December 14, 2017, Taylor Evans
David Tran, a first-generation college student from Greenwood, South Carolina, dreamed of becoming a doctor. Thanks to the Gamecock Guarantee financial and academic support program, Tran has taken his first big step on that journey.
December 11, 2017, Chris Horn
The Pastides are celebrating their 10th holiday season in the President’s House, and part of the house’s extensive decorations this year are 30 hand-painted ornaments that celebrate some of the university’s milestone accomplishments of the past decade.
December 06, 2017, Mary-Kathryn Craft
Premier pianist and composer Courtney Bryan will discuss her music’s overall ties to social justice campaigns and her inspirations across various genres during two public lectures Friday, Dec. 8 at the University of South Carolina.
December 05, 2017, Chris Horn
The names of enslaved workers and acknowledgement of their contributions at the University of South Carolina during its antebellum era are now immortalized on two bronze historic markers that will be unveiled in a ceremony Dec. 5 at Rutledge Chapel on the Horseshoe.
December 04, 2017, Page Ivey
Political science professor Anu Chakravarty's new book looks at the tribunals that followed tribal genocide in Rwanda. The unprecedented effort led to more than 1 million people being tried by their neighbors on as little as a single accusation.
December 04, 2017, Chris Horn
It’s estimated that 6 percent to 10 percent of K-12 students — some say as many as 20 percent — struggle with reading disorders of some kind. Carolina psychology professor Scott Decker has a grant to assess every school district in South Carolina to see how well they are doing in identifying and helping students with dyslexia.
November 28, 2017, Chris Horn
John Simmons finished his law degree at Carolina 30 years before the opening of the School of Law’s new building. His days as a walk-on for the men’s baseball team were at the now defunct Sarge Frye Field, long before Founders Stadium was built. But the passage of time and campus construction haven’t diminished Simmons’ ties to the university.
November 15, 2017, Mary-Kathryn Craft
With a background in the history and philosophy of science, professor Ann Johnson was well known for bridging gaps between history, philosophy, engineering and technology. Her parents and sister recently established and endowed the Ann Johnson Institute for Science, Technology and Society to carry on her vision of interdisciplinary work.
November 10, 2017, Chris Horn
A former research chemist at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Carolina chemistry professor Susan Richardson focuses her research on harmful byproducts of disinfectants used to make water safe for consumption.
November 09, 2017, Page Ivey
Stacey Calvert has been a devotee of choreographer George Balanchine since she was a young dancer. “The choreography is brilliant; it’s beyond brilliant,” she says. "It’s super organic to dance. As a dancer, it makes perfect sense.” That is why Calvert has staged a Balanchine program every spring for the past 14 years as a dance professor at the University of South Carolina.
November 03, 2017, Mary-Kathryn Craft
Physics professor Yanwen Wu recently received a National Science Foundation Career grant to explore ways to speed up information processing. She’s specifically looking at using the photon—a particle with no electrical charge—to carry information, ultimately preventing traffic jams and accelerating data flow.
November 02, 2017, Mary-Kathryn Craft
UofSC alumnus Sid Bedingfield will discuss his book “Newspaper Wars” and the role journalists play in South Carolina’s civil rights struggle during a Nov. 8 public lecture sponsored by the College of Arts and Science’s History Center.
October 27, 2017, Chris Horn
Two Spanish faculty members found that fewer in-the-classroom sessions and more online homework helped students better learn the language. It's a lesson they hope catches on in other language courses.
October 25, 2017, Mary-Kathryn Craft
Boston College theological ethics professor Kristin Heyer will deliver the 18th annual Cardinal Joseph Bernardin Lecture in Moral, Ethical and Religious Studies. Heyer says today’s immigration dialogue often has been framed in terms of crisis management alone, and she will explore how the scripture and Catholic social tradition can shape the debate.
