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A publication for faculty, staff and friends of the university
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University of South Carolina April 11, 2013
It started with a tomato.
Darcy Freedman, then a graduate student in Nashville, Tenn., was reviewing photos with parents of preschoolers
as a part of a research project. When Freedman flipped to a picture of bright red tomato, one mother’s face lit up.
“She said that picture was like that dress she sees in the window, something she’d always wanted to buy but just
couldn’t get,” Freedman said.
The idea that the mom did not have access to a basic healthy food item, one most people take for granted, seemed
wrong. That led Freedman, now a professor at USC’s College of Social Work, to begin studying the connections between
healthy foods, strong communities, and economic and social justice.
It’s more than an academic exercise, and Freedman has helped launch several farmers markets with the mission to
bring healthy food to underserved communities. The latest opened nearly two years ago in Orangeburg, S.C., and is
located outside of a community health center.
The Right Choice, Fresh Start Farmers Market not only attracts residents with an array of tantalizing food choices, but
also gives a boost to the local economy by providing small-scale farmers with a space to sell their produce.
I find that communities, no matter where they are, are often brought together around food. And if healthy food is
available, people will take advantage of it,” she said.
Freedman, along with James Hebert from the Arnold School of Public Health, is finding ways to build on the market’s
success by finding ways for low-income families to buy even more produce. She piloted a program that provided more
than 300 customers with federal food assistance a $5 match on the first $5 of produce they purchased. It contrasts with
recent proposals in South Carolina to curb obesity by limiting what people can buy with
federal food assistance.
“We decided it was much better to go with a carrot rather than
the stick approach,” she said.
Freedman believes the debate over various proposals to
address obesity could lead to broader policy discussions about
access to the right kinds of foods.
“It’s really hard to buy healthy foods when they’re not
available,” she said.
Selling BeTTer heAlTh
going firST ClASSAll through school Katelyn Jones looked up to her teachers,
and now she’s the object of adoring eyes in her second grade
class at Lake Carolina Elementary School.
“There were so many teachers who impacted me and my
life. My mom was a teacher and I would go to her room and
play teacher after school,” says Jones.
When Jones gets in front of a class these days, it’s not
pretend. As a senior elementary education major, she’s
getting plenty of practice and experience for her future
profession at one of the premier schools in Richland School
District Two.
Jones will launch her teaching career from a platform
designed to show her how to go beyond the traditional
student-teaching experience and get the most out of her
students through a professional development program
offered in the College of Education.
“I think the partnership between the university and the
elementary schools is key,” she says. “Not all elementary
schools are professional development schools, but I feel
the ones that are, truly grasp the idea of collaboration and
working together to give us the best experience, as well as
putting us in a place where we’ll get the most out of it.”
Professional development is all about preparing the next
generation of educators, showing them how to be innovative
in the classroom, introducing them to diverse classroom
environments and shoring them up for success in the early
years when teaching can be the most challenging. When
education majors are assigned to a professional development
school, the interns get to work with veteran teachers.
“We see a benefit for teachers exposed to new strategies
and practices that the students have learned in their
classroom work at the university,” Margo Jackson, the USC/
Lake Carolina liaison says.
Since arriving at Lake Carolina in the fall, Jones has been
able to put those strategies to work.
“My cooperating teacher has been great with giving me
opportunities,” says Jones. “We do a lot of co-teaching
instead of me sitting there and observing. I’ve gotten the
chance to step in the classroom and handle it like it’s my
own.”
“I love that we’re a professional development school,”
Berry says. “We have phenomenal interns that come
through here and we take it seriously that we’re here to
come alongside the university and prepare them because
they’re going to be affecting the children of our future.”
By: Frenche Brewer
By Jeff Stensland
2 UniverSiTy of SoUTh CArolinA
Lambert, ’08 visual communications, first jumped into the derby game
about a year ago. She’d never played sports or been very athletic. It
seemed the exact opposite kind of action for an introvert and certainly
shocked some of her co-workers.
“This is just a different side of me,” she says. “I don’t hesitate to throw
my shoulder in.”
Lambert practices about four or five hours a week and spends some
Saturdays at bouts across the region for the Columbia QuadSquad. She
skates on the Belles on Wheels home team.
Lambert says she has found roller derby to be more mental than
physical. In fact, she says roller derby isn’t as violent as it seems.
“It has become a therapy session,” she says.
Her biggest fear when approaching the rink was of falling but she
learned how to control the falling and to be safe, she says.
“I’m not afraid of anything anymore,” she says.
“on geopolitics: Space, place, and international relations” By harvey Starr, Dag hammarskjöld professor in international AffairsThis book shows how the “new geopolitics”
links to the way in which geography and
international relations have intertwined
in the past. Using recent developments in
geographic information system technology
as well as traditional theories and methods,
Harvey Starr explores themes of spatiality
and territoriality as they connect to
international affairs. He also examines
geopolitical dynamics beyond borders in a
world now buffeted by non-state actors and
subject to intergovernmental institutions
and norms.
