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|  $1.1
million for USC cancer researcher
The National Cancer Institute (NCI, NIH)
has awarded USC $1.1 million for a study by Dr. James
Carson and his colleagues in the Departments of Exercise
Science, Biological Sciences, and the Center for Colorectal
Cancer Research. The study, funded through a four year
R01 grant, is focused on identifying exercise and nutritional
countermeasures that can prevent the causes of severe
muscle wasting in colon cancer.
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|  Harris
Pastides elected university's 28th president
The University of South Carolina Board
of Trustees has unanimously elected Dr. Harris Pastides
to become the university's 28th president. The selection
of Pastides, 54, who has served as the university's
vice president for research and health sciences and
executive director of the South Carolina Research Foundation
since 2003, followed a national search that drew some
of the nation's most talented and promising academic
leaders, said Herbert Adams, chairman of the university's
Board of Trustees.
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|  Nurse
leader named to research post
USC’s College of Nursing has named
health information and safety evaluation expert Dr.
Rita Snyder associate dean for research.
“With a growing emphasis on the importance of
patient safety, Dr. Snyder’s expertise in nursing
information and quality will bring us to the national
level of that arena,” said Dr. Peggy Hewlett,
dean of the university’s College of Nursing. “We
are privileged to have her serve as our new associate
dean of research.”
Dr. Harris Pastides, the university’s associate
vice president for research and health sciences, said
Snyder represents the new face of health sciences at
Carolina.
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|  Reifsnider
new Future Fuels Center director
Effective July 1, USC professor of mechanical
engineering Dr. Ken Reifsnider will assume the responsibilities
of director of the Future Fuels Center, an umbrella
for all of the university's energy research programs.
He also directs the Solid-Oxide Fuel Cell Program, a
Center of Economic Excellence pending matching funds
provision.
"There's quite a bit of energy research
being conducted at Carolina, so the Future Fuels Center
is really a university-wide initiative to focus those
efforts." Reifsnider said. "We're going to promote all
of the Centers of Economic Excellence that are related
to energy, as well as our research programs in solar,
nuclear engineering, clean coal, biomass and environmental
sustainability. The center will also be a mechanism for
fundraising for our energy research initiatives."
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