October 24, 2017, Megan Sexton
The University of South Carolina women’s soccer team is among the nation’s best on the pitch, and the players also take seriously their roles as student-athletes. That includes sophomore Rebecca Koch, a top student who is the only Carolina athlete pursuing a degree in statistics.
October 16, 2017, Allen Wallace
For the second year in a row, UofSC is taking students to one of the rarest classrooms in the world: the Galapagos Islands. The cross-disciplinary study abroad program offers diverse lessons, but the overarching theme is sustainability.
October 11, 2017, Megan Sexton
For the 21st year, faculty and students at the University of South Carolina will spend a day at the fair with 2,500 high school students from every corner of the state, helping them understand more about physics – while learning to be better teachers themselves.
October 06, 2017, Megan Sexton
Leslie Hendrix, a first-generation college student who earned a bachelor’s degree in mathematics and a doctorate in statistics from the University of South Carolina, works to make sure the students in her classroom have the support and guidance they need to succeed. Hendrix was awarded the university’s Garnet Apple Award for Teaching Innovation this spring.
October 03, 2017, Mary-Kathryn Craft
The Ford Foundation recognized professor and acclaimed poet Nikky Finney as a visionary artist driving social change in the United States.
October 03, 2017, Chris Horn
USC astronomy professor Steve Rodney and doctoral student Justin Roberts-Pierel are part of a NASA-funded project that could locate stellar explosions so far away that their light has taken more than 13 billion years to reach us. That means those stars exploded — give or take a few million years — near the dawn of time.
September 29, 2017, Mary-Kathryn Craft
Anthropology doctoral student and Fulbright scholar Kelly Goldberg credits Carolina with opening doors for her to make an impact on the lives of others across the world.
September 29, 2017, Craig Brandhorst
A recipient of the 2017 Garnet Apple award from the Center for Teaching Excellence, Peter Duffy has developed a reputation for innovation in the undergraduate classroom.
September 26, 2017, Chris Horn
Kimberly Becker joined the psychology department this year with a research focus of evidence-based treatment for a variety of problems that youth and families face. She's particularly interested in innovations in treatment design.
September 22, 2017, Page Ivey
David Wethey came to Carolina with a mandate to design a graduate program for ecology. That was 37 years ago. Today, Wethey can rattle off the accomplishments of students from the ’80s, the ’90s and just a few years ago. Many of those students were responsible for nominating and supporting him for a Mungo Teaching Award.
September 19, 2017
The University of South Carolina has been preparing students for the workforce for generations. As the state has attracted more high-tech manufacturing operations, the need for more skilled workers has grown rapidly. The university can now increase its reach to help even more South Carolinians take advantage of these opportunities with a $20 million National Science Foundation grant.
September 15, 2017, Chris Horn
At the tender age of 11, Ralf Gothe got his first taste of tutoring students at the elementary school where his father was principal. That early exposure to pedagogy paid off. Gothe is one of four faculty members to receive the 2017 Michael J. Mungo Undergraduate Teaching Award.
September 05, 2017, Melinda Waldrop
The Hansen family's artistic legacy spans three generations at the University of South Carolina. Harry Hansen was a long-time art professor whose son, Danny, and grandson, Kendall, are finding success with their fast-growing handcrafted jewelry business.
August 31, 2017, Mary-Kathryn Craft
Historian Thavolia Glymph will deliver the 20th Annual Robert Smalls Lecture on Sept. 7 focusing on Reconstruction and how we write and remember history.
August 29, 2017, Mary-Kathryn Craft
Research at the Belle W. Baruch Institute for Marine and Coastal Sciences shows a decline in estuarine small animal populations with implications for the S.C. fishing and seafood industries.
August 25, 2017, Page Ivey
David Barbeau doesn’t seek to teach students geologic fact so much as he wants them to learn how to learn and how to open their minds to new possibilities and perspectives. For his efforts, he has been awarded a 2017 Mungo Undergraduate Teaching Award.
