USCB Colony Heads to New Orleans

It was a great night, January 23^rd 2012, at Belfair Plantation Clubhouse where 25 USCB students welcomed local club managers and friends to the first annual Fundraising Wine Dinner. The students, led by Othel Plowden, colony president, prepared a four-course plated wine-paired dinner in order to raise money to travel to New Orleans for National Conference. “The students have worked tirelessly to make this a great evening,” quipped faculty advisor, Dr. Sean Barth.

The event was great indeed. The students were able to get a majority of local private residential clubs involved. In addition, there were a couple of vendors present and also some support from the university and friends. All in all the students served the dinner to 85 guests and rose close to $6000. What is more surprising is how generous all the donors were. From US Foods and Belfair, to Sea Pines Country Club, Crew Wineries, and Beringer, the students were able to keep their costs below $500 in order to keep the majority of the money for their travel.  “I am very excited for the students,” says Barth, “they worked so hard to make this evening very special. Othel made this night special. He really took ahold of and ran with the idea. He came up with the menu and then made it come to life, and I am very proud of his accomplishments.” 

The money raised will allow the student’s to attend National Conference again this year. “Without the support of the local club community, experiences like this would not be possible for most of our students,” said Barth. “We just do not have the resources at this time, but the students were dedicated and found a way to make it happen.” Please view the video below to see how the night went. 

Pulitzer Prize Nominee to host workshop series on Photoshop at USCB

February 24, March 30 & April 20

Beaufort, SC –Award winning digital photographer, Phil Dunn will be presenting a three part series on Photoshop.  All workshops in this series will be hosted on Saturdays from 9am until 4pm on the Historic Beaufort campus, in room #111 in the Sandstone building. 

The series begins on February 24^th with An Introduction to Photoshop CS5:  Building a Workflow in Camera Raw, enabling participants to master the seven steps necessary to optimize the quality of every image.  In this session, students will become accomplished with Adobe’s Camera Raw interface.

The second workshop in this series, Mastering Tools, Layers, Selections and Curves in CS5, will be held on Mar 30^th.  This session will focus on acquiring the skills to use basic and advanced features in Adobe Photoshop, and how to manipulate images after optimization.

The final workshop, High Dynamic Range Photography, is scheduled for Apr 20^th.  The focus of this session will be extending your camera’s ability to respond to a wider range of light.  Students will practice using Photoshop to stimulate HDR by double processing images and delve into true HDR imagery by combining a range of exposures into one HDR image.

Palmetto Frieze by Phil Dunn

“Moderately priced digital cameras make it possible for individuals to document the world around them in exciting ways,” explains Dunn.  “The challenge is optimizing the image before and after it’s been captured. This series will teach pre- and post-capture workflow that will allow them to realize their photographic vision.”

In order to participate in this workshop series, participants must possess a digital camera with at least a 10-megapixel sensor.  Cost to attend these workshops is $275 for the entire series or $100 per session.

To register, please contact Erica Breton with USCB Continuing Education at 843-521-4112 or bretone@uscb.edu.  For more information about Phil Dunn or to view his digital artwork please visit, www.phildunnart.com.

  

 Drafted by Stefny Ankney, USCB Social Media Intern

Brella by Phil Dunn

About Phil Dunn

Chicago born and raised, Phillip C. Dunn received his bachelor of fine arts degree from the University of Illinois in Urbana, studied photography and design at the Institute of Design, Illinois Institute of Technology, and received his doctorate in art education from Ball State University. During his career, Dr. Dunn has taught art at all grade levels from kindergarten through graduate school, and recently retired as chair and distinguished professor of art at the University of South Carolina Art.

Some of his accomplishments and awards include being named: the Thomas A. Hatfield Life Time Achievment in Art Education Award Winner, Louise Fry Scudder Professor of Art, Mac Arthur Goodwin Award winner for excellence in Art Education, National Art Educator of the Year, Senior Program Officer of the Getty Institute for Educators on the Visual Arts in Los Angeles, both South Carolina and Southeastern Regional Art Educator of the Year, and Mary J. Rouse Award winner as the nation's outstanding young art educator. The author of numerous books and articles, his publications include the Pulitzer‑nominated, Lillian Smith Book Award winner, A True Likeness: The Black South of Richard Samuel Roberts, 1920‑1936, Promoting School Art: A Practical Approach, and Creating Curriculum in Art.

