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ATTENTION ...... Metro, Feature and Broadcast editors: Disability, human diversity focus of Women’s Studies Conference Disability as a category of human diversity is the theme of the University of South Carolina’s 21st annual Women’s Studies Conference, set for Feb. 28 – 29. The conference will begin at 2:30 p.m. Thursday with the Helen Hill Memorial Screening of “Liebe Perla” at Nickelodeon Theatre on Main Street. At 5 p.m. Thursday, Dr. Rosemarie Garland-Thomson will deliver the keynote lecture in Lumpkin Auditorium, located on the eighth floor of the Moore School of Business. A scholar from Emory University, Garland-Thomson will discuss how images can dismantle and create barriers that keep people with disabilities from full participation in society. Call Peggy Binette or Margaret Lamb at 803-777-5400 to coordinate coverage. ATTENTION ...... Metro, Health and Broadcast editors: Norman Mailer awarded Thomas Cooper Society Medal Norman Mailer is joining a distinguished group of writers honored by the University of South Carolina, home to some of the most outstanding collections of American literature. Mailer joins Pat Conroy, Joseph Heller, James Dickey, John Updike, William Styron, Ray Bradbury, George Plimpton, John Jakes, Derek Walcott, Joyce Carol Oates and Edward Albee as a recipient of the Thomas Cooper Society Medal for Distinction in the Arts and Sciences. Mailer’s widow, Norris Church Mailer, will accept the award from university representatives at her home in Brooklyn today (Feb. 27). The writer was to have received the medal last fall, but he became ill and was unable to attend the event at the university. The Thomas Cooper Medal, which honors lifetime literary achievement, was first awarded in 1995. The university’s Thomas Cooper Library is well known for its top literary collections, which include research archives on F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Joseph Heller and James Dickey.
To interview Tom McNally, interim dean of Thomas Cooper Library, about the awarding of the Thomas Cooper Society Medal, call Peggy Binette at 803-777-5400.
ATTENTION ...... Metro, Health and Broadcast editors: Public health workforce will be focus of Feb. 27 announcement The Association of Schools of Public Health Association is scheduled to make an announcement at 1 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 27, about the future of the nation’s public health workforce. Dr. Greg Hand, an associate dean of the University of South Carolina’s Arnold School of Public Health, will be available to discuss the report and the status of the public health workforce in the Palmetto State.
To arrange interviews, call Karen Petit at 803-777-5400.
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