August 23, 2017, Dana D'Haeseleer
Carolina is the place to find many cultural events, from theater and dance performances to fine art shows. To make choosing easier, we’ve picked five of this year’s can’t-miss events to put on your calendars now.
August 22, 2017, Megan Sexton
Meet the Carolinians who have turned their dreams of home into reality in unlikely ways, one converting a sprawling schoolhouse; another turning a warehouse into elegant living space. The third has taken Henry David Thoreau’s admonition “Simplify, simplify” to its logical conclusion, a home built on a philosophy of living that surpasses the physical dimensions of its walls.
August 20, 2017, Chris Horn
Naturalist-in-residence Rudy Mancke has never witnessed a total solar eclipse, so he’s especially looking forward to the Aug. 21 event, not only to see what’s happening in the sky but to learn how it affects the animal life he’s studied for so long
August 15, 2017, Craig Brandhorst
Before he finished college, Kevin Varner, ’93, was working in a brewery. By his mid-20s, he had started one himself. Now, a quarter century later, the founder of Columbia’s Hunter-Gatherer Brewery and Ale House is back at it, opening a second brewery, this one so big you could fly a plane through the front door — or at least taxi in.
August 11, 2017, Megan Sexton
In her nine years at the University of South Carolina, Mindi Spencer has focused on adapting her teaching to better serve students’ needs. During that time, the Michael J. Mungo Undergraduate Teaching award winner says she has grown from an instructor into a teacher in the classroom, and from a teacher into a mentor outside the classroom walls.
August 09, 2017, Chris Horn
An innovative program at the Richland County Sheriff’s Department aims to prevent post-traumatic stress disorder among its officers — and change the culture in law enforcement that makes it difficult to ask for help.
July 29, 2017, Mary-Kathryn Craft
Geography professor April Hiscox and her team will launch weather balloons Aug. 21 to study what effects the eclipse might have on the near-surface atmosphere.
July 28, 2017, Mary-Kathryn Craft
The inaugural South Carolina Civil Rights Teacher Institute was launched this summer to connect social studies teachers with primary sources and ultimately improve classroom learning and community engagement.
July 27, 2017, Joshua Burrack
Columbia is one of the best places to experience America's first coast-to-coast total solar eclipse since 1918 — and the University of South Carolina is ready to welcome it.
July 20, 2017, Megan Sexton
A total solar eclipse – when the moon orbits directly in front of the sun – is the perfect time to test Einstein’s theory of general relativity. A University of South Carolina professor will do that in August, using modern technology, high-powered telescopes and cameras to record the sky over South Carolina.
July 14, 2017, Melinda Waldrop
Mathematics professor Frank Thorne isn’t interested in neat answers. His work in analytic number theory and arithmetic statistics — complicated concepts that having their origins in counting things like prime numbers — bears out his belief that the process is just as fulfilling as the result.
July 12, 2017, Mary-Kathryn Craft
Chris Robinson's Southern Lights laser installation, which will span across the Congaree River near the Blossom Street Bridge, is set to debut the weekend before the historic total eclipse on Aug. 21.
July 11, 2017, Melinda Waldrop
Gerald Harmon will help formulate American Medical Association positions and policies as chair of the board of trustees. Harmon has enjoyed a distinguished military career and a decades-long medical practice in Georgetown.
July 06, 2017, Melinda Waldrop
After a year-and-a-half of work, Carolina graduate student Derek Bedenbaugh is a chapter away from finishing his dissertation examining disability and gender roles in 19th century British literature. Bedenbaugh’s journey to that momentous occasion has been made smoother thanks to the Bilinski Educational Foundation.
July 05, 2017, Melinda Waldrop
USC professor Lori Ziolkowski spent a month in Antarctica, looking for life in an extreme environment. The fruits of her journey may one day provide crucial clues for those venturing even further afield — to Mars, for instance.
