n Inside
Part of a collage titled
Water Rising Up Over My
Head, the artwork, right, by
Philip Muller, is one of the
pieces in his solo show at
the McMaster Student
Gallery. Page 5
Theatre professor Robert
Richmond racks up
nominations for Henry VIII
and directs Dreadful Sorry.
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Columbia
Aiken
Beaufort
Lancaster
Salkehatchie
Sumter
Ann Humphries
wouldn’t miss it
Moore School reclaims No. 2
spot in International Business
By Marshall Swanson
Continued on page 6
Kim Truett
Ann Chadwell Humphries’ guide dog, Brego, has a nose for great literature.
Humphries and Brego are regulars in Caught in the Creative Act, taught by Janette Turner
Hospital, right.The popular class brings authors to campus to discuss their works. Brego came
from the Southeastern Guide Dog School in Palmetto, Fla., south of Tampa.
Walton named University’s chief financial officer
Edward L. Walton, a CPA with an extensive background in accounting, finance,
and administration, has been named
chief financial officer for the University. Walton succeeds William T. (Ted)
Moore, who resigned to become provost
at Georgia Southern University.
President Pastides said Walton’s
knowledge of the University, particularly the administrative and financial
operations, makes him an ideal choice
Walton
to oversee the financial and budgetary
matters for the Columbia campus. “I have worked closely with
Ed Walton for 10 years, in my role as dean, as vice president
n Celebrate World Night
The International Student Association and
Upstate
U.S. News graduate
rankings cite three
Carolina programs
Caught in the
Creative Act?
When Janette Turner Hospital’s annual
visiting writers series, Caught In The Creative
Act, convened March 14 in the Gambrell Hall
Auditorium, Ann Chadwell Humphries was
there in a front row seat— right next to her
faithful guide dog Brego.
It’s the second year Humphries has attended one of the University’s most popular
community offerings despite the fact that the
Columbia resident has retinitis pigmentosa, a
disease of the retina that degrades peripheral
vision.
But that wasn’t enough to keep her from
becoming the first person with a guide dog to
take part in the series that features talks by
Hospital introducing a variety of world-class
writers, and then readings by the authors.
“It’s the arts, and in our family, the
arts are as essential as breathing,” said
Humphries, the former president of ETICON,
a Columbia corporate etiquette firm, and
certified research nurse.
“Our family has always been artsoriented. We need it to live our lives,” said
Humphries, adding that the appeal of the
series is Hospital’s approachability and the
Union
for research and health sciences, and as University president,”
Pastides said.
“His fiscal prudence, his integrity, and his deep knowledge
of budgetary and financial matters at the University have
earned him the respect and admiration of colleagues across the
campus. I am delighted that he has agreed to take on these new
responsibilities.”
Walton, a Columbia native, joined USC in 1997 as director
of cost accounting and became director of cost and contract and
grant accounting later that year. In 1999, he was named chief
financial officer of the USC Research Foundation. In 2003,
he was named director of administration and finance for the
Continued on page 6
The Darla Moore School of Business reclaimed its
No. 2 spot in U.S. News & World Report’s 2012
graduate rankings of top international graduate
business programs, and its part-time MBA (PMBA)
program moved up five points to 36th nationally.
The Moore School also jumped eight points to tie
for 54th in the overall listing of the nation’s top graduate programs in business.
Two other USC programs
continue to be included in the
top five in their categories in
the 2012 edition of Best Graduate Schools. The school library
media program is ranked
No. 2, and the master’s
program in school psychology
in the College of Arts and
Sciences’ Department of
Amiridis
Sociology ranked No. 4. The
School of Library and Information Science is ranked No. 17.
These rankings are republished
from last year.
Provost Michael Amiridis
said the rankings clearly show
that the excellence of USC’s
graduate programs is being
recognized nationally.
“Increasingly, an advanced
degree is becoming crucial for
Teegen
career success, particularly in
certain fields,” Amiridis said.
“The U.S. News & World Report rankings provide
an additional external validation for the excellence
of some of our graduate programs. I congratulate the
faculty and the students of these programs.”
Moore School Dean Hildy Teegen said the ranking
shows unequivocally that the investments made in the
Darla Moore School of Business are paying off.
“This is validation that our investment in our future
and the hard work of our faculty, staff, and students
are coming to fruition,” Teegen said. “We continue
to be recognized as a global leader for our offerings
in international business. The PMBA ranking is also
highly significant, particularly as we launch our unique
telepresence learning infrastructure to support working professionals eager to learn from the excellent
faculty here at Moore.”
Continued on page 6
KATIE PARHAM
Political Science and French
Class of 2011
International Student Services will sponsor the
11th-annual World Night at 6:30 p.m. March 25 in
the Russell House Ballroom. World Night is USC’s
biggest annual international event that showcases
performances from all over the world by international and local students.The event will include
international foods, dance, music, and fashion.This
year’s World Night will feature performances from
Japan to Poland, Saudi-Arabia to South America, and
Africa to India.Tickets are $5 in advance and $7 at
the door.The doors will open at 6 p.m.
chose to major in
political science
after working at the
S.C. State House
led the Carolina
Service Council to
expand Alternative
Spring Break offerings
studied with former
Democratic National
Committee chair who
articulated theory in
real-world practice
is prepared to
integrate her passion
and skills to impact
public policy
Briefly
VOLUNTEERS NEEDED FOR AGING STUDY:
The University is recruiting adults (65 years and older) for a
study on age-related changes in mobility and patterns of brain
activity. Maintaining mobility and brain health is essential for
older adults for an independent life style. Results of this study
will provide a foundation for future research on brain health and
its contribution to mobility and the development of new and
better interventions for preventing age-related declines. Study
participants are required to attend two evaluation sessions. In
the sessions participants will complete the following:
• Session A—simple scales and surveys and an easy mobility task
• Session B—a simple task that involves connecting letters/numbers while a functional fMRI (Magnetic Resonance Imaging) is
done to help to describe the brain activity that occurs while the
task is being completed. Each session will last approximately one
hour. Participants will receive a CD with the scan results. For
more information, contact Gerhild Ullmann at ullmann@sc.edu
or 803-760-2900.
College of Pharmacy ranks high in funded research
The American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy
recently ranked the S.C. College of Pharmacy
(SCCP) No. 3 in percent of research faculty with
National Institutes of Health (NIH) funding, which
is a common gauge for measuring excellence in
academic quality. The SCCP ranked No. 17 overall
in the country among more than 120 colleges of
pharmacy.
“The creation of the S.C. College of Pharmacy
was intended to increase productivity, leverage
resources, and ultimately enhance quality to be on
Dipiro
par with the best pharmacy colleges in the country,”
said Joseph T. DiPiro, SCCP’s executive dean. “Successful
researchers are at the forefront of knowledge, and they bring
that knowledge to the classroom, giving our students a better
education. Our productivity matches the best in the United
States, and colleges we compare favorably with
now reflect how high the bar has been raised—and
we’ll keep raising it.”
Since 2005, when the college was created by
the integration of the pharmacy colleges at USC
and the Medical University of South Carolina, the
SCCP has climbed steadily in NIH funding and is
now ranked ahead of many nationally recognized
pharmacy programs, including Ohio State, Florida,
Maryland, Wisconsin, and Minnesota.
The success of the college’s research faculty
is a significant contributor; the only programs in
the country with a higher percent of Ph.D. faculty with NIH
funding are the University of California-San Diego and the
University of California-San Francisco, which is tops overall.
More than 50 percent of SCCP’s research faculty is funded.
Cover story features
the Moore School
CONTINUING ED AND CONFERENCES SETS
OPEN HOUSE: An open house will be held at 3 p.m.
March 25 in the 1600 Hampton St. Annex, Room 108. Programs
and services provided by Continuing Education and Conferences include online registration, contracting venues/meeting
space both on and off campus, and coordinating parking, dining,
accommodations, promotion, and advertising.The office also
offers professional education programs, including grant writing
and Web site design certificate programs and university test
prep courses to prepare for the GRE, GMAT, LSAT, and ACT/
SAT exams.The office also sponsors personal interest courses
for all ages from the Carolina Master Scholars Adventure Series,
which are academic summer camps for middle and high school
students, to Carolina Classroom, a collection of intellectually
stimulating lectures, workshops, and explorations taught by
current and retired University faculty, alumni, and experts from
the Midlands.To RSVP for the open house, send an e-mail to
kshelton@sc.edu or call 7-9444.
NOMINATE A STUDENT FOR DISCOVERY DAY:
Abstracts for Discovery Day 2011: A Forum for Student
Ingenuity will continue to be accepted on a rolling basis as
presentation space permits.To nominate a student for the event,
which showcases students’ scholarly works in and out of the
classroom, go to www.sc.edu/our/discoverydayevent.php.To
submit an abstract, go to www.sc.edu/our/discovery_online.
shtml. Discovery Day is for students at all USC campuses. Students can present their experiences or findings in:
• research/scholarly projects
• study abroad
• internships
• leadership experiences
• service-learning and community service
• national fellowship competitions.
Students have the opportunity to make poster, oral, creative, or
artistic presentations and visual art displays, including theatrical, musical, or creative writing presentations.The ninth-annual
Discovery Day will be held from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. April 22
in the Russell House.
LET THE WORLD COME ALIVE IN CLASS:
Through NBC Learn, University professors and instructors can
use archived video from the NBC libraries to enhance their
classes and specific studies as a direct link into Blackboard.
Choose a topic that the class is studying or find something
interesting from diverse topics available through NBC.
With just a few clicks, professors can have video embedded
on their Blackboard course pages and receive statistics for the
number of times it is viewed.The videos can be put into slideshows that can be viewed while offline. For more information
about NBC Learn, go to http://uts.sc.edu and click on the NBC
Learn announcement. Future Webinars on NBC Learn will be
offered.The University has NBC Learn for a trial period until
August. Please provide any feedback to uts@sc.edu.
