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Trailblazer brings passion for equity to UofSC lecture »

Valerie Smith, Swarthmore College’s first African American president in its 155-year history, is committed to deepening human understanding through the process of learning and discovery. She will share her passion and perspective at South Carolina as the 2019 Adrenée Glover Freeman Lecturer.

UPCOMING @UofSC

Sept. 20: Chemistry Fall Seminar Series with Andreas Heyden

Sept. 22: UofSC Wind Ensemble Concert: Shadow and Light

Sept. 23: Stargazing at the Melton Memorial Observatory

Sept. 24: Benefits Fair

Sept. 26: Annual Lecture in Political History featuring Elaine Weiss on "The Woman's Hour"

Find more on-campus events in our public calendar, Gamecocks Athletics, our calendar for students and the My Carolina Alumni Association calendar. Also, follow the latest event updates on Twitter @UofSCEvents.

IN THE NEWS

SC growth since Hurricane Hugo means more people and more property are in harm’s way” (feat. Susan Cutter, geology)
— Post and Courier

“Statewide program helping address special education teacher shortage” (feat. Kate Ascetta, education)
— WTOC

"Court to hear arguments on workplace sex bias" (feat. Joseph Seiner, law)
— Legal News

“Experts Warn of Voting Machine Vulnerabilities in N.C.” (feat. Duncan Buell, engineering and computing)
-- Government Technology

GETTING SOCIAL

uofscrhodos Meet your RM, Dylan Reed! Dylan is a senior Operations and Supply Chain major with a second major in Finance! He loves college basketball and goes to every UofSC game! Dylan enjoys hanging with the boys (every day is for the boys, not just Saturdays) and memes. Dylan is just tryna #make it to graduation. Give Dylan a nice "Go Cocks!" on the third floor!

JOBS @UOFSC

Student Services Program Coordinator I-Financial Aid Scholarship Coordinator-STA00723PO19 USC Upstate Financial Aid and Veteran Affairs

Program Coordinator I-Internship Coordinator-STA00576PO19 USC Lancaster-Palmetto College

Law Enforcement Office I-Aiken Officer-Law Enforcement Officer I-STA00677PO19 Aiken Public Safety

NEWS & EVENTS

Every day and night for a month and a half leading up to the Siemens Healthineers Innovation Think Tank’s annual external exhibition, Kevin Gagnon (right) worked to create a stroke identification app for the competition in Germany. The computer science major and his team, including biology major Jack Gabel (left), only needed ideas in the health care sector, not finished products. But their hard work to create a working app paid off as they beat out 30 teams from colleges around the world for the top award.

Study wants to help you stand up

The NEAT!2 Sedentary Reduction intervention is looking for participants for a study to help reduce sitting time. The program is seeking people older than 40 who have knee pain and a smartphone. Visit the study's recruitment website to apply online or email Katherine DeVivo at kdevivo@email.sc.edu for more information.

Teacher appreciation game set

The Gamecocks are teaming up with the UofSC College of Education and South Carolina Department of Education to host Teacher Appreciation Day at Williams-Brice Stadium on Oct. 19. All teachers, school staff and their families will enjoy a special discount on tickets and will be honored in various ways throughout game day.

FACULTY & STAFF NOTES

Jiajia Zhang, epidemiology and biostatistics, authored “Dyslexia associated functional variants in Europeans are not associated with dyslexia in Chinese” in the American Journal of Medical Genetics.

Jorge Crichigno and Niset Hikmet, integrated information technology, Steffen Strauch, physics and astronomy, Andreas Heyden, chemical engineering, and Paul Sagona, Division of Information Technology, received a $500,000 grant from the National Science Foundation for the research project "Building a Science DMZ for Data-intensive Research and Computation at the University of South Carolina."

Erica Tobolski, theater, co-presented the panel "From Music to Language: The Roots of Theatrical Expression: at the Voice and Speech Trainers Association conference in Orlando, Fla.

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