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University of South Carolina March 28, 2013

Charles Fugo first came to USC about 40 years

ago. He was a graduate student, preparing for

his first job in academia, and the School of

Music was his first interview.

“I really liked the place so I came here,” said Fugo, a

piano professor.

And he didn’t leave — he never had a need to. Fugo

found his niche teaching applied piano almost im-

mediately, and he had found a place that gave him the

freedom to teach and perform.

“The faculty is extremely collegial and very accom-

plished and that has only increased with the years,”

he said. “I thought it was a very good situation. I was

doing exactly what I wanted to do.”

In the 41 years he has been teaching at USC, he has

seen quite a change in the music school at Carolina.

“It’s grown in stature. It’s grown in volume,” he said.

“The students are at a completely different level. It’s

been an exciting time to be here. When I came in, I

was told we might be on the ground floor of some-

thing big. And that’s exactly what’s happened.”

Fugo said he is proud to be a part of a music pro-

gram that continues to get better.

“It’s a wonderful place to be working and teaching

and I look forward to continuing it,” he said.

By Liz McCarthy

fugo and nine other university employees will be recognized in April for their 40 years of service at USC. every year the Division of human resources celebrates USC’s longest working employees with the State Service Award ceremony, honoring individuals with 20, 30 and 40 years of service.

40 yeArS AnD CoUnTing music professor comes in to ‘something big’

Shepherding the launch of a new medical school is not for the faint hearted. Dean Jerry r. youkey, a vascular surgeon who also serves as greenville hospital System’s executive vice president, has embraced the challenge. he says starting the school from scratch has distinct advantages, particularly since the aim is to establish it as a leading force in redesigning health care education and the care delivery system. The school’s affiliation with the hospital system, one of the largest health systems in the Southeast, also gives students a front row seat to watch those changes play out.

What is different about the greenville school?Our school is unique in being both a new medical education program and a medical school that has a parent university

with more than 30 years of experience administering and supporting medical education. We also have an affiliate teach-

ing hospital with a large faculty that has more than 20 years of experience teaching and managing the clinical aspects of

medical education.

how is medical education adapting to the changes in the health care industry?The health care industry has to reinvent itself with a focus on improving the patient experience of care and the health of popula-

tions, and reducing the per capita cost of care. To accomplish this will require that all health care professional education pro-

grams emphasize a patient-centered and team-based approach, focus on evidence directed therapies resulting in individualized

or personalized patient precise care, and gain insight into the critical nature of communication to support coordination of care.

What do you see as the biggest challenges facing medical schools today? Without question, the biggest challenge facing all medical schools today is funding. The main sources of medical school

revenue are tuition, clinical practice reimbursement, research dollars and government subsidy. The average debt of newly

graduated physicians in the country approximates $200,000, making tuition increase undesirable. Simultaneously, the other

three revenue sources are under duress and likely to decline precipitously.

What type of students are you attracting to the school?We have more than 2,200 applicants for our 50 positions to begin July 2013. The students we are interviewing are engaging,

energetic, articulate and generally well versed in the problems facing health care. Most are also quite excited about our ap-

proach to early and progressive clinical experience integrated into our biomedical sciences curriculum, starting off with EMT

training to certification.

What’s the best part of serving as dean of a new medical school? I always enjoy recruiting and working with highly competent and driven people to deal with the challenges inherent in building

something new. I have been particularly blessed in that regard with the administration, faculty and students of this school.

What’s next for the school?We are currently revising our first-year curriculum to improve the experience, completing our second-year curriculum, begin-

ning to plan our third and fourth year curricula, initiating our institutional self-study in preparation for our 2014 accreditation

site visit, starting to define our research agenda for faculty and student scholarship, interviewing the class of 2017, recruiting

the remainder of our biomedical sciences faculty and seeking philanthropic funds for scholarship support. Other than that,

not much is going on.

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1Art history is an interesting background. how does art and creativity play into your role as chancellor?

Art history is a field of study that requires facility in a number of disciplines. Because art historians study the creations associated with the human experience, we are required to leap over discipline boundaries and pull from many fields of study — from history, cultural studies and philosophy, to literature, music and science. Art historians are often “out of the box” thinkers. Their creativity makes them innovators — independent thinkers with the motivation and intellect to develop new solutions to old problems. These are certainly skills useful to a chancellor.

