. Biano, “Smoke-free policies and the social
acceptability of smoking in Uruguay and Mexico: Findings from the
International Tobacco Control Policy Evaluation Project,” Nicotine &
Tobacco Research.
Charles K. Cook, math, Sumter, “Original Problem B-1047,” The
Fibonacci Quarterly.
Christine E. Blake, health promotion, education, and behavior,
C.M. Devine, E. Wethington, M. Jastran, T.J. Farrell, and C.A. Bisogni,
“Employed parents’ satisfaction with food-choice coping strategies:
Influence of gender and structure,” Appetite.
R. David Mitchell, math, Sumter, Original Problem B-1050,
The Fibonacci Quarterly.
James R. Hébert, epidemiology and biostatistics, Xuemei Sui and
Steven N. Blair, exercise science, M. Hèroux, I. Janssen, M. Lam, and
Duck-Chul Lee, “Dietary patterns and the risk of mortality: impact of
cardiorespiratory fitness,” International Journal of Epidemiology.
Xuemei Sui,Timothy S. Church and Steven N. Blair, exercise science,
Duck-Chul Lee, and I.M. Lee, “Associations of cardiorespiratory fitness and
obesity with risks of impaired fasting glucose and diabetes in men,” Diabetes
Care.
Karin A. Pfeiffer, Marsha Dowda, and Russell R. Pate, exercise science,
and Kerry L. McIver, “Factors Related to Objectively Measured Physical Activity in Preschool Children,” Pediatric Exercise Science.
■ PRESENTATIONS
Mary Ellen Bellanca, English, Sumter, “The Voice of the Tortoise: Animal
Subjectivity in Gilbert White and Verlyn Klinkenborg,” Biennial Conference
of the Association for the Study of Literature and Environment, University of
Victoria, British Columbia.
■ Lighter times
When you said you’d score the proposal, I wasn’t
thinking of “for a full orchestra.”
G. Ross Roy, Rare Books and Special Collections, received an honorary
doctor of literature degree from the University of Glasgow in recognition of
his distinguished service to Scottish literature.
Ron Prinz, psychology, named honorary professor in the School of Psychology at the University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia.
Carolyn L. Hansen, languages, literatures, and cultures, participated in the
2009 annual reading and scoring of the College Board’s AP examinations in
Spanish, Cincinnati, Ohio.
Stan South, S.C. Institute of Archeology and Anthropology, gave several
invited talks in early June at archaeological sites in North Carolina, including
the British colonial Brunswick Town Historic Site, Civil War Fort Anderson,
and Civil War Fort Fisher.
■ 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.
Scots award Burns honorary degree, medal in his name
G. Ross Roy, one of the world’s foremost authorities
on 18th-century Scottish poet Robert Burns, was
awarded the honorary degree of doctor of letters
from the University of Glasgow on June 17, the
Scottish university’s annual commemoration day.
The award recognizes Roy, an emeritus professor of English at the University, and his contributions to the understanding and advancement of
Scottish literature.
“Professor Roy is one of the greatest Burns
scholars of the modern era,” said Gerard Caruthers,
Roy
head of Glasgow’s Scottish literature department.
“It was already Glasgow University’s privilege to have him as
an Honorary Research Fellow. The award of this doctorate to
him furthers the association and is a source of great pride to
us here at Glasgow.”
After the award ceremony, the Scottish Arts Council an-
nounced a new annual award, the Ross Roy Medal,
a prize that will be given annually to a student at
a Scottish university for the best essay in Scottish
literature.
In April, Roy received South Carolina’s Order of
the Palmetto at an international conference sponsored by the University to commemorate the 250th
anniversary of Robert Burns.
Roy is credited with founding the leading academic journal in Scottish literature in 1963. Scottish Literature publishes scholarly articles from the
medieval period through the 20th century.
He also amassed the world’s largest collection of Robert
Burns and Scottish literature materials, which he donated to
University Libraries upon his retirement in 1989. Some of the
finest elements of the collection are available on the Web for
use by scholars, students, and Burns enthusiasts.
■ In Memoriam: Joseph Leon Hankins
Joseph Leon Hankins, 62, a USC Postal Service carrier since 2005, died June 24 in Columbia. Funeral services were held
June 30 at the Nazareth Baptist Church in Columbia with burial in Swansea Cemetery in Swansea. Hankins was a veteran
of the U.S. Air Force and earned a bachelor’s degree in business administration from Central Piedmont College in Charlotte, N.C. He joined the University after retiring from Bell South.
