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n Golden anniversary in state service
Stepp marks major milestone
By Chris Horn
Count all of the occupational hats Tommy Stepp has worn in 50-plus years of work, and you
probably couldn’t find a rack big enough to hang them on.
Photographer, film editor, TV producer, network executive, director of the Koger Center
for the Arts, secretary of USC and its Board of Trustees, and, well, you get the idea—one
man, many responsibilities.
Stepp just received his 50-year pin for state service, a half-century tenure that goes back to his freshman year at Carolina when he
worked on the side at S.C. ETV.
“I actually started as a volunteer for ETV in 1958–59 while I was
a student at Dreher High School,” Stepp said. “ETV was an experiment—it hadn’t been officially established by the legislature then—
and I was a camera and audio operator for a French I telecourse
that Dreher high school hosted.”
Stepp worked his way through college, earning an economics
degree at Carolina by day and also working full time at ETV.
“There wasn’t a lot of extra time then,” he said, though he did
manage to find time for the woman, Sarah Cauthen, who would
Stepp
become his wife of 47 years.
After graduating cum laude in 1964, he progressed through a series of jobs at ETV and
by 1973 was named chief operating officer of the network, which included more than 400
staff, 10 TV stations, six FM radio stations, and an annual budget of $20 million.
Stepp also would serve as executive producer of an Emmy-winning TV college credit
course, a Cannes Film Festival award-winning documentary, and, in 1980, public broadcasting’s first origination of a national presidential candidates’ debate for commercial
networks. In 1985, about halfway through his 50-year career in state service, Stepp joined
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Moore’s $5 million gift to establish
aerospace center and honor McNair
By Larry Wood
Twice the trouble
Michael Brown
Jeffrey Earl, top, left, and Liam MacDougall and William Vaughn, bottom, left, and Joe Mallon play two sets of twins
separated at birth in William Shakespeare’s classic The Comedy of Errors.The play will run April 15–23 at Drayton
Hall. See story page 8.
n ‘Times’ reader survey
University Creative Services wants your ideas and opinions as it considers changes to
Times. A reminder e-mail with a link to the survey will be sent to all University faculty and
staff. Please take a few moments to complete the online reader survey when it arrives.
USC alumna and business school benefactor Darla Moore has made a $5 million gift to the
University to establish an aerospace research center that she requested be named in honor
of Ronald E. McNair, a South Carolina native and astronaut who died during the launch of
the space shuttle Challenger in 1986.
Moore also asked the state to match the gift during her announcement March 24 before a packed audience of faculty, staff,
and students in the Russell House Ballroom.
“Aerospace research is the wave of the future. It’s part of a
knowledge economy in which the state can play a tremendous
role, and our people can contribute mightily to it,” Moore said.
“If it is the desire of our state leaders to help South Carolina grow
and expand our economy, then this is an investment that will reap
extraordinary returns for us.”
Moore and McNair both grew up in Lake City.
“He [McNair] is one of my heroes,” Moore said. “He grew
Moore
up in the rural, deep South, in segregated schools, but went on
to become a Ph.D. [recipient] in laser physics at MIT. He is an American hero from South
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n Outstanding Woman of the Year
Wilson wins top undergraduate honor
Elizabeth Wilson, a Carolina Scholar and quintuple business major from Georgetown, has been
named USC’s Outstanding Woman of the Year for 2011.
The award is given annually to an undergraduate who demonstrates
exemplary academic achievement, service, and leadership.
“It’s an honor to represent university women. This award means so
much to undergraduate women at USC,” Wilson said. “To be recognized
for my work is a humbling experience.”
A junior in the Honors College and the Darla Moore School of Business, Wilson is majoring in international business, finance, marketing,
management science, and real estate and is studying three languages.
An outstanding scholar, Wilson has a 3.982 GPA and is a Lieber
Scholar, National Achievement Scholar Designee, Robert C. Byrd Honors
Scholar, and a Palmetto Fellow. She is a member of the Moore School’s
Wilson
Business Case Competition Team and serves on the USC Congressional
Advisory Board and as an EPI Conversation Partner. She studied abroad
in 2010 at the Universidad de Salamanca.
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Garnet & Black kickoff
Seth Strickland, left, and Joey Scribner-Howard
practice field goals in preparation for the annual
Garnet & Black Spring Game set for 1 p.m. April 9
at Williams-Brice Stadium. Admission is free.The
first-ever Fan Fest, presented by the Gamecock
Club, will begin approximately 30 minutes after
the game and presentation of awards. Gamecock
fans will enter the playing field through the player
tunnel to the strains of 2001, participate in skills
challenges, enjoy kids’ activities, and listen to
music from the band Tokyo Joe. Select Columbiaarea student-athletes will sign autographs on
official team posters for one hour. Cocky and the
Gamecock cheerleaders will appear. A 32-team
cornhole tournament is planned, with the top
Kim Truett
team winning autographed Gamecock helmets.
Annual Women’s Leadership
Institute scheduled April 27
The eighth-annual Women’s Leadership Institute, “Transforming Competence
into Confidence,” will be held from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. April 27 in the Russell
House Ballroom.
The institute is designed for faculty, staff, and graduate students from
South Carolina institutions of higher education who are interested in the
advancement and success of women in leadership roles.
The institute will feature workshops, interactive presentations, and a networking luncheon centered on promoting greater awareness of the challenges
and opportunities women face as they seek to achieve a work/life balance. The
institute is hosted by the Provost’s Advisory Committee on Women’s Issues
and sponsored by the Office of the Provost.
Registration is free and includes coffee and lunch. Space is limited, and
registration will close once capacity has been reached. For more information
and to register, go to www.sc.edu/provost/faculty/pacwi/8thwli.shtml.
Dog-gone delicious!
This little doggie went to market. The friendly pooch
had his day at USC’s Healthy Carolina Farmers Market,
which is open from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. every Tuesday
through April 19 on Greene Street in front of the Russell
House. The market offers fresh, healthy, locally grown
products. Asparagus, sprouts, and broccoli will be available, along with freshly made bread, local chicken, eggs,
and seafood. For a list of products and vendors, go to
www.sc.edu/healthycarolina/fmv.html.
Michael Brown
Briefly
USC LEEDing by example puts state in Top 5
FREE SCREENINGS SET FOR APRIL 18: Campus
Wellness, with the Lexington Medical Center, will offer free
screenings from 8:30 to 10:30 a.m. April 18 in the Russell
House, Room 203. Screenings are:
• blood pressure assessment
• lipid profile for total cholesterol, HDL, LDL, and triglycerides
to screen for coronary heart disease risk
• glucose blood level to screen for risk of developing diabetes
• iron profile for iron and iron binding capacity to screen for
iron deficiency and anemia and for iron overload disorders or
hemochromatosis
• PSA (prostate specific antigen) to screen for prostate cancer.
Fasting is required for 12 hours before the time of the screening. Registration is required.To register, call 7-6518 or send an
e-mail to sawellns@mailbox.sc.edu. For more information, go to
www.lexmed.com/classes-programs/health-screenings.aspx.
With three LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental
Design) buildings, the University helped South Carolina make
the list of the top 10 states for LEED green buildings.
The only Southern state included on the U.S. Green
Building Council list, South Carolina came in at No. 5 in the
ranking, which was based on square footage of LEED-certified
space per person in 2010.
USC is a major driver of South Carolina’s success, said
Michael Koman, USC’s director of sustainability.
“To see South Carolina ranked among the top states in
the country is gratifying, as it shows that our commitment
to sustainability and education is producing results,” Koman
said. “All of this, of course, would not be possible without the
partnerships we have developed with others who are committed to green building and sustainability issues, such as the
S.C. Chapter of the USGBC [U.S. Green Building Council],
members of the design and construction industry, other state
agencies, and regional manufacturers.
USC’s three LEED buildings—West Quad, the Honors
CLASSES OFFERED FOR FACULTY, STAFF:
The University will offer a variety of professional education and
training options to faculty and staff with on-campus classes that
provide applicable knowledge. Faculty, staff, alumni, and students
will save 10 percent by using promo code CAMPUS-LISTS.The
schedule is:
• InDesign, April 14 and 21; for information, go to https://saeu.
sc.edu/conted/catalog/schedule.php?course=182
• cascading style sheets, April 13 and 20; for more information, go to https://saeu.sc.edu/conted/catalog/schedule.
php?course=79
• project management, April 25 and 26; for more information, go
to https://saeu.sc.edu/conted/catalog/schedule.php?course=185.
For more information, go to discover.sc.edu or call 7-9444.
