December 20, 2017, Allen Wallace
The University of South Carolina’s sport science programs are ranked No. 1 in the United States for the second year in a row, and No. 4 in the world by ShanghaiRanking's 2017 Global Ranking of Sport Science Schools and Departments.
December 15, 2017, Joshua Burrack
When Capstone is lit, you know something good has happened in Gamecock Nation and it was lit a lot in 2017. Take a look back at some of our top moments with our A to Z year-in-review video.
December 08, 2017, Megan Sexton
The USC Institute for Families in Society has a simple goal — find solutions to help vulnerable families in South Carolina. But the work, much like the issues faced by families, can be anything but simple.
December 07, 2017, Chris Horn
Domestic abuse is a problem nationwide and even more so in South Carolina. Counselor education professor Ryan Carlson says it's important for counselors to know what kind of violence they are dealing with when helping abuse patients.
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.
December 02, 2017, Page Ivey
South Carolina’s Department of Social Services works with families in some pretty tough situations, but they don’t have to go it alone — thanks to support from USC’s Center for Child and Family Studies.
November 28, 2017, Megan Sexton
A nursing degree from the University of South Carolina helped make Patricia Edens Eddy’s dreams come true. Now, she wants to help make that experience available for others. Eddy and her husband, Nelson, have established an endowed fund to award scholarships to College of Nursing students.
November 27, 2017, Allen Wallace
Imagine going shopping and having your phone or fitness tracker make product recommendations for you based on your breath or the current physical state of your body. It is not science fiction. It’s the future of retailing and health care digitization according to researchers at University of South Carolina’s College of Hospitality, Retail and Sport Management.
November 13, 2017, Craig Brandhorst
A team of undergraduates mentored by associate professor of pharmacy Brandon Bookstaver has developed a new protocol being used at Palmetto Health Richland Hospital to determine if hospitalized patients who report having a penicillin allergy, in fact, are allergic.
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 03, 2017, Jalesa Cooley
Pre-med sophomore Karlye Denner was working at a Columbia health clinic when she began to notice the high number of Latino patients who seemed at risk for diabetes. Intrigued, the Capstone Scholar from Closter, New Jersey, applied for a Magellan Apprentice Undergraduate Research Grant to conduct independent research on the issue.
October 31, 2017, Chris Horn
Just because lung cancer patients are living longer and sometimes even cured of the disease, long-term survivors of the disease often cope with distressing symptoms such as shortness of breath, fatigue, depression and anxiety. Karen Kane McDonnell, a nursing professor in USC’s College of Nursing, plans to test an intervention to reduce their symptom burden.
October 30, 2017, Megan Sexton
The toll of America’s opioid epidemic is tragic, but UofSC researchers are engaged in the struggle, finding tools that could help turn the tide.
October 27, 2017, John Brunelli
The Arnold School of Public Health is looking for participants for a weight-loss study. The 18-month iReach study, starting in January, requires enrollees to "attend" weekly classes online.
October 25, 2017, Chris Horn
Without consistent medical supervision, HIV patients remain infectious and often have dire health outcomes. But two Arnold School of Public Health professors and an interdisciplinary team from the University of South Carolina have a plan to help reduce HIV infections in South Carolina and make medical care more responsive for those diagnosed with HIV/AIDS.
October 24, 2017, Page Ivey
Tisha Felder recently received funding from the National Cancer Institute to identify and test intervention strategies to improve adherence to hormonal therapy among disadvantaged breast cancer survivors who experience excess rates of breast cancer mortality.
October 17, 2017, John Brunelli
Improving rural health is a key focus for USC’s College of Nursing, which has initiatives in place to address rural health disparities, improve mental health access and respect cultural differences in health care decision making.
October 10, 2017, Melinda Waldrop
Kahlil Demonbreun always knew what he wanted to do, even if he couldn’t put an exact name to it. Demonbreun, the 2016 recipient of the University of South Carolina College of Nursing Alumni Award, grew up in Michigan surrounded by strong women whose influence led him down a somewhat unusual career path.
