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Breakthrough Leader: Dawn Wilson-King »

Dawn Wilson-King has devoted her career to helping people pursue active and healthy lifestyles, and what a career it’s been. Since 2001, the psychology professor has collaborated on more than 30 grant-funded projects that brought some $40 million in grant funding to the University of South Carolina and she served as president of two prominent national organizations.

COVID-19 impact: Rural communities face challenges »

Kevin Bennett, director of research and evaluation at the Center for Rural and Primary Healthcare, discusses issues rural communities face during the coronavirus pandemic.

COVID-19 impact: Understanding the importance of supply chains »

Mark Ferguson, a professor in the Darla Moore School of Business, explains how supply chains may be affected during the pandemic.

Music professor wins SEC faculty award for UofSC »

Music education professor Gail Barnes has been named winner of the 2020 Southeastern Conference Faculty Achievement Award for the University of South Carolina.

Interim director named for Global Carolina »

Magdalena Grudzinski-Hall, director of Study Abroad, will become interim executive director of Global Carolina and interim chief international officer effective July 1 and will serve until a permanent replacement is named. Grudzinski-Hall replaces Vice Provost Allen Miller, who is stepping down to continue his research and teaching as a professor of classics and comparative literature.

IN THE NEWS

"Hospitals furlough workers as they feel financial burden of fighting Covid-19" (feat. Melanie Cozad, Health Services Policy and Management)
—WSPA

"Why is the coronavirus death rate higher in Horry County than most of South Carolina?" (feat. Jan Eberth, Epidemiology and Biostatistics)
—The Sun News

"Some parents are saying no to remote learning. Will there be consequences?" (feat. Jon Pedersen, education)
—Today Show

“A bridge between life and death: Most COVID-19 patients put on ventilators will not survive” (feat. Majorie Jenkins, School of Medicine Greenville)
—USA Today

FACULTY AND STAFF NOTES

Nicole Berge, civil engineering, published "Predictions of energy recovery from hydrochar generated from the hydrothermal carbonization of organic wastes," in the Journal of Renewable Energy.
 
Matthew Haldeman, health promotion, education and behavior, and Melissa Nolan, epidemiology and biostatistics, authored “Human hookworm infection: Is effective control possible? A review of hookworm control efforts and future directions” in Act Tropica
 
Sue Heiney, Oluwole Babatunde, Tisha Felder, Karen Wickersham, Swann Arp Adams, nursing, Samantha Truman, Jan Eberth, Elizabeth Crouch, public health, published “Racial and Geographic Disparities in Endocrine Therapy Adherence Among Younger Breast Cancer Survivors” in the American Journal of Clinical Oncology.

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