HEALTH ASSESSMENT CREATED FOR
FACULTY, STAFF: Healthy Carolina is implementing a
health assessment designed specifically for USC faculty and staff. The confidential assessment will require no more than 10–15
minutes and will be used as aggregate data to identify general
health trends to develop health-related programs and services
for faculty and staff. Healthy Carolina worked directly with
faculty from the Arnold School of Public Health and the School
of Nursing to develop the assessment.To access the Faculty/
Staff Health Assessment, go to studentvoice.com/usc/facultyandstaffhealthassessment. For more information, contact Michelle
Burcin, director of Healthy Carolina, at 7-4752 or mburcin@
mailbox.sc.edu.
SYMPHONY WRAPS UP SEASON WITH
WORLD-RENOWNED PIANIST: The USC Symphony
Orchestra will complete its 2010–11 season April 12 with a
performance by Romanian pianist Judit Gabos at the Koger
Center.Tickets for the 7:30 p.m. performance are $25 for adults;
$20 for USC faculty, staff, and seniors; and $8 for students, and
are available online at www.capitoltickets.com or by phone at
251-2222. Gabos is a visiting faculty member at the USC School
of Music. Living in Hungary since 1991, she has performed
throughout her native country as well as in Belgium,Turkey,
Finland, Serbia, Spain, and the United States. Since 2000, she has
been a featured artist on Hungarian National Radio.
Gabos will perform Franz Liszt’s Second Piano Concerto,
a lyrical and poetic piece composed for piano accompaniment.
Under the direction of Maestro Donald Portnoy, the symphony
also will perform George Gershwin’s Cuban Overture and
Antonin Dvorak’s Symphony No. 8. For more information, call
7-7500.
COLLINS VISIT TO CONCLUDE CICA: Caught
in the Creative Act (CICA) will end its spring session with a
lecture on When Everything Changed:The Amazing Journey of
American Women from 1960 to the Present, by Gail Collins,
April 11, and a visit by Collins April 13.The lecture and the
reading will be held from 6 to 7 p.m. in Gambrell Auditorium.
All CICA sessions are free and open to the public, but
attendees who are not officially registered for the course
should arrive early to get a seat. For more information, go to
www.cas.sc.edu/cica/.
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Residence Hall, and the Hollings Library—comprise 517,983
square feet of space, Koman said. The Columbia campus will
more than double that figure in the next two years with the
completion of several projects. Also, several campus buildings—360,000 square feet—were designed and constructed to
LEED standards.
USC ushered in an era of building green in 2004 when it
opened West Quad, the state’s first public LEED building and
the first green residential hall in the United States. USC built
the West Quad at the same cost as traditional design, Koman
said.
The Darla Moore School of Business is pursuing a netzero status and LEED Platinum rating for its new building.
A net-zero building produces as much energy as it uses over
the course of a year. USC expects to break ground on the new
business school this fall.
“If the Moore School reaches its goals, it will become the
largest net-zero building in the world and the most energyefficient building in the country,” Koman said.
Pulitzer winner McMurtry to receive Cooper Medal
USC’s Thomas Cooper Society will honor Larry McMurtry, the award-winning author, essayist, and screenwriter, with its Cooper Medal during the society’s annual dinner and general meeting starting at 6 p.m.
April 21 at the Ernest F. Hollings Special Collections Library.
McMurtry is the author of the Pulitzer Prize–winning novel Lonesome Dove and more than 50 other
works. He will appear at the dinner with Diana Ossana, who won a Golden Globe and Academy Award with
him for their screenplay adaptation of Brokeback Mountain.
McMurtry also is slated to meet with students during his visit to the University.
Tickets for the event for Thomas Cooper Society members and their guests are $50 per person and $60
for non-members. The deadline for registration is April 18. For tickets, contact Zella Hilton at 7-5487 or
zmhilton@mailbox.sc.edu.
Discovery Day
needs judges
The Office of Undergraduate Research is
seeking judges for Discovery Day set for
April 22 in the Russell House. Requirements for judging include a willingness to
listen and ask questions. Post-docs and
graduate students can sign up to be judges.
Judges are needed for:
 creative presentations (theater, music,
and art), which will be held both morning
and afternoon
 oral presentations, to be held in the
morning, which are divided into broad
categories, including humanities, social
sciences, science and health, and science
and engineering; judges will hear a variety
of presentations that span the associated
disciplines
 posters, to be judged in the afternoon
according to the following topics: arts and
humanities, biomedical sciences, business, chemistry, education, engineering
and computing, environmental sciences,
physics, psychology, social and behavioral
sciences, psychology and neuroscience, and
public health.
To become a judge, send name; time slot
available (9–11:30 a.m., 1:30–3:30 p.m.,
or no preference); and areas of expertise,
interests, or preferred judging area to the
Office of Undergraduate Research at our@
sc.edu. For more information, call 7-1141.
McMurtry
Trun to speak at Upstate symposium
Nancy Trun, chair of the biological sciences department at Duquesne
University, will deliver the keynote address at 8:30 a.m. April 15 to begin
the seventh-annual S.C. Upstate Research Symposium. The symposium
will be held from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. at Milliken & Company in Spartanburg.
Trun is developing and exploring new ways to teach undergraduates the skills needed for a career in science. Application-Based Service
Learning is the practical application of that exploration. It combines
novel undergraduate research in a class setting, service learning, collaborations with other institutions, and a community problem to teach
the fundamentals of science.
“The S.C. Upstate Research Symposium has two primary purposes,”
said Sebastian van Delden, an associate professor of computer science
and director of research at USC Upstate. “One is to spark collaborations
between the different two- and four-year schools, stimulating collaborative grant writing and other research-oriented partnerships. The other
primary purpose of the symposium is to educate Upstate students. Undergraduate students get the experience of disseminating their scholarly
or creative accomplishments, and high school student groups also attend
the event to learn about faculty and students in the Upstate.”
This free symposium series provides a forum for faculty, students,
and community representatives throughout the Upstate to interact with
each other, to share information and expertise, and to nurture future
research collaborations. The program will feature presentations, posters, and tutorials contributed by faculty and students from numerous
disciplines at USC Upstate, Converse College, Wofford College, Sherman
College, Spartanburg Community College, Lander University, Spartanburg Methodist College, Southern Wesleyan University, Francis Marion
University, North Greenville University, Greenville Technical College,
and USC Beaufort.
The best student presentation, poster, and paper will be recognized
with the student scholars receiving award certificates and prizes.
To register online, go to www.uscupstate.edu/symposium. For other
information, contact van Delden at 864-503-5292 or svandelden@
uscupstate.edu.
Engineering scientist to study sustainability
chemistry of solid waste reduction technique
A century-old method used to convert
carbohydrates into coal is getting a second
look as a sustainable technique for dealing
with municipal solid waste.
Nicole Berge, an assistant professor in the
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, has received a five-year, $411,000
CAREER Award from the National Science
Foundation to study a process called hydrothermal carbonization.
“Waste is placed in a reactor with water,
then heated to 200–300o C. At that temperature, the water behaves like an organic solvent,
promoting reactions that result in a substance
called hydrochar,” Berge said. “This method
was developed in the early 1900s to make a
form of coal, but the chemistry of what takes
place in the reactor has never been completely
understood.”
Hydrochar is a charcoal-like substance that Nicole Berge
contains most of the carbon from converted
waste. Capturing the carbon into a solid form prevents its
release as a greenhouse gas (CO2 or CH4), which, along with
reducing the overall mass of municipal waste and the high
n ‘Dead
energy content of the hydrochar, is an allure of
hydrothermal carbonization.
Berge will conduct laboratory-scale testing
of the process, focusing on gaining a mechanistic understanding associated with the
hydrothermal carbonization of materials and
determining the energy requirements necessary to break down various types of municipal
waste.
“This has the potential to be a very beneficial technique for solid waste engineering, and
it could translate to other types of waste that
are responsible for greenhouse emissions such
as pig manure,” Berge said. “Before application of this technique we have to understand
exactly what’s in the char.
“It’s possible that the char could be used as
a feedstock in a coal-fired generating plant, a
soil amendment, or as an absorbent for environmental remediation.”
The Max Planck Institute in Germany is
studying hydrothermal carbonization as a method to develop
novel nanomaterials that could be used for variojus applications.
— Chris Horn
Man’s Cell Phone’
Play answers questions about emotional connection
The simple decision to answer a phone leads a woman on a wild and wacky journey of self-discovery in the dark comedy Dead
Man’s Cell Phone, which will be presented by the Department of Theatre and Dance April 20–23.
Performances are at 8 p.m. in the Lab Theatre “black box” performance space. Tickets are $5 and available only at the door.
