Pastides to serve 3rd term as organization chair

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Harris Pastides, retiring this summer as president of the University of South Carolina, has been elected to a third term as chair of the S.C. Sea Grant Consortium’s board of directors.

Pastides began his third term on Jan. 1.

“My work with executive director Rick DeVoe and the S.C. Sea Grant Consortium Board of Directors provides an important opportunity to support sustainable marine resource conservation and scientific research that is beneficial to all South Carolinians,” Pastides said in a news release.

Pastides, who has been USC’s president since 2008, earned his master’s in public health and Ph.D. in epidemiology from Yale University. He served as dean of the university’s Arnold School of Public Health before becoming the school’s president and serves on boards including the S.C. Governor’s School for the Arts and Humanities and is the chair of the board of directors for the S.C. Institute of Medicine and Public Health.

“I very much look forward to working with Dr. Pastides again this year,” DeVoe said. “His leadership and many years of experience working on education and research issues in the state are invaluable to the consortium’s work in meeting the needs of our diverse stakeholders.”

Also currently serving on the board are: James B. Clements, president of Clemson University; David A. DeCenzo, president of Coastal Carolina University; Stephen C. Osborne, interim president of College of Charleston; David J. Cole, president of Medical University of South Carolina; Colonel Alvin A. Taylor, director of S.C. Department of Natural Resources; James E. Clark, president of S.C. State University; and General Glenn M. Walters, president of The Citadel.