Michael Amaridis - President of University of South Carolina

July 17 (DI Club)  -- Michael Amaridis, President, University of South Carolina.  We invited President Amaridis to speak to us via Zoom.  After all, USC is in Columbia.  We are in Charleston.  But he WANTED to speak to us in person.  The Post and Courier had an article in August of last year about how USC is coming together to develop a new sustainable energy tech hub.  Our country has a need to improve how we power our homes and industries in the decades to come and USC plants to create a Regional Technology and Innovation Hub.  Such a center will provide energy resilience  and protection from severe weather events and malicious attacks.  The goal is to bring together various organizations in the state including USC, Clemson, the U.S. and S.C. Departments of Commerce, the Savannah River National Laboratory, as well as highly skilled engineers, scientists and digital developers from…