An active member of the First Nazareth Baptist Church who served on several of its ministries,
Hankins was a fixture on the Columbia campus during his daily pickups and deliveries to many departments. He was a
frequent volunteer for the University’s Faculty-Staff Move-in Day at which his personality and spirit were welcome additions. Hankins is survived by his widow, Glenda; her two sons, Renard and Quinton; his daughter, Kamaria; and three
grandchildren.
Trustees approve ’09
tenure, promotions
The Board of Trustees approved the following recommendations for tenure and promotion for the 2008–09
academic year on the Columbia campus:
■ Promotion to professor: Joseph Quattro and Brian
Helmuth, biological sciences; Greg Carbone, geography;
Maria Mabrey, languages, literatures, and cultures;
Christopher Tollefsen, philosophy; Jim Hunter, theatre
and dance; Erik Drasgow and Robert Johnson, educational studies; Gloria Boutte-Johnson, instruction and
teacher education; Jasim Imran, civil and environmental
engineering; Xiaodong Li, mechanical engineering; Ran
Wei and August Grant, journalism and mass communications; and R. Chris Rorden, communication sciences and
disorders
■ Promotion to associate professor with tenure:
Terrance Weik and Mark Moskowitz, anthropology;
Kathleen Robbins, art; Robert Kaminski, criminology and
criminal justice; Paul Thompson and Patrick Ferguson,
chemistry and biochemistry; Patrick J. Gehrke, Qiana
Joelle Whitted, and Elise Blackwell, English; Edward R.
Carr and Diansheng Guo, geography; Camelia Knapp
and Scott White, geological sciences; Valinda Littlefield,
Bobby Donaldson, Kent Germany, and Ann Johnson,
history; Yvonne Ivory and Laura Ducate, languages,
literatures, and cultures; Matt Boylan and Linyuan Lu,
mathematics; Konstantin Pollok, philosophy; Todd Shaw
and Neal Woods, political science; Bret R. Kloos and
Suzanne Swan, psychology; Hong Yan, finance; Christine
DiStefano, educational studies; David Virtue, instruction
and teacher education; Ferdinanda Ponci and Goutam
Koley, electrical engineering; Jiun Tang and Homayoun
Valafar, computer science and engineering; Andrea Tanner, journalism and mass communications; Jennifer Arns
and Faili Tu, library and information science; Joshua
Eagle, law; Jacob Will, music; Shawn Youngstedt, exercise science; and Maryah Fram, social work
■ Promotion to associate professor: Kenneth
Vogler, instruction and teacher education
■ Tenure at associate professor: Vladimir Gudkov
and Steffen Strauch, physics and astronomy; and Esmaiel
Jabbari, chemical engineering
■ Tenure at librarian: Laurel Baker and Joshua Garris, University Libraries.
Trustees also approved the following recommendations for tenure and promotion for the 2008–09
academic year on the Aiken, Beaufort, Upstate, Regional,
and Extended campuses:
■ Promotion to professor: Carol Botsch and Christopher DeWitt, Aiken; Veronica Godshalk, Beaufort; and
Jean-Luc Grosso, Sumter
■ Promotion to associate professor with tenure:
Jill Hampton, Laura May, Steven Millies, Maggi Morehouse, and Chad Leverette, Aiken; Akira Iwasa, Beaufort;
Walter Collins, Lancaster; Mary Ellen Bellanca, Sumter;
and Ron Fulbright, Mary Lou Hightower, Carol Loar, and
Sebastian van Delden, Upstate
■ Promotion to librarian: Camille McCutcheon,
Upstate
■ Tenure at associate professor: Joseph Staton and
John Salazar, Beaufort.
Upstate promotes Smith
Bea Walters Smith has been promoted to director of
development and foundation scholarships in the Office of
University Advancement at USC Upstate.
In her new role, Smith’s responsibilities will be campuswide
and will consist of identifying,
cultivating, and soliciting major
gifts and scholarships for Upstate.
She previously was director of
alumni relations, annual giving,
and scholarships.
“Bea knows the Spartanburg
community, and her experience in
the alumni office will be a strong
Smith
advantage for her in this new
position,” said Mike Irvin, vice chancellor for university
advancement. “She will play a crucial role in the success
of the foundation scholarship program. Bea has earned
this position through hard work and dedication, and
I look forward to working with her as we advance the
University.”
