"Ruptured Silence: Racist Symbolism and Signs," a new dance production by UofSC choreographers Thaddeus Davis and Tanya Wideman-Davis. The work investigates historic and contemporary perspectives of the Confederate flag and the Confederacy.
A research team led by biology professor Jeff Dudycha recently published a paper showing that larger eye size is the source of a sizable reproductive advantage for a tiny freshwater crustacean. The research provides hard data for eye microevolution that, until now, were lacking.
This past summer was quite an extraordinary one for UofSC student, Mark Kingsmore, and his best friend, Ethan Hinkle, a Clemson student.
Monday, Nov. 23 marks 12th year that engineering professor Abdel Bayoumi and his students will watch their design and construction of a gigantic Clemson tiger burn in effigy on the intramural field adjacent from the Colonial Life Arena as part of Tigerburn.
It's not the only frontier he's intent on exploring, but the watery one that covers 70 percent of the globe has long transfixed Ioannis Rekleitis, an assistant professor in the department of computer science and engineering.
Professor Subrahmanyam Bulusu is part of an international team collecting hydrographic data in pirate-infested waters to better understand the northern Arabian Sea circulation. Key to the effort, and an essential element of the team's variant of a widely recognized acronym, NASCar, is autonomous research.
One Friday a month the University of South Carolina School of Law welcomes 40 of the youngest law students you'll ever meet. Welcome to the law school's Constitutional Scholars Pipeline Program, which pairs seventh and eight graders with USC law students who teach them about the law and coach them for a moot court.
Business sophomore Drew Grubba wants USC students to be culturally prepared before traveling and studying abroad. That's why he organized IBUS Culture, a Nov. 17 event sponsored by his business fraternity, Alpha Kappa Psi.
Imagine several teams of aspiring innovators pitching a product or service they believe to be "the next big thing" to a panel of seasoned entrepreneurs before a live audience. On the line is up to $20,000 to make their startup idea a reality. No, you're not watching an episode of the popular ABC-TV show, "Shark Tank." It's the final round of The Proving Ground, the University of South Carolina's annual entrepreneurial competition.
Hailed as a huge victory for women's rights, the Supreme Court of Uganda made international headlines in August when it ruled the custom of refunding "bride price" unconstitutional. However, Aparna Polavarapu, a law professor and scholar with the University of South Carolina's Rule of Law Collaborative, says changing that practice will be difficult.
When alumni Earl and Barbara Huitt Lovelace were caring for their aging parents, they saw first-hand how important nurses are to families in need. Now the couple has created a scholarship to help nursing students in need.
Beth Ann Bell really knows how to turn back time. The University of South Carolina alumna, now a UCLA post-doc, may have rolled the starting point for life back by 300 million years.
Sean Heely transferred to UofSC's School of Music to continue his violin training under William Terwilliger and to refine his playing of classical composers. He has found that, but also discovered a world of opportunities. "The musical progress I've made in classical and my new ventures in bluegrass and Gypsy jazz couldn't have happened elsewhere," he says.
Microscopic creatures come to artistic life in alumna Alicia Leeke's colorful traveling exhibition. The Columbia-based artist collected and photographed phytoplankton from local waters with the help of professor Tammi Richardson, then created abstract renderings of the micrographs.
When Brian Johnson applied to the African American Professors Program at USC, he didn't realize he would become a pioneer. But that's exactly what happened when the doctoral student in American literature became the first African-American man to earn a Ph.D. in literature from Carolina.
Xiaoming Li is a professor and SmartState Endowed Chair in Translational Clinical Research. He also is director of the South Carolina SmartState Center for Healthcare Quality in Arnold School of Public Health. His research includes HIV behavioral prevention and intervention.
Sustainability. We all know what it means, but when do we see it in action on campus? EcoReps put this into action by introducing and challenging people to live a sustainable life through the fifth annual No Impact Week Nov. 2-7.
Associate professor Xiao-Dong Zhou is part of a research team that aims to use solar or wind power to produce carbon-based fuels. With a starting material of carbon dioxide, which can be dragged out of the air, the approach is as green as it gets.