At USC, Phil chaired the Department of Art. The Department, comprised of four areas: Art Education, Art History, Media Arts and Studio Art boasted over 800 undergraduate and graduate majors. As a member of the faculty he taught a variety of offerings including photography and digitally based courses that dealt with multidisciplinary approaches to curriculum construction, the educational uses of interactive hypermedia, program administration and management, and teaching methodologies for art educators. Professor Dunn’s summer technology workshops for art teachers garnered over $700,000 in outside funding and trained over 400 South Carolina art teachers in how to incorporate technology into public school art programs.

As his university career as an administrator and art education scholar neared its end, Dr. Dunn returned to his calling as a landscape photographer. During the past several years his landscapes and digital photomontages have been exhibited in numerous group and one-person shows including: Montage, Six Decades of Leadership, Mirror Image, and a large (forty piece) one-person show entitled Images from the Digital Domain at the LaGrange Art Museum. He has also completed major commissions for the University of South Carolina, the McCausland Brain Imaging Center, the USC Technology Incubator, and SCANA.

Most recently, Dr. Dunn served as artist in residence at the University of South Carolina – Beaufort.  He is now working on a new body of work based on the Carolina low country, consulting with art faculty, administration, staff and other educational stakeholders on growing USCB’s studio art program, and offering digital photography workshops to South Carolina K-12 art teachers and the public at large.

MEDIA CONTACT:                                                                                                  

Candace Brasseur

USCB Public Information Director

843-208-8030 

brasse@uscb.edu 

USCB Center for the Arts offers independent films, documentaries, and international ballet in cinema in January 2012

On January 17th, in recognition of Martin Luther King Day, THE BLACK POWER MIXTAPE 1967-1975, a documentary mobilizing a treasure trove of 16mm material shot by Swedish journalists who came to the US drawn by stories of urban unrest and revolution. Gaining access to many of the leaders of the Black Power Movement—Stokely Carmichael, Bobby Seale, Angela Davis and Eldridge Cleaver are captured in intimate moments and remarkably unguarded interviews. Thirty years later, this lush collection was found languishing in the basement of Swedish Television. Director Göran Olsson and co-producer Danny Glover bring this footage to light in a mosaic of images, music and narration chronicling the evolution of one of our nation’s most indelible turning points, the Black Power movement. Music by Questlove and Om’Mas Keith, and commentary from prominent African- American artists and activists who were influenced by the struggle — including Erykah Badu, Harry Belafonte, Talib Kweli, and Melvin Van Peebles — give the historical footage a fresh, contemporary resonance and makes the film an exhilarating, unprecedented account of an American revolution.

The next event will be Tuesday, January 19 at 7 PM, with another documentary Rejoice and Shout directed by Don McGlynn.  Perhaps the most intense and emotional music one can ever hear is African-American Gospel music. Packed with evocative photos, rare audio recordings, stirring film appearances and TV performances, REJOICE AND SHOUT covers the 200 year musical history of African-American Christianity and traces the evolution of Gospel through its many musical styles – spirituals and early hymns, four-part harmony-based quartets, the integration of blues and swing into Gospel, the emergence of Soul, and the blending of Rap and Hip Hop elements.

On Tuesday, January 24, the American Independent film,  The Way, directed by Emilio Estevez and starring Martin Sheen will be show at 7 PM.   The Way is a powerful and inspirational story about family, friends, and the challenges we face while navigating this ever-changing and complicated world.  Martin Sheen plays Tom, an American doctor who comes to St. Jean Pied de Port, France to collect the remains of his adult son (played by Emilio Estevez), killed in the Pyrenees in a storm while walking the Camino de Santiago, also known as The Way of Saint James. Rather than return home, Tom decides to embark in the historical pilgrimage to honor his son’s desire to finish the journey. What Tom doesn’t plan on is the profound impact the journey will have on him.

The increasingly popular Ballet in Cinema series continues with Tchaikovshy’s Sleeping Beauty from the Bolshoi Ballet in Moscow, Russia on Sunday, January 29 at 3 PM.   Tickets are $16 adults and $8 for students.   

 

All film ticket prices are: Adults $8; Seniors and Military $7; and Students $6.  Please call the box office at 843-521-4145 to purchase or stop by Monday through Friday, 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.  Tickets will also be available at the door.

