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Spotlight shines brightly on Arnold School
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Dr. Charles F. Adams, Dr. James Hardin
and Danielle Varnedoe received
special honors during the Arnold
School Hooding Ceremony.
Dr. Jan Probst holds the honorary
degree that she was awarded
from the School of Health Management
at A.T. Still University in Missouri.
August 9, 2013
As we look ahead to the 2013 – 2014 academic year, we want to recognize the faculty, staff and students of the Arnold School of Public Health who have been in the spotlight during the spring and summer. We applaud your accomplishments!
Faculty and students honored
Arnold School faculty received top honors during the Hooding Ceremony in May. The Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders was well-represented with awards going to Dr. Charles F. Adams, recipient of the James A. Keith Excellence in Teaching Award, and Danielle Varnedoe, who received the Faculty Service Award. Dr. James Hardin of the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, was selected for the Faculty Research Award. Hardin also has the distinction of having been elected to the International Statistical Institute.
Student honors included Robert Boyd Stith IV, the Jeffrey Keith Mattison Outstanding Student Achievement Award, and Dr. Erin Kaye Howie, the Doctoral Achievement Award. Stith earned his MPH from the Department of Exercise Science; Howie earned her doctoral degree from the Department of Exercise Science.
Research fellowship awarded
USC's Institute for African American Research has named two from the Arnold School to be 2013 – 2014 Research Fellows. They include graduate student Chris Aluah of the Department of Health Promotion, Education, and Behavior and Dr. Lisa Wigfall of the Department of Health Services Policy and Management. Aluah's research project is titled "Stigmatizing the 'Wise': Perceptions and experiences of courtesy stigma among African Americans working with people living with HIV/AIDS in Richland County, South Carolina." Wigfall's research will examine medical transport problems among medically underserved populations. Her study is titled "Medical transportation service providers' perspectives on improving access to healthcare services for medically underserved populations."
Distinguished scholar named
Doctoral student Shaun Owens was named a 2013 Distinguished Graduate Scholar by the Office of the Vice President for Research. Owens, from the Department of Health Promotion, Education, and Behavior, is a student member of the Science and Health Communication Research Group (SHCRG). Owens joined HPEB students Dien Anshari, Caroline Bergeron and Mary Zmuda as presenters at the first annual USC Science and Health Communication Student Symposium, which was organized by journalism faculty member Dr. Andrea Tanner and Dr. Daniela Friedman of HPEB. For more information about the event and to view student abstracts, visit http://www.sc.edu/healthcomm/news/Symposium_Post.html.
Thrasher leading international groups
Dr. Jim Thrasher has been elected co-chair of the Global Health Network for the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco. The society is the primary tobacco research organization in the world. He also will serve as chair of the Scientific Committee for the fourth Latin American conference on Tobacco or Health, which will be held in Costa Rica in March 2014.
HSPM professor awarded honorary degree
The School of Health Management at A.T. Still University awarded Dr. Jan Probst, a professor in the Department of Health Services Policy and Management, an honorary "Doctor of Humane Letters" degree during its recent graduation ceremony. Probst, director of the S.C. Rural Health Research Center, also was the guest speaker for the event, attended by ATSU President Craig Phelps and the university's board of trustees.
ASPIRE grants awarded
Ten Arnold School faculty are among the 67 recipients of ASPIRE grants to advance research and scholarly activities. More than 225 proposals were submitted by University faculty to USC's Office of Research for the competitive program. Grant recipients include Dr. Dirk B. den Ouden, Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders; Drs. Christine Blake and Andrew Kaczynski, Department of Health Promotion, Education, and Behavior; Dr. Saurabh Chatterjee, Department of Environmental Health Sciences; Drs. Roger Newman-Norland, Xuemei Sui, Jim Carson and Troy Herter, Department of Exercise Science; and Drs. Jiajia Zhang and Angela Liese, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics.
HPEB students, faculty honored
Students Gina Besenyi, Amira Osman, Shaun Owens and Danielle Schoffman of the Department of Health Promotion, Education, and Education were awarded the Support to Promote Advancement of Research and Creativity (SPARC) Awards grants through the Office of the Vice President for Research. To learn more, visit http://www.sc.edu/research/sparcawards.shtml.
Doctoral student Danielle Schoffman, along with Dr. Brie Turner-McGrievy, Dr. Sonya Jones and Dr. Sara Wilcox, presented "Mobile Apps for Pediatric Obesity Prevention: Just Fun and Games?" at the 34th Annual Meeting & Scientific Sessions of the Society of Behavioral Medicine in San Francisco. Schoffman also presented "Predicting park use in a Southeastern US county: a signal detection analysis poster."
HPEB students Michael Burke, Jessica Escobar, Eliza Fishbein and Seul Ki Choi and faculty member Dr. Christine Blake were presenters at the annual meeting of the American Society for Nutrition in Boston.
Dr. Edward Frongillo presented a program, "Assessment and Surveillance of Child Food Insecurity and Hunger," at a workshop on child hunger held by the National Academy of Sciences. Dr. Sonya Jones, deputy director of the Center for Research on Nutrition and Health Disparities, is a member of the committee that organized the workshop.
