The National Kidney Foundation of South Carolina has honored Jim Burwell with SCANA, President's Award; Abbott Laboratories and Ortho Biotech Products, L.P., Community Partner of the Year; Mungo Homes, Corporate Partner of the Year.

Jim Burwell and Beth Irick Dr. Peggy Hewlett, dean of USC's College of Nursing, has been selected to participate in the first Nursing Education Capacity Summit in Washington, D.C. and has been named team leader for the S.C. Delegation.

M.L. Tanner, an environmental health manager for the S.C. Department of Health and Environmental Control, has received the National Environmental Health Association's Sabbatical Exchange award.

Jeannie S. Jones has joined DESA, Inc., a business services and construction management firm, as project administrator. Margaret "Meg" Pridemore has joined as Construction Manager.

Jennifer Ross MacLeod has joined Ellis, Lawhorne & Sims, P.A., as an associate attorney in the Trusts and Estates Practice Group.

Seven Richland County artists have been recognized by the S.C. Arts Commission as either an Individual Artist Fellowship Award recipient or alternate, or as a S.C. Fiction Project winner: Donald Ray McManus Jr., fellowship award alternate in poetry; Phillip Bush, fellowship award recipient in music performance; Jay Knowles, fellowship award alternate in music composition; Cynthia Boiter, S.C. Fiction Project winner; Ed Madden, S.C. fiction project winner; Alisha Reid, S.C. fiction project winner; David A. Wright, S.C. fiction project winner.

James H. Holland Dr. Melanie Thomas, a leading expert in gastrointestinal cancers, has been the 20th researcher recruited to South Carolina through the state's Centers of Economic Excellence (CoEE) Program.

Sisters of Charity Providence Hospitals has named Corey Floyd of Lexington as its Employee of the Year. Kevin B. Bond, A Sisters of Charity Providence Hospitals surgical technologist in the Cardiovascular Surgery department, has been selected as the 2008 recipient of the Caritas Nursing Scholarship.

M. William Youngblood, managing shareholder of McNair Law Firm, P.A., has announced that Inez Tenenbaum, South Carolina State Superintendent of Education from 1999 to 2007, has joined McNair as special counsel in its Columbia home office.

Corey Floyd Jacqueline Graham, a teacher at St. Joseph Catholic School, has completed a rigorous week learning about the importance of family farmers and domestically produced food, fiber, and fuel at the S.C. Farm Bureau (SCFB) 2008 Summer Ag in the Classroom Teacher Institute in Anderson, S.C.

James H. Holland has been elected Commander of the South Carolina Department of the American Legion during the organization's 90th Annual Convention held June 27- 29 in Columbia.

The Riverbanks Park Commission, the governing authority of the Rich- Lex Riverbanks Park Special Purpose District, has elected Lloyd Liles as the chair of the Commission.

Teri Kimball Callen, South Carolina Counsel for Investors Title Insurance Company, has been awarded "The Charles C. Foster Rotarian of the Year Award" by The Rotary Club of Five Points for 2007- 2008 and has been selected to serve on the Board of Directors of Business Carolina and as the Chair- Elect of the Healthy Learners Midlands Advisory Board.