Smith is a graduate of the College of Charleston and
has been employed with USC Upstate since 2002.
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Staff spotlight
■ Name: Sara Beardsley
Jim Anderson, left, plays
Gov. Francis Pickens, and
Ciara Lee Chaltas is his
wife, Lucy Pickens, in Edgewood: Stage of Southern
History. Juanita Palmer
is Lucinda, and Jean Paul
Gaultier is the carriage
driver. For the past three
years, Chaltas has done
reenactments and made
appearances around the
South as Lucy Pickens.
■ Title: Administrative assistant for
choral and opera
■ Depart-
ment: School
of Music
Hometown:
Columbia
■ Back-
ground: Bachelor’s degree in
music from Randolph Macon
Woman’s College in Lynchburg, Va., and a master’s
degree in organ performance from the
University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.
■ What does your job entail? I’ve
been involved in choral activities from
the accompanist’s seat as a pianist or organist for most of my life. When I found
out about the opening in the USC choral
department in 1998, it sounded like a
perfect job for me. Eleven years later,
I’m still convinced that I couldn’t be in
a better working environment. Both my
training as a musician and my tendency
toward compulsive planning have served
me well! My tasks are varied: ordering
and cataloguing music, creating concert
posters and programs, securing venues
and transportation for tours, keeping
the choral publicity database up to date,
and other duties. I also enjoy the daily
interaction with undergraduate singers
and graduate conducting students. In
addition to assisting with the choral
program, I work with Opera at USC,
primarily helping the graduate assistants with proofing programs and selling
tickets for the fall and spring opera
productions. Also, I have been organist
at Lake Murray Presbyterian Church in
Chapin for nearly 20 years, and I play a
number of weddings at Rutledge Chapel
each year.
■ What are the different choral
groups here at the University? The
Concert Choir is USC’s premier choral
ensemble, directed by Dr. Larry Wyatt.
Choir members are chosen by audition
and tour nationally and internationally. The University Chorus, which also
sings challenging and diverse repertoire,
represents a broad diversity of academic
majors and does not require audition. In
past years, it has ranged anywhere from
80 to 120 individuals. This fall we’re
welcoming a new conductor, Joseph
Modica, for this choir. Carolina Alive is a
vocal jazz group chosen by audition and
ranges from 12 to 16 singers. Graduate Vocal Ensemble is a small group of
amazingly talented graduate students
conducted by master’s and doctoral
candidates in choral conducting.
Maggi Morehouse
Historic house tells its own story in documentary
By Larry Wood
A driver in full livery and a top hat reins a horse-drawn carriage into a
driveway, usually used by cars, in front of the Pickens-Salley House on
the Aiken campus.
A pretty young woman steps down wearing a teal-colored hoop
skirt, a black bonnet tied at her throat, and a Russian fur coat draped
around her shoulders, but it’s the middle of summer.
Welcome to USC Aikenwood.
For five days in June, the Aiken campus became a living history lesson as faculty, staff, students, and actors from the community filmed
a documentary detailing the history of the Pickens-Salley House, the
campus’ administration building for the past two decades. Using visual
images and the house itself as the narrator, the film tells the story
of two influential women—Lucy Pickens of Edgefield, wife of South
Carolina’s secessionist governor in the 19th century, and Eulalie Salley of Aiken, a suffragist and pioneering businesswoman in the 20th
century—who gave the plantation home, originally called Edgewood
and located in Edgefield, its current name.
“Chris Koelker, the director and writer, had the brilliant idea
to make the house the narrator because no one person could know
absolutely all of the stories that happened in the house,” said Maggi
Morehouse, an associate professor of history who, as assistant director,
is working with Deidre Martin, executive producer and vice chancellor
for university advancement.
“Some of my students and I did research at South Caroliniana
Library, pulling out letters that Gov. Pickens wrote to his wife and
all sorts of other communications. The house heard those and other
letters read aloud and knows everything—if I haven’t said it, the house
is a woman, an omniscient woman—and tells some of the house’s
secrets.”