The Lab Theatre is located at 1400 Wheat St., between Sumter and Pickens streets, across from Blatt P.E. Center.
Playwright Sarah Ruhl’s quirky tale begins with a man dying suddenly in a café. When his cell phone begins to ring incessantly,
another patron, the socially awkward Jean, makes the fateful decision to answer it and quickly finds herself embroiled in all the
dead man’s troubles. As she fields calls from the wild characters in his life—his eccentric family, his bitter widow, his mysterious
mistress—she forges an emotional bond with the deceased stranger and is forced to confront her own issues of detachment in a
technologically-connected world.
“This play is about Jean’s quest to make a real human connection,” director Amy Boyce Holtcamp said. “She’s a lonely, sort of
oddball character. Before she picks up the dead man’s cell phone, she actually has never even owned a cell phone. She works in a
Holocaust museum and is someone who has spent a lot of her life dealing with remembering the past and with how we document
the past and dealing with tangible things.
“Holding onto his cell phone is a way of keeping him alive. Part of her journey over the course of the play is to learn to let go of
this man who is just an idea and find real connection in the real world.”
Holtcamp said she offered up this play for the University’s Lab Theatre season because of its immediate relevance to today’s
high-tech lives.
“I think in the academic environment, we tend to do a lot of plays where we look at stories from the past and try to make them
relevant to the now,” she says. “This story is something our audience can really relate to because we are all so plugged in. I think
the big social challenge of our time is figuring out how to look up from our devices and actually communicate with one another.
The play asks us to question how not to lose that sense of connection because we’re always ‘on’ some device.”
Holtcamp leads a cast of undergraduate actors through the odd but emotionally sincere story, including Adrienne Lee as Jean;
Jake Mesches as Gordon, the dead man; Charlie Goodrich as his brother, Dwight; Lauren Koch as his mother; Danielle Peterson as
his widow; and Mary Tilden as his mistress.
Ruhl is known for her unconventional comedies, including The Clean House and In the Next Room (or The Vibrator Play),
which both received Pulitzer Prize nominations. Ruhl received the MacArthur Fellowship, also known as “The Genius Grant,” in
2006.
For more information, call Kevin Bush at 7-9353.
Indie Grits Film Fest to feature film by Helen Hill
The Florentine Collection, the final film of the late Columbia
native Helen Hill, will be featured at the fifth-annual Indie
Grits Film Festival April 13–17 in Columbia.
The juried film competition focuses on empowering all levels of Southern filmmakers with an independent mentality and far-reaching
artistic scope. Movie Maker Magazine
named the event one of the 20 Coolest
Film Festivals in the county.
Hill, an experimental animator and a daughter of USC English
instructor Becky Lewis, found more
than 100 handmade dresses in a trash
pile on one Mardi Gras Day in New
Orleans. She set out to make a film
about the dressmaker, an AfricanHill
American seamstress who had recently
passed away. The dresses and much of the film footage were
later flood-damaged by Hurricane Katrina while Helen was
still working on the film.
Hill was murdered in a home invasion in New Orleans in
2007. Her husband, Paul Gailiunas, completed the film, which
includes Hill’s original silhouette, cutout, and puppet animation, as well as flood-damaged and restored home movies.
The Florentine Collection will premiere at 6 p.m. April 14
at the Town Theater. Cotton candy and vegan cupcakes, Hill’s
favorites, will be served. A full lineup of Indie Grits films also
will run.
As in years past, the festival also will feature the best of
exciting new work coming from Southern filmmakers, many of
whom are Carolina alumni and students. This year’s attendees
also will enjoy several new events surrounding the festival
designed to showcase what’s unique about Columbia:
n April 13: A Slow Food Columbia fund-raising dinner at the
All-Local Farmers Market space at 701 Whaley St. The dinner, to be prepared by several local chefs who regularly use
sustainable, local products in their restaurants, will be served
inside the market.
n April 14: A full lineup of Indie Grits films will run at the
Nickelodeon Theatre and at the Russell House.
n April 16: Children will enjoy a film and a morning perfor-
mance by the Columbia musical group, Lunch Money. Crafters
also will offer handmade wares from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday evening a full lineup of films will be shown, followed by a
performance of Tory y Moi.
n April 17: Winners will be announced during a brunch at the
Columbia Museum of Art, and winning films will be shown at
the Nickelodeon all afternoon.
For more information, visit www.indiegrits.com or contact
Katie Alice Walker at kwalker@rileycommunications.com.
Courtesy of Cherokee Indian Tribe of South Carolina
Native storyteller Will Goins, shown with a Cherokee Sylabary, will be
among featured speakers at USC Lancaster’s Native American Studies
Week.
USC Lancaster sets
celebration of Native
American culture
By Marshall Swanson
USC Lancaster’s Native American Studies Program will
sponsor its sixth-annual Native American Studies Week
April 11–14 with a series of free public events focusing on
the rich history and cultural traditions of South Carolina’s
indigenous peoples.
“The gist of the week is to celebrate and raise awareness of Native Americans in South Carolina,” said Chris
Judge, assistant director of the Native American Studies
Program.
“It’s a time for Native Americans to come to our
campus and get involved in a very positive celebration
of their culture and at the same time to get non-Indian
people to realize that they have neighbors who are Native
American.”
This year’s program includes screenings of films, lectures on Native American history, archaeology, powwow
culture, a day of storytelling, and an exhibit of Native
American art from the Carolinas.
Included among the speakers is Dennis Blanton,
curator of Native American archaeology at the Fernbank
Museum in Atlanta, who will discuss his excavations of
a Native American site in Douglas, Ga., believed to be
associated with Hernando De Soto or another Spanish
explorer.
Also on tap are talks by Paul Brady, a USC Upstate
historian who will discuss the English and Spanish colonial system in the early part of the 18th century; Johann
Sawyer, a USC doctoral candidate in anthropology, who
will provide an overview of Mississippi-era cosmography; and the event’s first academic lecture by a Native
American, Brooke Bauer, a Catawba Indian and historian
at UNC Chapel Hill, who will talk about the interactions
between European men and Native American women in
the 17th and 18th centuries.
USC Lancaster artist Brittany Taylor will mount an
art show featuring Native American works from across
the Southeast. And Waccamaw, Cherokee, Catawba, and
Lumbee Indians will tell stories from their communities
to demonstrate the importance of the oral tradition in
societies that do not rely on written history.
“We hope that we don’t just attract people from our
own corner of South Carolina but also draw people from
across the Carolinas and Georgia, too,” said Judge, adding that the week’s activities also will include a meeting
of the Native American Advisory Committee of the S.C.
Commission for Minority Affairs.
The group comprises staff from the S.C. Institute of
Archaeology and Anthropology at the University and
representatives of the state’s recognized tribes. It meets
quarterly to deal with various issues related to Native
Americans.
Other activities in the four-day observance include a
bus trip to Greenville to view “Language of the Clay,” an
exhibit of selected items in USC Lancaster’s collection of
1,000 pieces of Catawba pottery by Brittany Taylor on
display at the Upcountry History Museum, and an exhibit
of Cherokee and Catawba Indian artwork from Lancaster’s collection in the Bradley Multi-Purpose Room.
“This is one of the most diverse Native American Studies weeks we’ve ever done,” said Judge, noting that past
events have attracted upwards of 700 people, many from
the areas around Charlotte and Chapel Hill, N.C.
For a complete list of all of the week’s events, which
are supported by grants from Duke Energy, the S.C.
Humanities Council, and the S.C. Arts Commission, visit
http://usclancaster.sc.edu/NAS/NASWeek/2011/schedflyer.pdf.
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April & May
Calendar
 Concerts
 Theatre/opera/dance
 Around the campuses
April 11 School of Music: Faculty and Guest Artists
Concert, Dave Stambler, guest artist, saxophone recital,
7:30 p.m., School of Music Recital Hall. Free. For information, call 7-4280.
April 8–10 School of Music: Opera at USC, “An Evening
of Spanish One Acts,” La Dolorosa (abridged), by José Serrano, and Goyescas, by Enrique Granados (in Spanish with
English dialogue), 7:30 p.m. April 8–9 and 3 p.m. April 10.
School of Music Recital Hall. Tickets are general admission,
$18; seniors, University faculty and staff, and military, $15;
and students, $5. For tickets, call 7-0058. For more information, contact Ellen Schlaefer, opera director, at
eschaefer@mozart.sc.edu. (See story page 8.)
April 7 USC Salkehatchie: Opportunity Scholars Program (OSP), Note-taking Workshop, 12:15 p.m., OSP Lab,
Walterboro. For more information, call Carolyn Banner,
843-549-6314
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
Gabos
for students. For tickets, call 251-2222 or
go to www.capitoltickets.com. For more
information, go to www.music.sc.edu/ea/orchestra/index.html.
