Read up on news affecting graduate student life at UofSC and the groundbreaking, innovative projects keeping our students, faculty and staff at the top of their fields.
Registration is open for the annual Three Minute Thesis competition (3MT®) at the Graduate School. This unique event offers graduate students a platform to communicate their research and its significance to a non-specialist audience in just three minutes. The competition is open to all current University of South Carolina graduate students in any program.
Scientist and USC graduate alumna, Legna Torres-García, is making waves in oceanography at the U.S. Geological Survey, where she helps coastal communities deal with danger.
The 2023-2024 SPARC Graduate Research Grant application period is open. The SPARC program provides the opportunity for graduate students to secure funding to support their research, creative or other meritorious scholarly project. SPARC grant applications are due by Tuesday, November 14, 2023 at 5 p.m.
The Graduate School Dean announces Graduate Education Reading Groups.
The Graduate School is pleased to announce the appointment of Jean Taylor Ellis as the Interim Associate Dean for Student Success and Engagement and Andrea M. Fleming as the Associate Director for the Grace Jordan McFadden Professors Program. Both appointments begin in August 2023.
Registration is open for the fall 2023 SHARPGrads workshop series sponsored by University Libraries, Research Computing and the Graduate School. SHARPGrads provides free training in digital scholarship, computing, and library research concepts for students enrolled in graduate-level courses at the Columbia campus.
Six graduate teaching/instructional assistants have been awarded Teaching Resource Development Grants to create instructional materials, modules, cross-curriculum assessments, online learning innovations or other resources to enhance undergraduate student learning.
The University of South Carolina Board of Trustees recently approved waiving the base $50 graduate application fee for the upcoming admission cycle. Effective July 15, applications for entry in Summer 2024, Fall 2024 and Spring 2025 will not collect the $50 fee.
Each year, the Graduate School recognizes excellence in research, teaching, leadership and community engagement through a variety of merit-based awards for graduate students. The Graduate School is pleased to announce the award recipients for 2023.
Ann Vail has been selected as dean of the University of South Carolina Graduate School effective July 1.
Organizers were pleased to welcome the USC research community to Discover USC 2023 on Friday, April 21, 2023. The annual showcase featured more than 1,000 presentations and 2,400 total attendees.
The University of South Carolina will host commencement ceremonies for Spring 2023 graduates on Friday, May 5 and Saturday, May 6. The ceremonies will recognize bachelor's, master's, doctoral, and professional degree recipients.
As the Class of 2023 prepares to walk across the commencement stage, graduates leave the University of South Carolina with memories of enduring friendships and life-changing experiences. USC News reached out to undergraduate and graduate students across the university and asked them to share some of what made their Carolina experience special.
In celebration of the university's annual commencement ceremonies, the College of Arts and Sciences interviewed six of this year's graduating Arts and Sciences students, including Archie Crowley, a Presidential Fellow alum who graduates in May from the Ph.D. program in Linguistics.
Ph.D. in Epidemiology spring '23 graduate, Andrea Danielle Brown, studies the relationships between food insecurity, social needs and mental health among youth and young adults with diabetes.
The University of South Carolina's International MBA program retained its spot as the best in the country for the 10th consecutive year, according to the latest U.S. News & World Report's Best Graduate School rankings released Tuesday (April 25).
May '23 doctoral graduate, Longgang Zhao is interested in the role of nutrition, lifestyles, metabolic factors and genetics. Long term, he aims to identify the causes of liver disease and cancer at the population level.
When Lee Patterson earned her master's in social work from the University of South Carolina in 2012, she never imagined putting it to use at Richland Library -- or any library. But 10 years later, she is doing exactly what she set out to do when she entered the field: help people.
Give 4 Garnet, the university's annual day of giving campaign, will take place on April 19th, from 5:59 a.m. to midnight. The Graduate School is excited to be a part of this year's campaign.
Ph.D. in Exercise Science student Marnie McLean is dedicated to women's cardiovascular health. She is particularly interested in the effects of long-term endurance exercise on the arteries of female athletes.
More than six million Americans are living with Alzheimer's disease and that number is expected to rise to nearly 13 million by 2050. But one Ph.D. candidate is dedicated to better understanding methods of early detection and the disease's progression that could lead to improved outcomes.
Huan Ning, a Breakthrough Graduate Scholar and Ph.D. student in geography, is pushing the boundaries of Geographic information science (GIScience) by using emergent artificial intelligence technology to study urban problems like neighborhood accessibility, flooding risk and the spread of illness.
Poetry has been ingrained in Jennifer Bartell Boykin's life since she was young, and it's followed her through adventures as a student, journalist, teacher, advisor and more. Now, it's empowering her as Columbia's new poet laureate.
Nicholas Riccardi is one of the researchers at USC working to understand the brain and what causes aphasia, the loss of language ability. A doctoral candidate in the Department of Psychology and Presidential Fellow alumnus, Riccardi was named a 2023 Graduate Breakthrough Scholar.
Sara DeSantis got over her shyness after completing her Master of Library and Information Science degree and with her newfound confidence has been put to the test in her newest role as a content acquisitions specialist at Sling TV.