June 28, 2017, Peggy Binette
Armed with a new NSF grant, anthropologist Sharon DeWitte is embarking on research that builds on nearly 15 years of studying the Black Death and will create a new approach to understanding a population’s vulnerability to infectious disease. UofSC caught up with DeWitte to discuss how she decodes death.
June 27, 2017, Melinda Waldrop
USC archaeology professor Steven D. Smith led a team of students to interesting finds this summer at the Revolutionary War site. The group thinks it found the edge of the palisade wall of a trading post established in the 1750s.
June 26, 2017, Megan Sexton
University of South Carolina alumnus Allan McLeland is in a pretty exclusive club. He’s one of seven people who have swum the English Channel and climbed Mount Everest. He braved the rough, cold waters off England in 2008 and reaching the summit of the world’s tallest mountain this past May.
June 23, 2017, Melinda Waldrop
Complex cultural questions boil down to a pretty simple constant for Jessica Barnes: bread. The assistant professor in both the geography department and the School of the Earth, Ocean and Environment at Carolina focuses her extensive research on basic needs that shape societies.
June 20, 2017, Frenché Brewer, African-American Studies Program
Earlier this year, 23 university faculty and staff embarked on a-once-in-a-lifetime trip to the continent of Africa as participants in the fifth annual International Perspectives on Higher Education program.
June 19, 2017, Chris Horn
A shadow 60 miles wide and zooming 1,000 mph is headed for the U.S. — and the University of South Carolina is ready to welcome it.
June 14, 2017, Chris Horn
S.C. schools have no uniform protocol for identifying children with dyslexia. Scott Decker, an associate professor of psychology at Carolina, plans to help address that issue with a grant from the S.C. Department of Education.
June 05, 2017, Craig Brandhorst
MFA graduate and author Mark Powell, who has a new book out this month, talks about the creative writing process through the lens of his own words.
June 05, 2017, Mary-Kathryn Craft
Researchers at the University of South Carolina are working to create a software program that will automatically match prehistoric pottery with whole designs, which will help uncover how Native Americans interacted more than 1,500 years ago.
May 23, 2017, Megan Sexton
D-Day will be marked in early June with parades and commemorations along the beaches in northern France. University of South Carolina alumnus Wade Sellers will be there, too, on the independent filmmaker’s third trip to the French coast. This time, he’ll be screening the film he directed and edited, “Return to Normandy,” in the primetime slot at the Normandy-World War II International Film Festival.
May 09, 2017, Mike Ettlemyer
High school students from throughout the Palmetto State on Tuesday (May 9) celebrated their commitment to studying science, technology, engineering or math (STEM) at the University of South Carolina and other institutions.
May 02, 2017, Craig Brandhorst
The Hicks mulberry all but vanished more than 100 years ago. English professor David Shields wants to bring it back.
April 24, 2017, Megan Sexton
Senior Andrew O’Flaherty used a Magellan grant to construct a temporary outdoor classroom and study the effect of outdoor learning on students.
April 20, 2017, Chris Horn
University of South Carolina chemistry professor Chuanbing Tang is using the versatile soybean as the primary ingredient in plastic film and molded plastic. He has a patent pending for a chemical formula to convert soybean oil into “green” plastic.
April 20, 2017, Mary-Kathryn Craft
Three graduating seniors received the university's highest honors at the annual Awards Day ceremony. Jory Mackenzie Fleming and Megan Patricia O’Brien received Algernon Sydney Sullivan awards, the university’s top honor for undergraduates, and Cory Cambridge Alpert received the Steven N. Swanger award, the university’s second-highest undergraduate honor.
April 14, 2017, Melinda Waldrop
The things earth and ocean sciences professor Lori Ziolkowski discovers at the edge of Antarctica might one day provide a detailed roadmap to assist explorers probing for life on Mars.
April 13, 2017, Mary-Kathryn Craft
Jonathan Franzen, a critically acclaimed and sometimes controversial author, will discuss his 2001 National Book Award winner “The Corrections” April 19 as part of the popular Open Book series.
