PrintPrintThe University of South Carolina has named two researchers as endowed chairs in hospitality and clean coal and has appointed a co-director of the Center to Enhance Healthful Lifestyles.
Staff Report
Published Oct. 30, 2009
The University of South Carolina has named two researchers as Endowed Chairs and appointed a co-director to lead Centers of Economic Excellence aimed at creating jobs and new opportunities in South Carolina.
Simon Hudson, a professor of tourism and marketing at the University of Calgary’s Haskayne School of Business in Canada, has been named the endowed chair of the CoEE in Hotel, Restaurant and Tourism Management. Hudson also will be director of the CoEE in Tourism and Economic Development and in January will join the USC faculty in the College of Hotel, Restaurant and Sports Management.
Anton Jochen Lauterbach, a chemical engineering professor at the University of Delaware, will be the endowed chair in the CoEE of Clean Coal. Lauterbach, who will join the USC faculty at the College of Engineering and Computing in August 2010, also will be the director of the CoEE in Strategic Approaches to the Production of Electricity from Coal.
Steven Blair, an Arnold School of Public Health researcher recognized internationally for his studies on physical activity and health, will be co-director of the CoEE Technology Center to Enhance Healthful Lifestyles. Blair and Carolyn Jenkins of the Medical University of South Carolina College of Nursing will lead the center until two scientists are recruited.
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