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With more than 370,000 system alumni, the University of South Carolina has stories to tell, and Carolinian is here to tell them. From celebrated artists, scientists and business leaders to everyday alumni who embody the spirit of Carolina, this is our story — and this is your magazine.

Carolinian is published three times a year and distributed to members of the USC Alumni Association and friends of the university. Select features from the print edition can be found here, alongside web-exclusive stories, videos and interviews that celebrate our successes, revisit our history and remind us what it means to be a Carolinian. Forever to thee!

 

Amber Guyton’s Blessed Little Bungalow

Bold colors. Bright ideas. Big dreams. Interior designer Amber Guyton turns ordinary houses into joyful homes.

Meet Amber Guyton

 

Amber Guyton stands in the living area of her home.
Recently renovated Thornwell has replaced its former exterior fire escapes with an internal exit corridor and living spaces have been reimagined and the courtyard has been prettied up.

Future so bright

When the central portion of Thornwell College was completed in 1913, the building became the first new residence hall to open on campus since 1848. Thornwell’s east and west wings were added in 1937. Now, Thornwell is enjoying new life. Exterior fire escapes have been replaced with an internal exit corridor, living spaces have been reimagined and the courtyard has been prettied up. Pre-renovation, Thornwell accommodated just 60 beds; it now sleeps 139.

Ask the Intern!

Internships aren’t just for building resumés. When students take that first big step into their chosen career, the hard work of college begins to pay off.

Meet the Interns

Public relations graduate Alexandra Woodlief, ’13, owner and lead creative director of Alexandra Madison Weddings, employs a steady stream of USC interns, including retail management sophomore Olivia Branson (center) and sport and enter­tainment management senior Caroline Gotlewski.
Cow herding on the Eurasian Steppe; courtesy of Magdalena Stawkowski

Life, Death and Community on the Eurasian Steppe

USC anthropologist Magadalena Stawkowski spent years interviewing the people who live near the Semipalatinsk nuclear test site in rural Kazakhstan. Her 2025 book, Atomic Collective, examines culture and community in one of the most toxic places on Earth.

Learn about Stawkowski’s work

Walking On

USC grad Stephen Panus’s son, Jake, dreamed of walking on to the USC football team. When Jake died in a tragic car accident in high school, Stephen channeled his grief into a memoir and a scholarship.

Learn more about Stephen and Jake Panus

Stephen Panus, center, poses with the 2022 scholarship winner, wide receiver Payton Mangrum (left), and the 2021 winner, long snapper Matthew Bailey.
Beau Welling in his Greenville studio.

Beau Knows Curling

When Beau Welling isn’t designing golf courses, he’s planning other spaces. And when he’s not doing that, he’s . . . promoting curling?

Meet Beau Welling

Long Story Short

Remembering the Days

The former Greene Street United Methodist Church, located at the corner of Assembly and Greene streets, merged with another downtown congregation and sold its property to the university’s foundation, which is renovating the buildings to house USC’s Jazz Studies Program. Tayloe Harding, dean of USC’s School of Music, recently discussed the project with Remembering the Days podcast host Chris Horn.

Listen to the episode

a church in downtown Columbia

A Room to Remember

The residence hall holds a special place in a college student’s heart. For a lot of alumni at the University of South Carolina, it’s where they made their fondest memories and met their closest friends. To tap into that nostalgia, the social media team at USC’s Division of Marketing has launched Room to Remember, a new video series that brings alumni back to their residence hall rooms and introduces them to the students living there now.

Darci Strickland talks with students in her former residence hall at USC.

Inside Carolina

USC reinvigorates campus core; student invents medical device

USC is reinvigorating campus life on and around the Horseshoe, bringing more students to the heart of campus through the renovation and expansion of several residence halls. Plus, meet a student entrepreneur who is developing a new medical device that has already been recognized for innovation.

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students sitting in a courtyard on campus

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