n Inside
Fluor Corporation and
Savannah River Nuclear
Solutions give $1.5 million
to USC for the Center of
Economic Excellence for
the Hydrogen Economy.
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The S.C. Academy of
Authors will induct Sue
Monk Kidd, author of
The Secret Life Of Bees,
right, Percival Everett, and
the late Gamel Woolsey
March 28. Page 8
Columbia
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March 3, 2011
A publication for faculty, staff, and friends of the University of South Carolina
Aiken
Beaufort
Lancaster
Salkehatchie
Sumter
Union
Upstate
Carolina Day at the Statehouse is coming up March 30—Be there!
It’s time to “Step Up” to support Carolina and higher education in South Carolina. The Carolina Alumni Association’s
Carolina Action Network (CAN) will sponsor its annual Carolina Day at the Statehouse March 30.
Since 2004, the day has been a catalyst for faculty, staff,
students, alumni, and friends of the University to speak with
legislators in support of USC and convey how strongly it
benefits the entire state.
Registration will be at 9 a.m. at the Capital City Club at
1201 Main St. An advocate briefing will begin at 9:30 a.m.
Advocates will begin visiting House and Senate members in
their offices at 10 a.m. At noon, President Pastides will speak
at a luncheon at the Capital City Club.
A $15 registration fee will defray the cost of lunch. The
deadline to register is March 23. To register, go to www.MyCarolina.org/advocacy or call the Carolina Alumni Association
at 7-4111. To show their support, advocates should wear garnet
and black.
Advocates will talk with legislators about how economic
development and job creation are primary missions of the
University. Some highlights include:
 USC faculty garnered nearly $219 million in sponsored re-
search awards in fiscal year 2010. These funds are earmarked
for specific research projects and grow the mission of the University and its ability to be problem solvers for the state, but
Continued on page 6
Princeton Review cites
USC as a ‘best value’
Fish for fowl? A young barred owl perches in a crape myrtle tree in the garden behind South Caroliniana library.The usually nocturnal
bird probably was eying the unsuspecting goldfish that live in the garden’s fountain.
Kim Truett
Owl eyes goldfish, but doesn’t give a hoot
Move over, Cocky—there’s a new bird in town named
Hootie, and he might be taking up residence in your
own backyard.
A young barred owl that seemed to have mixed up
his nights and days was spotted earlier in February
near the water fountain behind the South Caroliniana
Library. Eyeing the large goldfish who were sunning
themselves near the water’s surface, Hootie was oblivious to a gaggle of onlookers who gathered briefly to get
a glimpse of his mottled brown and white feathers and
yellow beak.
“I’ve seen them on campus before, but usually
closer to dusk,” said Rudy Mancke, USC’s naturalist
in residence. “During the day, that’s not a bird that
normally wants to be seen because a lot of birds—blue
jays, mockingbirds, grackles—will harass owls.
“I’m figuring that’s a younger bird that doesn’t
know better.”
So why would a young barred owl hang out on
campus? Mancke thinks he was probably eyeing the
Continued on page 6
USC has been recognized in The Princeton Review as one of the 50
“best value” public colleges and universities in the nation, the only
South Carolina institution to make the list.
The Princeton Review’s “100 Best Value Colleges for 2011” list
was released Feb. 22 in collaboration with USA Today and features
50 public and 50 private colleges.
USC was cited for having affordable tuition, awarding more than 1,000
need-based and merit-based scholarships
for entering freshman each year; having
respected academic programs and faculty
who are leaders in their fields of study; and
fostering a vibrant student life in a college
town atmosphere. The Honors College was
singled out for offering “select undergraduates a small, liberal arts college experience
on USC’s campus” and personalized attenPruitt
tion from professors.
Dennis Pruitt, vice president for student
affairs and dean of students, said the ranking confirms that the
University is honoring its commitment of offering an outstanding
undergraduate education at an affordable cost.
“This national ranking clearly shows that the University of
South Carolina is among the best public universities in the nation
for academics and affordability,” Pruitt said. “Our record number
of applications and the record number of freshmen who enrolled
last fall show that students and their parents recognize our value
and our excellence.”
Pruitt said the University’s Gamecock Guarantee, which
promises that undergraduate tuition and the technology fee will be
covered for up to four years for students who meet the program’s
academic, financial, and participation criteria, also is helping to
keep the cost of a USC education manageable.
The Princeton Review teamed with USA Today to present
the list of schools, which were selected on the basis of 30 factors,
including academics, cost of attendance, and financial aid.
Continued on page 6
n USC Connect: The student story
Unless you have been hiding out in a cave for the past
few months, you’ve probably heard the acronym QEP
and know that it has something to do with the University’s quest for reaffirmation of accreditation.
The official name of USC’s QEP (Quality Enhancement Plan) is USC Connect: Integrating Learning
Within and Beyond the Classroom. It’s a five-year
teaching and learning plan for USC Columbia and the
four regional campuses that’s aimed at encouraging
the myriad ways in which Carolina students learn and
prepare themselves to meet their life and career goals.
Examples of those “beyond the classroom” experiences include lectures, service-learning opportunities,
on-campus jobs, and leadership roles in clubs and
service organizations.
To raise awareness of the program, posters (see
right) will be displayed around campus.
Perhaps the best way to understand the essence of
USC Connect is to hear it directly from students whose
individual experiences thus far exemplify the plan’s
goals for all students. For two students’ stories, go to
page 8.
Gabrielle Peterson
Theatre and International Studies
Class of 2011
using a Magellan grant,
studied in Scotland and
wrote an original play
directed a professional
company’s production
of her play
credits USC theatre
professors for being
strong mentors and
great help
real-world,
professional
experience doing
what she loves
Briefly
USC UPSTATE CELEBRATES FOUNDERS’ DAY:
The Spartanburg County Commission for Higher Education
held its 43rd-annual Founders’ Day celebration to honor friends
and supporters who have been instrumental in the development of USC Upstate. Cleveland S. Harley, who played a pivotal
role in the establishment of USC Spartanburg in 1967, received
the G.B. Hodge, M.D., Lifetime Achievement Award, the highest
recognition the commission can grant.The award recognizes a
lifetime of history-altering influence on the shape, character, and
destiny of USC Upstate. President Pastides and the late James
“Eb” Barnes received the Founders’ Day Awards. From 1975 to
2003, Barnes served in many capacities at Upstate: professor of
physics, acting dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, and as
coordinator/director of USC Upstate in Greenville. Awards for
Distinguished Service went to Julian “Chip” Green and
Glenn C. Landrum. Green came to USC Upstate in 1988 to be
dean of the library and to teach geology part-time. From the
mid-1990s until his retirement in 2010, he taught full-time.
Landrum came to work at USC Upstate as a building and
grounds specialist. Although he officially retired in 2002,
Landrum chose to return to campus to work part-time. “The
service of the Founders’ Day and Distinguished Service
honorees is what has made this campus one of the finest,
strongest, and fastest growing in South Carolina,”
John Stockwell, chancellor of USC Upstate, said.
CAROLINA DINING MAKES VALENTINE’S A
“BEARY” SPECIAL DAY: Hundreds of children at the
Palmetto Health Children’s Hospital in Columbia received teddy
bears on Valentine’s Day through the generosity of the Sodexo
employees at Carolina Dining at the University. Employees
collected bears for children with critical health conditions that
could use a “hug” from some furry friends. “We are very fortunate to have employees who care so much,” said Robert Coffey,
resident district manager for Carolina Dining. “This is just another example of how they give back to the Columbia community.”
Carolina Dining/Sodexo also provides 70 meals a week to four
houses for the homeless; holds two food drives a year, which
results in thousands of pounds of food and dollars donated
to Harvest Hope of Columbia; volunteers at the Columbia
Homeless Shelter; and has assisted the shelter when other food
entities cannot provide food because of inclement weather.
FREE BLOOD PRESSURE SCREENINGS:
No appointment is necessary to receive a free blood pressure
screening from Campus Wellness.To have a blood pressure
check, go to the Blatt P.E. Center, Room 201, or the Strom
Thurmond Wellness and Fitness Center, first floor. Other
Campus Wellness programs and services include:
• exercise consultations
• nutrition consultations
• worksite screenings
• onsite screenings
• weight management programs
• body composition analyses
• massage therapy
• cooking demonstrations
• grocery store tours.
Almost all services are free for faculty, staff, and students. For
more information, call 7-6518, send an e-mail to sawellns@
mailbox.sc.edu, or stop by either office at the Blatt P.E. Center
or Strom Thurmond Wellness and Fitness Center.
MOSAIC SYMPOSIUM IS APRIL 2: The first
M.O.S.A.I.C Symposium (Meaningful Opportunities for Students
to Achieve International Competencies) will be held from 9 a.m.
to 3 p.m. April 2.The symposium is a one-day conference to
promote diversity in international learning. Students will be exposed to opportunities and topics that convey the importance
of international competencies and how they can be developed,
both at USC and abroad.The symposium is open to all USC
students, especially for students who are typically underrepresented in international education. Underrepresented students
include, but are not limited to, African-American, HispanicAmerican, and first-generation students whose parents do not
have a college degree.The event will promote campus
internalization and diversity in international learning.
For more information, call 7-7557 or send an e-mail to
Samantha Hartlen at hartlen@sc.edu or Rachel Hardison at
hardisor@mailbox.sc.edu.
CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER TO SPONSOR
CONFERENCE: USC Upstate’s Center for Child Advocacy
Studies will sponsor its second-annual conference, “A Brighter
Future: Ending Child Abuse Through Advocacy and Education,”
from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. March 17 at the Campus Life Center
Ballroom. Registration is $25 or $15 for students.Victor Vieth,
director of the National Child Protection Training Center
(www.ncptc.org), will be the keynote speaker.The guest speaker
will be Robin Sax, (www.robinsax.com), a former Los Angeles
County deputy district attorney, who specialized in prosecuting
sex crimes against children. For conference registration forms
or more information on continuing education credits, go to
www.uscupstate.edu/childadvocacyconference.
