COLLEGE NOTES

International business professor to be honored

Dr. Randy Folks, distinguished professor emeritus of international business at the Moore School of Business, has been named the Academy of International Business Fellows’ International Educator of the Year. Folks will be recognized at the AIB’s annual meeting to be held in Milan in July.

Folks is executive director of the Moore School’s Center for International Business Education and Research (CIBER). Folks, who earned his bachelor’s degree from Harvard College and doctorate from Harvard University in 1966 and 1970, respectively, has been instrumental in developing the Moore School’s top-ranked program in international business and establishing its CIBER in 1989. Under Folks’ leadership, CIBER is becoming a leader in the areas of African business and U.S.-Africa business relations.

University archaeologist honored by Beaufort Historical Foundation

Dr. Stanley South, a research professor in the Institute for South Carolina Institute of Archaeology and Anthropology at the University of South Carolina, was awarded the Maj. George Osterhout Archaeological Stewardship Award by The Beaufort Historical Foundation.

South was honored at the society’s annual meeting March 10 and was recognized for his archaeological projects on Parris Island, most notably his ongoing 16th-century colonial projects that focus on the Spanish and French site of Charlesfort/Santa Elena. South has been conducting archaeological research at Santa Elena since 1979.

Santa Elena is the earliest European occupation of South Carolina and one of the earliest European settlements of North America north of Mexico. Osterhout is credited for having saved the archaeological site in 1923 when the U.S. Marines planned for a base expansion.