OPEN A CLASS FOR PARENTS WEEKEND:
Parents Weekend 2011 will be Sept. 23–25.The Office of
Parents Programs wants to showcase USC’s campus by
providing families with more faculty and staff interaction, classroom experiences, and opportunities to learn about Carolina.
To highlight the academic and extracurricular components of
Carolina life, faculty and staff can participate in Parents Weekend
by sponsoring an open house, drop-in, or educational session or
by opening Friday classes to family members. Events, exhibits, or
other activities already planned during Parents Weekend can be
included in the schedule.To get involved, complete the participation form at www.sa.sc.edu/parents/docs/parents-weekendform.pdf and return it to the Office of Parents Programs by
April 1. For more information, contact Melissa Gentry at 7-5937
or mfgentry@sc.edu.
USC PRESS WAREHOUSE SALE IS APRIL 14–15:
The University of South Carolina Press will hold its annual
warehouse sale at 718 Devine St., Columbia, from 11 a.m. to 5
p.m. April 14 and from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. April 15. Hundreds of
overstocked and slightly damaged books will be discounted to
$5 per paperback and $10 per hardcover. New releases and
regional bestsellers from the USC Press also will be available at
a 20 percent discount. For more information, visit uscpress.com
or call 7-5029.
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Homegrown veggies
Michael Brown
Students Lea Steiner, left, and Eryn Jacobson, right,
help Carolina’s First Lady Patricia Moore-Pastides put in a crop of spring vegetables on the
grounds of the President’s House. Moore-Pastides, author of the cookbook, Greek Revival:
Cooking for Life, promotes fresh and locally grown vegetables and fruits.
USC Upstate launches Finish UP
This spring, USC Upstate’s Division of Student Affairs is launching Finish
UP, a professionalism program that will sponsor 40 juniors and seniors, and
will focus on the soft skills of business and professional protocol.
The program will examine: First Impressions: Lasting Impressions;
Grammar Matters; The Thank You Note; A Time and Place For Technology; Appropriate Attire: Dress for Success; The Business Dinner and Event
Protocol; and The Who, What, When, Where, Why, and How of Etiquette
and Protocol.
“We believe that in today’s competitive job environment, understanding
and adhering to the proper business etiquette guidelines can provide our
graduates with an incredible competitive edge,” said Leah Anderson, USC
Upstate’s director of alumni relations.
Participating students will commit to four protocol sessions, a lunch
tutorial, and a business dinner—the culmination of the series. Students will
receive a certificate upon completion of the program.
Anne Turner Hill, who is certified by the Protocol School of Washington
in corporate etiquette and international protocol, will lead each session.
Since 1995, Hill has conducted individual and group seminars throughout
the Southeast.
“We believe that, by offering Finish UP to a select group of exceptional
juniors and seniors, we will help them to develop a competitive edge when
seeking employment,” Anderson said.
National Guard teams up
with School of Journalism
Members of the S.C. National Guard (SCNG) public-affairs staff have teamed
up with the School of Journalism and Mass Communications at the University
to offer a course, Media and Military. The class is in its second year.
The class is directed by Miron Varouhakis, a visiting professor in the
USC journalism school and former Associated Press foreign correspondent
who covered the 2003 Iraq War as an embedded reporter. Varouhakis
worked with the SCNG public-affairs staff to create the material for the class
two years ago.
“Students in the Media and Military class have a unique opportunity
to learn about the structure and culture of the military, military public affairs, and much more through a series of guest lectures by South Carolina
National Guard public-affairs officers and with visits to military bases,”
Varouhakis said.
National Guard public-affairs officers guest lecture in many of the classes,
drawing on their experiences as deployed public affairs officers (PAOs) from
wars in Iraq and Afghanistan; at the Air Force Mortuary at Dover Air Force
Base, Del.; and from their many experiences managing day-to-day public
affairs for the guard. The PAOs also mentor students on a major militarythemed end-of-course project.
“This was a very interesting class that taught me a lot about the military,”
wrote a student in the Spring 2010 class. “It made me change my perspective of the military and the people in it.”
The Darla Moore School of Business, a
leader in international-business education,
is featured in the current cover story in
Bloomberg/Businessweek for its intensive
International Business and Chinese Enterprise (IBCE) undergraduate program.
The story appears in the news organization’s report on “Best Undergraduate
B-Schools of 2011.”
Described as “an extreme immersion
option for undergraduate business majors,”
the IBCE was started in 2009 to prepare
students to operate and succeed in the
Chinese business environment. Each class
comprises 20 Moore School students and
20 students from the Chinese University of
Hong Kong (CUHK) who move through the
program together.
In the article, Dean Hildy Teegen discusses the importance of specialized cohort
programs, such as the IBCE, to ensure that
students can compete globally.
“We have a responsibility to not only
advance knowledge in international business but also prepare our future cadre of
leaders who will truly be able to embrace
the nuances of conducting business across
borders,” Teegen said. “To do that job
successfully, we need to create these kinds
of very intense, very complex, and much
more realistic university experiences for our
students.”
The IBCE is a four-year program, in
which USC students double-major in international business and another area within
the business school. They spend freshman
and junior years at Carolina and sophomore
and senior years at CUHK, which includes
intensive study in Mandarin Chinese, two
summers in Hong Kong, and the opportunity for internships in the United States and
China/Hong Kong. CUHK students also will
spend two years in Columbia and two years
in Hong Kong.
Conference to focus
on Sierra Leone
The School of Law and the African Studies
Program will co-sponsor an all-day conference, “Rebuilding Sierra Leone: Changing
Institutions and Culture,” April 1 at the
School of Law Auditorium.
After more than a decade of civil war,
Sierra Leone has spent the past eight years
slowly rebuilding a state and society shattered by war.
The conference will be convened to
discuss the issues that have hindered Sierra
Leone’s development and will consider
novel ways to restart the rebuilding of the
post-war state. The event will be among the
first interdisciplinary academic conferences
in the United States to focus solely on the
challenges of redeveloping Sierra Leone.
Drawing leaders from a variety of
academic disciplines, all of whom have
on-the-ground experience in Sierra Leone,
the conference will present a comprehensive
look at the issues facing post-war Sierra
Leone and some of the opportunities that
exist to address those issues. The conference
is free and open to the public. For more
information, visit http://www.cas.sc.edu/
iis/sierra%20leone/.
African-American scholars and educators
to converge on Upstate for CLA meeting
Nearly 250 African-American scholars and educators will convene in Spartanburg when USC
Upstate sponsors the annual convention of the College Language Association (CLA) April 6–9. The
theme for the convention is “Narrativity and Musicality: A Confluence of Language, Literature, and
Culture.”
Warren Carson is associate vice-chancellor for academic affairs and chief diversity officer at USC
Upstate and also is president of the CLA. With the theme of this year’s convention, Carson said Spartanburg is a natural fit for the meeting’s site.
“With the Spartanburg Music Trail, many are now learning of the rich
musical history of Spartanburg, but many perhaps do not know of the role
that Spartanburg has played in the literary production of African Americans,” said Carson. “Black writers such as Jean Toomer and Charles W.
Chesnutt both had a presence in Spartanburg, and Charles Johnson set his
novel Oxherding Tale partially in Spartanburg. There is so much more for us
to explore and uncover.”
USC Upstate will welcome members of the CLA with a campus reception
from 6 to 8 p.m. April 7 in the Campus Life Center Ballroom. The annual
banquet will be held at 7:30 p.m. April 8 at the Spartanburg Marriott at
Renaissance Park, where poet and playwright Cornelius Eady will be the
Carson
keynote speaker.
Eady is the author of seven poetry collections, including The Gathering
of My Name, nominated for the 1992 Pulitzer Prize. A play, Running Man, was a finalist for the 1993
Pulitzer Prize for drama. His poetry often centers on jazz and blues and is praised for its simple and
approachable language. Eady will deliver a reading of selected works at the Authors @ Upstate Visiting Writers Series in the J.M. Smith Boardroom at USC Upstate at 4 p.m. April 7. A book signing and
reception will follow the reading.
Members of the Langston Hughes Society (LHS) also will attend the convention. The LHS is an
affiliate organization of the CLA along with the Zora Neale Hurston Society, the Alice Childress Society, the Charles Chesnutt Society, and the Richard Wright Circle. These smaller allied groups devote
themselves to close study of significant African-American writers.
The CLA, founded in 1937 by a group of African-American scholars and educators, is an organization of college teachers of English and foreign languages and serves the academic, scholarly, and
professional interests of its members and the collegiate communities they represent. Since 1957, the
association has published the peer-reviewed CLA Journal, a quarterly featuring scholarly research
and reviews of books in the areas of language, literature, linguistics, and pedagogy.
For more information, contact Carson at 864-503-5634 or wcarson@uscupstate.edu or go to
www.clascholars.org.
New postal rules call for updated envelopes
By Marshall Swanson
Recent U.S. Postal Service revisions to guidelines regarding the design of business reply mail mean
many University departments will need to update their business reply envelopes currently in use for
mass mailings.
“The change requires the addition of a USPS Intelligent Mail Barcode
to the University’s address, which is printed on the business reply mail envelope,” said Barry Meyers, director of USC postal services, adding that the
new rule was originally set for implementation in May, but has been pushed
back by a few months.
“Right now, we’re dealing with the new rule as though it’s already in
effect, though we’ve still got time to update the envelopes with the new bar
code,” Meyers said.
University departments send out “thousands upon thousands” of business reply envelopes annually, said Meyers, adding that the departments can
realize quicker return and also help prevent unnecessary USPS surcharges
Meyers
by updating their business reply envelopes to the USPS envelope design
specifications.
“One of the benefits of using business reply mail is that the postage of the return envelope is not
charged until the envelope is actually returned to USC,” Meyers said. “The cost will not be deducted
from the departmental postage account until the respondent puts it in the mail stream.