DE-STRESS WITH A MASSAGE: Student Health
Services offers seated chair massages at the Thomson Student
Health Center that require no undressing and use no oils.The
rate for faculty and staff is $22 for a 25 minute massage.To
make an appointment, call 576-9393.
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March 3, 2011
n USC Citizens’ School for Science and Technology
Lectures to explore scientific aspects of Civil War
The USC Citizens’ School for Science and Technology, in partnership with the S.C. Confederate Relic Room
and Military Museum and the USC Institute for Southern Studies, will sponsor a seven-week public lecture
series in March and April that will explore the science and technology of the Civil War.
The series will begin March 3 with an introduction to the Civil War by Lacy Ford, the Carolina professor of history and author of the recent book, Deliver Us from Evil, which was referred to by The New York
Times as “required reading for anyone interested in the development of southern society.” The series will continue on subsequent Thursday nights through April 14, featuring experts talking
about specific aspects of science and technology. Topics will include the CSS Hunley, photography, medical
care, weaponry, fortifications, and textiles.
The series will be held from 7 to 9 p.m. in Room 102 of Sumwalt College, 1212 Greene St., with the
exception of two sessions that will be held at the Confederate Relic Room, 301 Gervais St., to offer particiFord
pants a behind-the-scenes look at the museum’s collections in Civil War textiles and weapons.
Registration, which is required, is $40, and includes all reading material that accompanies each lecture.
To register or for more information, contact Katie Walker at walkerkm@email.sc.edu or call Allison Marsh at 7-0041.
All aboard for baseball 2011
Michael Brown
The game day shuttle service to Carolina Stadium for the 2011 baseball season will operate
two hours before and one hour after each home game.The pick-up and drop off points are the Russell House and the corner of Devine and Lincoln
streets behind the Coliseum.The fee is $2 per person round trip.Tickets are available at each site. A season pass is available for $60. Children ages 4
and under ride free. USC students with current ID ride free. For more information, go to www.sc.edu/vmps.
Physical education program gains national recognition
The physical education program at USC Upstate has been accepted into the National Strength and Conditioning Association (NSCA) Education Recognition Program.
Acceptance into the program indicates that the physical
education program’s curriculum meets the recommendations
of the NSCA for training students in the field of strength and
conditioning, and that students pursuing the non-teaching
physical education degree are receiving the best possible
preparation to pursue careers training athletes to perform at
their highest potential. “Being a NSCA-recognized school is very beneficial for USC
Upstate, and this affiliation will provide an advantage to our
students and graduates,” said Charles Love, dean of the School
of Education at USC Upstate. “Additionally, it will serve as an
enticement for prospective students.”
NSCA is the worldwide authority on strength and conditioning, supporting and disseminating research-based
knowledge and its practical application to improve athletic
performance and fitness. Students completing the curriculum are prepared to sit for
the NSCA’s certified strength and conditioning specialist exam
and the American College of Sports Medicine’s health fitness
specialist exam, which result in the top credentials in the field.
The degree also prepares students for careers in fitness, as well
as graduate study in exercise science and health professions
such as physical therapy. For more information, call 864-503-5528 or send an
e-mail to bsnyder@uscupstate.edu. To learn more about the
National Strength and Conditioning Association Education
Recognition Program, visit www.nsca-lift.org/erp/.
Nominate a student
for Discovery Day
‘Celebrate the Arts’ at
USC Beaufort March 4–5
The deadline for faculty to nominate students for Discovery Day 2011: A Forum for Student Ingenuity is March
4. The ninth-annual event will be held from 8:30 a.m. to
4:30 p.m. April 22 in the Russell House.
Discovery Day is an opportunity for students to
share what they have done with peers, faculty, staff, and
the public. The event for undergraduates from all USC
campuses showcases students’ scholarly pursuits in and
out of the classroom. Students present their experiences
or findings from:
n research and scholarly projects
n study abroad
n internships
n leadership experience,
n service-learning and community service
n national fellowship competitions.
Students can make poster, oral, creative, or artistic
presentations and visual art displays, including theatrical,
musical, or creative writing presentations.
Any activity or experience that enhanced a student’s
academic, professional, or scholarly pursuits is appropriate for presentation. The project or activity does not
have to be finished, but students must be able to discuss
tentative conclusions or how the project or activity has
made, or is making, an impact. There is no time limit on
when students can present an experience. Summer and
December graduates are eligible to participate in the following spring’s Discovery Day.
For more information or to nominate a student online, go to www.sc.edu/our/discovery.shtml. To register a
poster or presentation, students must submit a mentorapproved abstract online at www.sc.edu/our/discovery_online.shtml.
South Carolina artist Jonathan Green will give a lecture as
part of USC Beaufort’s “Celebrate the Arts,” a two-day community arts festival, March 4–5. The event, to be held at the
Beaufort campus in the historic district, also will include an
art competition for high school students and arts activities for
adults and children.
“Celebrate the Arts” will begin with Beaufort’s first juried
arts competition for high school students. More than 100 entries are competing. The top three prizes are art scholarships
of $3,000, $2,000, and $1,000 to attend USC Beaufort’s BA
in studio art program. The awards ceremony will be at 1 p.m.
March 4 in the Center for the Arts on the Beaufort campus.
Selected student artwork will be on display all afternoon.
Green will be honored with a reception and will present a
lecture March 4. Reservations are required for the lecture and
reception. To make a reservation, call 843-208-8247.
Events on March 5 will include arts activities for children,
food vendors, and local artists’ works displayed for purchase
from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.
At 1 p.m., USC Beaufort faculty members and invited
artists will hold a multimedia panel conversation on the
history, philosophy, and creation of art entitled “What is art?
What is its function? How does it work?” A variety of works
and philosophies will be presented that challenge traditional
notions of art and encourage new ways of appreciating art and
its function in society.
Tours of the Beaufort campus’ new arts studios, ceramics
laboratory, graphic design computer laboratory, and galleries
will be given throughout the festival.
The Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at USC Beaufort is
sponsoring the festival with support from the National Endowment for the Arts and the USC Beaufort studio art faculty.
For more information, call 843-208-8247, send an e-mail
to OLLI@uscb.edu, or go to www.uscb.edu/artsfestival.
n Women’s History Month
Events begin with conference:
‘Mars and Venus or Planet Earth’
Conferences, lectures, and sports events will be part of this year’s Women’s History Month, sponsored by Women’s Student Services.
The events are:
March 3
• Lecture, “Mars and Venus or Planet Earth,” Michael Kimmel, 3:30 p.m.,
Moore School of Business, Lumpkin Auditoriumm, Eighth Floor. Kimmel
will dispel the myth that men and women are from different places.
• Walker Institute’s 50th -anniversary Lecture Series, “Women, Peace,
and Human Security,” Jodie Williams, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate (1997),
7 p.m., Moore School of Business, Belk Auditorium, BA 005. Williams
received the Nobel Peace Prize for her work to ban landmines.
March 11
• Women’s tennis, USC v.
Auburn, 2 p.m., Maxcy
Gregg Tennis Center, Blossom Street
• Softball, USC v. Mississippi, 6 p.m., Beckham Field
March 12
• Softball, USC v. Mississippi, 2 p.m., Beckham Field
March 13
• Softball, USC v. Mississippi, noon, Beckham Field
• Women’s tennis, USC v.
Alabama, 1 p.m., Maxcy
Gregg Tennis Center, Blossom Street
Representatives of Fluor Corporation and Savannah River Nuclear Solutions (SRNS) announced
a $1.5 million gift Feb. 28 to the University for
the Center of Economic Excellence (CoEE) for the
Hydrogen Economy.
President Pastides, Fluor CEO and USC alumnus David Seaton, and SRNS president and CEO
Garry Flowers said the center will be the cornerstone of a comprehensive university-industry partnership among USC, Fluor, and SRNS to advance
the science, technology, and commercialization of
clean, secure, renewable energy and its infrastructure.
“Current global events are a stark reminder of
the critical need for energy independence,” Pastides said. “However, that can only be achieved by
bringing together the best and the brightest minds
in industry and research through public-private
partnerships. This gift today, along with state
lottery funds through the Centers of Economic
Excellence program, will help achieve this critical
national objective.”
The funds will enable USC to recruit two
world-class scientists for a Discovery Chair in
USC’s College of Engineering and Computing and
an Innovation Chair in the Darla Moore School of
Business.
“This partnership will bring together great
minds to achieve scientific and technological
breakthroughs in renewable energy that can be
transformed into viable business propositions,”
Pastides said.
The Discovery Chair in USC’s College of
Engineering and Computing will be filled by a
researcher and leader in renewable energy who
will create and coordinate joint research programs
between USC and the Savannah River National Lab
for developing technological advances in hydrogen
and renewable energy technology.
These programs will range from seed-funded
new initiatives proposed by USC and SRNL junior
researchers to large-scale federally and/or privately
funded initiatives involving multiple institutions
and investigators, Pastides said.
“We expect these research programs to produce
economically valuable intellectual property, new
business opportunities, and a highly educated
workforce that will have an impact on the future of
hydrogen and energy in the nation,” Pastides said.
The Innovation Chair in the Moore School will
be a global expert in innovation, commercialization, and technology transfer. The chair’s mission
is to collaborate with scientists and technologists,
translating discoveries from SRNS and USC into
commercial applications.
The chair will draw upon faculty and student
expertise in the Moore School from areas including
consumer behavior, industrial organization, supply
chains, domestic and global market analysis, regulation, and (risk adjusted) commercial valuation.