At what point did you turn your attention from art to administration? What was the draw?

in my very first college position after graduate school, as an assistant professor, i also took on an official administrative role. So, one could say that i’ve always juggled administrative duties along with the work of a professor. i learned early on that administration was perplexing, frustrating, stimulating, rewarding and meaningful work.

What are some of your goals moving forward as you develop a strategic plan for USC Aiken?

Two months after my arrival, we launched a visioning process. What emerged from the discussions is a clear set of directions that include adding more graduate and undergraduate majors in disciplines that are in demand in our area, growing the university’s student body, becoming the most entrepreneurial campus in our system, being more efficient and “green,” and marketing our liberal arts mission more effectively.

What was your first impression of USC Aiken and the USC system?

my first impression of USC Aiken was more positive than ever expected. in fact, the people here swept me off my feet. As i walked around the campus during my first visit, speaking to faculty, staff, students and campus visitors, i was struck by how often people told me that this university changed their lives or that they “loved” this university.

What would surprise people to know about USC Aiken?

i’ve been surprised at how few people on the Columbia campus know that USC Aiken, Upstate, and Beaufort are separately accredited universities in their own right, rather than branch campuses. president pastides has a wonderful way of expressing it. i’ve heard him explain the system as a “constellation of four universities that chose to band together.”

To associate professor of psychology Bret Kloos, mental health treatment extends beyond the tra-

ditional clinic. That’s because Kloos specializes in community psychology, which emphasizes the

links between mental health and a person’s environment.

“That might mean we look at links between a neighborhood and an individual to promote

health and prevent problems,” said Kloos. “We try to understand how those environmental factors

can contribute to someone’s functioning and wellbeing.”

As director of USC’s Housing Adaptive Functioning Research Lab, Kloos is exploring how fac-

tors such as natural disasters and homelessness impact specific populations, including immigrants

and persons with serious mental illness or drug abuse problems.

“For people who are vulnerable, the context is much more important,” said Kloos, who also has a

background in clinical psychology.

Kloos and colleagues from USC are also making a difference locally by collaborating on

projects with the S.C. Department of Mental Health, community mental health centers and non-

profit organizations.

“Most of these people with psychiatric disabilities don’t need institutional help, but better

ways to support them in the community. The quality of their homes or their neighborhoods

can make life harder or easier for them,” he said.

With funding from the National Institute of Mental Health and other agencies, Kloos

and company are seeking cost-effective interventions to offset state-level budget cuts for

mental health services. The end goal, he said, is not merely to help at-risk individuals

but also to enable communities to help themselves.

“If we can help communities build capacity to do their own work, everybody’s

better off. That’s part of the passion,” he said

kloos is one of 15 Breakthrough rising Stars chosen by the office of research. The program recognizes junior faculty whose research and scholarship demonstrates the best in academe. look for more profiles in USC Times in the weeks ahead.

BeyonD The CliniCBy Craig Brandhorst

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As David Voros and Pam Bowers spoke with a Chinese landscape painter sharing

their perspectives on landscape painting, the painter gestured toward the mountain

in the distance.

“For you, the landscape is out there,” he said, with the help of a translator, placing

his hand on his heart. “For me, it is in here.”

For Voros and Bowers, faculty members in USC’s art department, this vignette il-

lustrates how cultural exchanges can challenge a person’s view of the world around

them. And it wouldn’t have happened without the university’s help.

For artists working in academia, the solo exhibition is important, but many

hurdles can delay artists from showing work internationally.

“Having an exhibition filled with your own works really allows the viewer to ac-

cess it in a different way,” Bowers said.

Voros and Bowers were invited to China for solo exhibitions at the China Academy

of Art in Hangzhou and the Guilin Academy of Chinese Painting in Guilin.

Voros explained the difficulties artists face in showing work internationally to the

Vice President for Research Prakash Nagarkatti.

“This is a significant recognition of their work, and I was happy to provide

support for them,” Nagarkatti said. “These global connections bring about

cultural exchanges that benefit the university community, and I am happy to

promote such exchanges.”

The university’s support of the artists’ work was essential for the visit.

The exchange of perspectives from other cultures can play an important role in

creating art, making these kinds of trips even more important, Voros said.