October 05, 2017, John Brunelli
A pediatric researcher whose life work involves reducing obesity in children will be the keynote speaker at the second annual Gerry Sue and Norman J. Arnold Childhood Obesity Lecture.
September 27, 2017, Chris Horn
In recognition of World Heart Day (Sept. 29), the staff at Capstone Scholars Program completed CPR certification. Capstone faculty principal Patrick Hickey is encouraging faculty and staff across the university to consider getting CPR certification.
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 25, 2017, John Brunelli
May 2017 graduates of the University of South Carolina College of Nursing set a new record on the National Council Licensure Examination, the standardized test used for the licensing of nurses in the U.S. The cohort of 158 nursing students earned a pass rate of 99.3 percent. The year-to-date average for the college is 98.3 percent. The national average is approximately 83.6 percent.
September 25, 2017, Megan Sexton
Starting this fall, a cohort of nursing majors in the South Carolina Honors College will start on the path to a career that might include research and academia — along with clinical nursing practice. The Smart Start Nursing Program allows Honors College students to be automatically accepted into the upper division of the College of Nursing.
September 19, 2017, Chris Horn
The School of Law is launching two new legal clinics this academic year. A medicolegal clinic will team law students with medical students, medical residents and physicians to improve health outcomes for pediatric patients, while a domestic violence clinic will focus on protection, advocacy and community education.
September 17, 2017, Alyssa Yancey
This fall, the School of Medicine Columbia is launching a new center aimed at improving the health of South Carolinians by changing the way faculty and physicians think about research.
July 28, 2017, Melinda Waldrop
Julie Ann Justo, assistant professor of clinical pharmacy, is a 2017 Clinical Teaching Award winner. Her demanding but fun classes are structured to emphasize patient participation and produce excellent providers.
July 25, 2017, Chris Horn
Hunger is one of our basic urges. To better understand it and the implications for obesity, School of Medicine researcher Claudia Grillo is using a National Science Foundation grant to study an obscure neural circuit that drives hunger.
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 07, 2017, Laura Kammerer
As a Carolina pharmacy student, David Foreman ’87 never anticipated he would venture far from the traditional drugstore. But after a family member sparked his interest in natural products, he followed his passion and became a go-to national expert in the field.
June 30, 2017, Page Ivey
Jim Fadel and fellow School of Medicine researcher Larry Reagan are looking at using a chemical already found in the body to treat age-related cognitive decline. The pair is researching whether a direct shot of insulin into the brain can prevent or event reverse damage.
June 20, 2017, Melinda Waldrop
After her younger brother, Andrew, was diagnosed with ADHD, Sydney Bassard became intrigued by the intervention methods that boosted his grades and confidence. She switched majors and graduated this May with a degree in public health, set on becoming a speech/language pathologist.
June 16, 2017, Page Ivey
Christina Andrews’s research on how the Affordable Care Act has affected substance abuse treatment could provide the first national scale data on the ACA’s impact on an area of treatment that has been neglected.
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 08, 2017, Chris Horn
Mitzi Nagarkatti at the School of Medicine Columbia has launched a five-year study to investigate how PTSD affects the immune system, particularly the inflammation cascade that can lead to cardiovascular disease, obesity or diabetes.
June 02, 2017, Craig Brandhorst
Julius Fridriksson, director of the University of South Carolina’s Aphasia Laboratory and the SmartState Endowed Chair of Memory and Brain Function, has helped bring in more than $20 million in federal grants to the university to research ways to help stroke victims regain their speech.
May 05, 2017, Laura Kammerer
For Sarah Ostenfeld, the biggest challenge of pharmacy school came wrapped in a NICU blanket in September 2015 as she began her third year of the program.