Fluor is contributing $1.25 million and SRNS
will add $250,000. The state of South Carolina will
provide matching funds as part of its Centers of
Economic Excellence matching program.
n ‘Beyond Domesticity’
Exhibit shows many facets of women’s writing
March 15
• Women’s Student Services
Information Table, 1–3
p.m., Russell House, Second
Floor Lobby. Make a card
for a woman who has been
influential and learn more
about Women’s History
Month events.
Fluor, Savannah River Nuclear Solutions
invest $1.5 million in USC CoEE
By University Libraries Office of Communications
The University will celebrate women’s athletics with
softball games, tennis matches, and track-and-field
events during March’s Women’s History Month.
March 16
• Women’s tennis, USC v. VCU, 2 p.m., Maxcy Gregg Tennis Center,
Blossom Street
• Softball, USC v. Georgia, 4 and 6:15 p.m., Beckham Field
March 17–18
• Women’s & Gender Studies Conference, “Recovering Voices,
Constructing Identities,” Darla Moore School of Business, Daniel
Management Center. For more information, go to www.cas.sc.edu/wost/
conferences/11/conference11.html.
March 22
• Tribute to Women on Campus, noon, Preston Dining, sponsored by
Carolina Dining.
March 23–27
• NOSTOS Conference, “War, The Odyssey, & Narratives of Return”
March 24–25
• Women in Engineering and Computing “EmpowHER” Conference,
sponsored by the USC Career Center. Part I will be from 5 to 7 p.m. March
24 and Part II will be from noon to 5 p.m., both in the Swearingen Faculty/Staff Lounge. The conference is designed to empower women in the
workforce, specifically in engineering and computing. Topics will include
marking a mark in the field, how to get started, and how to draft a successful resume. Friday’s event will be a series of presentations on careerrelated topics. To participate in both days, register for each day through
JobMate. For questions about services offered at the Career Center, visit
www.sc.edu/career or contact Helen Fields at 7-1974 or hefields@mailbox.sc.edu.
March 26
• Track and field, Weems Baskin Invitational, all day, outdoor track,
behind the Roundhouse (Rex Enright Center)
March 30
• Feminist Majority Leadership Alliance (FMLA) Jewelry Sale, 11 a.m.–
2 p.m., Greene Street. Every year the FMLA collects used jewelry from
students around campus, cleans it, and resells it. All proceeds go to the
Women’s Shelter of Columbia.
• Outstanding Woman of the Year, 4–5 p.m., Harper College, Gressette
Room
• Softball, USC v. USC Upstate, 5 p.m., Beckham Field
• Second-annual USC Hero Awards, 6:30–8 p.m., Russell House Ballroom. The awards recognize students, faculty, and staff who have stepped
up and made a difference in someone’s life, or whose actions benefitted
the campus as a whole.
March 31
• FMLA Jewelry Sale, 11 a.m.–2 p.m., Greene Street.
As 19th-century U.S. literature scholars, faculty members Katherine Adams and Cynthia Davis knew there
were plenty of works written by women from 1770 to 1915 that were not about domestic topics. So they set
out to dispel some conventional
notions in Beyond Domesticity: U.S.
Women Writers, 1770–1915, their
first curated exhibit.
As it turns out, they often surprised themselves.
“It was quite exciting to see how
many items the University has,” said
Adams, an associate professor of
English and Women’s and Gender
Studies. “We both do scholarship
in this area, so just discovering so
many original sources in our very
own library was amazing. It was
great to look at these first editions,
to go into the rare book stacks
and see a text signed by Pauline
Hopkins or Susan B. Anthony. I
don’t normally do archival work—
my research doesn’t require these
kinds of sources. But, as I told my
students, there’s a big, geeky thrill in Unsexed:The Female Soldier, by Emma E. Edmonds, tells the story of a woman who
was a nurse, spy, and scout in the Union army during the Civil War.
working with these original sources
and books.”
Adams’ students in ENGL 437
Beyond Domesticity: U.S.Women Writers, 1770–1915 is on display in
Women Writers course are expethe Hollings Library through April 30. A 35-minute audio tour is
riencing the “big, geeky thrill” for
available.Visitors can either sign out one of five pre-loaded iPods at
themselves. They are contributing to
the Hollings registration desk, or download the audio file directly
an online version of the exhibit, to
to their phone or iPod at www.sc.edu/library/spcoll/beyondDogo live later this spring.
mestic.html.
Books in Beyond Domesticity include Incidents in the Life of a Slave
Girl, Written by Herself (1861), by
former slave Harriet Jacobs, who reveals how slavery perverted conventional notions of girlhood and motherhood. Charlotte Perkins Gilman argues in Human Work (1911) that the home was anything but a haven.
And in The Awakening (1899), Kate Chopin aligns childbirth with the death of female artistry.
Other exhibit items include a spinning wheel, women’s suffrage buttons, clothing, and advertising from
the era.
“The idea behind Beyond Domesticity was to challenge how domesticity is only one side of women’s
experience in the 19th century, and I helped identify materials in the collections that would illustrate that,”
said Jeffrey Makala, librarian for instruction and outreach in the Irvin Department of Rare Books and Special Collections.
“For example, women didn’t get the right to vote until 1920, but they were deeply engaged in national
politics before that time and they wrote about it,” he said. “The History of Woman Suffrage, written in 1887
by Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, and Matilda Joslyn Gage, is part of the exhibit. The University
has a beautiful copy with a local connection: it was inscribed by Anthony as a gift to the Political Study Club
of Columbia in 1895.”
There were surprises even in the works that were about domestic issues.
“You’d think that a domestic manual would present housekeeping in a positive light,” said Davis, a professor in the Department of English Language and Literature. “Yet to take one example, Catharine Beecher
begins her famous Treatise on Domestic Economy (1843) with a discussion of all the women who were made
sick and unhappy by housework. Many of the works in the exhibit contain similar surprises.”
The 140 books and other items in the exhibit come from the Irvin Department of Rare Books and Special
Collections in the Hollings Library, South Caroliniana Library, and McKissick Museum. Each area, along
with the faculty members and their departments, worked together to bring the exhibit to life.
“It was a nice collaboration,” Makala said. “It’s the way things should happen.”
March 3, 2011
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March & April
Calendar
 Lectures
 Lectures
 Concerts
March 3 Chemistry and Biochemistry, Organic
Divisional lecture, “Functional nanomaterials from polymers
and their hybrids,” Ho-Cheol Kim, IBM, 4 p.m., Coker Life
Science, Room 005.
March 21 Chemistry and Biochemistry, “Lewis Base Activation
of Lewis Acids: A New Paradigm for
Catalysis in Main,” Scott E. Denmark,
University of Illinois, Jones Physical
Science Center, Room 006. Refreshments will be served at 3:15 p.m.
March 3 Faculty and guest artists concert: Robert
Spring and Jana Starling, guest artist clarinet recital,
7:30 p.m., School of Music Recital Hall. Free. Spring is a
professor of clarinet at Arizona State University and is
principal clarinet of the ProMusica Chamber Orchestra of
Columbus, Ohio. For more information, call 7-4280.
March 3 Physics and Astronomy Colloquium, “Flux
Dynamics and the Mixed State of Superconductors Type
II,” Milind Kunchur, Department of Physics and Astronomy,
USC, 3:30 p.m., Jones Physical Science Center, Rogers
Room 409. Refreshments will be served at 3:15 p.m. For
more information, contact Mary Papp at 7-8105 or papp@
physics.sc.edu or go to www.physics.sc.edu.
March 3 Women’s & Gender
Studies, “Mars and Venus or
Planet Earth,” Michael Kimmel,
SUNY at Stony Brook, 3:30 p.m.,
Moore School of Business, Lumpkin
Auditorium. Kimmel will dispel the
myth that men and women are from
different places. Sponsored by Sexual
Assault & Violence Intervention and
Prevention and the Department of
Psychology.
Kimmel
March 3 Walker Institute, 7 p.m.,
BA Building, Belk auditorium, Room 005. Jody Williams,
Nobel Peace Prize Laureate in 1997, will be the speaker.
Her topic will be “Women, Peace, and Human Security.”
Williams received the Nobel Peace Prize for her work to
ban landmines through the International Campaign to Ban
Landmines. For more information, call 7-8180.
March 15 History, “African Nations and Ethnic Identity in the Mina
Coast and in Brazil: An Atlantic
Comparative Approach,” Luis Nicolau Parés, professor of anthropology, Federal University of Bahia in
Brazil, and a Fellow at the National
Humanities Center, 3:30–5 p.m.,
Thomas Cooper Library, Graniteville
Room. Cosponsored by the Institute
Parés
for African American Research,
Latin American Studies, and the
Department of Anthropology. For more information, e-mail
woodsme2@mailbox.sc.edu.
March 16 Clinical Pharmacy and Outcomes Sciences, Graduate Research Seminar Series, “Use of Nanocarrier-based Drugs in Breast Cancer Therapy,” Jun Wu, assistant
professor, Department of Clinical Pharmacy & Outcomes
Sciences, S.C. College of Pharmacy, noon–1p.m., Coker Life
Sciences, Room 110. Wu will discuss a proposal to evaluate
prescribing patterns and health-care costs of nanocarrierbased chemotherapy in breast cancer patients using claims
data. For more information, e-mail pweiss@mailbox.sc.edu.
March 17 Geography, “Mapping Flood Risk,” David Maidmen, University of Texas, 3–5 p.m., Russell House Theater.
For more information, go to www.discover.sc.edu.