“Judicialization of politics: The interplay of institutional Structure, legal Doctrine, and politics on the high Court of Australia”By kirk randazzo, associate professor of political scienceThis book examines the judicialization
of politics in the High Court of Australia.
The authors argue it is the interplay of
institutional structures, a growing concern
for individual rights and the willingness
of the justices to engage in purposive
policymaking that lead the court to engage
in judicial politics. The findings suggest that
justices can be constrained by institutional
structures and the acceptance of restrictive
legal doctrines. Changes in those conditions
are necessary for judicialization of politics
to occur in a court.
“Anonymity” By Janna mcmahan, marketing manager with South Carolina Small Business Development Centers In Janna McMahan’s fourth novel,
“Anonymity,” she tells the gritty, harrowing
account of young people who live life on the
edge when all they really want is a safe place
to call home. The Myrtle Beach Sun News
said the novel “pulls at your emotions
without preaching while also bearing the
facts . . . characters flow in and out of the
story, but each one serves a purpose, and
McMahan does a masterful job of tying
everyone’s stories together at the end.”
“The multi-Talented mr. erskine: Shaping mass Culture through great Books and fine music”By katherine elise Chaddock, professor in the College of education Best-selling novelist, popular concert pianist,
Hollywood script writer, radio personality,
celebrity professor, society figure in New
York and Paris, and magnet for women from
Anas Nin to Helen Gahagan - John Erskine,
early 20th century bon vivant, was a true
American original. Beyond the headlines,
however, he also left a lasting influence on
American intellectual and artistic culture as
the father of the Great Books curriculum,
the founder of a university in France, the
first president of The Juilliard School of
Music and a profoundly skilled teacher of
English literature at Columbia University.
His balancing act among multiple identities,
underscored by his commitment to create
access for the middle class to highbrow
culture, is the subject of this, the first
biography of an influential, unforgettable
educator and public intellectual.
BeyonD The JoBname: Annie lambert
Day job: Communications and development coordinator for the College of mass Communications and information Studies
part-time passion: roller derby
Derby name: pink Slam-pain
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Q&AwithChArleSBloom
you were very involved with the United Way while at the SeC in Birmingham. Why did you become involved? The SEC is really owned by its 14 schools so there’s
a lot of traveling. I was looking for a way to help
out in the Birmingham community – there isn’t an
SEC school in Birmingham – so I volunteered with
the United Way. I wanted to establish roots in the
community. It was a great experience and I was
able to see firsthand the work of the agencies of the
United Way.
Will you continue this involvement here in Columbia? I hope so. From my work with the organization, I’ve
become a big fan of the United Way and its work in
the community. The people are gracious. The work
is honorable. It doesn’t take a lot for each person if
they gave for the United Way to be successful. The
number of agencies the United Way helps represents
a large swath of the community. A successful United
Way program, to me, really shows the heart of the
community.
What made you decide to return to Carolina after 17 years with the SeC?
It is my alma mater and it’s a great job. Having Coach
Tanner as the athletic director – well, it was an easy
sell for him and an easy buy for me.
What is exciting about being at Carolina now? It’s a great time to be here. We’ve had success in
our athletics program. You can feel the momentum
with football, men and women’s basketball, baseball
and the Olympic sports. For me, personally, my
background has been mostly in the media and public
relations realm and it gave me an opportunity to come
here and expand my horizons in the university setting.
Sometimes athletics seems separated from the university. Do you think that’s true?I’ve talked to Coach Tanner about that. I really
feel like one of the neat things that we do with our
student athletes is that after each contest we stand
for the alma mater and raise the toast. To me that
signifies a greater bond with our university than
most any school. Charles Bloom joined the Athletics Department this year
as senior associate athletics director of external affairs,
returning to Columbia from the Southeastern Conference
(SEC) in Birmingham, Ala. He brought with him his love
for the Gamecocks (he’s an alumnus) and his passion for
helping the United Way.
faculty and staff are invited to donate to the United Way as a part of the university’s annual campaign. The campaign runs through April 12 and donations can be made at uway.org/usc through a payroll deduction.
“Working together we can make a positive difference — we can fight homelessness, boost school success and help people in our community get access to affordable health care.” – president harris pastides
i am extremely proud to be part of a university community with heart. our students, faculty and staff participate in many service projects and raise money for lots of important causes. We know that a rich life involves finding ways to give back and that becoming a leader means recognizing our community’s needs and creating opportunities to make a difference.
i’m happy to co-chair one Columbia CityServe with mayor Steve Benjamin and paul fant of SCAnA. mayor Benjamin is serving to inspire all groups in the city to work together, which he does so well. paul is working to rally business and industry, while i represent the University of South Carolina and all not-for-profits who contribute to the rich fabric of Columbia.