May 05, 2017, Melinda Waldrop
Public health professor Jan Eberth’s research measures access to and quality of cancer prevention and treatment services with a goal of reducing health disparities.
April 21, 2017, Dan Cook
Last year, some 1,700 undergraduates studied abroad — a 15 percent increase. The quick jump is just one aspect of the increasing internationalization of the University of South Carolina, a coordinated effort led by Global Carolina, a strategic initiative launched two years ago.
April 13, 2017, Erin Bluvas
Professor's robotics-driven SMART Lab measures progress of stroke patients as they rehabilitate.
April 10, 2017, Laura Kammerer
For a trio of fourth-year USC pharmacy students, talking to low-income senior citizens and stepping inside all 70 of South Carolina’s hospitals gave them a first-hand look at the state’s health disparities and how they could improve the state’s health as pharmacists.
April 07, 2017, Craig Brandhorst
Dan Fogerty, assistant professor of communication sciences and disorders at the Arnold School of Public Health and director of the Speech Perception Laboratory, leads a research team trying to fine tune hearing aid technology by applying a little extra brain power.
April 05, 2017, John Brunelli
Nursing faculty and students participated in a mass casualty incident exercise as part of a study to determine new triage methods.
March 31, 2017, Dana D'Haeseleer
Addressing health inequities at a time of chaos and privilege will be the focus of the 10th annual James E. Clyburn Health Disparities Lecture April 18 at the University of South Carolina.
March 28, 2017, Megan Sexton
University of South Carolina students travel to developing countries to understand and tackle global health issues
March 24, 2017, Jeff Stensland
The University of South Carolina’s nationally-renowned Arnold School of Public Health will open a satellite program in Greenville focused on research and education that tackles some of South Carolina’s most pressing health needs. The expansion will allow students to receive graduate-level education at the intersection of public health and clinical medicine and conduct cutting-edge research into solutions to public health problems.
March 24, 2017, Chris Horn
If a key component in a car goes bad, the car won’t go for long. That’s roughly what happens in the human body when mutations and other insults disrupt the mitochondria, the essential energy-making components of human cells. Norma Frizzell has devoted much of her career to understanding how and why mitochondria go haywire and sometimes lead to fatal maladies.
March 21, 2017, Chris Horn
Clinical faculty at the University of South Carolina are using technology and innovation to change the way health care is delivered and improve the wellbeing of the state’s rural population.
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 13, 2017, Laura Kammerer
Ohood Alshareef's childhood dream came true when she graduated from pharmacy school in Saudi Arabia, but now the fourth-year Pharm.D. student at UofSC hopes to reach a new milestone in her pharmacy career: acceptance into a hospital-based post-graduate pharmacy practice residency program.
March 03, 2017, Page Ivey
When Sue Levkoff came home to South Carolina seven years ago, she was tasked with helping establish interdisciplinary research that would help reduce health disparities in the Palmetto State.
February 28, 2017, Craig Brandhorst
Professor Kelly Lynn Mulvey and a team of her College of Education colleagues have embarked on a large-scale study of the relationships between peer group dynamics and intervention by individual students within those groups to a bully.
February 27, 2017, Kathryn McPhail
College of Education researchers are looking to see whether adding movement that was once reserved for PE class into the regular academic day improves not only a student’s health but also his or her academic performance.
February 24, 2017, Chris Horn
Carole Oskeritzian is making important discoveries about the human immune system that could lead to new prophylactic options, bringing hope to sufferers of asthma and other serious allergic diseases.
January 26, 2017, Melinda Waldrop
Tonya Colpitts’ profession is a real conversation-starter — or ender. Colpitts, a molecular virologist and assistant professor in the School of Medicine, spends her days surrounded by mosquitoes.
January 17, 2017, Page Ivey
Daniel Clair brings innovation and expertise in vascular surgery to the state as the new chair of the surgery department at the University of South Carolina School of Medicine and the Palmetto Health-USC Medical Group.