“Some departments would like us to put a stamped envelope inside a mailer for them, but when
you do that, you run the risk of the addressees not returning that piece, and you’ve lost that postage
expense.
“When a business reply envelope is used, it’s only deducted from the University’s mail postage account if it’s returned to us.”
In addition to preventing USPS surcharges, the updated business reply envelopes also encourage
customers to reply to surveys or solicitations, and they help ensure that a department will receive its
return mail sooner because it goes through an automated channel within the U.S. Postal Service.
Departments using existing business reply envelopes without intelligent bar codes can contact
USC printing at 7-5146 to arrange for the design of a new envelope. For more information, contact
USC Postal Services at 7-3168.
Hains is finalist for Truman Scholarship
Daniel J. Hains, a junior majoring in political science at Carolina from Concord, N.C., has been
named a finalist for a Truman Scholarship. Hains, also a McNair Scholar and a student in the
Honors College, will interview March 25 in Washington, D.C.
A community volunteer, Hains has worked as a tutor and mentor in the
Waverly After School Program and other volunteer roles to support the
development of underprivileged children. He also interned at the Children’s
Defense Fund in Washington, while studying in the Washington Semester
Program. Hains plans to pursue graduate study in public policy with a concentration in American politics to prepare for work in education policy and
reform.
Highly competitive, the $30,000 Truman Scholarship is awarded to
approximately 60 juniors nationally for superior academic ability, a strong
record of service and leadership, and plans for careers in public service. This
year, 197 finalists have been named from 134 institutions across the country.
Hains
The University Truman Committee, chaired by Shelley Smith in the
Department of Sociology, nominates and evaluates USC Truman candidates. Other committee
members are David Simmons (anthropology and public health), Steven Burritt (USC 1995 Truman
Scholar), George Geckle (English), Don Fowler (political science), and Robert Felix (School of Law).
The University’s Office of Fellowships and Scholar Programs, which provides advisement and
support to students competing for national fellowships, assisted Hains.
USC has had six Truman Scholars, most recently Asma Jaber in 2007, Thomas Scott in 2006,
Jeremy Wolfe in 2004, and Lara Bratcher in 2003.
Courtesy South Caroliniana Library
n The Simms Initiatives
include various media:
• digital production of each significant
edition of Simms’s separate publications, a total of 150 volumes
• production of an electronic bibliography of Simms’s writings, including all of
his poems and reviews, editorials, and
articles in newspapers and magazines
across the South and in the North, a
listing of thousands of entries
• print-on-demand editions from the
USC Press of 75 volumes from the
150 or so separately published books
of Simms’s writings
Southerner William Gilmore Simms was a
writer, editor, and man of letters
• digitization of Simms’s scrapbooks
from selected periodicals
• processing of two collections of papers of people who worked on Simms: his
granddaughter, Mary C. Simms Oliphant, co-editor of the six volumes of Simms’s
letters, and James B. Meriwether, who launched the Centennial Simms Edition at
USC in the late 1960s and early 70s
• a September 2010 conference at USC that explored the impact of the Civil War
on Simms’s writing and publication of essays from the conference
• development of K–12 or K–16 lesson plans using Simms Initiatives’ materials.
Simms Initiatives will make
S.C. author more accessible
By Marshall Swanson
No writer of the middle half of the 19th-century did more to shape Southern historical consciousness, frame Southern self-identity and nationalism, or help the
South participate in American literary culture than South Carolina’s own William
Gilmore Simms (1806–1870).
David Moltke-Hansen makes that assertion even though Simms’s contemporary, Edgar Allen Poe, who was raised in Richmond, is now much better known,
having spent much of his literary career in Baltimore, New York, and Philadelphia.
As a result, Poe is not tarred with the same brush as
Simms, who has been marginalized by history as a result
of his ownership of slaves and his advocacy of secession.
Consequently, he doesn’t appear in anthologies that are
used in most classrooms today, though Moltke-Hansen
believes that will change in the future.
That change will come, in part, as a result of the Simms
Initiatives, a new collaborative research project at
University Libraries directed by Moltke-Hansen, which
will make Simms’s voluminous body of work more
Moltke-Hansen
accessible to scholars and the public.
“Simms wasn’t just a writer, but an editor, a man of letters, and he did more to
edit and promote Southern belles-lettres than anyone else,” said Moltke-Hansen.
“For a time in the 1840s, he and James Fennimore Cooper were the only American novelists being widely read and published.”
The collaborative, multi-faceted effort funded by an initial four-year, $480,580
grant from the Watson-Brown Foundation in Thomson, Ga., will create a cyber
research environment in which scholars with a variety of issues and questions in
mind can draw on Simms’s publications and knowledge about those publications
in ways they never could before.
Among other tasks, the project, whose principal investigator is Allen Stokes,
director of the South Caroliniana Library where the project is headquartered, will
produce a digital edition of Simms’s separate publications in each significant edition—approximately 150 volumes with about 125 titles. “Simms did not write that many books,” Moltke-Hansen said, “but he revised
many of his novels, producing second editions, and he gathered as well as revised
his poetry and short stories in various ways over the years. He had lots on which
to draw, publishing in all, on average, a book review and a poem every week of the
45 years he was a professional writer.”
The project also will produce an electronic bibliography of Simms’s writing,
including all of those poems and reviews, along with editorials and stories that
appeared in newspapers and magazines across the South and often in the North, a
listing of thousands of entries.
Of the 150 or so separately published volumes by Simms in one edition or another that he oversaw or that scholars have produced since his death, the Simms
Initiatives will prepare 75 for a print-on-demand edition to be issued by the USC
Press.
The digitized volumes will be full text searchable and, with the data the project
is developing, researchers will be able to locate a wide variety of material relating
to Simms and his writing.
“Simms was a large figure, and people refer to him because his ideas were
central to a lot of discussions about a lot of issues,” said Moltke-Hansen, a former
president of the Simms Society with more than 30 years experience working in
archives, special collections, and historical programs.
“He relates to broad currents in not only American literature and fiction but
also American history, journalism, and the politics of literature,” Moltke-Hansen
added. “Between the beginning and end of his career, he was a major force, and
for anybody looking at 19th-century American literature between 1825 and 1870,
he’s a central figure.”
The collaborative project, which also includes other elements, is drawing on
the University’s Center for Digital Humanities, Digital Collections in the Hollings
Special Collections Library, and Cooper Library’s Systems Office, as well as the
South Caroliniana Library and the University South Carolina Society.
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Calendar
 Miscellany
March 24 Healthy Carolina: “Yoga and Stretching for
Labor, Birth, and Postpartum,” noon–1p.m., Green Quad
Learning Center. For more information, contact Violet Beets
at lindstrv@mailbox.sc.edu.
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 physiciansupervised maternity spa and wellness center. For more
information, go to www.sc.edu/healthycarolina/lsp.html.
RSVP to lindstrv@mailbox.sc.edu.
March 25 Continuing Education and Conferences:
Open house, 3 p.m., 1600 Hampton St. Annex, Room 108.
RSVP to Kate Shelton at kshelton@sc.edu, call 7-9444, or
go to http://discover.sc.edu.
March 28 Office of Fellowships and Scholar Programs:
Truman Workshop, 4 p.m., Legare College, Room 322. Available to juniors (any major) preparing for a career in public
service with demonstrated leadership abilities, academic
achievement and potential, community service accomplishments, and a commitment to public service. The scholarship provides up to $30,000 for graduate school. Must be
nominated by the University. For more information, e-mail
ofsp@sc.edu, or go to www.sc.ed/ofsp, or call 7-0958.
March 29 Office of Fellowships and Scholar Programs:
Udall Scholarship Workshop, 4 p.m., Legare College, Room
322. Available to sophomores and juniors with at least a B
or equivalent GPA who have demonstrated commitment to
careers related to the environment, or Native Americans
and Alaska natives who have outstanding potential and are
in fields related to health care, the environment, or tribal
public policy. The scholarship provides one year of support
for eligible expenses up to a maximum of $5,000. Nomination deadline is November 2011. For more information,
e-mail ofsp@sc.edu, go to www.sc.edu/ofsp, or call 7-0958.
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 by going to www.sc.edu/cte/power/clinical/,
e-mailing cte@sc.edu, or calling 7-8322.
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.
April 5 Office of Fellowships and Scholar Programs:
Boren/National Security Program Workshop, 4 p.m.,
Legare College, Room 322. Available to undergraduate and
graduate students interested in national security (broadly
defined) who demonstrate high levels of academic performance and strong motivation to develop expertise in
languages, cultures, and world regions less commonly studied by Americans. The award provides up to $20,000 for
undergraduates or $30,000 for graduate students. Undergraduate nomination deadline is December 2011. Graduate
application deadline is January 2012. For more information,
call 7-0958, go to www.sc.ed/ofsp, or e-mail ofsp@sc.edu.
April 6 Center for Teaching Excellence: Teaching
Excellence Workshop, “Interactive Questioning in Online
Lectures,” 1:25–2:15 p.m., Center for Teaching Excellence,
Thomas Cooper Library, Room L511. The workshop will
illustrate how to use Adobe Presenter to create narrated
PowerPoint presentations that incorporate questions that
would normally be included in the traditional classroom.
Facilitated by Sherry Grosso, an instructor of economics in
the Division of Business Administration and Economics at
USC Sumter. Register online at www.sc.edu/cte/workshops/
onlinequestions, by e-mail at cte@sc.edu, or call 7-8322.
April 6 Office of Fellowships and Scholar Programs:
Critical Languages Workshop, 4 p.m., Legare College, Room
322. Available to undergraduate, master’s, and Ph.D. students and recent graduates who want to study critical need
foreign languages. Application deadline is November 2011.
For more information, call 7-0958, e-mail ofsp@sc.edu, or go
to www.sc.ed/ofsp.