For additional information about the specific films log on:  http://www.emergingcinemas.com/series/now-playing-coming-soon.  

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Sand Sharks Enjoy Banner Semester In Classroom

Student-athletes at the University of South Carolina Beaufort had their best semester in the classroom since the program’s inception during the fall 2011 semester, compiling a collective GPA of 2.982. A total of 56 of the school’s 158 student-athletes earned honors, with 10 making the President’s List (4.0 GPA required) and 46 making the Chancellor’s List (3.5 GPA required; 3.25 for freshmen).

“As USCB continues to grow we feel it is very important to continue to bring in student-athletes who will enhance the entire university’s image and not just that of the program they play in,” athletics director Ty Rietkovich said. “Our coaches are committed to making sure we have success both in the classroom and on the athletic field.  These numbers reinforce that our commitment is not just words, but has a real meaning for us.  I applaud the efforts of Brandi Laval, who oversees our academic success program for our student-athletes.  This was great news.”

Rietkovich’s softball team, which will begin its inaugural season Feb. 11 with a home doubleheader against Wesleyan College from Macon, Ga., led the way with a team GPA of 3.254 and 17 honors students among the 29 players. The women’s cross country (3.223), women’s golf (3.015) and women’s soccer (3.015) programs also posted team GPAs over 3.0, and the baseball team’s 2.928 GPA was its highest mark ever. 

Team                               GPA                             Total                                 President’s                Chancellor’s 

                                                                    Student-athletes         List                                 List

Softball                               3.254                             29                                  3                                  14

Women’s cross country       3.223                            10                                          2                                    2

Women’s golf                       3.015                             9                                          1                                    3

Women’s soccer               3.015                            28                                          0                                  13

Women’s track and field       2.994                            11                                          1                                    2

Baseball                               2.928                            36                                          1                                    6

Men’s golf                       2.794                              9                                          0                                    2

Men’s cross country       2.698                            13                                          1                                    2

Men’s track and field       2.694                            13                                          1                                    2

Total                               2.982                          158                                        10                                  46

USCB Early Childhood Education Majors Commence 16 week internship program in local schools

Bluffton/Beaufort/Hardeeville, SC- Seventeen University of South Carolina Beaufort students will be completing their final semester of Early Childhood Education coursework by commencing a 16 week internship program in area schools.  Each student is assigned a cooperating teacher from a Beaufort, Jasper, or Colleton county school with whom they will be working directly over the course of the next 4 months. 

This is the largest class of USCB Early Childhood Education in recent years. Students will be interning at the following schools:  Hardeeville  Elementary, Hilton Head IB Elementary, Lady’s Island Elementary, Hilton Head School for Creative Arts, Shell Point Elementary, Okatie Elementary, Michael C. Riley Elementary, Hilton Head Island Early Learning Center, and Hendersonville Elementary . 

According to Mary Hope Roseneau, Field Placement Coordinator, “The time spent with a master teacher in his or her classroom is the final, and most important learning experience for our students.  Our partnerships with area schools are an invaluable resource, and we certainly appreciate the hard work that the cooperating teachers do for our program.”

After completing their internships, students will be finishing their B.A. degrees and earning initial teacher certification from the State Department of Education. 

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Please see attached photo of USCB interns and the teachers they will be student teaching with from area elementary schools.  Additional photos of individual student/teacher pairs are available upon request.

MEDIA CONTACT:

Candace Brasseur
USCB Public Information Director
843-208-8030
brasse@uscb.edu

USCB Office of Continuing Education to offer computer classes

January 25 & 26

Bluffton & Beaufort, SC –The University of South Carolina Beaufort Office of Continuing Education will be offering computer courses to the community throughout the spring 2012 semester.

Excel Level 1 will be held on January 25^th & 26^th, 6:00pm  – 9:00 pm, on the Hilton Head Gateway campus and March 10^th,  9 am – 4 pm at the Historic Beaufort campus.

The cost of the Excel Level 1 course is $95 and includes all class materials. Students will learn how to enter and edit data, format rows/columns and create basic formulas.

Additional computer courses this semester include QuickBooks, Word, PowerPoint, Photoshop, Social Media for Businesses, Social Networking for Newbies, and Click, Drag & Scroll – Basic Computers.  For more information or a schedule of classes, please see www.uscb.edu/continuinged.  To register, please call (843) 521-4112.

