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Reigning women’s college basketball player of the year Aliyah Boston dominates on the court and in the classroom.
- Boston, who is once again in contention for the Naismith award and is pursuing her second NCAA championship, is also a three-time Academic All-American.
What they're saying: “She was always focused and conscientious, clearly seeking to be highly successful academically as well as athletically.” — journalism professor Kenneth Campbell
Read more about Aliyah Boston.
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First-year marketing major Jala Lewis styles the hair of some prominent student-athletes on the women’s basketball team.
- Lewis grew up watching her mother work on clients and began learning to braid and style hair in high school. Now she’s a licensed cosmetologist with a thriving business.
- She first connected with guard Brea Beal through Instagram where Beal posted an open call seeking someone who could braid her hair.
- Lewis now styles the hair of other players, including Zia Cooke, Sania Feagin and Bree Hall.
What she's saying: “It's a surreal feeling. I never would have thought I’d be booking up-and-coming celebrities, people who are going to be big.”
Learn more about Jala Lewis.
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South Carolina track and field junior distance runners Hope Dominique, Katerina Hendrix and Claudia Satzke went to Ecuador over spring break and worked in health clinics to try to help underserved people there.
- The trip was organized through the Methodist Student Network at USC.
What they're saying: “I want to go to medical school, and I love helping people in any way. I love traveling, so doing this was just as cool as going on a spring break trip to Florida.” — Claudia Satzke, exercise science major
Learn more about the student-athletes' mission to Ecuador.
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IN THE NEWS
“What to know about a cap on the cost of insulin” (feat. Ismael Yunusa, pharmacy)
NewsDay
“Starbucks’s new CEO will work in cafes once a month” (feat. Anthony Nyberg, management)
The Washington Post
“Warming climate could bring flesh-eating bacteria to more U.S. waters" (feat. Geoff Scott, environmental health sciences)
U.S. News and World Report
“Columbia restaurants struggle with low staff, high turnover, creating long waits for customers” (feat. Robin DiPietro, director – School of Hospitality and Tourism Management)
The State
“Dreams derailed” (feat. Benjamin Roth, social work)
The Chronicle of Higher Education
“Physician Shortage: USC School of Medicine Greenville starting accelerated program to help” (feat. Kelly Quesnelle, biomedical sciences)
Fox Carolina
“Sheridan explores motherhood through her art” (feat. Jordan Sheridan, studio art)
Charleston City Paper
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FACULTY AND STAFF NOTES
Sourav Banerjee, mechanical engineering, authored “Nondestructive evaluation (NDE) of multilayered attenuative structures using ultrasonic Bessel beams” in Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing.
Mitzi Nagarkatti, medicine, has been elected to the board of directors of the Academy of Toxicological Sciences, which certifies toxicologists who are recognized by their peers for their expertise and sound scientific judgment.
Allison Sweeney, nursing, and others published "Engagement with tailored physical activity content in the Families Improving Together (FIT) for weight loss online intervention" in the Journal of Medical Internet Research.
Elizabeth Currin, Suha Tamim and Yasha Becton, education, published “Consesus is a Journey: A Programmatic Framework for Ed.D.-Activism” in the Journal on Transforming Professional Practice.
Brittany Pate, exercise science, Samantha Bouknight, Evelynn Harrington, Sarah Mott, Lee Augenblick, Cora Smiley, Christopher G Morgan, Brittney Calatayud and Gustavo Martínez-Muñiz, medicine, authored “Site-Specific knockdown of microglia in the locus coeruleus regulates hypervigilant responses to social stress in female rats” in Brain, Behavior, and Immunity.
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Registration opens for the award-winning Women's Leadership Institute at 8 a.m. Monday (April 3).
- 2023 marks the 20th anniversary for the institute, which is open to faculty, staff and graduate students. This year’s theme is “Celebrate Empowering Women: A Moment of Firsts.”
- Registration is limited to 320 participants and typically fills up within a few hours.
- The daylong event will be April 26 and will feature two keynote speakers and 15 workshops.
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