Apr. 12 School of Music: USC Jazz Combos, 7:30 p.m.,
School of Music Recital Hall. Free. For more information,
call 7-4280 or send an e-mail to frontoffice@mozart.sc.edu.
April 13 School of Music: Carolina Alive Concert,
7:30 p.m., School of Music Recital Hall. Free. For more
information, call 7-5369 or send an e-mail to
sbeardsley@mozart.sc.edu.
April 14 School of Music: University Concert Choir
and Chorus Spring Concert, 7:30 p.m., St. Peter’s Catholic
Church, 1529 Assembly St. The choirs and instrumental
ensemble, under the direction of Larry Wyatt, will perform
Alfred Schnittke’s Requiem, as well as works by Viadana,
Bach, Brahms, Randall Thompson, with tributes to internationally known 20th-century musicians. The concert is free
and open to the public. For more information, call 7-5369
or send an e-mail to sbeardsley@mozart.sc.edu.
April 14 School of Music: An Evening of Chamber Music,
7:30 p.m., School of Music Recital Hall. Free. For more
information, call the School of Music at 7-4280.
April 17 School of Music: USC Bands on the Horseshoe,
6 p.m., USC Historic Horseshoe. Free and open to the
public. For more information, call the USC Band Office at
7-4278.
April 18 School of Music: USC Campus Orchestra
Concert, 7:30 p.m., Shandon Presbyterian Church. For
more information, call the School of Music at 7-4280.
April 19 School of Music: “New Voices,” student
composition recital, 7:30 p.m., School of Music Recital Hall.
Free. For more information, call the School of Music at
7-4280.
April 15 School of Music: Under the direction of
Carl R. Wells, the University Gospel Choir will present music that
has come out of the African-American worship tradition at
7:30 p.m. April 15 at the Greene Street United Methodist Church
at the southeast corner of Greene and Assembly streets in
Columbia.
Apr. 21 School of Music: Left Bank Big Band Concert,
7:30 p.m., School of Music Recital Hall. Free. For more
information, call 7-4280 or send an e-mail to
frontoffice@mozart.sc.edu.
April 15–16 Theatre and Dance: USC Dance Conservatory, Sleeping Beauty, 6 p.m. April 15 and 2 p.m. April 16,
Koger Center. Students of the dance conservatory, under
the direction of Marissa Freeman, director, and Susan Anderson, USC Dance artistic director, present the classic tale,
featuring the music of Tchaikovsky and the classical ballet of
choreographer Marius Petipa. Tickets are $10 for students;
$14 for USC faculty, staff, and military; and $16 for the general public. Tickets are available at the Carolina Coliseum
box office or by calling 251-2222. For more information, call
7-100 or go to http://www.cas.sc.edu/dance/.
April 15–23 Theatre and Dance: Theatre South Carolina, The Comedy of Errors, by William Shakespeare, directed
by Robert Richmond, Drayton Hall. Productions are
Wednesdays–Fridays, 8 p.m.; Saturdays, 7 p.m. (plus 11 p.m.
for half-price performances on final Saturday); Sundays, 3
p.m. A post-show question-and-answer session will be held
April 20. Tickets are $16 for the public; $14 for University
faculty and staff, seniors (age 60+), and military; and $10 for
students. Group tickets are available for parties of 10 or
more. For more information, call 7-2551 or go to www.cas.
sc.edu/THEA. (See story page 8.)
April 20–23 Theatre and Dance: Lab Theatre, Dead
Man’s Cell Phone, by Sarah Ruhl, directed by Amy Boyce Holtcamp. A woman steps into the life of another person after
taking his cell phone in this story about how we connect in
a world obsessed with technology. All shows are performed
in the Lab Theatre, the University’s “black box” stage on
Wheat Street, across from Blatt P.E. Center. Curtain times
are 8 p.m., and tickets are $5, sold only at the door.
 Lectures
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 or 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.
April 7 USC Upstate: Authors @ Upstate Visiting
Writers Series, 4 p.m., J.M. Smith Boardroom. Poet and
playwright Cornelius Eady will read from selected works.
A book signing and reception will follow. 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.
April 8–June 15 USC Sumter: Exhibit, “RUST,” by
Jennifer Van Allen, Upstairs Gallery, Administration Building, second floor.Van Allen is a USC Sumter alumna and a
professional photographer. Gallery hours are 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.
April11 USC Salkehatchie: Opportunity Scholars
Program (OSP), Test Anxiety Workshop, 12:15 p.m., OSP
Lab, Allendale. For more information, call Carolyn Banner,
843-549-6314.
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
April14 USC Salkehatchie: Opportunity Scholars Program (OSP), Choosing A Major Workshop, 12:15 p.m., OSP
Lab Walterboro. For more information, call Carolyn Banner,
843-549-6314.
 Lectures
April 14 History, “War Criminals and the Memory
Question: The Politics of Trials,” Franziska Seraphim, an
associate professor of history at Boston College, and
Steve J. Stern, a professor of history at the University of
Wisconsin, 4–5:30 p.m., Gambrell Hall, Room 152.
Sponsored by the USC History Center as part of its spring
lecture series, “Wars’ Ends/Aftermaths.” For more information, go to www.cas.sc.edu/hist/hc/ or call 7-6172.
April 14 Political Science, Inaugural Pi Sigma Alpha
Lecture, Morris P. Fiorina, Distinguished Professor, Stanford
University, 7–8:30 p.m., Moore School of Business, Lumpkin
Auditorium, eighth floor . The lecture will focus on the
2010 elections. Sponsors are the local chapter of Pi Sigma
Alpha (the national political science honor society), the
Department of Political Science, and the College of Arts
and Sciences. For more information, send an e-mail to
finocchi@sc.edu.
April 15 Chemistry and Biochemistry, Alumni Speaker,
“Accelerated Process Research via Automation and Chemical Cataliysis,” Bo Qu, Boehringer Ingelhem Pharmaceuticals, 4 p.m., Jones Physical Science Center, Room 006.
April 18 Philosophy, “Asking
the Big Questions,” David Barbeau,
Department of Earth and Ocean
Sciences, 7 p.m., Gambrell Hall Auditorium. For more information, go to
people.cas.sc.edu/elliotkc/.
April 8 Chemistry and Biochemistry, Pfizer Murtiashaw Lecture, Michele Drexler, 4 p.m., Jones Physical
Science Center, Room 006.
 Sports
April 11 Softball: Coastal Carolina, 4 p.m., Beckham Field.
April 15 Baseball:Vanderbilt, 7 p.m., Carolina Stadium.
April 16 Baseball:Vanderbilt, 7 p.m., Carolina Stadium.
April 17 Baseball:Vanderbilt, 1 p.m., Carolina Stadium.
April 19 Softball: N.C. State, 5 p.m., Beckham Field.
April 20 Softball: Charlotte, 6 p.m., Beckham Field.
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April 12 Institute for Southern Studies, “An Evening
with Tony Horwitz,” 7 p.m., Moore School of Business,
Lumpkin Auditorium, eighth floor. Walter Edgar, history, will
interview Horwitz, a journalist and historian, who is the
author of Confederates in the Attic and a forthcoming book
on John Brown. For more information, contact Bob Ellis at
ellisrl@mailbox.sc.edu.
April 13 Office of Fellowship and Scholar Programs,
The Last Lecture, Bobby Donaldson, history, 7 p.m. Harper
College, Gressette Room. For more information, go to
www.sc.edu/ofsp/last_lecture_series.html.
April 14 Physics and Astronomy, Colloquium, “The OverCooked Interstellar Matter in Ring Galaxies,” James Higdon,
Georgia Southern University, 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 7-8105 or go to www.physics.sc.edu.
Crane
April 22 Chemistry and
Biochemistry, “The chemistry and
biology of nitric oxide synthases
from microbes and men,” Brian R.
Crane, Cornell University, 4 p.m.,
Jones Physical Science Center,
Room 006.
 Around the campuses
April 14–17 USC Upstate: Shoestring Players, Sweeney
Todd, 8 p.m. April 14–16 and 3 p.m. April 17, Performing Arts
Center Theater. For more information, contact Jimm Cox,
director of theater, at 864-503-5697 or jcox@uscupstate.
edu.
April 14 USC Sumter: S.C. Center for Oral Narration,
Fourth-annual Jack Doyle Storytelling Festival,
7 p.m., Nettles Auditorium. The featured storytellers will
be Gingerthistle, consisting of husband-and-wife team Ben
Seymour and Becky Cleland, who will draw their repertoire
from traditional Celtic and Appalachian folk music. For
more information, contact Laurel Jordan at 803-938-3801
or JORDALAU@uscsumter.edu.
