2011 ALDP Fellows

Drs. Ralf Gothe, Irma Van Scoy, John Henderson, and Joel Samuels Ralf W. Gothe
Professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy, College of Arts and Sciences Professor Ralf W. Gothe received his Ph.D. in Physics in 1990 from the Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz in Germany and is a Member of the German National Merit Foundation. He joined the USC faculty in 2002. His research focuses on the dynamic structure of nucleons that are the nuclear building blocks of atoms. Pushing the idea of an electron microscope to higher and higher energies allows him to investigate nucleons and their excitations with higher and higher resolution via electron scattering experiments carried out at the Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility (TJNAF) in Virginia. Professor Gothe is an internationally known leader in nuclear and hadronic physics. He is driven to create opportunities for students and for the University of South Carolina to establish and gain excellency, which is reflected in his unfailing commitment to teaching, service, and outreach. He received the Mungo Graduate Award in 2008 and was honored for his dedication and inspiring efforts in graduate student teaching by the Vice President for Student Services in 2007, for his support and dedication to international students by the Office of Student Government & Cultural Exchange Association in 2006, and for outstanding accomplishments in teaching, research, and service by the College of Arts and Sciences in 2006.John M. Henderson
Distinguished Professor and Chair, Department of Psychology, College of Arts and Sciences Professor John M. Henderson is a College of Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professor and Chair of the Department of Psychology. His research combines behavioral, neuroimaging, and computational methods to understand human vision. He moved to the University of South Carolina in 2010 from Edinburgh University, where he held the Chair in Visual Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience. Prior to that he was Professor and founding Director of the Cognitive Science Program and the Cognitive Imaging Research Center at Michigan State University. In that role he was a co-investigator on a five-year NSF IGERT graduate training grant. Professor Henderson is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association and the Association for Psychological Science, and Editor-in-Chief of the journal Visual Cognition. He has published over 100 peer reviewed journal articles and review papers and has edited three books in cognitive psychology and cognitive neuroscience. He is currently working on two books, a survey of the field for Oxford University Press, and a textbook for Worth. His research has been funded by the National Science Foundation, the National Institutes of Health, and the US Army Research Office in the US; the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council in Canada; and the Economic and Social Research Council and the Leverhulme Trust in the UK. Joel Samuels
Associate Professor, School of Law Joel H. Samuels, is an Associate Professor of Law at the University of South Carolina School and Deputy Director of the Rule of Law Collaborative at USC. He received his B.A., magna cum laude, from Princeton University and his J.D. and M.A. in Russian and Eastern European Studies from the University of Michigan. Honored as the Outstanding Faculty Member for teaching excellence (by student vote) in 2007, Professor Samuels’ scholarship explores the challenges and opportunities presented by changing notions of sovereignty His written work addresses international boundary disputes, maritime piracy and cross-border litigation. He has published articles in leading law reviews and international law journals and is currently preparing a leading casebook in the field of international law to be published in 2012. Before entering academia, Professor Samuels practiced law at Covington & Burling, where he was involved in the ad hoc arbitration of the Eritrea-Ethiopia boundary dispute and led the team that drafted a new Civil Service Code for Eritrea. Professor Samuels has also worked at the World Bank in both Washington (in the Office of the Vice President for Africa) and in Zimbabwe (at the African Capacity Building Foundation) focusing on capacity building in economic policy analysis and development management. Before joining the World Bank, Professor Samuels worked extensively in Russia in the early 1990s on efforts to combat organized crime, and he was an observer of the Russian Constitutional Assembly in 1993. In addition, he has been a contributor to several Russian newspapers and magazines and a variety of African publications. Irma J. Van Scoy
Executive Director, USC Connect and Associate Professor, Instruction and Teacher Education, College of Education Irma J. Van Scoy became the Executive Director of USC Connect, a university-wide initiative to enhance education at the University of South Carolina, in August 2011. Prior to this appointment, Dr. Van Scoy served as Associate Dean for Academic and Student Affairs of USC’s College of Education for 11 years. Dr. Van Scoy has been an Assistant/Associate Professor in the Department of Instruction and Teacher Education since 1990. She has provided leadership in a wide variety of committee roles at the University, most recently chairing USC’s Quality Enhancement Plan Proposal Committee. Dr. Van Scoy has worked extensively in accreditation as a member of the Board of Examiners of the National Council for the Accreditation of Teacher Education including service as a featured speaker, consultant, and accreditation team leader and trainer. She is a Leadership Associate of the National Network for Educational Renewal and a founding member of the USC’s nationally acclaimed Professional Development School Network and the National Association for Professional Development Schools. Dr. Van Scoy’s research and scholarship are in early childhood education, school-university collaboration, and teacher education. Dr. Van Scoy’s graduate degrees are from Syracuse University including an MS in Child and Family Studies and a PhD in Teaching and Curriculum. Her bachelor’s degree is from SUNY Potsdam in Sociology and Early Childhood/Elementary Education.