April 06, 2017, Maddy Thorn
University of South Carolina students Rebekah Parris and Olivia Reszczynski have been named Mount Vernon Leadership Fellows and will take part in a six-week summer leadership program for rising college juniors in Washington, D.C.
April 05, 2017, Mary-Kathryn Craft
Astronomers at the Melton Memorial Observatory are ready to serve as your tour guide of the night sky on Mondays this spring and summer and will host a series events in connection with the August total solar eclipse.
April 03, 2017, Megan Sexton
In her new book, University of South Carolina history professor Marjorie Spruill traces the battle over women’s rights and family values in in American politics.
March 31, 2017, Peggy Binette
David Shields, a Carolina Distinguished Professor at the University of South Carolina, has been named one of 14 SEC professors who have been honored with 2017 SEC Faculty Achievement Awards.
March 31, 2017, Page Ivey
How do we secure material that will be dangerous for more than one thousand years? That is the question Hans-Conrad zur Loye has been trying to answer for more than 20 years.
March 31, 2017, Dana D'Haeseleer
Howard University Professor Ivory Toldson will stress the importance of protecting the integrity of research on race during the 33rd Annual Multicultural Symposium on April 7 at the University of South Carolina.
March 30, 2017, Abigayle Morrison
While some Gamecocks played on the national stage for basketball this weekend for the Final Four in Phoenix and Dallas, freshman political science major Michael Senatore stepped on a stage of a different sort. On Saturday (April 1), Senatore gave a TEDx talk at Carnegie Mellon University on how he made the science of flipping a water bottle a national phenomenon.
March 29, 2017, Abigayle Morrison
Kimberly Medina, a University of South Carolina senior from Myrtle Beach, South Carolina who has spent her college years working to improve the lives of Hispanics, was named the university’s Outstanding Woman of the Year 2017. University officials honored Medina and four finalists during a ceremony Wednesday (March 29).
March 27, 2017, Kathryn McPhail
A self-proclaimed “outdoorsy” person, Todd Beasley started his own small business at just 10 years old gardening for other families in his neighborhood. Now three decades later, the College of Education alumnus is the new director of programs at one of the largest botanical gardens in the country — the San Antonio Botanical Gardens.
March 23, 2017, Peggy Binette
Award-winning civil rights documentary filmmaker Stanley Nelson Jr. will visit the University of South Carolina March 29-31 to preview his latest documentary and give a series of public talks. We caught up with Nelson to discuss some of the topics he'll explore with university faculty, staff and students.
March 15, 2017, Peggy Binette
As part of a bold health sciences initiative, the University of South Carolina has named David Simmons as faculty principal of the Galen Health Fellows, a new living and learning community for undergraduates studying in the health sciences.
March 14, 2017, Craig Brandhorst
Wikipedia is an increasingly trusted reference resource, even among academics, but it’s not without biases, particularly when it comes to gender. “An Entry of Her Own: UofSC’s 2017 Wikipedia Edit-a-thon” is part of a larger effort to correct the imbalance.
March 13, 2017, Jeff Stensland
The University of South Carolina’s Darla Moore School of Business once again claimed the No. 1 ranking for its International MBA program in the latest U.S. News & World Report’s Best Graduate Schools publication.
March 10, 2017, Page Ivey
Virginia Shervette gets some groans from her biology students at USC Aiken when she introduces a new fish species to her class with the phrase, “Oh, that’s a tasty one.” But she makes it very clear that a big part of her research is to focus on managing commercial fish populations.
March 08, 2017, Peggy Binette
No one knows for certain why the Clovis people and iconic beasts -- mastodon, mammoth and saber-toothed tiger – living some 12,800 years ago suddenly disappeared. However, a discovery of widespread platinum at archaeological sites across the United States by three University of South Carolina archaeologists has provided an important clue in solving this enduring mystery. The research findings are outlined in a new study released Thursday (March 9) in Scientific Reports, a publication of Nature.
