Plants and flowers abound across the Medical University of South Carolina campus. MUSC has earned the designations of both Tree Campus USA and Bee Campus USA. The MUSC Arboretum is dedicated to transforming campus "into a place of optimal healing and learning by creating an urban landscape that invigorates, inspires, and teaches through nature." But there are a few areas around campus that are resistant to such efforts: dark and flood-prone, there aren't many plants that will thrive in these few pockets, one of which is the walkway that connects Ashley Avenue to the Ashley-Rutledge Parking Garage and to Rutledge Tower. With some clever brainstorming and collaboration between departments, however, the walkway has recently been beautified with a new mural.
Leslie Cantu
Senior Communications Manager
Leslie Cantu is the senior communications manager at MUSC Hollings Cancer Center, where she works with researchers, clinicians and patients to tell the people of South Carolina about the innovative work being done to improve cancer care for everyone in the state. She joined the MUSC Office of Communications and Marketing in 2018 after a career as an award-winning writer, editor and producer at community newspapers and local TV news. She transferred to the communications office at Hollings in 2022, where she happily finds something new and interesting to write about every day. Her favorite stories to cover at MUSC have included Match Day, the Angel Tree Parade, a clinical trial of CAR-T cell therapy and the many patients who have agreed to share their very personal struggles and triumphs.
Contact Leslie at cantul@musc.edu.