2010 ALDP Fellows

Seated: Stephanie Mitchem, Chair, Department of Religious Studies and Sandra Kelly, Professor, Department of Psychology; Standing: Lacy Ford, Vice Provost; Kneeling: Michael Sutton, Carolina Distinguished Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering Sandra J. Kelly
Professor, Department of Psychology, College of Arts and Sciences Sandra J. Kelly (Ph.D., McGill University, 1985) is a Professor in the Department of Psychology. Her research is in the area of behavioral neuroscience and uses an animal model of Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder to examine the nature and neutral bases of alcohol-induced social deficits. As principal investigator, Dr. Kelly has received funding from NIH totaling over 4.2 million dollars. She has published over 50 empirical papers and book chapters and the quality of her research has been recognized by the Russell Research Award for Social Sciences and Humanities. Teaching activities range from teaching large sections in introductory psychology to small sections in neurosciences in the Honors College to core courses in the Psychology graduate curriculum. Dr. Kelly has received the Mortar Board Award for Excellence in Teaching, the Golden Key Faculty Award for Creative Integration of Research and Teaching, the Michael J. Mungo Undergraduate Teaching Award, and the Distinguished Undergraduate Mentor Award. Service within the Department of Psychology includes chairing the Tenure and Promotion Committee, and service as Undergraduate and Graduate Program Director. Other service includes membership in the Academic Planning Council in the College of Arts and Sciences and the University Committee on Tenure and Promotion and chairing the University Committee on Financial Conflict of Interest and the Program Committee of the International Behavioral Neuroscience Society. Recently, Dr. Kelly's contributions in research, teaching and service were acknowledged by the Board of Trustees of the University of South Carolina with the awarding of a Carolina Trustee Professorship. Stephanie Mitchem
Professor and Chair, Department of Religious Studies, College of Arts and Sciences Stephanie Mitchem is a Professor of Religious Studies at the University of South Carolina. She is chair of the Religious Studies Department. Mitchem's books include African American Folk Healing (New York University Press 2007), Name It and Claim It? (Pilgrim Press 2007) and Faith, Health, and Healing Among African Americans, co-edited with Emilie M. Townes (Praeger, 2008). Mitchem is also author of numerous articles. Her teaching and research revolve around issues of African American spirituality, healing practices, gender studies, and Diasporan studies. She is committed to interdisciplinary studies and brings anthropological methods and historical data inter her research and teaching. Prior to coming to the University of South Carolina in 2005, Dr. Mitchem taught at the University of Detroit Mercy, 1995-2005. Lacy Ford
Vice Provost and Professor, Department of History, College of Arts and Sciences Lacy Ford is a Professor of History and Vice Provost at the University of South Carolina, where he specializes in nineteenth and twentieth century southern history. Ford is twice a National Endowment for the Humanities Research Fellow and an American Council of Learned Societies Research Fellow. He is the author most recently of Deliver Us From Evil: The Slavery Question in the Old South published by Oxford University Press in September 2009. The book was reviewed by Ira Berlin in the September 20, 2009 issue of the New York Times Book Review. Ford's earlier scholarship has earned a number of national and regional awards, including the Southern Historical Association's Francis Butler Simkuins Book Prize for his Origins of Southern Radicalism: The South Carolina Upcountry, 1800-1860 (Oxford University Press, 1988), and the Organization of American Historians' Louis Pelzer Prize for his article "Rednecks and Merchants: Economic Development and Social Tensions in the South Carolina Upcrountry 1865-1900," in the Journal of American History. In addition to these fellowships and awards, Ford has served on the Board of Editors of the Journal of Southern History and the Journal of the Early Republic. At USC, Ford teaches every level of American History from large introductory surveys through upper level undergraduates to graduate students; he has successfully directed ten dissertations. He has also served two terms as President of USC's chapter of Phi Beta Kappa and for a decade served as faculty advisor to the USC Presbyterian Student Association. Michael Sutton