April18 USC Salkehatchie: Opportunity Scholars Program (OSP), Choosing A Major Workshop, 12:15 p.m., OSP
Lab Allendale. For more information, call Carolyn Banner,
843-549-6314.
 Miscellany
 Exhibits
April 13 Office of Fellowships and Scholar Programs: National Science Foundation Graduate Research
Fellowship Workshop, 4 p.m., Harper College, Gressette
Room, third floor. Available to students with high GPA and
high GRE scores and a commitment to a career in research.
This highly competitive scholarship provides three years
of support up to $115,000 for study and research in the
sciences or in engineering, leading to masters or doctoral
degrees in the mathematical, physical, biological, engineering, behavioral and social sciences, and in the history and
philosophy of sciences. Application deadlines vary according
to discipline in early November. For more information, call
7-0958, e-mail ofsp@sc.edu, or go to www.sc.ed/ofsp.
April 4–15 Department of Art: Studio 323, a group
show featuring works in graphic design by graduate students Laura Bousman, Nick Burkett, Kellie Duff, Linda Fung,
Adrienne Hall, Ben Keihl, and Mary Nguyer. Gallery hours
are 8:30 a.m.– 8 p.m. Monday–Sunday, McMaster Student
Gallery, McMaster College, first floor. For more information,
e-mail mcmasterstudentgallery@gmail.com.
April 14 Healthy Carolina: “Breastfeeding, Pumping, and
Returning to Work,” noon–1p.m., Russell House, Room
348. Denise Altman, a registered lactation consultant, nurse
educator, and childbirth educator, will discuss time management tips and facilitate a discussion about pumping at work,
talking with a supervisor, preparing for the transition into
motherhood, working challenges, and trouble-shooting. To
RSVP, send an e-mail to lindstrv@mailbox.sc.edu or call
7-1650. For more information, go to sc.edu/healthycarolina/
lsp.html.
April 9–June 25 McKissick Museum: “Artful Lives:
Molas of the Kuna,” an exhibit that explores the history
and contemporary textile creations of the Kuna women
of coastal Panama. In the mid 19th century, Kuna women
started experimenting with ways to transfer body-painting
designs onto cloth. Today, the sale of these textile arts is the
second most important income source to the Kuna, and
examples are collected by museums around the world.
Museum hours are 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/.
Every Tuesday through April 19 Healthy Carolina:
Farmers Market, 10 a.m.–2 p.m., Greene Street, in front
of Russell House. The market is cash and carry, and cash
payment is due to the 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.
Sumter English professors Andrew J. Kunka, left, and Ray McManus will read
from their works at noon April 20.They will sign books after the reading.
April 20 USC Sumter: “The Professors’ Book Sale,”
9 a.m., and “We Apologize in Advance: An Afternoon of Poetry and Comedy,” noon, a reading by Andrew J. Kunka and
Ray McManus, English, Sumter. The authors will sign books,
which will be available on site after the reading. Proceeds
from the book sale will benefit the Division of Arts and
Letters.
Every Thursday McCutchen House: Four- or five-course
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. 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.
April 20 USC Salkehatchie: Opportunity Scholars
Program (OSP), Transition Workshop, 12:15 p.m., OSP Lab
Allendale. For more information, call Carolyn Banner,
843-549-6314.
The McMaster Student Gallery will feature a solo show
by Katie Baehler April 18–29.
April 18–29 Department of Art: Katie Baehler Solo
Show, featuring works by the artist. Gallery hours are
8:30 a.m.– 8 p.m. Monday– Sunday. McMaster Student
Gallery, McMaster College, first floor. For more information,
e-mail mcmasterstudentgallery@gmail.com.
Through April 30 Hollings Library: “Beyond Domesticity:
U.S. Women Writers, 1770–1915,” Irvin Department
Exhibition Gallery.
April 21 USC Salkehatchie: Opportunity Scholars
Program (OSP), Transition Workshop, 12:15 p.m., Main
Building, Room 105, East Campus, Walterboro. For more
information, call Carolyn Banner, 843-549-6314.
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. 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/.
 Miscellany
April 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.
 List your events
April 11 Office of Fellowships and Scholar
Programs: Goldwater Scholarship Workshop, 4 p.m.,
Legare College, Room 322. Available for sophomores and
juniors pursuing bachelors’ degrees in natural sciences,
mathematics, or engineering who have a strong GPA, research experience, and a commitment to a research career.
This highly competitive scholarship provides $7,500 for one
to two years of undergraduate study. Must be nominated by
the University. USC nomination deadline is October 2011.
For more information, call 7-0958, e-mail ofsp@sc.edu, or
go to www.sc.ed/ofsp.
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 21.
 Online calendar
Works, above, by professional photographer and USC Sumter alumna Jennifer Van Allen will be in display in the exhibit, “Rust,” April 8–June 15 in the
Upstairs Gallery on the Sumter campus.
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.
April 7, 2011
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Briefly
AIKEN CHOIR PERFORMS IN WASHINGTON:
USC Aiken’s Concert Choir performed at the National
Cathedral in Washington, D.C., March 27 as part of the Choral
Evensong service.The choir was selected through an application
process that included recordings of concerts from the past few
years. “We were honored to represent South Carolina, the city
of Aiken, and USC Aiken,” said Joel Scraper, director of choral
activities at USC Aiken. “To perform in the National Cathedral
was a new experience for the students in the Concert Choir. None of them had sung in a large cathedral before, and none of
them had seen the National Cathedral.” The choir performed
pieces from such modern composers as Arvo Par and Jozef
Swider; masterpieces from J.S. Bach and W.A. Mozart; and a
spiritual arrangement by Joseph Jennings, USC Aiken’s artist in
residence.
PLAN FOR RETIREMENT WITH TIAA-CREF:
A TIAA-CREF consultant will be available from 8 a.m. until 5 p.m.
April 14 and 21 at the Columbia Campus Benefits Office, Suite
803, 1600 Hampton St., to discuss personal financial situations
confidentially.The consultant can discuss how to help meet
financial goals with products such as mutual funds and annuities. Other financial matters might include: simplifying finances
through consolidating assets, finding the right allocation mix,
developing an investment strategy that makes sense, understanding available investment choices, learning about TIAA-CREF
retirement income flexibility, and identifying preparations for
retirement.To schedule an appointment, call the Servicing and
Scheduling Group at 1-800-732-8353.
LEARN TO NAVIGATE THE GROCERY STORE:
Campus Wellness will sponsor a grocery store tour from 4 to
5 p.m. April 14 at the Publix on Rosewood.The tour, guided
by a campus registered dietitian and health education staff, will
include how to navigate the store, where to find the healthier
food, tricks used by food manufacturers, and how to decipher
and interpret nutrition labels. Registration is required.To register, call 576-9393.
USC PRESS WAREHOUSE SALE IS APRIL 14–15
IN COLUMBIA: 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.
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
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.
Moore
April 7, 2011
Candidates for dean of the Honors College and dean of the
College of Social Work have visited or will visit campus soon.
Marjean Purinton, associate dean of the Honors College
at Texas Technical University in Lubbock and a candidate for
dean of the Honors College, will visit April 11–12.
The Honors College candidates who have visited 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
Wilson
Stepp
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Wilson also was recently named a Darla Moore School of
Business Emerging Leader.
“Being recognized as an Emerging Leader in the Darla
Moore School of Business is pretty amazing,” she said. “A
second-year student being named an Emerging Leader is a
tremendous honor.”
Passionate about service, Wilson volunteers with Hispanic Connections, a company that specializes in connecting
businesses with the Hispanic community, and with Waverly
Family Practice, where she conducts presentations on diabetes
awareness.
She said her service with the Eau Claire health center and
an encounter with a young man who had struggled with diabetes since childhood and had no health insurance has inspired
her and changed her life.
“He made sacrifices, including an undergraduate education, yet he smiled,” Wilson said. “Through serving others, life
is made meaningful. I am dedicated to service and committed
to making a difference. His story and Waverly Family Practice
have challenged me to be thankful for the little things and
nourished my passion for humanitarianism.”
Balancing her service and leadership activities with 22
hours of course study each semester, Wilson is set to graduate
in three years next May. She hopes to attend either Harvard
University or the University of Pennsylvania for her MBA,
with the ultimate goal of working as a financial analyst for a
multi-national corporation.