March 23 Clinical Pharmacy
and Outcomes Sciences, Graduate Research Seminar Series, “Interdisciplinary Approaches to Ameliorating Barriers to Oral Medication
Self Management,” Teri Browne,
assistant professor, College of Social
Work, noon–1 p.m., Coker Life
Sciences, Room 110. Attendees will
learn about the barriers to patient
self-management of oral medications. For more information, e-mail
pweiss@mailbox.sc.edu.
March 24 Geography, “Increasing
Public Preparedness for Disasters,” Dennis Mileti, University of
Colorado, 3–5 p.m., Russell House
Theater. For more information, go
to www.discover.sc.edu.
March 25 Chemistry and
Biochemistry, “Shape-shifting
surfaces, and their abettors: Coinage
metals plus chalcogens,” Patricia A.
Thiel, Iowa State University, 4 p.m.
Jones Physical Science Center, Room
006. Refreshments will be served at
3:15 p.m.
Denmark
Browne
Flutist Jennifer Parker-Harley
Thiel
March 31 Chemistry and Biochemistry, “Supramolecular Polymers: Influence of Dynamics on Properties,”
Laurent Bouteiller, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Ivry,
France, 4 p.m., Coker Life Science, Room 005.
 Sports
March 3 Men’s basketball: Tennessee, 7 p.m.,
Colonial Life Arena.
March 3 Baseball: Furman, 7 p.m., Carolina Stadium.
March 3–6 SEC Women’s Basketball Tournament:
Time TBA, Nashville, Tenn.
March 4 Baseball: Clemson, 7 p.m., Carolina Stadium.
March 9 Baseball: Davidson, 7 p.m., Carolina Stadium.
March 10–13 SEC Men’s Basketball Tournament:
Time TBA, Atlanta, Ga.
March 11 Softball: Mississippi, 6 p.m., Beckham Field.
March 17 Languages, Literatures, and Cultures,
HOME, an eco-documentary by Yann Arthus-Bertrand,
4–6 p.m., Moore School of Business, Belk Auditorium, Room
005. Screening of the film will be presented by one of its
scriptwriters, Isabelle Delannoy. The film is the opening
event of 39th-annual French Literature Conference, the
theme of which is eco-criticism. Free and open to the
public. For more information, e-mail perselsj@sc.edu.
March 11 Baseball: Cal State Bakersfield, 7 p.m.,
Carolina Stadium.
March 17 Walker Institute, “American Leadership in
a Complex World,” Gen. Stanley McChrystal, U.S. Army,
retired, 7 p.m., School of Law Auditorium. Before his retirement, McChrystal was the commander of the International
Security Assistance Force and of U.S. forces in Afghanistan.
For more information, go to www.cas.sc.edu/IIS/.
March 13 Softball: Mississippi, noon, Beckham Field.
 Theatre/opera/dance
March 19 Theatre and Dance: Sixth-annual “Ballet Stars
of NY” performance, 7 p.m., Koger Center. The USC Dance
Company, under the direction of Stacey Calvert, will share
the stage with principal dancers from the New York City
Ballet, along with the USC Symphony. For more information, call 7-1001 or go to http://www.cas.sc.edu/dance/.
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March 15 School of Music: USC Symphony Orchestra
concert with Jennifer Parker-Harley, flute, and winners of
the USC Concerto/Aria Competition. 7:30 p.m., Koger
Center, with a pre-concert lecture at 6:45 p.m. ParkerHarley will perform Flute Concerto, by Nielsen. The competition winners are Ginger Jones, mezzo-soprano, who will
perform “Pres des remparts de Seville” (Seguidilla) from
Carmen, by Bizet; G. Tyler Loftin, marimba, who will perform
Concerto for Marimba and String Orchestra (movement III), by
Ewazen; and Ksenia Ilinykh, piano, who will play Piano Concerto No. 1 (movement III), by Brahms. The orchestra also
will perform The Firebird Suite (1919), by Stravinsky. Tickets
are adults, $25; seniors, faculty, and staff, $20; students, $8.
Tickets are available at the Carolina Coliseum box office or
by calling 251-2222. For more information, call 7-7500.
March 17 School of Music: The CORE Ensemble guest
artists recital, 7:30 p.m., School of Music Recital Hall. Free.
For information, call 7-4280.
March 18 School of Music: Patrick Pope guest artist
organ recital, 7:30 p.m., School of Music Recital Hall. Free.
For information, call 7-4280.
March 21 School of Music: Terry Lynn Hudson, Baylor
University, guest artist piano recital, 7:30 p.m., School of
Music Recital Hall. Free. For information, call 7-4280.
March 22 School of Music: Raphael Sanders, Crane
School of Music, SUNY at Potsdam, guest artist clarinet
recital, 7:30 p.m., School of Music Recital Hall. Free. For
information, call 7-4280.
March 23 School of Music: The Merling Trio guest artist
recital with Renata Artman Knific, violin; Bruce Uchimura,
cello; and Susan Wiersma Uchimura, piano, Western Michigan University, 7:30 p.m., School of Music Recital Hall. Free.
For information, call 7-4280.
March 12 Softball: Mississippi, 2 p.m., Beckham Field.
March 12 Baseball: Cal State Bakersfield, 4 p.m.,
Carolina Stadium.
March 13 Baseball: Cal State Bakersfield, 1:30 p.m.,
Carolina Stadium.
March 16 Softball: Georgia, 4 and 6:15 p.m.,
Beckham Field.
March 16 Baseball: Wofford, 7 p.m., Carolina Stadium.
March 18 Baseball: Georgia, 7 p.m., Carolina Stadium.
March 19 Baseball: Georgia, 4 p.m., Carolina Stadium.
March 20 Baseball: Georgia, 1:30 p.m., Carolina Stadium.
March 22 Baseball: College of Charleston, 7 p.m.,
Carolina Stadium.
March 23 Baseball: Rhode Island, 7 p.m.,
Carolina Stadium.
 List your events
The Times calendar welcomes submissions of listings
and photographs for upcoming campus events. Information should include the title of the event, starting time,
location, speaker or presenter and their affiliation, cost
to attend, and the host department or program. Send
information or direct questions to Jane Jeffcoat at
jwj@mailbox.sc.edu or 7-3683. The deadline for
receipt of information is 11 business days prior to the
publication date of issue. The next publication date is
March 24.
 Online calendar
USC Calendar of Events is at http://events.sc.edu.
To add events here, contact Cassandra Pope at
popecl@mailbox.sc.edu or 7-0019.
If you require special accommodations, please contact the program sponsor.
 Exhibits
March 7–18 Art Department: Solo Show, Whitney
Dearden, McMaster Student Gallery, McMaster College,
first floor, Senate Street. Gallery hours are 8:30 a.m.–
8 p.m. Monday–Sunday. For more information, e-mail
mcmasterstudentgallery@gmail.com.
Through March 4 Art Department: Solo Show, Rachel
Borgman, McMaster Student Gallery, McMaster College,
first floor, Senate Street. Gallery hours are 8:30 a.m.–8 p.m.
Monday–Sunday. For more information, e-mail mcmasterstudentgallery@gmail.com.
Through March 26 McKissick Museum: “From
Snapshot to Civic Action: Creating Healthy Environments
through Community Engagement,” 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Monday–Friday and 11 a.m.–3 p.m. Saturday. The museum is
closed on Sundays and holidays. For more information, call
7-725 or go to www.cas.sc.edu/MCKS/.
Through March 31 South Caroliniana Library: “The
Horseshoe: Heart of the Campus,” Lumpkin Foyer.
Museums, grand art, colored pencils, and
children’s painting kits captured Whitney
Dearden’s imagination when she was young,
and her work as an artist, above and right,
reflects those themes. Dearden, an art
studio and art history major, will present
a solo show March 7–18 in the McMaster
Student Gallery.The gallery, on the first
floor of McMaster College, is open from
8:30 a.m. to 8 p.m. Monday–Sunday. For
more information, send an e-mail to
mcmasterstudentgallery@gmail.com.
Through April 30 Hollings Library: “Beyond Domesticity: U.S. Women Writers, 1770–1915,” Irvin Department
Exhibition Gallery. (See story page 3.)
Through May 7 McKissick Museum: “Walter Anderson:
Everything I See is New and Strange,” South Gallery, second
floor, 8:30 a.m.–5 p.m. Monday–Friday and 11 a.m.–3 p.m.
Saturday. The museum is closed on Sundays and holidays.
For more information, call 7-725 or go to www.cas.sc.edu/
MCKS/.
 Around the campuses
March 4–5 USC Beaufort: “Celebrate the Arts,” a
two day community festival, Beaufort campus. For more
information,
call 843-2088247, e-mail at
OLLI@uscb.
edu, or go to
http://www.
uscb.edu/artsfestival. ( See
story page 2.)
March 14
USC Salkehatchie:
Pi Day Student
Trivia Contests on both
Allendale and
Walterboro
campuses,
12:15–1 p.m.
Room 111 in
Walterboro;
atrium in Allendale. Contests will celebrate Pi Day. Prizes will be slices
of pie. For more information, call Bryan Lai, 843-549-6314.
Through March 15 USC Sumter: “Lavan,” by Zachary
Baldwin, Upstairs Gallery, Administration Building. For more
information, contact Cara-lin Getty, gallery director, at
cgetty@uscsumter.edu or Laurel Jordan, gallery assistant, at
jordalau@uscsumter.edu.
March17 Salkehatchie: Salkehatchie’s Got Talent Student,
faculty and staff talent show, 12:15–1 p.m., atrium in Allendale. Sponsored by SGA. For more information, call Mandy
Smith, 803-584-3446.
