August 2005
Duhé named
Associate Vice President in the Office of Research and
Health Sciences
Dr. Sonya Forte
Duhé has
been named Associate Vice President in the Office of Research
and Health Sciences, according to Vice President Dr. Harris
Pastides.
In her new position Duhé will have responsibility
for directly supporting the university mission and the Vice
President
for Research and Health Sciences by fostering faculty research,
and creative and scholarly activity across all disciplines.
In accomplishing this, she will maintain direct relations
with faculty and provide a visible link to the Office of
the Vice
President for Research; serve as a liaison to relevant academic
institutes and centers working with USC’s Sponsored Awards
Management Team; facilitate enhancements to the Office of Undergraduate
Research; and provide strategic direction for and coordination
of media, marketing research and economic development opportunities
for both internal and external research-related communications
with particular emphasis on USC’s national image.
"Dr. Duhé’s leadership abilities, faculty
perspective, and expertise in communications make her appointment
to my
office a key step in the continued growth of the university's
research program, research campus enterprise, and leading
role in the development of South Carolina’s economy,” said
Dr. Harris Pastides, USC's vice president for Research and
Health Sciences. “I am confident that her high energy
level and collaborative approach will be valued by the university’s
internal and external constituents." In the Electronic and Print Journalism Sequence in the
USC School of Journalism and Mass Communications, Duhé will
continue to conduct research in applied broadcast and risk
and crisis communications. She also will continue to teach
in “Senior Semester,” a daily live television news
program which she helped create.
"I'm doubly pleased with this announcement, " said
Dean Charles Bierbauer of the College of Mass Communications
and Information Studies. "It will bring Dr. Duhe's talents
to the office of research, but she will continue to share
her academic and professional skills with students in her
teaching and research home in our journalism school."
Duhe was instrumental
in developing the minor for the School of the Environment
(SOE). She served as director of the minor program from 1996
to 2000—and
continues to serve on the SOE Dean’s Advisory Board.
In the spring of 2001, Duhé completed a year-long American
Council on Education (ACE) fellowship, working with the chancellor
of Louisiana State University A&M in Baton Rouge. On
her return to USC, she served as special assistant to the
provost
for strategic directions and initiatives. |