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 Around the
campuses
March 25 USC Salkehatchie: Administration/
SGA Forum meeting of Student Government
Leadership with Salkehatchie administrators, 1 p.m.,
Education Conference Room, West Campus.
For more information, call Jane Brewer at
843-549-6314.
March 30 USC Upstate: Avoiding Investment Fraud
Seminar, 10 a.m.–noon, Campus Life Center Ballroom. The
Securities Division of the S.C. Attorney General’s Office
will offer a presentation on avoiding investment scams and
financial fraud. The presentation, which is free and open to
the public, is funded by a grant from the Investor Protection
Trust (www.investorprotection.org). For more information,
contact Michael Traynham at mtraynham@scag.gov.
Through March 30 USC Upstate: Lone Oak Elementary School Exhibit, 8:30 a.m.–5 p.m., Humanities and Performing Arts Center, FOCUS Gallery. For more information,
contact Mary Lou Hightower at 864-503-5817 or mhightower@uscupstate.edu.
April 1–May 5 USC Upstate: McCracken Junior High
School Exhibit, 8:30 a.m.–5 p.m., Humanities and Performing
Arts Center, FOCUS Gallery. For more information, contact
Mary Lou Hightower at 864-503-5817 or mhightower@
uscupstate.edu.
Usher has added a second
North American leg to his
worldwide tour that has
been selling out across
the globe.
 Colonial Life Arena
For more information and tickets to the events listed
below, go to www.coloniallifearena.com.
Arpil 14–17 Disney on Ice: Let’s Celebrate! is a colossal
party on ice with all your favorite Disney friends! Enjoy a
winter wonderland with Mickey Mouse and Minnie Mouse,
a Halloween haunt with the Disney Villains, a Very Merry
Unbirthday Party, a Royal Ball with the Disney Princesses,
and more in a magical medley of holidays, celebrations, and
festivals from around the globe.
May 1 Usher: Multi-platinum recording artist Usher is
bringing his OMG Tour to Colonial Life Arena, showcasing
his signature brand of hit-filled R&B-infused pop. In addition
to being a superstar, Usher is part owner of the Clevelenad
Cavaliers professional basketball team and has served as a
mentor on the television show American Idol. He will share
the Colonial Life Arena stage with special guest Akon.
April 1 USC Salkehatchie: Faculty Organization meeting,
1 p.m., Science Classroom Building, West Campus, Room
112. For more information, call Maureen Anderson at 843549-6314.
April 6 USC Salkehatchie: Student Government Pack
the Stands with students for baseball, 3 p.m., West Campus,
Baseball Field. For more information, call Mandy Smith at
803-584-3446.
April 6 USC Salkehatchie Western Carolina Higher
Education Commission meeting, faculty regular meeting of
the Salkehatchie Commission, 6 p.m., Main Building, Walterboro Campus, Room 111. For more information, call Ann
Carmichael at 803-584-3446.
Eady
April 7 USC Upstate: Authors
@ Upstate Visiting Writers Series,
4 p.m., J.M. Smith Boardroom. Poet
and playwright Cornelius Eady
will present a reading of selected
works. A book signing and reception
will follow the reading. For more
information, contact Tom McConnell,
director of the Honors Program,
at 864-503-5681 or tmcconnell@
uscupstate.edu.
April 7 USC Salkehatchie: Academic Recognition Reception honoring academic award and scholarship recipients, 6 p.m., Science Building, West Campus, Atrium. For
more information, call Chrissy Holliday at 803-584-3446.
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.–1p.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.
 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
April 7.
 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.
Alegria is a baroque ode to the energy, grace, and power of youth.
May 11–15 Alegria Cirque dju Soleil: Alegria is a mood,
a state of mind. The themes of the show, whose name
means jubilation in Spanish, are power and the handing
down of power over time, the evolution from ancient
monarchcies to modern democracies, old age, youth—it’s
against this backdrop that the characters of Alegria play out
their lives. Kings’ fools, minstrels, beggars, old aristocrats,
and children make up its universe, along with the clowns,
who alone are able to resist the passing of time and the
social transformations that accompany it.
May 19 Kenny Chesney’s
Goin’ Coastal Tour: His fans
count on his shows to be fun,
and they can see how deep
this country megastar’s talent
runs as Chesney announces the
arena leg of his biggest tour in
five years. Chesney is the only
artsit in any genre to sell more
than a million tickets for eight
consecutive summers.
June 23 Keith Urban: Country
superstar brings his Get Closer
2011 World Tour to Colonial Life
Arena, along with a special guest
to be announced. Urban’s CDs
have all been certified platinum
or multi-platinum, and he has
recorded 11 No. 1 songs. Critics
have called his shows “one of
the best reasons in the world to
attend a live concert.”
Chesney will perform for the
sixth time at Colonial Life
Arena.
Urban has earned a reputations as one of music’s best
live performers.
Works by Philip Muller,
 Farmers Market
including Untitled, right,
The Healthy Carolina Farmers Market is open from
exhibit in the McMaster
10 a.m. to 2 p.m every Tuesday through April 19 on
Greene Street in front of the Russell House. The
market is cash and carry, and payment is due to the
are on display in a solo
Student Gallery through
April 1.The gallery is on
the first floor of
McMaster College.
farmer at time of purchase. Locally grown asparagus, sprouts, and beans will be available. In addition,
the market will include freshly baked bread, local
chicken, eggs, and seafood. For more information,
go to www.sc.edu/healthycarolina.
 Lectures
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 24 Physics and Astronomy, Colloquium,Yordanka Ilieva, USC, 3:30 p.m., Jones Physical Science Center,
Rogers Room 409. Refreshments served at 3:15 p.m. For
more information, contact Mary Papp at papp@physics.
sc.edu or call 7-8105 or go to www.physics.sc.edu.
March 24 History, S.C. Citizens School: Science and
Technology of the Civil War, “Civil War Photography,” Bob
Zeller, Center for Civil War Photography, 7–9 p.m., Sumwalt
College, Room102. For more information, contact Katie
Walker at walkerkm@email.sc.edu or Allison Marsh at
7-0041.
March 25 Nursing, 2011 Annual Nursing Summit, “The
Future of Nursing: A Call to Lead,” Michael R. Bleich, Carol
A. Lindeman Distinguished Professor, Oregon Health &
Science University School of Nursing, 8:30 a.m.–4:30 p.m.,
S.C. Hospital Association, 1000 Center Point Road. For
more information, e-mail advancingleadership@sc.edu or
call 7-3039.
March 25 Chemistry and Biochemistry, “Shapeshifting 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.
March 29 Statistics, Palmetto Lectures in Statistics,
“Watching Children Grow Taught Me All I Know,” James O.
Ramsay, McGill University, 2 p.m., LeConte College, Room
210A. Refreshments will be served after the lecture in
LeConte, Room 213.
March 31 Statistics, Palmetto Lectures in Statistics, “A
Compact Functional Estimate of a Functional Variance-Covariance or Correlation Kernel,” James O. Ramsay, McGill
University, 2 p.m., LeConte College, Room 210A. Refreshments will be served after the lecture in LeConte, Room
213.
March 31 Geography, “Long-term Strategies for Reducing Losses from Natural Disasters and Other Extreme
Events,” Howard Kunreuther, University of Pennsylvania,
3–5 p.m., Russell House Theater. For more information, go
to www.discover.sc.edu.
March 31 Physics and Astronomy, Colloquium, Joseph
Johnson, USC, 3:30 p.m., Jones Physical Science Center, Rogers Room 409. Refreshments served at 3:15 p.m. For more
information, contact Mary Papp at papp@physics.sc.edu or
go to www.physics.sc.edu.
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 Sciences, Room 005.
March 31 History Department, S.C. Citizens School:
Science and Technology of the Civil War, “Making and
preserving Civil War Flags and Textiles,” Fenella France,
Library of Congress, 7–9 p.m., Confederate Relic Room
and Military Museum, 301Gervais St. For more information,
contact Katie Walker at walkerkm@email.sc.edu or Allison
Marsh at 7-0041.
April 1 Law, “Rebuilding the Rule of Law in Sierra Leone:
Changing Institutions and Culture,” 8 a.m.–6 p.m., School of
Law Auditorium. For more information, contact Joel Samuels at samueljh@law.sc.edu or call 7-8295.
April 1 Linguistics, Linguistics colloquium, “Wordify! Morphology meets Ludology,” Lindsey Hudson, Duncan Buell,
Stanley Dubinsky, and Brian Galloway, 2:30–3:30 p.m., Sloan
College, Room 112. For more information, go to www.cas.
sc.edu/ling/activities/colloquia.html. Co-sponsored by the
Department of Computer Science and Engineering.
April 1 Chemistry and Biochemistry, “Why the
scorpionates are a class of ligands used by most researchers working in the fields of bioinorganic chemistry, catalysis,
and advanced materials,” Claudio Pettinari, University of
Camerino, 4 p.m., Jones Physical Science Center, Room 006.
Refreshments will be served at 3:15 p.m.
 Exhibits
March 21 – April 1
Art Department:
Philip Muller solo show,
McMaster Student Gallery, McMaster College,
first floor, Senate Street.
Gallery hours are 8:30
a.m.–8 p.m. Monday–Sunday. For more information, send an e-mail to
mcmasterstudentgallery@gmail.com.
Through March 26 McKissick Museum: “From
Snapshot to Civic Action: Creating Healthy Environments
through Community Engagement.” Museum hours are
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/.
Through March 31 South Caroliniana Library: “The
Horseshoe: Heart of the Campus,” Lumpkin Foyer.
Through April 30 Hollings Library: “Beyond Domesticity: U.S. Women Writers, 1770–1915,” Irvin Department
Exhibition Gallery.
Through May 7 McKissick Museum: “Walter Anderson:
Everything I See is New and Strange,” South Gallery, second
floor. Museum hours are 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/.