Recruited by many Ivy League colleges, Wilson chose
Carolina for the Honors College and the Darla Moore School
of Business. She said USC’s academic offerings are where the
opportunities begin for students.
“Every young person who attends Carolina has an omnifarious array of opportunities available to realize his or her
unbounded potential for excellence,” Wilson said. “There are
no limits to what you can achieve here.”
This year’s finalists were Christina Galardi of Lexington, a
Carolina Scholar and junior public relations major; Katharine
Sara Parham, a senior political science and French major from
Columbia; Amartha Ogburu-Ogbonnaya of Columbia, a senior
pre-med and African-American studies major; and Caroline
Marie Clark, a senior psychology major from Myrtle Beach.
Women Student Services and the Department of Student
Life sponsor the Outstanding Woman of the Year Award.
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Carolina, who, in my opinion, has not been given the recognition he deserves.”
President Harris Pastides said Moore’s generosity exemplifies her commitment to quality and to advancing the state’s
economy. Naming the center for McNair is recognition of a
man whose explorer spirit and passion for excellence have
been an inspiration for millions of young Americans.
“Ron McNair was a courageous man and a South Carolinian,” Pastides said. “An aerospace center that will help to
create jobs and opportunities for generations of this state’s
citizens is a fitting tribute to him.”
Pastides said McNair and Moore represent what is best
about South Carolinians.
“Although Ron McNair and Darla Moore grew up in different circumstances in the same small town in South Carolina,
they represent what is best about the people of our state: A
refusal to accept the status quo, a can-do spirit, and a selfless
commitment to advancing ideas, knowledge, and innovation,”
Pastides said.
The Ronald E. McNair Center for Aerospace Innovation
and Research (McNAIR) at USC will hone South Carolina’s
competitiveness in attracting and securing its stake in the nation’s aerospace knowledge economy.
The center’s activities are expected to focus on three distinct areas: basic research and development of novel materials
and devices; applied research in support of advanced manufacturing tools and processes; and development of a business
and economic model that will build and support the Palmetto
State’s growing aerospace cluster through education, research,
and development.
Provost Michael Amiridis said the center will expand
economic opportunities for graduates and the state. “The presence of a ready workforce will be a major advantage for South
Carolina in its efforts to attract more companies associated
with the aerospace field,” he said.
Moore also addressed her recent removal by Gov. Nikki
Haley from the University’s Board of Trustees during her
15-minute speech that was punctuated by applause, standing
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ovations, and cheers from the audience. She reaffirmed her
love and support of the University and the state and shared
her thoughts for moving USC and the state forward, “not just
for ourselves but also for the generations to come,” she said.
Moore thanked students and the University family for their
support.
“By your reaction, I mean the students’ and the people of
South Carolina, you have ignited what I believe is the collective consciousness of this state to an issue that is far more
fundamental to the state’s future than any other challenge that
we face.” Moore said.
“This is about having the courage and the singular focus
to understand the critical importance of a strong, progressive,
and properly funded higher-education system. I mean from
technical colleges to research universities and the role higher
education plays in securing a bright and productive future for
all of us.”
Although Moore is no longer a member of USC’s Board of
Trustees, she said she remains committed to excellence for the
University and the state.
“I’m sure y’all have noticed that I don’t need a title or position to speak out. I need a voice, my vision, and a forum to be
heard,” she said. “If we’re steadfast, though, and maintain a
singular focus on our educational structure and institutions,
progress will come, businesses will come, jobs will come, and
the state we all want for ourselves and our future generations
will become a reality. That’s my message.”
Moore ended by reiterating that neither she nor anyone
needed to be a member of the Board of Trustees to help South
Carolina’s economy grow and expand.
“We need simply to hold our leaders accountable until they
understand that, while they may not be able to help us, we demand that they not hurt or impede our march to excellence,”
she said. “I’m so proud to be here today. Each and every one of
you has made me proud to be a South Carolinian and proud to
be from the University of South Carolina.
“All I ask is that you continue to use your voice for excellence,
not for me, but for this great university and our beloved state.”
department at the University of Georgia.
Brent Angell, a professor and director of the School of
Social Work at the University of Windsor in Windsor, Ontario,
and a candidate for dean of the College of Social Work, will
visit April 14–15 and make a presentation to faculty, staff, and
students at 2:30 p.m. April 14 in the conference room at 1731
College St.
The other candidate, Anna Scheyett, associate dean for
academic affairs in the School of Social Work at UNC Chapel
Hill, visited April 5–6.
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USC as assistant vice president for administration. He also
shepherded the Koger Center from concept to bricks-and-mortar reality with a strong international performance schedule.
“Every budget decision we made during construction was
to improve the performance hall, not to make a more beautiful
building,” he said. “The result was that it’s been acclaimed by
some of the world’s finest performers as one of the best acoustical venues in this country.
“As we talk about Innovista being a nexus for living, learning, research, and cultural and performing arts, it seems obvious that if the Koger Center were not already there, we would
want to build it now.”
Since his arrival at the University, Stepp has served five
presidents and 72 trustees.
“There is a tradition of very strong personalities on the
board, which, if you consider the process one must undergo
to become elected, makes perfect sense,” he said. “My role is
to make sure everyone has the facts before making decisions.
There is a lot of behind the scenes work.”
In January, Stepp will step down as secretary of the board
and of the University, though he will continue to serve on a
part-time basis. He will be the second-longest serving board
secretary the University has had, serving 24 years as its 25th
board secretary.
Rather than point to seminal events during his tenure
at the University, Stepp is most proud of the incremental
changes that have been made under his watch to improve the
internal processes by which the University conducts business. He’s also been a stickler for detail in the University’s
commencement ceremonies, all of it aimed at improving the
quality of an event that is the capstone day of achievement for
graduating students and their families and friends.
“You achieve things with macro impact by paying attention
to small details over time,” he said.
Looking ahead, Stepp is eager for new opportunities while
carving out more time to spend with Sarah and his family,
including two grandchildren.
“Ultimately, I hope to leave a legacy of improvements at
Carolina—not just be remembered for having been here a long
time.”
 Coming in the April 21 issue:
Scholar, Fellow awards
It’s been another great year for Carolina scholars.The
University can boast two Goldwater Scholars and one
honorable mention; one Udall Scholar; one Javits Fellow; one
Knowles Fellow; and three Critical Language Scholars. For
their stories, see the April 21 issue of Times.
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 BOOKS AND CHAPTERS
Teri Browne, social work, “Palliative care in chronic kidney disease,”
Oxford Textbook of Palliative Social Work, S. Otis-Green and T. Altillio, editors, Oxford University Press, N.Y.
Arthur Mitchell, history, Salkehatchie, South Carolina Irish, The History Press, Charleston.
Teri Browne, social work, “Challenges of addressing psychosocial barriers
to chronic kidney disease care” and “What can nephrology social workers
do to help patients overcome the psychosocial barriers to chronic kidney
disease care?,” Georgia Council of Nephrology Social Work, Macon, Ga., and,
with Derrick Jordan, Felix Weston, and Jennifer Worthington (USC social work
graduate students), “What every social worker should know about ameliorating health disparities,” S.C. National Association of Social Workers, Columbia.
 Lighter times
 ARTICLES
Lara Lomicka, languages, literatures, and cultures, and Lawrence Williams (University of North Texas), “The Use of New Technologies in the
French Curriculum: A National Survey,” The French Review.
Douglas A. Sain, S.C. Institute of Archaeology and Anthropology,
“A Technological Analysis of Clovis Blades from the Topper Site,
38AL23, Allendale County, South Carolina,” Current Research in the
Pleistocene.
Albert C. Goodyear, S.C. Institute of Archaeology and Anthropology,
“Instrument-Assisted Fluting as a Technochronological Marker Among
North American Paleoindian Points,” Current Research in the Pleistocene.
Steven N. Blair, exercise science, F.B. Ortega, E.G. Artero, J.R. Ruiz,
V. España-Romero, D. Jiménez-Pavón, G.Vicente-Rodriguez,
L.A. Moreno,Y. Manios, L. Béghin, C. Ottevaere, D. Ciarapica, K. Sarri,
S. Dietrich, M. Kersting, D. Molnar, M. González-Gross, Á. Gutiérrez,
M. Sjöström, and M.J. Castillo, “Physical fitness levels among European
adolescents: the HELENA study,” British Journal of Sports Medicine.
Xuemei Sui, Michael J. LaMonte, and Steven Blair, exercise
science, Swann A. Adams, nursing, James R. Hébert, epidemiology
and biostatistics, and Charles E. Matthews, “Metabolic syndrome and
risk of death from cancers of the digestive system,” Metabolism Clinical
and Experimental.