The Carolinian Creed was born in the late 1980s, following a series of disturbing incidents at colleges and universities across the U.S. Learn the history of the creed as UofSC prepares to celebrate its 25th anniversary, Nov. 2-6.
Law professor Seth Stoughton is a former police officer who understands the many pressures that law enforcement officers face. He wants his law students to understand it as well, that is why he requires his criminal procedure students to take a police ride-along.
Your votes allowed them to be winners at this year's Showcase, but what else do you really know about the homecoming court? This Q&A will help you get to know them a little better.
Students often separate education from 'real life'," says Irma Van Scoy, director of USC Connect. "We try to help students connect the dots, to understand that the things they do outside of the classroom -- service projects, research and internships, for example -- can be transformational experiences that dovetail with their formal education.
Amir Karami is a new professor in the School of Library and Information Science. His primary research interest is in text data in medical, social networks and cybersecurity.
Chemistry professors Micky Myrick and Steve Morgan are developing a potential rival to the storied forensics tool luminol. Their technique, "steam thermography," combines thermal imaging with a hand steamer to highlight where crime scene investigators need to look more carefully -- and it works in some places luminol can't.
From the beginning of the slave trade in the South to a poster advertising Columbia's 2013 Blues Festival, Clair DeLune's new book, "South Carolina Blues," covers a lot of ground.
In Vicki Vance's lab, the expression "You are what you eat" might soon take on new meaning. The veteran molecular plant scientist thinks genetically modified plants could become useful weapons in the war against human cancer. To test the idea, she's turning plants into bio-factories that make tumor-suppressing micro-RNA (miRNA).
Carolina was the catalyst for his successful career, and alumnus Trey Ackerman wants to help a new generation of USC students to find similar professional success of their own.
Students, faculty and staff were out and about in the days after the massive Columbia flooding that destroyed homes, businesses and claimed more than a dozen lives.
Many of the more than 46 million sound recordings archived throughout the U.S. carry the risk of being destroyed during an attempt to digitize them, because magnetic audiotape can deteriorate over time. Chemistry professor Steve Morgan leads a team of researchers developing a means to readily assess the structural condition of magnetic tape, using non-destructive infrared spectroscopy to identify tapes that suffer from 'sticky-shed syndrome' and will fall apart on playback.
Visitors to the 2015 South Carolina State Fair will get a front-row glimpse of the academic excellence of four University of South Carolina civil engineering students when they enter the fair gates this week.
Angela Neal is a new assistant professor of psychology at USC Lancaster. The Ohio native specializes in social psychology, specifically researching the dynamics of romantic relationships.
The so-called "large lecture" has been a part of the undergraduate experience for years, but when you're one of 250 students in a packed auditorium it's easy to feel invisible. English professor David Miller is part of a movement to flip the traditional large lecture on its head and reinvent the student experience in the process.
Being able to experience the college life is one thing, but experiencing it from a whole other country is another. One student has gotten a small look into UofSC's ever-growing international community.
Tamara Sheldon is a new assistant professor in the economics department at the Darla Moore School of Business. The Boulder, Colo., native is blending her interests in the environment and business to study how the economy affects the environment and how better to provide incentives for sustainability.
The words 'summer' and 'vacation' go together like peanut butter and jelly for a lot of college students, but in the famously hot months the University of South Carolina offers meatier sandwiches than that on its academic menu. This summer the university's Center for Colon Cancer Research brought undergraduates from around the country into a brand-new biomedical research experience.
UofSC theater professor Stan Brown takes the best acting prize and his short film "The Bespoke Tailoring of Mr. Bellamy" wins to top prize at the Louisiana Film Festival.
For 20 years, Theatre 99 has been the epicenter of improvisational theatre in Charleston, attracting a cross-section of the city looking for something "edgy" to do on date night. The attic-turned-bare-bones theater above a Meeting Street bicycle shop is also where you'll find Greg Tavares and Brandy Sullivan, both 1991 University of South Carolina theater graduates, making people laugh three nights a week.