USCB offers Academic Computing Scholarships

Bluffton/Beaufort, SC – The University of South Carolina Beaufort (USCB) is pleased to announce applications are now being accepted for its annual Computational Science (CSci) Scholarship program. These highly competitive and prestigious “Academic Computing Scholarship” awards will provide valuable financial assistance, per year, for up to ten of USCB’s best and brightest CSci students- both current and prospective.  

Each year, up to five qualified students who are in-state residents of South Carolina will each receive an award of $1,000, while up to five qualified out-of-state students will each receive a award of $500 in addition to a waiver of all out-of-state fees.

The CSci scholarship program is open to new and transfer students applying to USCB. In order to be considered for the Academic Computing Scholarship, all applicants must have a minimum 3.0 cumulative GPA at the student's current or most recent institution, or have scored a 1050 minimum SAT score (as combined from the critical reading and math sections), or possess exceptional talent in any science, technology, engineering, or mathematics discipline (as demonstrated by having completed projects, reports, papers, and/or software programs).

Applicants will also need to provide at least two letters of reference from teachers or professors, a resume that illustrates exceptional academic and/or professional achievement, as well as a brief essay highlighting the applicant's personality, interest in the Computational Science major, and career goals.

All Computational Science Scholars are eligible to continue receiving the scholarship award each year, provided they declare Computational Science as their major, a minimum USCB GPA of 3.0, and retain full-time status at USCB (at least 12 credit hours per semester).

For more details on application requirements and to apply, please visit the Computational Science Scholarship website athttp://www.uscb.edu/tuition_and_financial_aid/computational_science_scholarships.php.

About the Computational Science program at USCB

Computational Science (CSci) is a field of applied Computer Science (CS) in which computing theories and software techniques are used to serve and advance many diverse fields, including science, engineering, social science, and business. Computational Science is considered to be "one of the five college majors on the rise" (Chronicle of Higher Education, Aug. 2009) and is "central to the Nation's long-term technical leadership" (Computational Science: Ensuring America’s Competitiveness, President’s Information Technology Advisory Committee, 2005).

The University of South Carolina Beaufort is only one of a handful of schools in the U.S. that offer a B.S. in Computational Science. Through an interdisciplinary program of coursework, research, and internships carefully tailored to each student’s capabilities and interests, graduates of USCB’s Computational Science program can expect to find rewarding career opportunities across a number of areas, including physics-based modeling and simulation for engineering design, bioinformatics and bioengineering, computer game design and development, software engineering and optimization, data visualization and computer graphics, rich internet and mobile application development, innovative navigation and remote sensing applications, intelligent information and image analysis, and high performance computing for both large-scale and desktop applications.

For more information about the CSci program at USCB, please visit http://www.uscb.edu/csci/.

USCB’s Economic Impact in the Lowcountry

Figures showing the economic impact of the University of South Carolina on the Palmetto State, and USCB specifically, will be released Thursday, January 12^th.  Darla Moore School of Business professor of economics,  Doug Woodward, will be joined by USCB Chancellor Jane Upshaw and lowcountry business leaders as part of a panel discussion focused on “What do you want from your local University as an economic engine for the future of the region?”    

Faculty and staff are welcome to attend this event, which is being co-sponsored by both the Beaufort and Hilton Head Island/Bluffton Chambers of Commerce.  As USCB is seeking community input in this discussion, please feel free to forward this information to local community members that may be interested in attending.  Entrance is free and participation is encouraged.

This discussion will be held at 10:00 am on Thursday, January 12^th, in the multi-purpose room of the USCB Student Campus Center on the Hilton Head Gateway campus.

The event will include remarks by Dr. Upshaw and Doug Woodward.   Local business leaders on the panel include:

·               David Tigges, Chair of the Board of Directors, Hilton Head Island/Bluffton Chamber, Managing Partner Mc Nair Law Firm

·               Jon Rembold, Chair of the Board of Directors, Beaufort Chamber, Project Manager Ward Edwards

·               Kim Statler, Executive Director, Lowcountry Economic Alliance

·               Marty Daniels, Founder, Daniel Defense

Please let us know if  you have any questions, and we hope to see you there.