Through March 20 USC Sumter: “Art Galleries
Re-Mix: A Selection of Digital Prints by Cara-lin Getty,”
Umpteenth Gallery, Arts and Letters Building. Getty is a
distinguished professor emerita at USC Sumter. The gallery
is open 8:30 a.m.–5 p.m. Monday–Friday. For more information, contact Cara-lin Getty, gallery director, at cgetty@uscsumter.edu or Laurel Jordan, gallery assistant, at jordalau@
uscsumter.edu.
Through April 12 USC Sumter: “doni jordan: tomes,”
University Gallery, Anderson Library. Gallery hours are
8:30 a.m.–8 p.m. Monday–Thursday; 8:30 a.m.–1 p.m. Friday;
and 2–6 p.m. Sunday, For more information, contact Cara-lin
Getty, gallery director, at cgetty@uscsumter.edu or Laurel
Jordan, gallery assistant, at jordalau@uscsumter.edu.
 Miscellany
 Miscellany
March 7–March 21 Continuing Education and
Conferences: “Improving Curb Appeal with Landscape
Design,” 6–8 p.m. Mondays. Learn the basics of landscape
design. The cost is $35.
March 22 Healthy Carolina: First Healthy Carolina
Farmers Market of the season, 10 a.m.–2 p.m., Greene
Street in front of the Russell House. For more information,
go to www.sc.edu/healthycarolina/farmersmarket.html.
March 15 Office of Fellowships and Scholar
Programs: Gates-Cambridge, Rhodes, Mitchell, and
Marshall Fellowship Workshop, 4 p.m., Legare College,
Room 322. Available for one to three years of graduate
study in institutions in the United Kingdom and Ireland for
students who have a record of superior academic achievement, service, and leadership and are well informed on
global issues. The University must nominate applicants in
each competition. USC nomination deadline is August. For
more information, call 7-0958, e-mail ofsp@sc.edu, or go to
www.sc.edu/ofsp.
March 22 Center for Teaching Excellence and Office
of Student Engagement: Mutual Expectations Workshop,
3:30–4:45 p.m., Harper College, Gressette Room, Third
Floor. To register, go to www.sc.edu/cte/workshops/mx1/,
e-mail cte@sc.edu, or call 7-8322.
March 16 Office of Fellowships and Scholar Programs: Javits Workshop, 4 p.m., Legare College, Room
322. Available to students of superior academic ability with
demonstrated achievements and promise who will pursue
doctoral or master of fine arts (MFA) degrees. The awards
cover graduate study in selected fields of the arts, humanities, and social sciences. For more information, call 7-0958,
e-mail ofsp@sc.edu, or go to www.sc.ed/ofsp.
March 16–April 6 Continuing Education and
Conferences: Introduction to Digital Photography,
6–8 p.m. Wednesdays. John Wrightenberry, award-winning
professional photographer and USC alumnus, is the
instructor. The cost is $95.Visit discover.sc.edu.
March 17 Center for Teaching Excellence, Office of
Student Organizations, and Office of the Provost:
“Power Lunch for Advisors of Student Organizations,”
12:15–1:45 p.m. Center for Teaching Excellence, Thomas
Cooper Library, Room L511. The deadline to register is
March 9. To register, go to www.sc.edu/cte/power/advisors,
e-mail cte@sc.edu, or call 7-8322.
March 18 Center for Teaching Excellence: Teaching
Excellence Seminar, “Presentations that Wow,”
10:10 a.m.–noon, Center for Teaching Excellence, Thomas
Cooper Library, Room L511, with Hendrikus “Hennie” van
Bulck, assistant professor, Division of Business Administration
and Economics. To register online, go to www.sc.edu/cte/
seminars/wow/, e-mail cte@sc.edu, or call 7–8322.
March 18, April 1, 8, and 15 Office of Fellowships
and Scholar Programs: Writing Personal Statements for
National Fellowship Applications, 2–4 p.m., Legare College,
Room 322. For more information, e-mail ofsp@sc.edu or
call 7-0958.
March 18 Arnold School of Public Health: “Healthy
Eating in Context: The Role of the Political, Physical,
Economic, and Social Structures in Nutrition,” Columbia
Metropolitan Convention Center. Registrants can sign in
between 7:45 and 8:30 a.m. Sponsored by the Center for
Research in Nutrition and Health Disparities. Free. Lunch
provided. Register by March 10 at http://nutritioncenter.sph.
sc.edu/.
March 23 Center for Teaching Excellence, Carolina Learning Initiative, and Office of the Provost:
“Voyages into the Technology Frontier: iPads and Teaching,” 12:30–2 p.m., Center for Teaching Excellence, Thomas
Cooper Library, Room L511, with panelists Gail Barnes,
associate professor, music education; Matthew Kostek, assistant professor, Department of Exercise Science; and Tom
Weir, associate professor, School of Journalism and Mass
Communications. To register online, go to www.sc.edu/cte/
seminars/voyages2/, e-mail cte@sc.edu, or call 7-8322.
March 24 Healthy Carolina: “Back Support Exercises for
Pregnancy and Beyond,” Green Quad Lounge, with Rachel
E. Hall, owner and director of Columbia’s new physician-supervised maternity spa and wellness center in a workshop
focused on stretching and yoga exercises that are beneficial
during pregnancy and beyond. For more information, go to
www.sc.edu/healthycarolina/lsp.html. RSVP to lindstrv@
mailbox.sc.edu.
March 31 Center for Teaching Excellence and the
Office of Information Technology: Power Lunch on
Clinical Teaching, “Clinical Teaching with iPads,”
11:30 a.m.–1p.m., Center for Teaching Excellence, Thomas
Cooper Library, Room L511. An iPad will be available
for attendees to test, and a light lunch will be provided.
Panelists are Jamy Archer, clinical instructor, Department
of Communication Sciences and Disorders; Megan Burton,
assistant professor, Department of Instruction and Teacher
Education; Christina C. Piro, clinical assistant, professor, S.C.
College of Pharmacy; and Jeremy Searson, clinical instructor of Athletic Training, Department of Physical Education.
Registration is required by March 25. To register, go to
www.sc.edu/cte/power/clinical/, e-mail cte@sc.edu, or call
7-8322.
Every Thursday McCutchen House: Four-or-fivecourse evening dinner designed and prepared by students
in the Hotel, Restaurant, and Tourism Management program
under the direction of teaching staff and chefs, 6:30–
6:45 p.m., seating begins at 6 p.m. Upcoming themes are
March 3, German. The cost is $20 per person. To register
and for menus, go to www.mccutchenhouse.sc.edu.
Through May McCutchen House: Lunch buffet,
11:30 a.m.–1:30 p.m., Tuesday–Friday. Cost is $10 per
person. For reservations, call 7-4450.
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Briefly
Honors College dean candidates to visit
campus: Four candidates for dean of the Honors College
have been invited to visit the campus for interviews in March
and April.They are:
• George Arasimowicz, founding dean of arts, media, and communication at Wheaton College and recent dean of arts and
sciences at the University of California at Dominguez Hills
• Steven Lynn, senior associate dean of the College of Arts and
Sciences at USC and former chair of USC’s English department
• Robert Pratt, professor and recent chair of the history department at the University of Georgia
• Marjean Purinton, associate dean of the Honors College at
Texas Technical University in Lubbock.
Dates of the campus visits are: Pratt, March 2–3; Lynn, March
21–22;
Arasimowicz, March 29–30; and Purinton, April 11–12.
Tayloe Harding, dean of the School of Music, has been interim
dean of the Honors College since August.
LOOKING FOR A NEW WAY TO MANAGE
STRESS?: Sign up for MBSM.The new Mindfulness-based
Stress Management programs introduce the concept “mindful
awareness and attention” to manage stress, develop a greater
sense of balance, and fully participate in life. MBSM is not
quick-fix tips for stress but a way to change “think-styles” and
lifestyles in a health-enhancing way. Classes include education,
mindful meditation practices, activities, and group dialogue.
The program will run March 14 through April 25 from 12:15 to
1 p.m. Mondays and from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m.Wednesdays. Space
is limited to 15 participants. For a flyer and registration forms,
go to www.sa.sc.edu/shs/MBSMflyer.pdf and www.sa.sc.edu/
shs/MBSMRegistrationFormSpr2011.docx. For more information, e-mail Laura Rooney, rooneylj@mailbox.sc.edu, or Charley
Martin, marti448@mailbox.sc.edu, with Student Health Services
Campus Wellness.
PARENTS NEEDED FOR STUDY: The College of
Social Work and the Arnold School of Public Health are looking
for parents and primary caregivers of children in their prekindergarten year to participate in an interview.The study will
look at parents’ and caregivers’ perspectives on what they do
with respect to raising children and why certain practices are
important.The interview will take between an hour to an hour
and a half, and interviewers will come to parents and caregivers. Participants will receive a $20 Wal-Mart gift card. For more
information, contact Mark Macauda at 7-7029 or at macauda@
mailbox.sc.edu.
B.L.A.S.T. INTO A NEW FITNESS ROUTINE:
Having trouble finding time to work out during the day? The
B.L.A.S.T. program, offered by Campus Wellness, is designed to
help strengthen muscles, improve muscular endurance, increase
flexibility, and reduce stress through exercises that can be done
almost anywhere, including the office. A Campus Wellness representative will visit offices to demonstrate each exercise and
proper form. Each participant will receive a resistance band and
exercise booklet to keep.To set up a group demonstration and
instruction, call 7-6518 or send an e-mail to sawellns@mailbox.
sc.edu. A minimum of six participants is required to sponsor a
workshop.
SYSTEM DAY, PARENTS WEEKEND, HOMECOMING SET: The University has scheduled its annual
special events for the 2011 football season. System Day will kick
off the special-events schedule Sept. 17.The game against Navy
will honor the eight USC campuses.The home football game
against Vanderbilt University Sept. 24 will coincide with Parents
Weekend, which will be Sept. 23–25. Homecoming will be
celebrated Nov. 12 when the Gamecocks take on the University
of Florida.