March 07, 2017, Melinda Waldrop
The University of South Carolina campus is a comfortable place for Alaina Coates. It’s one of the few places the 6-foot-4 senior center can walk around freely without being mobbed by the legion of fans she’s made in her record-setting basketball career.
March 02, 2017, Peggy Binette
There’s no better place in Columbia to enjoy spring than the University of South Carolina and its iconic Horseshoe. To officially usher in the season, My Carolina Alumni Association is hosting two public events: A historic Horseshoe tour and reception with University Archivist Elizabeth West on March 9 and an evening of Southern heirloom foods and culture with Carolina Distinguished Professor David Shields on March 16.
February 24, 2017, Chris Horn
Natalia Shustova calls them smart sponges — hybrid, metal-organic materials than can capture light, convert it to energy and then catalyze a reaction.
February 22, 2017, Melinda Waldrop and Dan Cook
Professors use blogs to communicate faster with a wider audience.
February 21, 2017, Melinda Waldrop
Kendall Hansen, a senior in the South Carolina Honors College, and his parents make hand-crafted jewelry that has been featured for the past four seasons on the popular History Channel show “Vikings.”
February 09, 2017, John Brunelli
Sculptor Naomi Falk and dance choreographer Tanya Wideman-Davis put their visual art and dance collaboration center stage in USC Dance Company's Spring Contemporary Concert, Feb. 15-18.
February 02, 2017, Page Ivey
Rhodes Scholarship winner Jory Fleming says he is probably best known on Carolina’s campus as the student with Daisy. Since he first set foot on campus, Fleming has been accompanied by the yellow lab, who helps him with social challenges associated with autism.
February 01, 2017, Peggy Binette
Samuel Tenenbaum reflects on the impact that the Solomon-Tenenbaum Lectureship has had on the community and in his life for the past 27 years. This year’s lecture will feature Jon D. Levenson of Harvard Divinity School who will explore the shared Abrahamic traditions found in Jewish, Christian and Muslim faiths.
January 30, 2017, Page Ivey
South Carolina's most recent Rhodes Scholarship winner credits his mother and his UofSC experiences with helping him be successful.
January 26, 2017, John Brunelli
Yellow fever patients in Charleston died by the hundreds in the mid-19th century. "Black Medicine White Bodies," a new exhibit at McKissick Museum shows how traditional treatments saved people during the epidemics that plagued the Lowcountry.
January 10, 2017, Craig Brandhorst
The Washington Semester Program celebrates its 25th anniversary of providing full-time, semester-long internships at congressional offices, federal agencies, nonprofits and other D.C.-based organizations. In the last of our series of stories talking to alumni and current participants in the program, we talk to alumna Heidi Brooks, chief operating offering of the Schott Foundation for Public Education.
January 10, 2017, Chris Horn
Nearly 90 years ago, astronomer Edwin Hubble discovered that the universe is expanding. Now we know, thanks to research by Adam Riess and other scientists, that this cosmic expansion is speeding up. The Nobel-winning astrophysicist will explain the phenomenon of a faster-expanding universe in a Jan. 17 public lecture at Carolina.
January 06, 2017, Craig Brandhorst
If you want to break down the traditional classroom wall, look no further than public history, a discipline with one foot outside the academy already. Ask Allison Marsh, director of the University of South Carolina’s public history program, whose forays into the virtual world bring an added dimension to online learning and whose real world “classroom” stretches from the Carolina campus to Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
January 02, 2017, Craig Brandhorst
The Washington Semester Program celebrates its 25th anniversary of providing full-time, semester-long internships at congressional offices, federal agencies, nonprofits and other D.C.-based organizations. In our series of stories talking to alumni and current participants in the program, we talk to Kimberly Medina, a senior political science and international studies major.