 Lectures
April 1–3 Philosophy, Three Rivers Philosophy Conference, “Science, Knowledge, and Democracy,” an international conference bringing together moral and political
philosophers, philosophers of science, and epistemologists
to discuss issues that arise for publicly funded and publicaffecting scientific research in a democratic society, Hollings
Special Collections Library, Thomas Cooper Library. For
more information, go to www.cas.sc.edu/phil/trip2011.php.
April 5 Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, “Fabulation
and Metahistory: W.G. Sebald and
Recent German Holocaust Fiction,”
Richard T. Gray, Byron W. and Alice L.
Lockwood Professor in the Humanities, Washington University, 3:30
p.m., Gambrell Hall, Room 152. For
more information on the speaker,
Gray
go to http://faculty.washington.edu/
woyzeck/home.html. For more information, send an e-mail
to agnes.mueller@sc.edu.
April 7 Sociology, Bruce H. Mayhew Jr. Memorial Lecture,
“The Circumscription Theory: A Clarification, Amplification,
and Reformulation,” Robert Carneiro, 12:30–1:45 p.m.,
Sloan College, Room 112. Free and is open to the public.
For more information, e-mail dwiller@sc.edu or go to
www.cas.sc.edu/socy/colloquia.html.
April 7 Physics and Astronomy, Colloquium, Loris Magnani, University of Georgia, 3:30 p.m., Jones Physical Science
Center, Rogers Room 409. Refreshments served at 3:15
p.m. For more information, contact Mary Papp at papp@
physics.sc.edu, call 7-8105, or go to www.physics.sc.edu.
April 7 Chemistry and Biochemistry, “To benzoxazoles and back: conjugated cruciforms and kinetic self-sorting,” Ognejen Miljanic, University of Texas at Houston,
4 p.m., Coker Life Sciences, Room 005.
April 7 History, “War and Imperialism: The Case of
French Algeria,” James D. Le Sueur, University of Nebraska,
4–5:30 p.m., Gambrell Hall, Room 152. For more information, go to www.cas.sc.edu/hist/hc/ or call 7-6172.
April 7 History, S.C. Citizens School: Science and Technology of the Civil War, “Small Arms of the Civil War,” Jack
Meyer, conservator, 7–9 p.m., Confederate Relic Room and
Military Museum, 301Gervais St. For more information,
contact Katie Walker at walkerkm@email.sc.edu or Allison
Marsh at 7-0041.
 Concerts
March 24 School of Music: Nathaniel Zeisler, guest artist,
bassoon recital, 4:30 p.m., School of Music Recital Hall. Free.
For more information, call 7-4280.
March 24 School of Music: Palmetto Pans Steel Drums
in concert, 7:30 p.m., School of Music Recital Hall. Free. For
more information, call 7-4280.
March 28 School of Music: USC Percussion Ensemble
Recital, 7:30 p.m., School of Music Recital Hall. Free. For
more information, call 7-4280.
March 31 School of Music: Joseph Rackers, USC faculty,
piano recital, 7:30 p.m., School of Music Recital Hall. Free.
April 1 School of Music: USC Symphonic Winds and
University Band, 7:30 p.m., Koger Center. For more information, call 7-9151.
April 3 School of Music: Chamber Innovista Concert
Series, “Brunch and a Concert,” 3 p.m., Dupre Catering and
Events, 300 Senate St. Tickets are $15, adults, and $5 seniors
and students. Bruch will be served from noon to 1:45 p.m.
for an additional charge. For more information, call 7-4280.
April 4 School of Music: USC Computer Music Concert,
7:30 p.m., School of Music Recital Hall. Free. For more
information, call 7-4280.
April 4 School of Music: Paul Sharpe, guest artist, double
bass recital, 7:30 p.m., School of Music Recital Hall. Free. For
more information, call 7-4280.
April 12 School of Music: USC Symphony Orchestra
Concert, 7:30 p.m., Koger Center. The final concert of the
orchestra’s season will feature a performance of Franz
Liszt’s Second Piano Concerto by Judit Gabos, a native of Romania who has performed around the world. The concert
also will include George Gershwin’s Cuban Overture and
Antonin Dvorak’s Symphony No. 8. Tickets are $25 for the
general public, $20 for seniors and USC staff and faculty,
and $8 for students. For tickets, call 251-2222 or go to
www.capitoltickets.com.
 Sports
March 30 Softball: USC Upstate, 5 p.m., Beckham Field.
March 30 Baseball: The Citadel, 7 p.m., Carolina Stadium.
April 1 Softball: Alabama, 6 p.m., Beckham Field.
April 1 Baseball: Kentucky, 7 p.m., Carolina Stadium.
April 2 Softball: Alabama, 2 p.m., Beckham Field.
April 2 Baseball: Kentucky, 4:30 p.m., Carolina Stadium.
April 3 Softball: Alabama, noon, Beckham Field.
April 3 Baseball: Kentucky, 1:30 p.m., Carolina Stadium.
April 5 Softball: Charleston Southern, 5 p.m.,
Beckham Field.
April 5 Baseball: USC Upstate, 7 p.m., Carolina Stadium.
April 6 Softball: North Carolina, 4 p.m., Beckham Field.
 Theatre
April 1–2 Department of Theatre and Dance: The
Rediscovery of North America, 8 p.m., Lab Theater, Wheat
Street, between Sumter and Pickens streets, across from
the Blatt P.E. Center. Assistant professor Victor Holtcamp
will give a solo performance of his own adaptation of Barry
Lopez’ book (originally a lecture), The Rediscovery of North
America, which traces the effects of “extraction economics”
throughout North American history. For more information,
call Kevin Bush at 7-9353 or go to www.cas.sc.edu/dance.
March 24, 2011
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Briefly
CAROLINA DAY AT THE STATEHOUSE IS
MARCH 30: Sponsored by the Carolina Action Network
(CAN), the annual event supports higher education in South
Carolina. CAN members, a group of Carolina alumni, work to
make sure the University continues to provide a quality education for everyone and to inform state legislators and policymakers why a strong USC benefits the entire state. CAN advocates
work to increase awareness regarding particular legislative
issues.They communicate with elected officials in various ways
including e-mails, letters, phone calls, and personal visits. No
meetings or membership fees are required.The Carolina Alumni
Association communicates with the advocates whenever their
support is needed in contacting legislators on particular issues
of interest to the University. For more information and to register, go to www.MyCarolina.org/advocacy. PHONEBOOKS NOW AVAILABLE: The 2011
AT&T phonebooks are available for University departments.
AT&T no longer provides CDs. Information also is available online at www.attyellowpageslive.com/WebProject.
asp?BookCode=cli10htm.The online directory provides quick
access to phone and address listings.To request phonebooks,
send an e-mail with the following information to the helpdesk@
sc.edu:
• name
• department
• number of phonebooks requested.
Phonebooks can be picked up from 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday–
Friday at the UTS loading dock at 1211 Wheat St. Parking will be
available at the loading dock ramp. Phonebooks cannot be sent
through campus mail or delivered. For more information, call
the UTS Help Desk at 7-1800.
EXPLORE PARIS MOUNTAIN: The first of four walks
with USC naturalist in residence Rudy Mancke is set for April
15–16 with a trip to Paris Mountain State Park in Greenville
County.This two-day trip will begin April 15 with an informal
“meet-and-greet” with Mancke at the Sleep Inn in Travelers
Rest.The inn is offering a discounted rate of $64.99 plus tax per
room (includes breakfast) for travelers who want to stay Friday
night.To receive the discount, mention the “USC Continuing
Education” group. Participants also can meet the group at the
park on Saturday morning. On April 16, participants will meet at
8:30 a.m.The trip will end at 12:30 p.m.To register, go to saeu.
sc.edu/conted/catalog/schedule.php?course=188 or call 7-9444.
SERVICE AWARDS RECOGNITION IS APRIL 5:
The University community will honor 377 faculty and staff
members April 5 during the annual State Service Awards Recognition program. President Pastides and other members of the
administration, faculty, and staff will gather in the Russell House
Ballroom at 2 p.m. to recognize individuals from throughout the
University system for 50, 30, 20, and 10 years of service. Some
of the awardees are Thomas L. Stepp, secretary of the Board of
Trustees, 50 years, and Dennis Pruitt, vice president for student
affairs, vice provost and dean of students; Jerry Brewer, associate
vice president for student life; and Helen Ziegler, associate vice
president for business affairs.To view the entire list of awardees,
go to http://hr.sc.edu/benefits/StServiceAwards2011.pdf.
STROM REDUCES RATES: Membership rates for
faculty and staff at the Strom Thurmond Wellness and Fitness
Center will be reduced by $10 per month through June 30.
Rates will be $20 per month for regular memberships and $10
for early-bird memberships from 6 a.m. to 1 p.m. Monday–Friday,
weekends, and holidays. For current members, payroll deductions will be adjusted to reflect the new rates. For faculty and
staff who have paid in full, memberships will be extended for
additional months.
BEAT CLEMSON AT SPRING BLOOD DRIVE
APRIL 4: The 2011 Carolina/Clemson Spring Blood Drive will
be held from 2 to 7 p.m. April 4 in the Russell House Ballroom.
The one-day spring drive will be a kickoff for the fall blood drive
and help get students involved in donating. Alumni will be able
to donate first and not wait in line. Incentives for donating—
T-shirts, coozies, prizes, and raffles—will be offered.
WEST TO SPEAK AT SMALLS LECTURE:
Cornel West, the author of Race Matters and a professor at
Princeton University, will be the speaker at the 14th-annual
Robert Smalls Lecture at 8 p.m. March 31 in the Koger Center.
The lecture is free, but tickets are required. USC faculty, staff,
and students can get tickets in advance with a Carolina Card
at the Russell House Information Center through March 30.
Faculty and staff can get up to two tickets. A limited number of
tickets will be available at the Koger Center at 7 p.m. March 31.