BEAUFORT CHOIR TO PRESENT JOINT
CONCERT: The USC Beaufort University Choir and Walters
State Choir of Sevierville,Tenn., will perform a joint concert at
7 p.m. March 11 at the First Presbyterian church in downtown
Beaufort at the corner of Church and North streets. Led by
Victor Varner, the USC Beaufort University choir will perform
three French madrigals, two spirituals, and lighter pieces,
including a vocal jazz arrangement, Java Jive.The concert is free
and open to the public. For more information, contact Victor
Varner at vmvarner@hotmail.com.
LEARN CRUCIFEROUS VEGGIE COOKING:
A Healthy Way—Cruciferous Veggie Cookery class with
Katherine Shavo—will be held from 6 to 8 p.m. March 9 at
Columbia’s Cooking Kitchen, 915 Greene St.The class will
focus on cruciferous vegetables, which contain several components linked to a reduced risk of certain cancers. Featured
vegetables include cabbage, cauliflower, broccoli, and others.
For more information, contact Elaine McLane at
mclanep@mailbox.sc.edu or 576-5666.
MOVE-IN DAY IS AUG. 13: This year’s Move-in Day will
be Aug. 13.With the freshman class expected to be large again
this fall, a minimum of 200 faculty and staff volunteers are
needed to support this very special day to help freshmen move
in.Volunteers are especially needed for the afternoon shifts, but
any time is a good time to be a part of the fun.To sign up online,
go to www.sc.edu/moveincrew.
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Get Caught in the Creative Act March 14–April 13
New York Times columnist Gail Collins, meet S.C. Supreme
Court Justice Jean Toal. Investigative reporter Richard Rubin, meet distinguished historian Walter Edgar. That’s what
will happen on stage at two sessions of this year’s Caught in
the Creative Act (CICA) visiting writers series—and everyone’s
invited to attend and to join in the ensuing conversation.
Collins and Rubin, along with novelist Ginnah Howard and
noted memoirists David Shields and John Thorndike, are this
year’s featured writers. Each will not only discuss his or her
work but also entertain questions from the audience and be
available afterward for book signings.
The CICA program, which celebrates its 10th anniversary
this year, is one of the most popular community offerings by
the University and is free and open to all. Led by Carolina
Distinguished Professor Emerita of English Janette Turner
Hospital, the series invites participants to read five books by
nationally-acclaimed authors, attend a lecture by Hospital on
each book, and then hear each book’s author talk about his or
her work.
In an added twist this year, local experts will join two of
the writers on stage to discuss the particular relevance of the
authors’ work to a South Carolina audience. Rubin’s book,
Confederacy of Silence, deals with race relations in
Mississippi in the latter part of the 20th century, and as South
Carolina’s leading historian, Edgar will add a local angle to
that story.
Collins’ book, When Everything Changed, tells the story
of the trailblazing women who broke the gender barrier in the
1960s and 70s. As one of the first women to hold high office in
South Carolina, Toal will bring a first-hand perspective to that
chapter in our nation’s history.
Caught in the Creative Act will run Monday and Wednesday evenings, March 14–April 13, with sessions taking place
from 6 to 7 p.m. in Gambrell Hall Auditorium. On Mondays,
Hospital gives a talk about each week’s featured book, and on
Wednesdays, the visiting authors make their appearances.
Participants are welcome to attend just one session or all of
them, but everyone must register for the course to be guaran-
teed a seat. Registration information, author biographies, and
a full course schedule are available at www.cas.sc.edu/cica/.
All of the books for the course are available at the Russell
House Bookstore, where anyone who purchases all five books
at once will receive a 10 percent discount.
Hospital, the award-winning author of eight novels, including Orpheus Lost, Due Preparations for the Plague, and
Oyster, said the visiting writers frequently praise the CICA
audience as one of the smartest and liveliest they’ve encountered.
“Both E.L. Doctorow and Richard Ford, who are used to
huge audiences, said they had never experienced anything as
thrilling as the Caught in the Creative Act audience, where
everyone had read and thought about their books and had
prepared pleasingly fresh and provocative questions for them,”
Hospital said.
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goldfish as a potential meal, although “that would be a dangerous thing to do. He could get tangled up in the water and
drown in the fountain.”
Barred owls naturally like to roost near water, and they like
to eat fish, snakes, squirrels, and perching birds, Mancke said,
particularly at night when the moon is full.
While seeing an owl on campus
is unusual, there are other birds
not commonly seen in the city that
occasionally make appearances in
Gamecock air space, he added.
“Red-tailed hawks are nesting in
the city now. They’re active on this
campus, recycling squirrels on the
Barred owl populations are
Horseshoe,” he said. “And somerising in suburban areas.
times I see turkey vultures soaring
high above campus. I think they’re just tracking over the
rivers, but I have seen them on the ground after home football
games, eating the remains of tailgating spreads.”
Even more rare in making campus appearances are bald
eagles, which Mancke has spotted a few times overhead.
“Cooper’s hawks, sharp-shinned hawks, I’ve seen all of
them at one time or another around here,” he said.
Anyone spotting an uncommon bird or mammal on campus is invited to contact Mancke to make a positive ID. He can
be reached at 7-7703 or e-mail: mancke@sc.edu.
—Chris Horn
Best value
Shields will open 10th CICA
This year’s Caught in the Creative Act schedule is:
• March 14, lecture on The Thing About Life Is That One Day
You’ll Be Dead, by David Shields
• March 16, visit by Shields
• March 21, lecture on The Last of His Mind: A Year in the
Shadow of Alzheimer’s, by John Thorndike
• March 23, visit by Thorndike
• March 28, lecture on Night Navigation, by Ginnah Howard
• March 30, visit by Howard
• April 4, lecture on Confederacy of Silence: A True Tale of the
New Old South, by Richard Rubin
• April 6, visit by Rubin
• April 11, lecture on When Everything Changed:The Amazing
Journey of American Women from 1960 to the Present, by Gail
Collins
• April 13, visit by Collins.
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they cannot be used to offset decreases in state appropriations.
 The National Research Council recently ranked 15 USC doc-
toral programs in the Top 50 in the nation (two in the nation’s
Top Ten).
 In the past three years, 16 USC professors have been named
Fellows in the American Association for the Advancement of
Science (AAAS), the world’s largest general scientific society.
Of the 51 AAAS Fellows in South Carolina, nearly half are at
USC.  Since 1999, the USC Technology Incubator has nurtured
90 companies and created more than 730 jobs with average
salaries of $48,750.
Twelve endowed chair professors work in 14 USC Centers
of Economic Excellence (CoEEs), which focus on research
areas ranging from future fuels, brain imaging, and tourism to
health care quality and nuclear science strategies.
With talent attracted through the CoEEs for fuel cell
research, new companies such as AQT Solar, which will bring
1,000 jobs by 2014, are attracted to the state. Startup companies such as NexGenEn and SysEDA are also creating jobs and
new vitality. This year, the refurbished Wilbur Smith building
in Columbia—the Innovista IT Building—attracted Trulite and
QSSI with a focus on insurance technology and hundreds of
new jobs.
CAN volunteers work together to increase awareness of legislative matters that affect the state’s colleges and universities.
They communicate with their elected officials in various ways,
including e-mail, letters, phone calls, and personal visits.
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The list is the result of an examination of those factors using institutional data and surveys of students and administrators from 650 colleges with outstanding academic programs.
Most of the data analyzed came from surveys conducted from
fall 2009 through fall 2010, while all cost and financial-aid
data came from fall 2010 surveys. The percentage of graduating seniors who borrowed from any loan program and the
average dollar amount of debt those students had at graduation also were considered.
The Princeton Review’s and USA TODAY’s Web sites post
the full “100 Best Value Colleges” list with information about
the colleges. USA TODAY’s Web site features an interactive
map that enables readers to access a database with statistics
and facts about each school and why The Princeton Review
named it a “Best Value” college.
The citation for value and excellence is the second in
less than two months. In January, USC was recognized by
Kiplinger’s Personal Finance magazine as being among the
nation’s best values for public higher education—delivering
the “best B.A. for the buck.”
Pruitt said “best value” citations provide further assurance
to students who are increasingly choosing a USC education.
“Students and their families who have made the University
of South Carolina their ‘destination of choice’ for their college
education are now assured their choice is a good consumer
decision,” Pruitt said.
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 BOOKS AND CHAPTERS
Arthur Mitchell, history, Beaufort, South Carolina Irish, The History Press,
Charleston.
Lara Lomicka, languages, literatures, and cultures, and Gillian Lord
(University of Florida), “Podcasting—Past, Present, and Future: Applications
of Academic Podcasting In and Out of the Language Classroom,” Academic
Podcasting and Mobile Assisted Language Learning: Applications and Outcomes,
B.R. Facer and M. Abdous, editors, IGI Global, Hershey, Pa.
Jerel Rosati, political science, “Political Psychology, Cognition and Foreign
Policy Analysis,” Compendium of International Studies Volume IX, Bob Denmark,
editor, ISA and Blackwell, and, with James M. Scott, The Politics of United States
Foreign Policy, fifth edition, Wadsworth/Cengag, Boston, Mass.
Daniel L. Reger, chemistry and biochemistry, J.J. Horger, M.D. Smith,
G.J. Long, and F. Grandjean, “Homochiral, Helical Supramolecular Frameworks
Organized by Strong, Non-Covalent π...π Stacking Interactions: Single Crystal
to Single Crystal Transformations,” Inorganic Chemistry.