Stacy L. Fritz, exercise science, C.L. Massie, and M.P. Malcolm, “Elbow
Extension Predicts Motor Impairment and Performance Post-Stroke,”
Rehabilitation Research and Practice, and, with Bruce A. McClenaghan,
exercise science, A.M. Merlo, E.D. Rivers, B. Brandenburg, J. Sweet,
J. Donley, J. Mathews, and S. de Bode, “Feasibility of Intensive Mobility
Training as an Intervention for Improving Gait, Balance, and Mobility in
Persons with Chronic Neurological Conditions: A Case Series,” Journal
of Neurologic Physical Therapy.
Robert F.Valois, health promotion, education, and behavior, Scott
Huebner, psychology, J. Wanzer Drane, epidemiology and biostatistics,
and Jelani C. Kerr (University of Toronto/St. Michaels Hospital), “Life satisfaction and peer victimization among USA public high school adolescents,” Child
Indicators Research.
Jack Turner, Extended University, “Western Rite Orthodoxy as a Canonical
Problem,” LOGOS: A Journal of Eastern Christian Studies.
Kendra S. Albright, library and information science, “Psychodynamic
perspectives in information behaviour,” Information Research.
 PRESENTATIONS
Agnes Mueller, languages, literatures, and cultures, “Jews and Gender in
Contemporary German Literature,” invited lecture, McGill University, Montreal, Canada, and, with Kristina Stefanic Brown (former USC Ph.D. student)
and Catharina Wuetig (USC Ph.D. student in languages, literatures, and
cultures), presentations at German Jewish Studies Workshop, Durham, N.C.
Rebecca Phillips to lead
University’s bands
Rebecca Phillips has been named director of athletic
bands at the University and director of the USC Marching
Band.
Since 2007, Phillips has been the associate director of
bands and assistant professor of music at the University.
Her duties have included conducting
one of the University’s concert bands
and teaching graduate and undergraduate courses in conducting and music
education.
Phillips succeeds Steve McKeithen,
who directed the Carolina band during
the 2009 and 2010 seasons and who
will remain with USC Bands in another
capacity.
Phillips holds degrees from Florida
State University (FSU), the University
Phillips
of South Florida, and Louisiana State
University (LSU). At FSU, she was a member of one of
the country’s largest college bands, and from 2004 to
2007, she was part of the staff of the LSU Tiger Marching Band. She also played a role in the formation of the
University of South Florida Herd of Thunder Marching
Band in 1999, including creating many of that band’s
musical traditions.
Scott Weiss, USC’s director of bands, said Phillips’ appointment marks the beginning of a new and exciting era
for the Carolina Band.
“Dr. Phillips’ background at Florida State, South
Florida, and LSU will be a tremendous asset as we look to
the Carolina band to have a much greater impact on the
game-day experience,” Weiss said.
“She has a comprehensive understanding of the things
that need to happen with the Carolina band, and she
also has the total support of the USC band members, the
School of Music faculty, and high-school band directors
and students throughout the Southeast. Consequently,
I have total confidence in her ability to take our athletic
band program to the next level.”
So the scientific method is
hypothesis-test-federal grant-publication?
 OTHER
Stephanie Foote, academic success, Aiken, named an associate editor for
The Journal of College Orientation and Transition.
Ran Wei, journalism and mass communications, elected president of the
Chinese Communication Association, a U.S.-based 250-member academic
organization of Chinese communication scholars from around the world.
 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.
Morehouse honored as
Pickens-Salley Southern
Woman of Distinction
USC Aiken honored Maggi Morehouse with the PickensSalley Southern Woman of Distinction Award at the
ninth-annual Pickens-Salley Symposium on Southern
Women.
“The award recognizes a local
woman who has made a positive
impact on our community and
who serves as a role model for
others,” said Deidre Martin, vice
chancellor for university advancement and chair of the symposium’s planning committee. “Dr.
Morehouse’s passion for history
and sharing her knowledge with
Morehouse
young people makes her an inspiration to many.”
Morehouse earned her Ph.D. in African American
Studies from the University of California at Berkeley
in 2001 and was the first graduate of the program. She
joined the USC Aiken Department of History, Political
Science, and Philosophy in 2003. She holds the June
Rainsford Henderson Endowed Chair in Southern History at USC Aiken. Last year, she was named one of 17
Rising Star Professors from all University campuses
“for her contributions and commitment to research and
scholarly pursuits as well as her passion for teaching and
inquiry.”
Much of her research is focused on the role of African
Americans in World War II and her monograph, Fighting in the Jim Crow Army: Black Men and Women
Remember World War II, chronicles the “greatest black
generation” through the use of archival data as well as 50
personal interviews.
Morehouse also is a board member of the S.C.
Humanities Council. She played a key role in last year’s
docudrama, Edgewood: Stage of Southern History, serving as the assistant director and historical consultant for
the project.
The Pickens-Salley Symposium is held annually on
the USC Aiken campus to honor the contributions of
southern women. This year’s event featured a screening
of the documentary Cheating the Stillness: The World of
Julia Peterkin. USC Aiken and the Aiken Branch of the
American Association of University Women sponsor the
symposium.
One-of-a-kind microscope arrives at USC Aiken
any university in South Carolina.”
A state-of-the-art Raman microscope—the only instrument
With the new microscope, faculty and students will have
of its kind at any university or college in South Carolina—has
increased interactions with researchers from the Savannah
been delivered to USC Aiken.
River National Laboratory, Toyota Corporation, scientists afThe purchase of the microscope, to be used for spectroscofiliated with the USC NanoCenter, and other technical experts
py and imaging applications of novel materials and biological
to solve challenging chemical
samples, was made possible by a
problems.”
$264,821 National Science FoundaThe instrument also will be
tion (NSF) grant that USC Aiken
used with high school students who
professor Chad Leverette helped
are interested in chemistry at USC
secure in September. Aiken and with elementary and
“It is hard to believe an instrumiddle school students who might
ment this state-of-the-art is at a
like a chance to use the microscope
school of our size,” said Leverette,
through USC Aiken’s annual Project
an associate professor of chemisSEED Day event, which is focused
try. “Typically, instruments this
on science.
complex and expensive are only at
As part of the grant that was
research institutions. Having this
received in September, the microinstrument here is a testament
scope will be used with the followof the quality of the teaching and
Chad Leverette, an associate professor of chemistry at USC
Aiken, poses with the campus’ new Raman microscope.
ing research goals: the development
research we are doing on campus,
of novel nanotechnology-based
particularly in the sciences.
sensors that are to be used for low-level uranium detection,
“The grant that funded this research from the National
the study and investigation of the diseased state of coral sea
Science Foundation is only given to universities with a vibrant
fans, and to analyze and characterize novel hydrogen storage
research culture that plan to use this instrument to solve sigmaterials developed by the Toyota Corporation.
nificant research problems. The significance of this instrument
The grant is for three years. NSF is the premier national
is tremendous for our campus. To our knowledge, this instruorganization for the funding of scientific research.
ment is the only one of its kind with its unique capabilities at
Beaufort announces winners of artist scholarships
In conjunction with USC Beaufort’s first Celebrate the Arts
festival, the campus sponsored its first juried high school arts
competition, awarding $55,000 in scholarships to 22 local
high school art students.
USC Beaufort received more than 200 entries, and 22 students were accepted into the exhibition. The top three senior
works chosen by the jurors received scholarship awards of
$3,000, $2,000, and $1,000 respectively, which are renewable for four years. All other student finalists received $500
scholarships, also renewable for four years. Scholarship winners who meet USC Beaufort’s admissions requirements and
major in studio art with a 3.00 cumulative GPA are eligible for
a scholarship renewal for up to four years.
First-place winner Valérie Cabanilla Vigil (Bluffton High
School) is eligible for $12,000; second-place winner Corey
Randall (Bluffton High School), $8,000; and third-place winner Badlyn Rolfe (Hilton Head Island High School), $3,000.
All other finalists are eligible for $2,000.
April 7, 2011
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n Opera at USC
‘An Evening of Spanish
One Acts’ set for April 9–10
Opera at USC will present “An Evening of Spanish One Acts,”
featuring La Dolorosa, by Jose Serrano, and Goyescas, by Enrique Granados.
Performances, which are free and open to the public, will be
at 7:30 p.m. April 9 and 3 p.m. April 10 in the School of Music
Recital Hall. The works will be performed in Spanish with dialogue in English.
“We’re excited about having this opportunity for our students
to discover Spanish operatic literature. Having some of the work
of the artist Francesco Goya as the basis for the second opera is
wonderful, as it allows exploration into another art form,” said
Ellen Douglas Schlaefer, director of opera.
