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The hiring search will two.“What stood out here to us was the combination with Savannah River National Laboratory begin immediately, USC President Harris Pastides said. of science and commerce,” Seaton said. “It allows University offi cials said the scientist will develop joint scientists to do their world-class research and provides Josh Dawsey research projects between USC and the Savannah River the business acumen to back it up.” [email protected] National Laboratory for advances in hydrogen and Seaton said his company had high expectations for renewable energy technology. The business expert will the project and considered it an investment instead of USC announced Monday a $1.5 million gift from the collaborate with scientists and technologists to translate a donation. Seaton said his company funded a similar Fluor Corporation that will partner top-notch scientists those discoveries into commercial applications. program at Clemson two years ago. and innovators for new energy research, offi cials from The gift will also start a relationship between USC “We want to see the best and brightest practice science both parties said. and the national laboratory, the only lab in the nation because it’s a basis for economic growth,” Seaton said. USC will add $3.5 million in grants , gifts and without a formal relationship with a public university. Fluor is headquartered in Texas but employs about equipment to the project, and state lottery funds will “Beyond the science, if you’re an entrepreneur, we 2,000 people in the Upstate, Seaton said. It’s a Fortune provide $5 million more for a $10 million total. want a lot of start-up companies here,” Pastides said. 500 company with a global workforce of more than The $10 million will create a Center of Economic Pastides was fl anked at the Thomas Cooper Library 36,000 . Excellence for the Hydrogen Economy and will fund announcement by David Seaton, Fluor’s CEO and a two new endowed professorships, one in the Darla USC alumnus. Seaton said the corporation sees 20 or Comments on this story? Moore School of Business and one in the College of so proposals for funding each year and accepts one or Visit: dailygamecock.com/news ‘I’ll miss you most of all’ Chief fi nancial offi cer leaves USC with hundreds of fond memories Josh Dawsey [email protected] n 24 years at USC, William “Ted” Moore was a distinguished professor, a keen intellectual Courtesy of Amy Woodell Ithinker, a noted researcher and a friend and Amy Woodell poses on her college mission trip to Zambia. mentor to both students and faculty alike. His days as USC’s chief financial officer and planning guru ended Monday , as boxes were slowly carried out of his offi ce and his green Lexus sedan Inspired student drove off campus for the fi nal time. Moore becomes vice president and provost at Georgia Southern University April 1, leaving sews own charity behind a cross-campus network of acquaintances, of their husbands’ estates. friends and staffers who say they’ll miss the Clothed in Hope Over time this law has 62-year-old Purple Heart veteran who controlled to aid Zambians become negated by society, USC’s $1.1 billion budget . and not only do the “My life here has been a labor of love for this Sarah Nelson widows no longer receive university,” Moore said. “I’ll forever have lifelong [email protected] their entitled 20 percent, friends and acquaintances and a long list of great The Ng’ombe compound but they are also forced memories of Carolina.” in Lusaka, Zambia, is home into “sexual cleansing” Moore started his career as a professor in the to many vivid memories to remove this haunting Darla Moore School of Business, where he was and experiences that Amy ghost . honored dozens of times for his teaching. Moore Woodell will never forget. Launched officially on was eventually named the Berlinberg Distinguished Over a summer mission Feb. 21 , Clothed in Hope Professor of Finance . trip in Zambia, this third- is geared toward helping The business school was also where he met his year fashion merchandising women break from this wife Linda. She was a student in the Moore School student spent six weeks cycle and help them to of Business, and he was a young professor. Linda working with a college feel loved and treasured. Moore was looking for her professor “who kept ministry at the University Woodell hopes to enable notoriously bad offi ce hours,” Moore said. After she of Zambia. them to gain independence couldn’t fi nd him, he helped her instead. However, she said the through producing and Three years later, they were married. Over the most signifi cant memories selling their own clothing, years, the pair could be seen eating dinner on of her trip derive from as well as by educating campus, as Moore’s typical 14-hour-long days often the weekend visits to the them on various life- precluded him from going home before 9 p.m. slums. Woodell said these threatening diseases and They’d attend symphonies and performances and Brian Almond / THE DAILY GAMECOCK dramatic experiences have teaching them financial ride bikes around Fort Jackson. Ted Moore packed his offi ce up in boxes after almost now led her down a path responsibility. 24 years at USC. He is leaving for Georgia Southern. MOORE ● 2 she didn’t see coming. “The Zambian society “I never imagined myself really prides itself on as a 21-year-old CEO of independence, and they a nonprofi t organization,” love being able to sustain said Woodell, who now themselves,” Woodell said. owns and operates the “So instead of me giving nonprofit organization them $10 a week, they’d Project Condom unwraps fashions tonight Clothed in Hope. be earning their own Inspired by her mission money so they could feel The fourth season work and unforgettable just the joy of being able to of Project Condom,the experience, Woodell experience success in this annual fashion show where hopes to provide a place of society.” designers must create outfi ts occupation and education “I want it to be more out of condoms, takes place for the widowed women in than just a means of an in the Russell House ballroom Zambia. income. I want to provide tonight at 8 p.m. Doors open “[The women are] the education on HIV, AIDS, at 7 p.m., and seats usually ones who have to be strong. malaria and waterborne fi ll quickly. They’re the ones who have illness — just things that Put on by Changing to wake up every day and they have no idea about but Carolina Peer Educators, take care of the children they’re obviously affected Student Health Services, by themselves and the by because the average life Campus Wellness and ones who were just really expectancy is 47 .” Carolina Productions, the affected by the oppression,” Woodell’s initial vision event’s purpose is to promote Woodell said. “It just never began with these women safe, healthy sex practices. got out of my mind that I making “gameday” Summer Rayne Oakes, “the just had to do something.” dresses while using parts world’s fi rst eco-model,” will According to Clothed of a Zambian fabric called be a special judge. in Hope’s website, a chitenge . However, due to Keri Goff / THE DAILY GAMECOCK Zambian law passed in complicated import and — Compiled by Mikelle Street 1989 gave widowed women entitlement to 20 percent CHARITY ● 2 Tuesday Musical Mashups USC faces Furman All new website 65° 35° The underplayed Carolina hosts the The Daily Gamecock bootleg genre fea- Paladins in search of recently launched a tures artists like Girl its seventh straight sleek new, interactive Talk and Super Mash victory so far this Website. Check it out. Wednesday Bros. season. 68° 42° See page 5 See page 7 PAGE 2 The Daily Gamecock ● TUESDAY, MARCH 1, 2011 MOORE ● Continued from 1 dock in Georgetown to its top administrator in the met.” wonderful.” CHARITY ● Continued from 1 She is leaving her new dock in Savannah. provost’s offi ce , and the two USC President Harris As his boxes were packed export laws in Zambia, position as director of legal The business school have remained close friends Pastides credits Moore’s Monday afternoon, Moore Woodell has found affairs for USC’s School of was also where Moore for more than two decades. financial acumen for blew Owens a kiss. shipping the products to Medicine. The two have met Helen Doerpinghaus , “He has a terrific sense helping the university “It’s like the last scene of the U.S. to be harder than bought a new house in then a young faculty of humor and makes people survive the recent recession. ‘The Wizard of Oz,’ when anticipated.