A Carolina Card is required to get tickets.
MOVE-IN DAY IS AUG. 13: With the freshman class
expected to be large again this fall, a minimum of 200 faculty
and staff volunteers are needed to help freshmen move in and
welcome them to campus.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.
EXPAND YOUR PALETTE, NOT YOUR WAISTLINE: Campus Wellness will sponsor a class in Middle Eastern
cooking led by a registered dietitian from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m.
March 31 in the Public Health Research Building, Room 107.
Registration is required.To register, call 576-9393.
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Administrative Professionals Conference is April 29
Set a new course for learning, networking, and self-improvement this year at USC’s Administrative Professionals Conference April 29.
Participants should arrive for sign-in at
8:45 a.m., with instruction beginning at 9 a.m. in
the Campus Room at Capstone House. The conference will end at 1 p.m.
The event can help USC’s administrative professionals and administrative support staff take charge
of development and achieve greater success. The
program will look at new ways of thinking about
professional development and will help identify
opportunities to improve skills, enhance professionalism, and increase value in an administrative
Herlong
or academic unit.
Rounding out conference sessions will be opportunities for peer networking to help professionals find quick, proven solutions that work at USC.
Lunch will be provided.
During the conference’s first session, titled
“Don’t Throw Tomatoes at My Field of Dreams,”
participants will learn about winning attitudes and
common-sense principles for success from a nationally known speaker who is an award-winning professional singer, recording artist, and author. Other
topics will include the value in making mistakes,
the importance of going the extra mile, and how dif- Parker
ficult people can lead to empowerment.
Jane Jenkins Herlong will share successful business and
life strategies. A South Carolina farm girl, Herlong will shares
down-home principles while motivating participants and
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renowned authors she invites to the series. “She creates a
relaxed, yet stimulating environment where you are better for
having attended,” she said. “That’s what stretches my mind.
Putting myself around creative, accomplished people is part of
becoming a better person, plus, it’s fun.”
There’s something wonderful about the atmosphere in the
Gambrell Hall Auditorium during the series that has attracted
more than 1,000 people, added Humphries, who listens to
recorded books and is able to scan books that are then read
back to her with assistive technology.
Humphries wrote extensively when she owned her
etiquette company, including instructional materials and
newspaper and TV columns. Nowadays, she’s looking for a
blog site that is accepting of assistive technology so she can
continue writing.
“Reading is nourishment for the brain that pushes you a
little bit and broadens your mind,” Humphries said. “I’d rather
do that than go to a movie, though there are great movies.
But if I were to pick, I’d rather be here in a live program. How
many times do you have access to that kind of quality, that
kind of talent? Pretty impressive.”
Walton
helping them discover their niche in life and bolstering their
confidence to achieve.
In the morning’s second workshop, “Successful
Approaches to Conflict Management,” participants
will learn why it’s important to address conflict
confidently and in a timely manner.
The session will feature Betty Parker, who will
offer a new perspective on conflict while teaching
how to create an open environment for communication. She also will help participants understand
the value in conflict and how to benefit from it.
Parker is owner of Sharer Development Solutions Inc., a firm that provides education to audiences striving towards professional and personal
development. A veteran of the pharmaceutical industry, she was a key account manager for a global
biotechnology company where she sold more than
$20 million in pharmaceuticals. The former radio
news announcer and public affairs host is author
of Waging War on Fear: Strategies to Overcome
a Scary World. Parker is at work on her second
book, Are You The Cream Or The Crop?
The cost is $50 per person and includes instruction, a continental breakfast, and lunch.
To register online, go to hr.sc.edu/online/
conference.asp or use the standard PDF registration form at hr.sc.edu/forms/prodevp_regsform.
pdf, which can be faxed to 7-8210 or mailed to
Professional Development at 1600 Hampton St., Suite 101. For
more information, call 7-6578. Supervisory approval must be
obtained before participating in training programs.
 In Memoriam: Richard Wertz
Richard Wertz, an emeritus professor who retired
from the University in 2007, died Feb. 14 at his home
in State College, Pa. He was 68. Services and burial
were held Feb. 20 at Woodlawn Cemetery in Orlando,
Fla.
Wertz joined the University in 1974 as dean of
residence life. In 1989, he was named director of
business affairs and associate professor. In 2001, he
was named associate professor with tenure in the
Department of Educational Leadership and Policies.
He retired as a full professor in February 2006 and
continued to work as a temporary clinical professor
in the Department of Educational Leadership until
December 2007.
Wertz was pre-deceased by his wife, Sandra Lanasa Wertz, professor emerita and director of media
arts, who retired in 2001 and died in 2008.
He is survived by a daughter, Nicole Klett, and her
husband, Eric, of Chapel Hill, N.C., three grandchildren, and one sister and her husband of Alexandria,
Va. Arrangements were handled by the Koch Funeral
Home of State College. Online condolences may be
made at kochfuneralhome.com.
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Division of Research and Health Sciences and chief financial
officer of the Research Foundation with responsibility for
managing a staff of 20 professionals and a systemwide grants
program that now exceeds $200 million in annual awards.
In 2008, he joined the Office of Academic Affairs and
Provost as associate provost for finance and administration.
In July 2009, he became associate vice president for operations, with responsibility over University financial systems for
accounting and collections, in addition to being CFO of the
Research Foundation and Health Sciences South Carolina.
Walton is a graduate of A.C. Flora High School and a
summa cum laude graduate of St. Leo College in Tampa.,
Fla. A veteran of the U.S. Air Force, he holds memberships in
the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, the
Government Finance Officers Association, and the National
Council of University Research Administrators.
Rankings
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The Moore School remains the top public university in
international business, ahead of the University of Pennsylvania (Wharton), the University of Michigan, Harvard University, Columbia University, and Duke University, among other
prestigious business schools.
In addition to the international master of business administration, the Moore School’s international ranking includes
the master of international business, a one-year interdisciplinary program with political science and law, and the international concentration in the part-time PMBA.
Other USC schools and programs ranked in the top 100
include public affairs, No. 72, and the master’s program in
nursing, No. 79.
Other schools ranked in the publication include the College
of Education and the School of Law.
 Coming up
In the next issue of Times, read about a civil engineering
assistant professor who has received an NSF CAREER
Award to study hydrothermal carbonization of municipal
solid waste—basically, a greener way to deal with trash.
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 BOOKS AND CHAPTERS
Nancy L. Gallenstein, education, Beaufort, and D. Hodges, editors, Mathematics for all: Instructional strategies to assist students with learning challenges,
M.D. Olney, Association for Childhood Education International.
Catherine Castner, languages, literatures, and cultures, Biondo Flavio’s Italia
illustrata: Text,Translation, and Commentary,Volume 2: Central and Southern Italy,
SUNY Press, Albany, N.Y.
Steven N. Blair, exercise science, A.L. Dunn, B.H. Marcus, R.A. Carpenter,
and P. Jaret, Active Living Every Day, second edition, Human Kinetics, Champaign,
Ill.
John E. Stewart, Ana Lopez-De Fede, and Kathy Mayfield-Smith,
Institute for Families in Society, Sarah E. Battersby and Kevin C. Remington, geography, and James W. Hardin, epidemiology and biostatistics,
“Diabetes and the Socioeconomic and Built Environment: Geovisualization of
Disease Prevalence and Potential Contextual Associations Using Ring Maps,”
International Journal of Health Geographics.
Hanno 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 an Unprecedented
High Symmetry [Bi3I11]2- Anion and of Isolated I- Anions,” Journal of the
American Chemical Society.
Kara Montgomery, health promotion, education, and behavior, James
Hardin, Center for Health Services and Policy Research, Michelle Burcin,
Healthy Carolina, Corrie Barnett Strubble, and Lisa L. Lindley, “Overweight
and Obesity in Lesbian and Bisexual College Women,” Journal of American
College Health.
 Lighter times
 ARTICLES
Heather Brandt, Lucy Annang, and Daniela Friedman, health promotion, behavior, and education, S.A. Bynum,
and Andrea Tanner, journalism and mass communications,
“Knowledge, beliefs, and behaviors: Examining Human Papillomavirus–related gender differences among African American
college students,” Journal of American College Health.
Jay F. Muller, Alexander J. McDonald, and Franco
Mascagni, pharmacology, physiology, and neuroscience,
“Cholinergic innervations of pyramidal cells and parvalbuminimmunoreactive interneurons in the rat basolateral amygdala,”
Journal of Comparative Neurology.
Steven N. Blair and Timothy S. Church, exercise science,
N.M. Johannsen, E.L. Priest,V.D. Dixit, and C.P. Earnest, “Association of white blood cell subfraction concentration with
fitness and fatness,” British Journal of Sports Medicine.
Ran Wei, journalism and mass communications,Ven-hwei Lo
(Chinese University of Hong Kong), and Hung-yi Lu (National
Chungcheng University), “Examining the Perceptual Gap and
Behavioral Intention in the Perceived Effects of Polling News
in the 2008 Taiwan Presidential Election,” Communication
Research.
Xuemei Sui and Steven N. Blair, exercise science, Francisco B. Ortega,
Wendy J. Brown, Duck-chul Lee, and Meghan Baruth, “In Fitness and Health?
A Prospective Study of Changes in Marital Status and Fitness in Men and
Women,” American Journal of Epidemiology.
Douglas L. Pittman and Michael D. Wyatt, pharmaceutical sciences,
P. Rajesh, and A. Litvinchuk, “The homologous recombination protein
RAD51D mediates the processing of 6-thioguanine lesions downstream of
mismatch repair,” Molecular Cancer Research.
Steven P. Wilson, David D. Mott, Marlene A. Wilson, and Lawrence
P. Reagan, pharmacology, physiology, and neuroscience, Claudia A. Grillo,
Gerardo G. Piroli, and Lorain Junor, “Obesity/hyperleptinemic phenotype
impairs structural and functional plasticity in the rat hippocampus,” Physiology
and Behavior.
