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Accolades & More
Four Lowcountry students are among 16 South Carolina students whose illustrations were selected for publication in the 2007 Economics Concepts Calendar, published by the S.C. Council on Economic Education. Local winners are seventh- graders Neal Gupta and Marissa Kozma, from Charleston County’s Thomas C. Cairo Middle School, and second-graders Kris Collins and Cole Walker, from Berkeley County’s College Park Elementary School. The SCCEE selects 16 winning illustrations through a contest in which students depict an economic concept.
Two Prudential Carolina real estate agents have received special certifications. Kim Conger has completed the real estate industry’s new home sales course to earn national certification as a certified new home specialist. Cheryll Woods-Flowers has completed coursework for the Accredited Luxury Home Specialist designation, designed to provide agents with advanced training in the field of selling luxury homes.
The Mayors’ Institute on City Design, founded by Charleston Mayor Joseph P. Riley Jr., celebrated its 20th anniversary. MICD helps to transform communities through design by preparing mayors to be the chief urban designers of their cities. More than 700 mayors and hundreds of design professionals have attended design institutes dealing with urban planning issues such as downtown and waterfront developments, transportation, housing, schools and public facilities such as libraries and arts centers.
The National Kidney Foundation of South Carolina presented Dorchester County Council members with its Counties that Care Award. The NKFSC recognized the Dorchester council as representing thousands of Dorchester County citizens who have donated a total of more than $342,000 in unwanted vehicles to NKFSC’s Kidney Cars program over the last several years.
Lowcountry AIDS Services awarded Bradley D. Childs its inaugural Alice Z. Caldwell Memorial World AIDS Day Service Award. The award honors an agency employee whose tireless and faithful services have substantially improved the service’s ability to serve clients with HIV and AIDS.
To promote the growth of a knowledge-based economy in South Carolina and throughout the nation, the South Carolina Research Authority has recognized Darla Moore as a “Knowledge Economist” to honor her contributions to South Carolina’s developing knowledge-based economy.
Mount Pleasant-based VarnerMiller won two Gold Awards at the international Davey Awards. Both projects were developed by VarnerMiller for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the U.S. Border Patrol Academy. “INA 103 Authority for Mass Migration” won gold in the film/video/TV category and “Radio Operations Training” won the gold for interactive multimedia. The Davey Awards are presented by the International Academy of the Visual Arts, a member organization of professionals from various disciplines of the visual arts.
Neil Dickinson, president of Mount Pleasant-based human resource consulting firm HudsonMann Inc. and a former Charleston Regional Business Journal “Forty Under 40” award recipient, has been chosen as speaker by the Atlanta chapter of the Society for Human Resource Management.
North Charleston Elementary School was featured in the 2006 American School & University Architectural Portfolio, an annual publication honoring education design excellence. Submitted by McKellar & Associates Inc., the school is among the 228 projects profiled for the November 2006 issue of AS&U. A jury of American Institute of Architects members and school administrators evaluate submissions from architectural firms across the country.
The Gibbes Museum of Art has been awarded a $25,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Arts in support of a major traveling exhibition and accompanying publication titled “Landscape of Slavery: The Plantation in American Art.” In its 40-year history, the NEA has awarded more than 120,000 grants that have brought art to Americans in communities large and small. The Gibbes is the only museum in South Carolina to receive an NEA grant for 2007.
Coastal Community Foundation of South Carolina has awarded a $10,000 grant to Communities in Schools, a dropout prevention agency. The grant award comes from the foundation’s 2006 Open Grants Program and from The Blackbaud Endowment, managed by the Coastal Community Foundation.
Frank E. Lucas, co-founder and chairman of LS3P Associates Ltd., was inaugurated as the 45th chancellor of the American Institute of Architects’ College of Fellows.
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