Gregory Gay is a new assistant professor in the department of computer science and engineering. He comes from Morgantown, W.Va., by way of Minnesota. Gay's research focuses on how better to build software, especially the software that is essential to our daily lives.
There are no music stands in Rooms 106 at the School of Music. There's no podium either. What you will find are spaces for brainstorming and planning -- whiteboards and corkboards, flip charts and Post-it notes, books on finance and leadership. And just in case there's a need play out those ideas, the room has a seven-foot Baldwin piano.
Exercise has a reputation for doing a body good, and some Carolina research recently showed just how far even a little bit goes. Xuemei Sui of the Arnold School of Public Health led a research team that showed that staying in shape can keep the heart and circulation young, slowing -- by some 15 to 20 years -- the natural process that causes cholesterol levels to rise with age.
Third generation Gamecocks Lucy and Jack Hagood only applied to one school. With 15 USC graduates in their family, they knew they didn't want to go anywhere else.
University President Harris Pastides introduced "Carolina 2025" during his State of the University address. Dean of undergraduate studies Helen Doerpinghaus explains how this 10-year plan will affect the student experience.
The campus community called Capstone Scholars is celebrating its 10th year as one of the university's most popular programs for high-achieving students looking for something more in the college experience. Based on comments from alumni and current students, it sounds like they're finding it.
New classrooms and labs, additional faculty and more responsive advising are all part of the "Carolina 2025" roadmap for the next 10 years, university President Harris Pastides says. Pastides introduced the ambitious plan during his 2015 State of the University address.
The 136,850 donors who contributed learned Sept. 10 that their collective generosity put the $1 billion campaign more than $43 million over its original goal.
Watching their teams climb in the rankings is a cherished pastime of many Gamecocks, but competitive talent at Carolina is hardly restricted to the sporting life. Over the past several years, the University of South Carolina has been a fixture near or atop the leaderboard in producing Hollings scholars, fielding a group of academic talent that, once again this year, is second to none in the country.
Meet the student band that was personally invited by President Harris Pastides to perform at the annual State of the University address, Sept. 10.
It's not often college students get to ask one of their classmates for an internship, but that's just what happened when Charleston hotelier Linn Lesesne decided to return to Carolina to finish her degree more than 30 years after she started it.
A pair of philosophy researchers from the University of South Carolina and the University of Chicago has been awarded a $2.1 million grant from the John Templeton Foundation to study the connections between virtue, happiness and the meaning of human life and society.
Eliza Allen is a new assistant professor of elementary education in the College of Education. The Savannah, Ga., native is researching better ways to provide equal opportunities for language learning among diverse student populations.
Get to know a little more about President Pastides and his thoughts on UofSC before he delivers his State of the University speech.
The University of South Carolina will usher in the college football season for the fourth consecutive year Thursday (Sept. 3), when the Gamecocks take on the North Carolina Tar Heels in the inaugural Belk College Kickoff in Charlotte. The season opener, which is set for 6 p.m., marks the 57th meeting on the gridiron for the two Carolina teams and the first time the two teams will battle in Charlotte.
Joan T.A. Gabel began her tenure as the University of South Carolina's provost this week. We caught up with her to learn a little more about her and her plans for the future.
The University of South Carolina's McNAIR Center for Aerospace Innovation and Research boasts state-of-the-art manufacturing equipment, a team of highly accomplished researchers and industry partnerships with manufacturers from around the world. The center's primary mission, however, is education.
Howie Scher led a scientific team that has dated the onset of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current at 30 million years ago. The world's largest ocean current, the "global mix-master" transports nutrients, heat and salt around the world.
A cursory reading of the synopsis of "Jacob Jump," Eric Morris' just-published first novel, might prompt comparisons with James Dickey's "Deliverance." Both stories involve ill-fated boating trips on rivers, but the similarities end there.
The McMaster Gallery is exhibiting "Return of the Wanderer." The exhibit features 30 works of art by UofSC emeritus professor Boyd Saunders. The exhibition is on view through Oct 9, and includes lithographs, paintings, etchings, sculptures and drawings.Description
Every summer the University of South Carolina's faculty, staff and students travel the world to conduct research, learn about cultures and take on new challenges that can have a big impact. Here's just a quick look at what some Gamecocks have been up to this summer.