■ Tell me about the Summer
Chorus. The School of Music has two
sessions of summer chorus, a blend of
students and townspeople who come together two evenings a week to rehearse a
major choral work and perform it twice
at the end of a month. Summer I session
takes place in June and the Summer
II session in July each year. There are
a number of people who return year
after year to sing in one or both of
these choruses. Summer I Chorus sang
Mendelssohn’s Elijah a couple weeks
ago, and Summer II is busy rehearsing Haydn’s The Seasons. The Summer
II concerts will be performed under
the direction of Dr. Lillian Quackenbush and doctoral conducting student
Jennifer Adam at the School of Music
second-floor Recital Hall on Aug. 2 at 4
p.m. and Aug. 4 at 7:30 p.m. Admission
is free to the public, and we usually have
excellent attendance.
■ What is a unique thing about the
School of Music we may not know?
Each fall the Choral Department invites
South Carolina music teachers to bring
students to participate in daylong honor
chorus events.
—Cassie Hrushesky
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Michael Budd
USC Aiken professors Tom Mack, English, and Maggi Morehouse, history,
donned spiffy period duds for the film shoot. Mack is the Russian doctor; Morehouse is
Eugenia, mother of the bride.
Judith Goodwin, who works in USC Aiken’s Office of Advancement,
provides the voice and persona of the house.
Before becoming governor, Francis Pickens was minister to Russia
from 1858 to 1860 where he became a friend with Czar Alexander II
and Lucy became a favorite of the Russian court. Lucy’s first daughter
was born in Russia, and she named her Francis Eugenia Olga Neva.
The Czar and Czarina became the little girl’s godparents and called her
Douschka, meaning “darling” in Russian, a name she kept through her
life.
Francis Pickens became South Carolina’s governor three days before the state seceded from the Union in 1860. Lucy Pickens supported
secession and the Civil War and became known as the “Queen of the
Confederacy.” She is the only woman to be depicted on the currency,
printed in Columbia, of the Confederate States of America.
■ About the film
Edgewood: Stage of Southern History, a one-hour documentary that tells
the story of the Pickens-Salley House at USC Aiken, will premiere
March 30, 2010, at the annual Pickens-Salley Symposium, which
spotlights Southern women. After additional screenings at other
regional venues, the film will be marketed to S.C. ETV and Netflix.
Chris Koelker, director, and Jamie Koelker, director of photography, are
graduates of media arts on the Columbia campus. For more information and a preview of the film, go to www.edgewoodfilm.com.The film
also has a Facebook page with more than 100 friends.
Lucy Pickens died in 1899, and Edgewood was abandoned until
1929, when Eulalie Salley bought the home, had it disassembled board
by board, and then rebuilt atop Kalmia Hill, giving it a new life on the
highest point of land in Aiken.
Salley, who had fought for a woman’s right to vote, started a
real-estate agency in Aiken that catered to wealthy Northern industrialists, known as the Winter Colony, who came to Aiken in the early
20th century for the mild climate and for polo, fox hunting, and other
equestrian sports. One of Salley’s guests at Edgewood was Lucy Mercer
Rutherford, a love interest of Franklin D. Roosevelt.
The story of why Salley restored the house also is a story about
women.
“The granddaughter of Lucy Pickens, who had married a Tillman,
was in the hospital in the early 1920s. Her husband—this was the law
at the time—had her children deeded away to his mother,” Morehouse
said. “Eulalie Salley is incensed at the treatment of women as less than
citizens and human beings. She decides to restore the house, and it
becomes a monument to women.”
Salley’s story will be filmed in the fall.
Although Lucy Pickens and Eulalie Salley are the stars, the film also
will tell the stories of two enslaved African Americans—a man servant
and a lady servant—who lived at Edgewood. Both traveled with Lucy
Pickens and her husband to Russia. “It’s an interesting story to have
these enslaved African Americans in Europe very early on as representatives of life in South Carolina,” Morehouse said.
In addition to helping with research, some of Morehouse’s history
students and other USC Aiken students worked on the set and acted.
“The students who acted were very sensitive, especially portraying
the enslaved African Americans. Their portrayals were just magnificent,” Morehouse said. “What a great experience for all the students
working on the film. They’ve read the history in class, but on the set,
they saw history come to life. As an historian, to be able to tell a couple
of hundred years of history in a visual medium has been very exciting.”
The last five minutes of the film will focus on today at the PickensSalley House, which was moved to campus in 1989. “Once, this house
was a plantation style house with enslaved people,” Morehouse said.
“Now, it’s a center of learning for people of all races, creeds, and color.”