Aiken students win top honors at Research Day
USC Aiken announces Melissa Peters and Katherine Rate as gold medalists for distinct projects Peters with a history focused World War II women in the workforce oral presentation and Rate on HIV-1 tat function inhibition using anti-tat siRNA in a retroviral vector Rate credits guidance from Dr Bill Jackson and notes plans for nursing and medical careers The event benefited from Celeste Suggs $2500 donation and the efforts of Research Day coordinator Dr Elaine Lacy
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USC Aiken
Melissa Peters
Katherine Rate
Peters
Rate
Elaine Lacy
USDA
Celeste Suggs
Lacy
Bill Jackson
Oral and poster winners announced at USC Discovery Day
Four students Angela Arthur Kim Dunlap Michelle Killian and Krista Lange won Magellan Scholarships from the University of South Carolina and will take part in Discovery Day later this month. Oral winners include Laken Hensley Michelle Killian and Kevin Kinsey Caitlan Bell. Poster runners up Krista Lange Justin Gavin Joshua Nesbitt.
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Laken Hensley
Michelle Killian
Kevin Kinsey
Caitlan Bell
Krista Longe
Justin Gavin
Joshua Nesbitt
Claire Leopard
Michael Roever
Whitney Fields
Scarlet Dunbar
Candace Young
Kim Dunlap
Jaime Eagerton
Antonio Johnson
Joseph Mark
Andrew Poole
Alex Shedd
Lauren Stephens
Floyd White
Renee Albano
Angela Arthur
Kayla Butler
Hope Goodwin
Marcel Goss
Daniel Johnson
Karlin Rae M. Mattison
Kayla Miller
Vianca Salgado
Patrick Shaw
Ali Sfara
Whitney Tabbert
Krista Lange
University of South Carolina
USC
USC Aiken eighth graders to pilot Edgewood history curriculum
Lauren Stephens, a junior and former Research Day gold medalist, leads a pilot social studies curriculum based on the documentary Edgewood Stage of Southern History. The project, tying slavery and women's suffrage to a 180 year history, will launch at Leavelle McCampbell Middle School with eighth graders this month.
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USC Aiken
Lauren Stephens
Stephens
Edgewood
USCA
Leavelle McCampbell
Tim Lintner
School of Education
Deidre Martin
Lintner
Lauren
Martin
Pickens-Salley House
Rob Novit
Hit-and-run suspect surrenders after weekend chase
Nasadeam E. Stewart 19 of Sabra Avenue turned himself in to police. He faces five counts of hit and run and five counts of failing to render aid plus speeding and no driver’s license charges. The April 10 chase on U S 278 in Beech Island ended with injuries to four victims and charges pressed by state troopers and the sheriff's office. Stewart was booked and released on bond.
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Nasadeam E. Stewart
Sabra Avenue
Aiken County
Sand Bar Ferry
Stewart
Sheriff's Office
Medical College of Georgia
Fatal Motorcycle Crash Investigated In Aiken
Aiken Public Safety investigates a fatal crash on Marlboro Street. Douglas Drew Allen, 20, operated a 2005 Big Dawg motorcycle and died after leaving Marlboro Station. Alcohol suspected, toxicology pending. 10th fatal crash in Aiken County this year.
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Marlboro Street
Douglas
Drew” Allen
Medical College of Georgia
Allen
Aiken
Tim Carlton
Carlton
Marlboro Station
Wendell Hall
Karen Daily
Kdaily
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