Approximately 1,000 of our students, faculty and staff have plans to be engaged in several projects during the week of one Columbia CityServe (April 20-27).
i ask everyone in the USC community and beyond to think about your gifts and talents and come out and serve on whatever day you can, in whatever way you can.
i promise you will discover rewards beyond the time you commit. remember, it is in giving that we receive — i’ll be planting a garden for a school in richland one. What will you do?
~ patricia moore-pastides
Austin Jenkins grew up in the piney woods of Kershaw
County, where he played as a child and learned to love the
forest where he spent time hunting, fishing and exploring.
Through teaching, he hopes to help others love it, too.
Jenkins, a biology instructor at USC Sumter, began taking
students to local parks to explore Sumter’s flora and fauna as
a way to highlight the rarity of Sumter’s natural forests.
“Students are always amazed by the diversity that exists
in their own backyard,” Jenkins said. “Many never knew it
was this accessible or this amazing.”
Then Jenkins realized USC Sumter could bring this
local biodiversity to its own manicured landscapes. With
the help of one of his classes, Jenkins began restoring
some of the biodiversity that was once present on the
campus by installing native plans, which will in turn
bring back native animals.
And in the process his students are learning to write
habitat restoration plans and how to propagate native plants.
“I think students get more from this hands-on experience
than from simply reading a textbook,” said Jenkins. “It
makes a great way of teaching that leaves us with some
lasting, physical products.”
The project will make campus more beautiful, too, he said.
“Our method will take time, but it is well worth it
and a great service activity,” he said. “Native plants add
tremendous beauty while supporting our native animal
species.”
One day students may be able to take a field trip right on
the USC Sumter campus.
“That would indicate a great success,” Jenkins said. “I
think we’re off to a fantastic start.”
By Misty
HatfieldBACk To nATUre
“Students are always amazed by the diversity that exists in their own backyard. many never knew it was this accessible or this amazing.”
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Did you always want to be a chef?Yeah. Actually it started in seventh grade. But
I wasn’t definitely sure that it was the route I
wanted to go at that time. It was either cooking
or pharmacology. My first class at the University
of Guelph convinced me that this is what I
wanted to do.
What’s your favorite dish to cook?It really depends on the mood. I’m doing a lot
of Asian and Spanish, because that’s the kick
I’m on now. German and French chefs trained
me classically, and I love cooking that cuisine.
I’ve been trying Thai and Indian food lately, as
well. I still love grilling, which is something
I picked up from my dad. It depends on the
mood of the day, really. It also depends on
what we’re cooking here. If we’re serving it
here, I usually don’t want it at home.
Do you have days when you don’t want to cook and would rather have take out?Oh yeah, oh yeah, especially after a big holiday.
At Valentine’s Day we served a six or seven
course meal. So at the end of the day, I didn’t
want to see any of the dishes we served that day.
I think afterwards, I went home and had two
frozen waffles and some bacon. I have many
days that I don’t cook.
how has being chef changed since cooking has become entertainment? is it more difficult or easier?It’s a little of both. We have TV, all kinds of
books and magazines and everything else, and
it’s absolutely amazing that people have such
a greater interest in cooking. But it makes our
jobs harder, because we have to match up to the
standards that people see on TV. That being said,
it’s also easier. Nowadays, people are willing to
try new dishes. They are more open and this
allows us to do new things.
Do you have advice for hosting your next dinner party?Cooking shouldn’t be stressful. The moment you
get stressed, then you’ve lost focus of why you’re
having the meal in the first place. Cooking is not
about the food. It’s about the people at the table.
It’s sharing time with people you care about.
Relax, have a glass of wine and turn on some
music. If the recipe doesn’t quite work out, at
least you’ve had a glass of wine.
for more from Chef hay, check out the full interview in Day Times.
mAking WAveS, from AeroSpACe To BiomeDiCineAirplanes and bones don’t have much in common – or do they? Jinku “J.k.” yang is showing how a sensor he developed to measure the integrity of a wing or fuselage can help surgeons better match implants with bone structure.
“nowadays, joint replacement or spinal surgeries are very common,” yang said. “But there is actually no way that surgeons can really know the local mechanical properties of the bone they’re operating on.”
yang uses a stack of granular crystals, which look a bit like a stack of ball bearings, to send highly nonlinear acoustic waves into a structure. Those waves provide detailed mechanical information, and yang is showing that it doesn’t matter whether it’s an airfoil or a femur – he can use the information to map its integrity.
A ConverSATion WiTh Chef BriAn hAy,
director of Culinary and Wine institute at Carolina, mcCutchen house
SCienCe Corner