Carolina Distinguished Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, College of Engineering and Computing Michael Sutton received his PhD in Theoretical and Applied Mechanics Department at the University of Illinois in 1981 with the area of research being photo-mechanics. Dr. Sutton joined the faculty in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of South Carolina in 1982 and is now a Carolina Distinguished Professor. While at USC, Professor Sutton has received numerous national and international honors, including election to Fellow grade in both SEM and ASME, the CE Taylor Lifetime Achievement Award from SEM, selection as President of SEM in 2001-2002 and a dozen invited international lectures. He has published one book, eight book chapters, 170+ journal articles and 150+ conference abstracts and papers. His current areas of research are fracture mechanics, 2-D and 3-D computer vision, numerical methods and mathematical modeling of problems, with recent emphasis on non-contacting measurements in biological materials. In addition to full-time teaching and research activities, Prof. Sutton has served in several academic and service roles while at USC. These include (a) director of search committee for departmental chair; (b) member of two dean and one provost search committees; (c) chair of university committee on tenure and promotion; (d) faculty senator; (e) faculty advisory committee, (f) university liaison to Savannah River National Laboratory and (g) departmental chairperson.

2009 ALDP Fellows
Drs. Cynthia Colbert, Timothy Mousseau, and Michael A. Matthews Cynthia Colbert
Professor and Chair, Department of Art, College of Arts and Sciences Cynthia Colbert is the author of 8 books as well as numerous chapters and articles. She is the recipient of the University of Missouri's College of Education Alumni Award, the June King McFee Award from Women's Caucus of the National Art Education Association, and has recently been named a Distinguished Fellow of the National Art Education Association. She has also been awarded the Most Outstanding Art Educator in Higher Education in the state, region and nation by her peers. At USC she has won the Michael J. Mungo Award for Undergraduate Teaching and is the recipient of two endowed chairs, the Louise Fry Scudder Professor of Liberal Arts and the Sarah Bolick Smith Professor of the Arts. She was awarded the Mac Arthur Goodwin Award from the Board of the Columbia Museum of Art for her work in visual arts education and the state's Women of Achievement Award, The South Carolina Commission on Women, Office of the Governor. Timothy Mousseau
Professor, College of Arts and Sciences and Vice President for Research and Graduate Education Dr. Mousseau's experience includes having served as a program officer at the National Science Foundation, on the editorial board for several journals, and on NSF, USGS, and NIH advisory panels. He has published over 100 scholarly articles and has edited two books (Maternal Effects as Adaptations, 1998; Adaptive Genetic Variation in the Wild, 2000; both published by Oxford University Press). He is currently co-editor-in-chief of a new annual review series, "The Year in Evolutionary Biology", published by the New York Academy of Sciences. He was elected a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2008. His books and papers have been cited over 3900 times, and he has been funded since 1988 by NSF, USDA, DOD, CNRS, SCDNR, NFWF, NATO, NSERC (Canada), CNRS (France), the National Geographic Society, the Sea Grant Consortium, the Samuel Freeman Charitable Trust, and a number of private foundations. He and his students have worked on a wide diversity of organisms, from bacteria to beetles to birds, and his primary areas of research interest include the genetic basis of adaptive variation, and the evolution of maternal effects. Michael A. Matthews
Professor and Chair, Department of Chemical Engineering, College of Engineering and Computing Dr. Matthews was awarded (with two co-authors) the 2007 William Corcoran Award for Best Paper in Chemical Engineering, the peer-reviewed educational journal published by the American Society for Engineering Education. He was awarded the 2002-2003 Golden Key Award for Creative Integration of Research and Undergraduate Education at the University of South Carolina.
Dr. Matthews is a member of AIChE, ACS, ECS, and ASEE. He is the founding chairman of the ACS Green Chemistry and Engineering subdivision, and has also served as a chairman of the AIChE High Pressure programming group and the ACS Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Division.