“Artists shouldn’t be limited by a particular cultural or temporal perspective,” he

said. “By recognizing different perspectives we can look at common issues from dif-

ferent sides and understand them more deeply.”

voros and Bowers plan to continue the dialogue with the painters in guilin. With generous support from that city, as well as USC’s art department and the Confucius institute, the artists plan to host six painters from the guilin Academy of painting in the fall.

The artists will give a workshop and seminar on Chinese painting, perform critiques with students and will exhibit their works in the mcmaster gallery.

on exhiBiT like flowers of spring, art by university faculty and staff is on display for everyone to enjoy. inspired by the season, USC Times is sharing some of these vibrant works, ranging from paper and glass to photography and oil, which are on display in South Carolina and beyond.

fran gardner, USC lancaster art and art history professor Gardner recently

had two pieces of her

work accepted into a

juried exhibition in

Missouri.

Bryan Burgin, College of education’s director of conferences, public relations and marketingBurgin produces glass artwork

on the side. This piece, “Some

Like it Hot,” is the featured art

piece for Dining With Friends,

sponsored by the AIDS Benefit

Foundation of South Carolina.

James henderson, director of media services in the art department Henderson has a solo exhibit,

“Infrared Visions: The Curious

and the Sublime,” at the Gallery

At DuPre in Columbia. This

piece, “Bamboo I,” is an infra-

red photograph currently on

display.

Sara Schneckloth, assistant professor of studio art Schneckloth exhibited several drawings at

the Soho20 Chelsea Gallery in New York.

Her work explores the potential of contem-

porary drawing practice.

mary robinson, associate professor of studio artRobinson, director

of USC printmaking,

showed several works

made in 2012 and

2013 during the recent

Columbia Open Studios.

This piece, a screen print

and acrylic collage, is

titled “New Routes, First

Steps 2.”

kathleen robbins, associate professor of studio artRobbins, who teaches photography, has a traveling,

solo exhibition of pieces produced over a period of

six years showing in museums, commercial galleries

and contemporary art spaces. It has traveled to eight

venues as a solo exhibition since 2008.

Jane nodine, professor of art at USC Upstate

Nodine’s artwork — made

from encaustic wax, oil pig-

ment, resin, iron oxidation

— will be featured in several

shows from Massachusetts to

the Carolina Upstate in the

next few months. Nodine’s

primary research focuses

on merging traditional and

historical techniques of image

and art-making with contem-

porary forms of technology.

gAining gloBAl perSpeCTiveS

By Amy Long Caffee

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USC TimeSvol. 24, no. 6 | mArCh 28, 2013

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More than 80 students participated in seven spring break trips sponsored by Carolina’s Community Service Programs office. Serving in places from New Orleans to New Jersey, the students took to social media to document their journeys.

Hailey Morris @hayymorrisOkay now off to bed. Waking up in 6 hours to help demolish a house in Atlantic City! Lets go #JerseyFamily #TeamJersey

Beth @bbrink2012 “If we don’t feel tired and we are not dirty, we didn’t do anything” -Eric #reflection #TeamNashville Abbey O’Brien @abbeyobrien

Just let out my inner farm girl picking corn & potatoes. Feels awesome to know it’s going to feed the hungry/homeless in FL. #TeamSouthFlorida

The Spring 2013 edition of Carolinian magazine is here, featuring stories about USC faculty, students and alumni — plus one very unusual trip down memory lane. Don’t already receive Carolinian? No problem. To join the mailing list for the next three issues just make a donation of $50 or more to the Family Fund at giving.sc.edu.

UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA ALUMNI MAGAZINE

SPRING 2013

Thinking inside a very big boxCAMERON BLAZER, ’97

S.C. HONORS COLLEGE

plusOBJECT LESSONS

CAROLINIANS WHO RUN

DEATH BECOMES HER

Hot off the press!

53faculty and staff serve on national

fellowship committees

BeST AnD The

BrighTeSTnational scholarships,

by-the-numbers 595national fellowship awards earned by USC students since 1994

16.7 million$earned through national fellowships by USC students since ’94

students selected in 2011-12, secur-ing more than $1.4 million for advanced academic study.

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Source: Office of Fellowships and Scholar Programs