Ana Lòpez-De Fede, Kathy L. Mayfield-Smith, Qiduan Liu,Teresa
Payne, John E. Stewart, and Verna Brantley, Institute for Families in
Society, and James W. Hardin, epidemiology and biostatistics, “Does Health
Plan Type Contribute to Difference in Diabetes Care?,” Journal of the South
Carolina Medical Association.
Stacy L. Fritz, exercise science, E.D. Rivers, A.M. Merlo, A.D. Reed, G.W.
Mathern, and S. Bode, “Intensive Mobility Training Post Cerebral Hemispherectomy: Early Surgery Shows Best Functional Improvements,” European
Journal of Physical Rehabilitation Medicine. Derek T. Anderson, S.C. Institute of Archaeology and Anthropology,
“Paleo-Indians in Southwestern New York: Preliminary Results from Collector Surveys,” Current Research in the Pleistocene.
J. Christopher Gillam, S.C. Institute of Archaeology and Anthropology,
Oki Nakamura, and Tomohiko Matsumori, “Hunter-Fisher-Gatherer Settlement Dynamics in Toyama Prefecture, Honshu, Japan,” Current Research in
the Pleistocene, and, same journal, with David G. Anderson and Stephen Yerka,
“Employing High-Resolution Bathymetric Data to Infer Possible Migration
Routes of Pleistocene Populations.” Lawrence P. Reagan, pharmacology, physiology, and neuroscience,
“Diabetes as a chronic metabolic stressor: causes, consequences and clinical
complications,” Experimental Neurology.
Edsel A. Pena, statistics, Joshua Habiger (Oklahoma State University) and
Wensong Wu (USC Ph.D. student), “Power-Enhanced Multiple Decision Functions Controlling Family-Wise Error and False Discovery Rates,” The Annals
of Statistics, and, with Joshua Habiger, “Randomized P-Values and Nonparametric Procedures in Multiple Testing,” Journal of Nonparametric Statistics, and,
with Akim Adekpedjou and Jonathan Quiton (former USC Ph.D. students),
“Estimation and Efficiency with Recurrent Event Data under Informative
Monitoring,” Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference, and, with Juan Ramon
Gonzalez and Pedro Delicado, “Confidence intervals for median survival with
recurrent event data,” Computational Statistics and Data Analysis, and, with
Hakon Gjessing, Kjetil Roysland, and Odd Aalen, “Recurrent events and the
exploding Cox model,” Lifetime Data Analysis.
Russell R. Pate and Marsha Dowda, exercise science, Ruth P. Saunders, health promotion, education, and behavior, and Jennifer R. O’Neill,
“Overcoming Barriers To Physical Activity: Helping Youth Be More Active,”
ACSM Health & Fitness Journal.
Greg Wilsbacher, libraries, “Al Brick: the Forgotten Newsreel Man at Pearl
Harbor,” The Moving Image.
Nancy Gallenstein, education, Beaufort, “Mathematics concept maps:
Assessing connections,” Teaching Children Mathematics.
Steven P. Wilson, David D. Mott, and Lawrence P. Reagan, pharmacology, physiology, and neuroscience, Claudia A. Grillo, Gerardo G. Piroli, Ashlie
E. Evans,Victoria A. Macht, K.A. Scott, and R.R. Sakai, “Obesity/hyperleptinemic phenotype adversely affects hippocampal synaptic plasticity; Effects of
dietary restriction,” Physiology and Behavior.
Rebecca A. Hillman, mathematics, Sumter, “Solution to Problem B-1062,
A Lot of Sums!,” The Fibonacci Quarterly, and, with Charles K. Cook,
mathematics, Sumter, “Some Jump Sum Patterns for the Rows of Pascal’s and
Other Related Triangles,” Proceedings for The Twelfth International Conference of
Fibonacci Numbers and Their applications, and, with Michael Bacon, “The ‘Magicness’ of Powers of Some Magic Squares,” The Fibonacci Quarterly.
Timothy S. Church and Steven N. Blair, exercise science, Shannon
Cocreham, Neil Johannsen, William Johnson, Kimberly Kramer, Catherine R.
Mikus,Valerie Myers, Melissa Nauta, Ruben Q. Rodarte, Lauren Sparks, and
Angela Thompson, “Effects of Aerobic and Resistance Training on Hemoglobin A1c Levels in Patients With Type 2 Diabetes: A Randomized Controlled
Trial,” The Journal of The American Medical Association.
University wins CASE,
ADDY, SCPA awards
Several communications projects produced for the
University and its colleges and departments have
been recognized for excellence by the Council for
Advancement and Support of Education (CASE),
the Columbia Advertising Club, and the S.C. Press
Association (SCPA).
The CASE 2011 District III Advancement Awards
recognize outstanding work in communications and
marketing, alumni relations, advancement services,
and fund raising conducted by higher education
institutions, independent schools, and educational
associates from around the world. The 2011 University awardees are:
 Opening and Dedication of the Ernest F.
Hollings Special Collections Library, Grand
Award in the “Media Relations Projects” category,
Office of Media Relations
 Branding My Carolina, Award of Excellence in
the “Graphic Identity Program” category, Carolina
Alumni Association
 Times, Award of Excellence in the “Internal Tab-
loids and Newsletters” category, University Creative
Services
 True Scholar: Carolina and McNair Schol-
Well, I’ve mentored him for years. All that’s left
for me to do is hand him the blame.
ars Report, Award of Excellence in the “Institutional Publications” category, University Creative
Services with the Office of Fellowships and Scholar
Programs
Karin A. Pfeiffer and Steve Blair, exercise science, Brent Hutto and
Steven P. Hooker, Prevention Research Center, Jorge A. Banda, Anna
Feeney, Kerry McIver, Michael J. LaMonte, and John Vena, “Comparing Physical
Activity Measures in a Diverse Group of Midlife and Older Adults,” Medicine
and Science In Sports and Exercise.
 South Carolina Medicine Cover, Winter
 PRESENTATIONS
Stacy L. Fritz, exercise science, “Aging Research Day: Aging and Mobility,”
S.C. Aging Research Network, Gait Speed: The Sixth Vital Sign, Columbia.
Kate Boyd, University Libraries, “South Carolina Digital Collections and the
K–12 Community,” S.C. Council for African American Studies, Columbia.
J. Mark Davis, exercise science, and E. Angela Murphy, pathology,
microbiology, and immunology, J.L. McClellan, T. Tae, J.L. Steiner, and
M.D. Carmichael, “Effects of muscadine grape extract on intestinal i
nflammation in the ApcMin/+ mouse,” Southeast American College of Sports
Medicine, Greenville, S.C., and, same conference, with Maria Pena, biological
sciences, S.E. Mahoney, J.L. McClellan, and M.D. Carmichael, “Effects of
5-fluoruracil chemotherapy on voluntary physical activity,” and, with
B.T. Gordon, J.L. McClellan, and M.D. Carmichael, “Increased expression of
brain inflammatory cytokines following downhill running in mice,” and, with
J.L. Steiner, M.D. Carmichael, and S.E. Mahoney, “Characterization of a mouse
model of cancer related fatigue using measures of physical activity.”
Kate Boyd and Connie Geer, University Libraries, “South Carolina Digital
Library: A Free Online Resource,” S.C. Association of School Librarians,
Columbia.
Stacy L. Fritz and Bruce K. McClenaghan, exercise science, A. Merlo,
A. Goodman, and M.K. Jay, “Patients Perspectives on the Feasibility of an
Intensive, Task-Specific Intervention for Chronic Stroke,” Combined Sections
Meeting, New Orleans, La., and, same conference, with D. Peters, A. Merlo,
and E.D. Rivers, “Examining the Effects of Wii and Playstation Game Play on
Dynamic Gait and Symmetrical Weight-Bearing in Individuals with Chronic
Stroke: A Preliminary Study,” and, with Y-P Chiu, S.B. Davis, K.E. Light,
P-S Wen, O. Teitelbaum, and P. Teitelbaum, “Effect of Constraint Induced
Movement Therapy on Quality of Movement in People with Stroke.”
Lana A. Burgess, McKissick Museum, “McKissick Museum at the Core
of the University of South Carolina’s Curriculum,” College Art Association,
New York, N.Y.
Ed Madden, English and Women’s and Gender Studies, “Gay Ireland: Cultural Appeals, Political Discourse, and the 2009 Dublin Pride Film Contest,”
American Conference for Irish Studies, Savannah, Ga.
Thomas Vogt, chemistry and biochemistry, “New Materials using PressureInduced Insertion: The 2nd Symposium for the Global Research Laboratory
Program of Korea,” Seoul, Korea.
 OTHER
Tena Crews, integrated information technology, received the Outstanding
Leadership Award from the S.C. Business Education Association. Crews is
president of the association.
Richard Maltz, music, Aiken, “M.O.N.K., an original composition commissioned by the Pennsylvania Sinfonia Orchestra,” will premiere April 2 in
Allentown, Pa.
Steven N. Blair, exercise science, was recipient of the 2010 Henry J. Montoye Scholar Award, presented at the Southeast Chapter of the American
College of Sports.
Cynthia Colbert, art, and Sarah Bolick Smith had works selected for
upcoming exhibitions at Cuesta College Gallery, San Luis Obispo, Calif., and
at Abecedarian Gallery, Denver, Colo.
Amy Suzanne Johnson Lachuck, education, named a recipient of
the Narrative Research SIG 2011 Early Career Award by the American
Educational Research Association. The award, which will be presented at
the association’s annual meeting April 11 in New Orleans, honors research
contributions of beginning scholars who conduct narrative research or use
narrative research methods.
 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.
