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r GREEN e p a p issue d le pri yc nted on rec Fall 2014 The alumni magazine of the College of Mass Communications and Information Studies Table of Contents

6 11 16 19 20 6 16 20 3D Printing Conservation Sugar & Spice A 3-dimensional on the Coast Hip checks bring college J-school professor business approach alumnae together documents Gullah culture on the coast 11 19 A Mover & A Shaker Prescription for SLIS alumna receives Success international award SLIS professor’s book helps train students and health librarians 2 Don’t be fooled by the cover. That is not our new building, but those are our students! To keep up with the new journalism building’s progress visit: http://uofscjournalism- building.com/

COMING FALL 2015 21 22 26 30

22 30 Training Research Davis College Superheroes Historic Restoration Who says research has to SLIS’s home undergoes be boring? external facelift 21 26 Meet ISSA Cover Story: New undergraduate student association Building a Future comes to SLIS PR Campaigns class plans the grand opening of the My Carolina Alumni Association Center Executive Editor Design Editor Graduate Assistant Graduate Assistant

Student writers and designers (starting second row) Gabrielle Bezilla Senior, Public Relations Lauren Burner Senior, Public Relations Kayla Cooper Senior, Public Relations Mary Cate Dufy Senior, Public Relations Jay Faraj Senior, Public Relations Courtney Fleming Junior, Public Relations Rachael Grimes Grad student, Mass Communications Caroline Hafer Senior, Public Relations Kelsey Hart Senior, Public Relations Katy Metzger Senior, Visual Communications Brittney Oliver Senior, Public Relations Haley Rabic Senior, Public Relations Savannah Strom Senior, Public Relations Stephanie Tew Senior, Visual Communications *this magazine fueled by cofee 4 Fall 2014 From the Dean’s Desk Palpable Excitement

Charles Bierbauer enerally, I’m not a guy who Faculty members have Dean, College of Mass gets excited by bricks, checked out the view from Communications and Information mortar, rebar, insulation, their future ofces. Yes, a view. Studies G drywall or paint. But I can’t help The workmen on the job are myself every time I go through enthusiastic about what they are Dr. Samantha K. Hastings the building under construction creating for us. Associate Dean and Director School of Library and Information for our School of Journalism and You can continue to follow Science Mass Communications. It’s in a all this on our building web continuous metamorphosis from page and its timeline: http:// Dr. Thomas Weir its drab former existence to its uofscjournalismbuilding.com/ Interim Associate Dean and Director bright future. We’ve just put the Greenhouse School of Journalism and Mass Each visit requires a Studio project out for Communications reorientation. This is new. That’s construction bid. We’re selecting diferent. There wasn’t a wall furnishings. The critical audio/ Elizabeth Quackenbush there yesterday. Can I get to the visual technology package will Senior Director of Development dean’s ofce this way? go out for bid late in 2014. I had two or three other But our excitement is not Katie Bullard Assistant Director of Development topics in mind for this issue’s confined to one building. You column. But I really want to tell can read in this issue about Patty Hall you about the progress we are the restoration work on Davis Webmaster seeing. You deserve it. You’ve College for our School of Library been hearing the promise of a and Information Science. It’s Lewis Zeigler new home for the journalism looking spify. And you will see Photographer school for how many years? how Dr. Brooke McKeever’s I’m awed — and I’m not Public Relations Campaigns Annie Lambert easily awed — by the amount class is planning the opening Alumni Relations and Development of detail and efort that goes event for the My Carolina Alumni Coordinator into the process. The architects, Association’s new