2008 ALDP Fellows
Drs. Gregory Niehaus, Steven Lynn, Sheryl Kline, and Harry Ploehn Greg Niehaus
Professor and Associate Dean of Research, Moore School of Business Greg Niehaus (Ph.D., Washington University) is a professor of finance and insurance in the Moore School of Business. He received a bachelor degree in mathematics from Kenyon College, and masters and Ph.D. degrees in economics from Washington University in St. Louis. He came to USC as an associate professor in 1990 after serving as an assistant professor at the University of Michigan. In 1996, he went to Michigan State University as the A.J. Pasant Chair of Life Insurance and Financial Services. He returned to USC one year later and was promoted to professor in 1999. From 2000-2004, he served as department chair of the finance department. He has published articles in the top finance and insurance journals and has written a textbook on risk management and insurance with Scott Harrington from the Wharton School. He has received several teaching awards and has served on numerous committees at the Moore School. Most recently, he has chaired the strategic planning steering committee, been a member of the dean search committee, and has directed the finance Ph.D. program.  Steve Lynn
Professor and Senior Associate Dean, College of Arts and Sciences Steve Lynn is currently Senior Associate Dean in the College of Arts and Sciences, Louise Fry Scudder Professor in the English Department, and Chair of the Religious Studies Department. His administrative experience includes chairing the English Department from 2001 to 2007. He has served or is serving on the USC Press Committee, the Academic Planning Council, the Arts Institute Executive Committee, the University Grievance Committee, the Faculty Senate, the Dean of the Graduate School Search Committee, the Regional Campus Dean Assessment Committee (chair), the Greiner Scholarship Fund (chair), the Scudder Awards Committee (chair), and others. His recent national activities include serving on a SACS Re-Accreditation Committee, twice hosting the national Association of Departments of English meeting, and leading (with Paula Krebs) an ADE-sponsored day-long training workshop for new department chairs. Sheryl Kline
Associate Professor, College of Hospitality, Retail, and Sport Management Dr. Kline joined the faculty at the University of South Carolina (USC) in the fall of 2007 as the Associate Dean of Academics of the College of Hospitality Retail and Sport Management. Prior to the start of the fall semester the dean retired, and Dr. Kline was asked to serve as the interim dean for the college. She comes to the University from Purdue University, where she was an associate professor and the C.B. Smith Professor of Hotel Management and director of the Center for the Study of Lodging Operations. She has a strong record of research in the area of hotel operation and management. Her most recent research has included the impact of technology on lodging management and crisis management. She has authored and co-authored numerous refereed journal articles, several book chapters and two textbooks. She is the co-founder of the International Hospitality and Tourism Virtual Conference (www.ihtvc.com) and has presented her research at more than 30 national and international conferences. Her textbook, Hotel Front Office Simulations, is used by more than 50 colleges and universities.
Sheryl Kline is the recipient of several international teaching awards, including the John Wiley & Sons Award for Innovation in Teaching given by the International Council of Hotel, Restaurant, and Institutional Educators. Prior to joining academia she had a successful career in the hotel and casino hotel industry where she held a variety of management positions in casino hotels in Atlantic City, NJ and Las Vegas NV. Harry Ploehn
Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Studies, College of Engineering and Computing Dr. Harry J. Ploehn serves as Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Studies in the College of Engineering and Computing at the University of South Carolina. He is also a tenured Professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering and a member of the USC NanoCenter. After earning B.S., M.A., and Ph.D. degrees in Chemical Engineering at Rice University and Princeton University, Dr. Ploehn worked as a post-doctoral researcher in the Department of Chemistry at Bristol University in England. His first faculty appointment was at Texas A&M University, and he has been at South Carolina since 1995. Dr. Ploehn’s teaching and research activities balance fundamental theory with experiments and practical applications. He has taught a variety of courses, including fluid mechanics, heat and mass transfer, advanced materials, and interfacial engineering. Dr. Ploehn’s research seeks a better understanding of solid-liquid interfaces, colloidal and nano-materials, and polymers. This research has been supported by industry (Michelin, Dow Chemical, DuPont, Shell) and government (NSF, Departments of Energy and Defense) and has included an NSF Young Investigator Award. His current research projects are focused on characterization of inorganic platelet materials, synthesis of polymer nanocomposites, and evaluation of end-use performance of polymer nanocomposites. Dr. Ploehn and his research team (25 current and former research associates and graduate students, plus almost 50 undergraduate researchers) have published 60 journal articles and over 100 presentations describing their research.

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