2009, Award of Excellence in the “Photography”
category. University Creative Services with the
School of Medicine
 Carolina Minutes, Special Merit Award in the
“Radio Programs, Podcasts, and Announcements”
category, Office of Media Relations
 Family Fund: Dancing with the Deans,
Special Merit Award in the “Educational Fundraising Projects” category, Office of Annual Giving
 Engineering and Computing Parents Week-
end Postcard, Special Merit Award in the “Direct
Mail” category, University Creative Services with the
College of Engineering and Computing
 SPURS Brochure, Special Merit Award in the
“Direct Mail” category, Office of Annual Giving with
University Creative Services.
The Columbia Advertising Club’s 2011 American
Advertising Awards (ADDY Awards) program is a
juried competition of work produced by Columbia
and regional advertising agencies and design studios. University awardees for 2011 are:
 Moore magazine, Silver ADDY in the “Publica-
tions Design: Magazine Design” category, University
Creative Services with the Darla Moore School of
Business
 Mapping a Global Agenda Illustration
Series for Breakthrough magazine, Silver
ADDY in the “Elements of Advertising; Illustration
Campaign” category, University Creative Services
with the Office of Research and Graduate Education
 Southeastern Piano Festival Stationery,
Silver ADDY in the “Collateral Material: Stationery
Package” category, University Creative Services with
the School of Music.
The SCPA sponsors an annual competition for
communications produced by its members in the
Palmetto State. University winners for 2011 are:
 “It’s Been Quite a Year,” 2010 President’s
Review Web Site, First Place in the “Web Site/
Associate or Individual Member” division, University Creative Services and Web Communications with
the Office of the President
 May Carolina Mailer, First Place in the “Event
Marketing/Associate or Individual Member” division, University Creative Services, with the Carolina
Alumni Association
 University of South Carolina Times, Second
Place in the “Newspaper Publication/Associate and
Individual Member” division, University Creative
Services
 Carolinian magazine, Second Place in the
“Magazine or Special Publication/Associate and
Individual Member” division, University Creative
Services with the Carolina Alumni Association
 South Carolina Medicine Cover, Winter
2009, Second Place in the “Published Photograph/
Associate or Individual Member” division, University Creative Services.
March 24, 2011
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Richmond lauded for his Folger Theatre production of Henry VIII
USC associate professor of theatre Robert Richmond’s recent
production of Shakespeare’s seldom-staged Henry VIII at
the Folger Theatre in Washington, D.C., has been nominated
for 10 Helen Hayes Awards, including a nod to Richmond for
outstanding director.
“The Folger Theatre was a perfect setting for such a jewelbox production,” Richmond said. “With its Elizabethan décor,
the period setting beautifully highlights a world of domestic
scandal and political intrigues. There was no better place than
the Folger, as one of the great literary institutions in the world,
for me to study, research, and direct this great play.”
Richmond, originally from Hastings, England, studied at
the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama. His fascination with Henry VIII began with family trips to Hever Castle,
the family home of Anne Boleyn, the tragic queen of King
Henry VIII, and his professional acting debut was playing
Henry VIII in Robert Bolt’s A Man For All Seasons.
“Although the role comprises only one short scene, I
devoured every book I could read about the man,” Richmond
said. “For these reasons, Shakespeare’s Henry VIII means a
great deal to me. And, as one of the less-often-produced plays,
it arouses my interest even more. It is usually conceived as a
large-scale epic drama, full of spectacle and pageantry. However, I find it more compelling as a human story, a play about
life as a monarch—full of betrayals and scandals.”
King Henry VIII was king of England from 1509 to 1547.
Besides his six wives, he was best known for his role in the
separation of the Church of England from the Roman Catholic
Church.
Other notable nominations for Henry VIII are:
n Louis Butelli (outstanding supporting actor), who has been
a guest artist at USC several times, most recently as assistant
director for Richmond’s production of A Cabal of Hypocrites
in 2008. Butelli also is involved as an actor with Richmond’s
short film, Dreadful Sorry. (See story below.)
n Anthony Cochrane (outstanding sound design), who, as
a guest artist, played the title role in Cyrano de Bergerac at
Longstreet Theatre in September 2009
n William Ivey Long (outstanding costume design), who is a
major Broadway costume designer (The Producers, Hairspray, Chicago, and Dreamgirls) and who also designed
the costumes for the long-running outdoor drama, The Lost
Colony, which Richmond has directed for the last three years
on the Outer Banks.
The Helen Hayes Award has recognized excellence in
professional theater in the Washington area since 1983. The
27th-annual awards ceremoney will be presented April 25 in
Washington.
Carlisle named
Best in Show in
student exhibit
Christina Carlisle received Best in Show for
her work Dress Form in the Department of
Art’s annual juried exhibition.
James Arendt, curator of S.C. State’s FAB
Gallery, juried this year’s competition. He
selected 72 works ranging from traditional
media such as drawing, photography and
painting, multimedia sculptural installations, and video. The works represent the
department’s undergraduate and graduate
programs. The other award winners are:
n first place graduate,
Katherine Radomsky, Lock
n first place undergraduate,
Katie Baehler, Untitled
n second place graduate, Emily Lyles, Going Under
n second place undergraduate, Robbi
Amick, Series of Reflections: Self 111
n third place graduate, Scott Vollmar, Conversation Galante: REDUX
n third place undergraduate,
Laura Garner, What My Mother Gave Me
n honorable mention,
Carolina Wyout, Chandalier #3
n honorable mention, Carly Saxon, Octopus
n honorable mention, Grace Rockafellow,
Love Letter to My Mom
n honorable mention, Matthew Catoe, Untitled
n Honorable Mention, Lizzy Cuthbertson,
Study of Joshua.
Dress Form by Christina Carlisle won Best in
Show in a student art exhibit.
The following individuals and groups
sponsored awards: City Art, Ethel Brody,
Dwight Drake, Toni Elkins, Carol Saunders Gallery, Jonathan Green, President Pastides
and Patricia Moore-Pastides, Joseph A Price, Brian Rutenberg, John Taylor, and Alvin
Neal.
The exhibit will be on display at McMaster Gallery through March 25. The gallery, on
the first level of the art department at 1615 Senate St., is open from 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
Monday–Friday and is closed weekends and all University holidays. For more information, contact Mana Hewitt, gallery director, at 7-7480 or mana@sc.edu.
Working by candlelight, cast and crew members prepare to shoot a scene for the short film Dreadful Sorry. Michael Brown
Director Robert Richmond chose the green room in USC’s Longstreet Theater for one of the film’s settings.
Theatre, media arts students
help bring ghost story to life
Robert Richmond and students from the theatre and media arts programs are working to produce a 15-minute film titled Dreadful Sorry. Production began March 6 during spring break.
Dreadful Sorry is a short film written by Dionne O’Dell and inspired by the legend of the
Huguenot ghost, Gauche, who is purported to haunt The Castle at 411 Craven St. in Beaufort.
Gauche mysteriously leaves bloody handprints on doors and windows.
In Dreadful Sorry, Gauche appears as a gardener who befriends 10-year-old Lily Reece.
Gauche aids Lily’s memory as she returns to the foreboding plantation house after the Civil War
and struggles to remember the dreadful event of her mother’s death.
Richmond, an associate professor in USC’s Department of Theatre and Dance, is directing
the film and was awarded the 2010 S.C. Film Commission grant to produce it. Dreadful Sorry is
the fourth film to receive the grant.
Dreadful Sorry was filmed at the Robert Mills House in Columbia, courtesy of the Historic
Columbia Foundation. Richmond also filmed scenes in the green room in Longstreet Theater.
The production will be accomplished with the collaborative efforts of the S.C. Film Commission, USC Partner in Film Production in Columbia, and USC’s College of Arts and Sciences, Department of Art, and Department of Theatre and Dance, along with professionals in the industry.
Dan Kneece, a Hollywood director of photography; producers Worth Keeter and Phil Smoot;
and art director Andy Mills of USC worked on the film. Actors include Richard Sheridan Willis
as Conrad, Louis Butelli as Gauche, Madeleine Hamer as Victoria, and Liza Hunter as Lily.
Media arts students worked in apprenticeship production assistant positions, and theatre
students performed supporting acting roles, giving them hands-on experience and preparing
them for future jobs in the film industry.
Production updates for Dreadful Sorry are on Facebook at Dreadful Sorry the Movie; on
Twitter at http://twitter.com/dreadfulsorry; and on the Weblog at www.dreadfulsorryblog.
tumblr.com.
n Carolina Core
Gamecocks way,
way down under
Dave Barbeau, an associate
professor in the Department
of Earth and Ocean Sciences,
shows off his Gamecock pride
from the Drake Passage in
Antarctica. Barbeau and his
research group were on their
way home on the final day of
fieldwork for an NSF Office of
Polar Programs grant. Pictured
are Skip Owen, left, U.S.
Antarctic Program field
manager; Barbeau; and Ben
Oliver, Mike Jonas, and Justin
Davis, Department of Earth
and Ocean Sciences graduate
students.The team’s mascot
yard gnome, Petey, is perched
atop the flag..
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March 24, 2011
Program to begin in fall 2012
Michael Matthews, chemical engineering, updated the Faculty
Senate on the activities of the Carolina Core Committee at its
meeting March 2.
Mathews, co-chair of the committee, said the target date to
implement the Carolina Core, a revision of the general education
curriculum, is fall 2012.
During the spring semester, the committee has worked with
the Office of the Provost and the Committee on Curricula and
Courses to develop a call for Carolina Core course proposals. The
committee also has been recruiting tenure and tenure-track faculty for nine specialty teams for each of the Carolina Core’s nine
learning outcomes.
The committee is planning another faculty forum this spring to
present the Carolina Core proposal and the approval process. For
more information, go to www.sc.edu/generaleducation/.
The next Faculty Senate meeting will be at approximately 3:10
p.m. April 26 in the School of Law Auditorium. The meeting will
follow the spring General Faculty Meeting, which will begin at 2
p.m. April 26 in the School of Law Auditorium.