Thomas Vogt, chemistry and biochemistry,Yongjae Lee, Dan Liu, Donghoon
Seoung, Zhenxian Liu, and Chi-Chang Kao, “Pressure- and Heat-Induced
Insertion of CO2 into an Auxetic Small-Pore Zeolite,” Journal of the American
Chemical Society.
F. Wayne Outten, chemistry and biochemistry, S. Wang, and Y. Wu, “Fur and
the novel regulator YqjI control transcription of the ferric reductase gene
yqjH in Escherichia coli,” Journal of Bacteriology. Hans-Conrad zur-Loye, chemistry and biochemistry, A.M. Goforth,
M.A. Tershansy, M.D. Smith, L. Peterson Jr., J.G. Kelley, and W.J.I. DeBenedetti,
“Structural Diversity and Thermochromic Properties of Iodobismuthate
Materials Containing d-Metal Coordination Cations: Observation of a High
Symmetry [Bi3I11]2- Anion and of Isolated I- Anions,” Journal of the American
Chemical Society.  PRESENTATIONS
Lara Lomicka and Lara Ducate, languages, literatures,
and cultures, “Technology for Teachers: Online tools that are
Hot, New and Free,” S.C. Foreign Language Teacher Association, Columbia.
Sara Corwin and Daniela Friedman, health promotion,
education, and behavior, Gregory Dominick, and India Rose,
“What makes a man more likely to ‘get’ prostate cancer?
Thoughts from older African American men in South Carolina: Implications for health promotion,” S.C. Aging Research
Day, Columbia.
Pat J. Gehrke, speech communication and English,
“What Can Rhetoric Do? Influence, Events, and Rhetorical
Histories,” keynote address, Arnold-Ebbitt Interdisciplinary
Rhetoricians’ “Camp Rhetoric,” State College, Pa.
Xinchun Tian, physics and astronomy, “The NuMI O_ffaxis Nue Appearance Experiment (NOvA),” Topical Conference on Elementary Particles, Astrophysics, and Cosmology,
Miami, Fla.
Stephanie Foote, academic success, Aiken, and Kelvin
Rachell, university housing, Aiken, “Confessions of a FirstYear Seminar Instructor: How to Make the Most of Failures
in the Classroom,” Annual Conference on The First-Year
Experience, Atlanta, Ga., and, same conference, with Kesha
Entzminger, academic success, Aiken, “Bridging the Gap:
Using Personal Stories to Understand the Early College
Experience of Students Who are At-Risk.”
Caryn E. Outten, chemistry and biochemistry, “Unraveling
the Mechanisms for Sensing and Regulating Intracellular Iron
via Fe-S Clusters,” Metals in Biology Gordon Conference,
Ventura, Calif. Donna A. Chen, chemistry and biochemistry, “Chemical Reactions at Surfaces,” Gordon Research Conference,
Insisting the numbers add up will hold you back as a proposal writer.
Ventura Calif.
Chuanbing Tang, chemistry and biochemistry, “Side-Chain
18-e Cobaltocenium Polymers: Synthesis, Properties and
Tena B. Crews, integrated information technology, and Kelly Wilkinson
Self-Assembly,” Gordon Research Conference,Ventura, Calif.
(Indian State University), “Business Report Writing Students’ Perceptions of
Their Ability to Succeed in an Online Environment vs. Students’ Performance
Hanno zur Loye, chemistry and biochemistry, “Crystal Growth of Comin an Online Course,” Online Courses and ICT in Education, Lawrence A. Tomei,
plex Oxides: Effective Strategies for the Discovery of New Phases,” invited
editor, Information Science Reference, Hershey, Pa., and, same volume, with
lecture, Northwestern University, Chicago, Ill.
Robert G. Brookshire, integrated information technology, and Herbert F.
Brown (Appalachian State University), “Influences on Student Performance in
 OTHER
a University Networks and Telecommunications Course.”
Marius Valdes, art, awarded the grand prize in the 2011 Society of Korea
Illusart Design and Illustration Competition.
 ARTICLES
David P. Hill, Latin American Studies, named recipient of the inaugural LifeSteven N. Blair, exercise science, F.C. Hsu, W.J. Rejeski, E.H. Ip, J.A. Katula,
time Achievement Award by the S.C. Foreign Language Teachers’ Association
R. Fielding, A.M. Jette, S.A. Studenski, W.J. Ip, E.H. Katula, J.A. Fielding R. Jette.
at its Feb. 12 annual meeting in Columbia.
A.M. Studenski, S.A. and M.E. Miller, “Evaluation of the late life disability
Jay Bender, journalism and law, was a speaker at Free Speech & Civil
instrument in the Lifestyle Interventions and Independence for Elders Pilot
Discourse in the 21st Century, sponsored by the Riley Institute of Furman
(LIFE-P) study,” Health & Quality of Life Outcomes.
University and the Charleston School of Law, Charleston.
Daniela Friedman and Sara Corwin, health promotion, education, and
Jerel Rosati, political science, named a visiting scholar by the Fulbright
behavior, J.N. Laditka, S.B. Laditka., R. Liu, A. Price, B. Wu, J. Sharkey, W. Tseng,
Commission of Argentina at the University of San Andreas, Argentina.
R. Hunter, and R. Logsdon. “Older adults concerns about cognitive health:
commonalities and differences among six United States ethnic groups,”
Jon Goebel, art, Beaufort, will have his artwork featured and published
Ageing & Society.
in the international traveling art exhibition Monumental Ideas in Miniature
Books.
William Tomes, Institute for Public Service and Policy Research, “Impact of
the Economic Downturn on Local Governments in South Carolina,” Georgia
Journal of Public Policy.
C.P. Earnest, Steven N. Blair, and Timothy S. Church, exercise science, “Age attenuated response to aerobic conditioning in postmenopausal
 Job vacancies
women,” European Journal of Applied Physiology.
For up-to-date information on USC Columbia vacancies
V. Ponemone and Raja Fayad, exercise science, R.J. Cabay, and G. Fantuzzi,
and vacancies at other campuses, go to uscjobs.sc.edu.The
“Effect of adiponectin deficiency on hematopoietic responses and intestinal
employment office is located at 1600 Hampton St.
damage of mice exposed to gamma radiation: Mutation Research/Fundamental and Molecular Mechanisms of Mutagenesis,” Mutation Research.
 Lighter times
Jesselson is finalist
for Cherry Award
Robert Jesselson, who teaches cello in the School of
Music, has advanced in the review process for the 2012
Robert Foster Cherry Award for Great Teaching, sponsored by Baylor University in Waco, Texas.
Jesselson is former conductor of
the USC University Orchestra and the
Columbia Youth Orchestra. He also
was director of the USC String Project,
building the program into one of the
largest and most prominent string
education programs in the country.
His pioneering work on this program
was recognized in an article in the
New York Times in 2003. He has won
numerous awards for his work.
Jesselson
The Cherry Award program is
designed to honor great teachers, to
stimulate discussion in the academy about the value of
teaching, and to encourage departments and institutions
to value their own great teachers.
The award winner will receive $250,000 and will
teach in residence at Baylor University during the 2012
fall or 2013 spring semester. To further Baylor’s commitment to great teaching, the winner’s home department
will receive $25,000. The award will be given to one of
three finalists, who will be named in late spring.
The award was created by Robert Foster Cherry, who
earned his A.B. from Baylor University in 1929. With
a deep appreciation for how his life had been changed
by significant teachers, he made an exceptional estate
bequest to establish the award to recognize excellent
teachers and bring them in contact with Baylor students.
Adams named SURA
distinguished scientist
Richard D. Adams, a Carolina Distinguished Professor
in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, will
receive the 2011 Distinguished Scientist Award from the
Southeastern Universities Research Association (SURA).
The award honors a research
scientist whose work fulfills the SURA
mission of “fostering excellence in
scientific research.” The award and its
$20,000 honorarium will be presented
to Adams March 15 at the SURA board
of trustees meeting at Virginia Tech in
Blacksburg. He will make a presentation to the board the next day.
“SURA wants to highlight the
exemplary work of this renowned
Adams
researcher, whose reputation extends
well beyond his own campus and our region,” said
Charles W. Steger, president of Virginia Tech and chair of
the SURA Council of Presidents and Executive Committee. “Dr. Adams’ research at the interface of chemistry
and nanotechnology shows great societal promise for the
hydrogen economy and renewable fuels of the future.”
Adams has been on the USC faculty for 26 years. After
earning his bachelor’s degree from Pennsylvania State
University, he earned his Ph.D. from the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology. His extramural research support
for single-investigator awards has included the Petroleum
Research Fund and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, as
well as the U.S. Department of Energy and the National
Science Foundation.
 Super ad
Teegen co-authors groundbreaking report
With their cheese heads and terrible towels put away, students in Bonnie Drewniany’s Super Bowl advertising class cast their votes and declared Volkswagen Passat’s Darth Vader
this year’s Cocky Award winner for best commercial in the eighth-annual Super Ad Poll.
The USC poll ended in a tie with half of 60 students in the class choosing the VW spot
about a little boy who believes he has magical powers. The other half chose Doritos House
Sitter, an ad about a man who brings his roommate’s grandfather back from the dead.
Ultimately, the winner was determined by the online version of the Super Ad Poll, where
other students, alumni, and the community rate the commercials using the same criteria.
“This is the first time ever we have had a tie,” Drewniany said. “We saw a lot of slapstick
humor that fell short in resonating with viewers. In the end, it was the sweet, kinder, and
gentler humor of VW’s Darth Vader that people liked.”
The class critiqued the national ads that aired during Super Bowl XLV for likeability,
persuasiveness, and brand identity.
Drewniany will invite the creator of the winning ad to campus to receive the award in
April. Every year the winning advertising team has come to campus to claim the Cocky
Award and give students the inside scoop on how the commercial was made.