La Dolorosa is a zarzuela (or Spanish lyric drama) presented
in an abridged format. This adaptation is by zarzuela expert
Christopher Webber and was commissioned by the Santa Fe
Opera Education Department.
The story is set in and about a monastery outside the city
Zaragoza. A young monk, Rafael, is painting a Dolorosa, a work
of art that inspires many memories for him. Those memories
make the Prior begin to doubt the young brother’s aptitude for
the monastic life. Later a young woman, Dolores, arrives at the
monastery with a young child in her arms. The Prior recognizes
in her the features of the Dolorosa that Rafael is painting.
Rafael and Dolores find themselves alone, and Dolores, who
had left Rafael for another man, explains that she, in turn, has
been abandoned. Rafael is torn between his feelings for Dolores
and her child and his obligations to the monastery.
Michael Gray, a master of music candidate in vocal performance, will perform the roles of Rafael and Perico; Nicole Caudill
will perform Nicasia and Dolores; and John Callison, a senior
music major in vocal performance, will perform the Prior.
Inspired by the early art of Spanish painter Francesco Goya,
Granados composed Goyescas in 1915 to a libretto by Fernando
Periquet with melodies taken from his 1911 piano suite, which
also was called Goyescas. The Metropolitan Opera premiered
Goyescas on January 28, 1916. Both Granados and his wife perished when the ship Sussex was torpedo by a German submarine
en route to Spain from the premier in New York.
The opera opens with a crowd of majas and majos enjoying
a holiday. Paquiro. the toreador. is paying compliments to the
women. Pepa, his sweetheart of the day, arrives, and being very
popular, she is warmly welcomed. Soon Rosario, a lady of rank,
arrives to keep a tryst with her lover, Fernando, a captain, leading to jealousy and vows of vengeance among the lovers.
Krista Firkus, a master of music candidate in vocal performance, will play Rosario; John Pritchard, a doctoral candidate
in vocal performance, Fernando; Evan Broadhead, a guest artist
and 2008 graduate of USC, Paquiro; and Ginger Jones, a master
of music candidate in vocal performance, Pepa. Chorus members
are Katie Gatch, Kristyn Winch, Anna-Mills Polatty, Sara Beth
Shelton, Kelsey Harrison, Barry Sharrock, John Callison, and
Alex Cammerota.
The artistic staff is Lynn Kompass, musical director; Rosemarie Suniga, accompanist; Peppie Calvar, chorus master; Alexander Cammerota, director of La Doloroso and assistant director
of Goyescas; Schlaefer, director of Goyescas; Pam Keesler and
Shelby Sessler, stage managers; Diana Amos, costume coordinator; Aaron Pelzek, lighting designer; Teddy R. Moore, scenic
coordinator; Michael LaRoche, A/V coordinator; and Anna
Dragoni, special movement consultant. For more information,
contact Schlaefer at eschlaefer@mozart.sc.edu.
Michael Brown
Mix-ups lead to mayhem when two sets of twins, separated at birth, find themselves in the same town in William Shakespeare’s madcap
romp, The Comedy of Errors, playing at Drayton Hall Theater April 15–23. The twins are played by Liam MacDougall, left,William Vaughn, Jeffrey Earl,
and Joe Mallon.
n Theatre South Carolina
Comic book inspires this Comedy of Errors
Make no mistake: director Robert Richmond’s goal is to
make Shakespeare’s Comedy of Errors and other classic
works accessible and entertaining.
USC’s Theatre South Carolina will present the play,
one of Shakespeare’s earliest, April 15–23 at Drayton Hall
Theater.
“I think that the last thing you should be experiencing—the last thing you should even think that you’re
watching—is a Shakespeare play,” said Richmond, an
associate professor of theater. “If people come for the very
first time, and enjoy it, they walk out knowing that Shakespeare can be fun and will come back and see more. That’s
absolutely the goal.”
Shakespeare’s wacky tale of mistaken identity centers
on two sets of twins, separated at birth, and the commotion they cause when they unexpectedly show up in the
same place. When Antipholus of Syracuse and his servant,
Dromio, travel to the foreign land of Ephesus, they find
themselves mistaken for two others with the same names
who turn out to be their identical twins. Mix-ups lead to
mayhem as the two sets of brothers, and their frazzled
family and friends, try to sort out the mess
For USC’s production, Richmond, who directed the
play for the Aquila Theatre Company in 1995, is adding
songs, which a “greek chorus” of belly dancers will sing.
Lyrics will come from Shakespeare text. Music for some
of the songs will be based on recognizable pop tunes; the
remainder will be original compositions by cast member
Jeffrey Earl, a senior theater major.
“It’s probably entering into a genre of musical theatre
that is unusual for a Shakespeare play,” Richmond said.
Scenic designer Heather Abraham and costume
designer Amy Thomson, both graduate students in the
theater program, based their designs, in part, on the style
of Belgian comic-book artist Hergés, whose The Adventures of Tintin comic books were popular in the mid-20th
century.
“I was very familiar with Hergé’s Tintin comics as a kid,”
Richmond said. “I love the aesthetic of his sequential art
and think it’s suitable for the slapstick violence of the play.
It also brings all of the designers to the table with a color
palette, a time period, and a sense of character choice.”
The production isn’t all fun and games, however. The
cast, composed of graduate and undergraduate students
from the theatre program, will study text and vocal
technique with guest artist Gary Logan, director of the
Academy for Classical Acting at the Shakespeare Theatre
in Washington, D.C.
“There has to be a credibility [with Shakespeare],”
Richmond said. “It’s a little like when you watch someone playing the piano badly, deliberately to be funny.
That person has to know their scales and be able to play
the tune correctly before they can muck around with it.
Gary is there as an arbiter of good vocal and text work, so
people understand that it doesn’t go Python-esque for the
sheer sake of it.”
Show times are 8 p.m. Wednesday through Friday, 7
p.m. Saturdays, and 3 p.m. on the first Sunday. A halfprice performance is set for 11 p.m. on the final Saturday,
April 23. Tickets are $10 for students with valid I.D.; $14
for USC faculty and staff, military, and seniors age 60 and
above; and $16 for the general public.
For tickets, call 7-2551 or go to the Longstreet Theatre
box office at 130 Greene St. Box office hours are from
12:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. Monday through Friday. For more
information, call 7-9353.
n Southern Exposure
Electrifying JACK Quartet to perform at final concert of season
The JACK Quartet, which has electrified audiences with “explosive virtuosity” (Boston
Globe), will perform for the final concert of the 2010–11 Southern Exposure New Music
Series. The concert, which is free and open to the public, will be at 7:30 p.m. April 15 in the
School of Music Recital Hall.
“The JACK Quartet ranks among the finest and most interesting new music ensembles
in the world,” said John Fitz Rogers, an associate professor of composition and artistic director of the Southern Exposure Series. “They’re helping to redefine what a ‘string quartet’
can be, and we’re thrilled to have them in residence at the School of Music, working with
our students and performing on the Southern Exposure Series.”
As part of the group’s visit to USC, John Pickford Richards, the violist of the quartet,
will speak from 1:25 to 2:15 p.m. April 15 in the Recital Hall; his topic will be “Building a
Successful Career in Chamber Music.” The Carolina Institute for Leadership and Engagement in Music (CILEM) is a co-sponsor of the event. Also, the JACK Quartet will hold an
open rehearsal of works by USC student composers from 9:15 a.m. to 11:15 a.m. in Room
040, in the basement of the School of Music. Both events are free and open to the public.
In addition to Richards, the other members of the quartet are violinists Christopher
Otto and Ari Streisfeld and cellist Kevin McFarland. They met while attending the Eastman
School of Music. Working closely with contemporary composers, the group focuses on the
commissioning and performance of new works. The quartet also offers fresh interpretations of early music.
For their Southern Exposure concert, members of the quartet will perform Iannis
Xenakis’s masterpiece Tetras and new works by Julia Wolfe, Caleb Burhans, and Hanna
Lash, as well as an arrangement of Renaissance composer Don Carlo Gesualdo’s Love Lost
and Found, performed in its original tuning.
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The JACK Quartet focuses on new music by contemporary composers, but also offers fresh
interpretations of early music.The group has redefined what it is to be a string quartet.
Justin Bernhaut
The quartet’s recording of Xenakis’s complete string quartets was included in the “Best
of 2009” lists by the Los Angles Times, Boston Globe, New Yorker Magazine, and National
Public Radio. When not working with composers and performers, the group seeks to
broaden and diversify the potential audience for new music through educational presentations designed for a variety of ages, backgrounds, and levels of musical experience.