Drewniany has studied Super Bowl advertising for nearly 20 years and has taught the
nation’s only course on the subject for eight years.
Hildy Teegen, dean of USC’s Darla Moore School of Business, is among the authors of a groundbreaking report that addresses the current wave of globalization and the changes and challenges
it poses for business schools.
The report, “The Globalization of Management Education: Changing
International Structures, Adaptive Strategies, and the Impact on Institutions,” was released by AACSB International (The Association to Advance
Collegiate Schools of Business) at a conference of business school deans
in Phoenix, Ariz.
Teegen, a member of the AACSB Globalization of Management Task
Force, said business schools must be prepared to meet the rising expectations on the part of business and society for graduates to have greater
global competencies.
“Business schools such as ours at the Darla Moore School play a
critical role in preparing future business leaders to be successful in a
Teegen
range of institutional environments,” Teegen said. “We are fortunate
to have an exceptional international business faculty to lead our efforts here. Most schools find
they struggle with globalization efforts as they lack capable faculty and professional staff who
understand how to develop and deliver globally relevant curricula and how to establish and build
successful partnerships with colleagues around the world.”
For more information about the AACSB International and the report, go to www.aacsb.edu/.
VW ‘Darth Vader’ wins Cocky Award
March 3, 2011
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Academy of Authors to honor
three writers at Aiken March 18
The S.C. Academy of Authors will celebrate
writers Percival Everett, Sue Monk Kidd, and
the late Gamel Woolsey, inducting the three
into the state’s literary hall of fame in a March
18 ceremony at USC Aiken.
The ceremony will be held in the atrium
lobby of the Etherredge Center for the Fine and
Performing Arts. Wine and hors d’oeuvres will
be served at a 7 p.m. reception. The induction
ceremony will begin at 8 p.m. Tickets cost $35
per person. After the ceremony, the authors’
books will be for sale, and Everett and Kidd will
sign copies.
Also, at 8 p.m. March 17, Everett and Kidd
will be featured in the 2011 James and Mary
Oswald Distinguished Writers Series. They will
read from their works on the main stage of the
Etherredge Center. The event is free and open
to the public.
A limit of two tickets per person will be
observed; seats must be reserved. Tickets are
available at the center’s box office. After their
reading, Everett and Kidd will sign copies of
their books in the lobby. For more information,
go to www.scacademyofauthors.org.
Kidd hit the best-seller lists in 2002 with her
first novel, The Secret Life of Bees. The novel,
which has sold more than 6 million copies, is
taught widely in high-school classrooms and
was adapted into a movie. Already celebrated
for her 1996 memoir, The Dance of the Dissident Daughter, Kidd followed her first novel’s
success with The Mermaid Chair, then joined
daughter Ann Kidd Taylor in writing the memoir Traveling with Pomegranates. Kidd lives in
Charleston and is at work on a historical novel.
Everett, who grew up in Columbia, is the
author of 17 novels, three short-story collections
and two volumes of poetry. The Washington
Post called him “one of
the most adventurously
experimental of modern
American novelists,”
while The Boston Globe
dubbed him “literature’s Everett
NASCAR champion.” Everett is a distinguished professor of
English at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles.
His more recent awards
include the PEN USA
2006 Literary Award for
Wounded and the 2001
Hurston/Wright Legacy
Award for Erasure.
Kidd
Woolsey, who died
in 1968, grew up near Aiken, on Breeze Hill
Plantation. She worked as an actress in New
York City, then began writing while living in
England and Spain. Her poetry includes Middle
Earth and Collected Poems. Death’s Other
Kingdom, her account of the Spanish Civil War,
was published in its first American edition in
1998 as Malaga Burning.
Founded at Anderson College in 1986,
the S.C. Academy of Authors identifies and
recognizes the state’s distinguished writers,
living and deceased. The academy’s induction
ceremonies honor writers selected by its board
of governors. The board of governors considers
writers whose works have been judged culturally important because of scholarly attention
or historical prominence. The academy also
awards an annual Carrie McCray Nickens Fellowship in Poetry, which supports an emerging
poet in the state.
n Literary festival at USC Union
Authors, poets, and musicians to converge
Robert Morgan, whose work was an Oprah book club selection, and Kwame
Dawes, a poet and USC English professor, will be two of the featured writers
at USC Union’s Union-Upcountry Literary Festival. The event, which will
spotlight well-known and upcoming authors, will be held from 9 a.m. to
5 p.m. March 11 and from 9 a.m. to noon March 12 at the Union campus.
Free and open to the public, the event will showcase nationally and
regionally recognized authors, poets, and musical artists. Many of the festival
authors reside in or draw their literary influences from their experiences in
North and South Carolina or the Southeast.
Morgan, author of Gap Creek, a New York Times bestseller, will be the
keynote
presenter. In addition to Morgan and Dawes, the festival will feature
Morgan
Dot Jackson, author of Refuge and co-founder of the Birchwood Center for
the Arts and Folklife in the Blue Ridge region of South Carolina; Jim Clark,
poet and musical talent who teaches Southern literature at Barton College in
Wilson, N.C.; and Mindy Fiddle, a Greenville-area novelist who has penned
such titles as The Garden Angel and Secret Keepers. Other featured authors
are Jim Kibler, Ray McManus, Shari Smith, Marilyn Knight, Dianne Johnson, John Durham, and Brock Adams.
Festivalgoers can meet and listen to commentary and discussion with the
writers regarding their writing experiences, ideas, and areas of literary interest. The event will include time for questions and book signings.
The festival received a grant from the S.C. Humanities Council. Randy
Dawes
Ivey, author and an English instructor at USC Union, is the festival director.
For more information, contact Ivey at 864-427-3681, ext. 7757, at rivey@mailbox.sc.edu, or at USC
Union.SC.edu.
Brittany Moss
Organizational Leadership
USC Union, Class of 2012
“For the management course that
I’m in right now, my instructor is a
certified public accountant and he’s a
retired U.S. Marine, so he brings a lot
of different things to the classroom.
And in his class I learn a lot about realworld experiences. It’s not just from
the book; we actually learn about
experiences from his life that help us
tie in what the book says.
“Working in [USC Union’s] business
office has been a good experience
for me because I’ve been able to
see how things work in real life in an
office. There are problems you have
to overcome. As a college student, it’s
really good experience for me to learn
those types of things.”
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March 3, 2011
Pulitzer-Prize winning author
to speak at journalism meetings
Isabel Wilkerson, the first African-American woman to win the Pulitzer Prize in journalism, will be the keynote speaker March 18 in Columbia during a joint luncheon for
the Southeast Colloquium of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass
Communications (AEJMC) and the inaugural Media and Civil Rights History Symposium.
The School of Journalism and Mass Communications is the
sponsor of the colloquium and originator of the symposium,
which is intended to stimulate scholarly interest in the historical relationship between media and civil rights.
“We knew we would have a strong gathering for the
Southeast Colloquium, and we wanted to use it as a way to
build momentum for the first Media and Civil Rights History
Symposium,” said Kathy Roberts Forde, an assistant professor
of journalism and media historian who is the key organizer of
both events.
Wilkerson
Wilkerson, director of the narrative nonfiction program in
the College of Communication at Boston University and the
author of The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration,
also will give a lecture sponsored by the School of Journalism and Mass Communications with support from the African American Studies Program and the History Center.
The lecture, free and open to the public, will be at 7 p.m. March 18 at the main branch
of the Richland County Public Library, 1431 Assembly St.
The annual regional
conference of the
AEJMC rotates among
Southeastern colleges
each year. The Media &
Civil Rights History Symposium will become an
annual event of the School
of Journalism and Mass
Communications.
The AEJMC meeting,
which will begin Thursday
evening with a reception,
will be held at the Hilton
Columbia Center in the
Vista at 924 Senate St. The
Media & Civil Rights Symposium, which will begin Friday
with the luncheon from noon
to 2 p.m., will be held at both
the Hilton and the Columbia
Convention Center at 1101
Lincoln St.
The history symposium will
honor Ron Farrar, professor
emeritus of journalism and a
former dean who taught history
at the school, and his late wife,
Gayla D. Farrar. An award
named for Farrar that honors a
work of media and civil rights history will be presented during the symposium to encourage and stimulate research in the field.
Gordon Mantler, a 1994 Carolina political science graduate who was editor of The
Daily Gamecock in his senior year, is the inaugural recipient of the Ronald T. and
Gayla D. Farrar Media and Civil Rights History Award, which will be presented during
the Friday luncheon at the Hilton.
Mantler worked as a daily journalist before receiving his masters degree in U.S.
history from the University of South Florida and his Ph.D. in U.S., African-American,
and Latino history from Duke University. He is a Lecturing Fellow in the Thompson
Writing Program at Duke and will receive the Farrar Award for his article “The Press
Did You In: The Poor People’s Campaign and the Mass Media,” which was published in
the spring 2010 issue of The Sixties: A Journal of History, Politics, and Culture. The
award includes a $1,000 cash prize.
For full schedules, registration forms, and additional information about the Southeast Colloquium, visit jour.sc.edu/sec2011. For more information about the Media &
Civil Rights History Symposium, go to jour.sc.edu/mcrhs or contact Forde at fordekr@
sc.edu or 7-3321.
James Wilson
Finance, Class of 2012
“I’m currently a legislative page in
the House of Representatives. I was
assigned to the House Education and
Public Works Committee—a really
exciting experience and a lot of work,
but you learn how to deal with people.
“I’ve also been assigned to Student
Government committees, which brought
more experience working with people
and learning how things work at USC.
“I’m a part of MAPP, the Minority
Assistance Peer Program, which
provided a connection my freshman
year. It helped me to get used to the
University, to find my classes, and it
gave me a mentor.”