Haemoon Oh, the newly appointed dean in the College of Hospitality, Retail and Sport Management, has hit the ground running -- in every sense of the word -- at Carolina.
Welcome week started on campus when more than five thousand freshmen moved into the residence halls.
Coryn Bejema came to the University of South Carolina to play soccer, but it was her talent off the field that has drawn the attention of the campus community lately. Students, faculty and staff might just notice her work across campus this year.
Cormac Cannon, the new director of athletic bands, drills the 375-member USC Marching Band during summer band camp.
UofSC is one of "The Best 380 Colleges" in the U.S. according to the Princeton Review.
For the first year, other students will be lending a helping hand to get the freshman class settled as a part of the Move-In Crew. In year's past this duty has fallen solely to faculty and staff members, carrying armfuls of belongings up stairs or on elevators and through hallways.
Allison Ryan traveled over 8,000 miles to South Africa where her love of helping others had no limit.
Competing in a marathon calls for the right training regimen. John Eberth of the School of Medicine and his colleagues are coming up with a vascular conditioning program they hope will help surgeons train bypass grafts for success in the long run.
Sherard Duvall, '01, is a local hip-hop advocate and a founder of Hip-Hop Family Day. He will join other music advocates to discuss the vitality of home-grown music in our state at Folkfabulous 2015 this Saturday on the historic Horseshoe.
In a perfect world, all of Gabrielle Olexa's neighbors would own cats and drive whisper-quiet electric cars. None of those things happens, of course, which is why Olexa's budding career as an audio book narrator hits the pause button whenever the noise level spikes outside her home recording studio.
S.C. Supreme Court Chief Justice Jean Toal tells new UofSC graduates to consider public service as an alternative to being a spectator in life. Toal delivered the commencement address during the summer ceremony.
Mike Devlin, who graduated from the University of South Carolina in 2014 with a degree in finance, is the man behind the charter fishing boat booking agency, Lureboats. The startup launched earlier this year and currently serves the New England coast, but Devlin hopes to expand the operation nationwide in the coming years.
The University of South Carolina's McNair Aerospace Center is teaming up with Boeing -- the world's largest aerospace company -- to conduct advanced research projects that could deliver the next generation of aerospace technology.
When Tatiana Chin walks across the stage at the University of South Carolina's commencement this August, she'll be one step closer to a path she started down when she was 8 years old. As she graduates, Chin won't be worrying about finding a job: She will start working for IBM as a global security consultant.
Sarah Leverette, a 1943 graduate of the University of South Carolina School of Law, enjoyed a long and productive legal career, even serving as the law school's first female faculty member. Now the alumna is giving back, establishing a scholarship in memory of her parents and with a memorial gift to the Children's law Center in honor of her colleague Beverly Lovejoy Boyer.
Chief Justice Jean Hoefer Toal, '68 law, has seen a lot of firsts in her life, from being the first woman to chair a legislative committee to being the first woman on the state Supreme Court. She sat down with us to chat about her time at Carolina, her extraordinary career as an attorney, lawmaker and justice, and the future as she prepares to retire in December.
Patti Marinelli has helped create what she thinks is a great textbook and online curriculum for teaching Spanish. But you don't have to take her word for it. A pilot study conducted at Carolina confirmed that "Conectados" helped students learn to write and speak Spanish better .
In preparation for his biggest court appearance to date, Perry MacLennan, '14 law, recalled one of his last classes at the University of South Carolina. In a trial by fire, MacLennan got to put what he had learned to use into real life in front of the South Carolina Supreme Court, arguing successfully on behalf on his client less than a year after he graduated.
With four alums in the family, the Barnhills decided to pool their gifts and create the Barnhill Family Engineering Endowment to fund scholarships as a way to say thank you to the university. With company matches, the goal is to have the endowment reach $1 million within 20 years.
Temisha Simpkins is one of four University of South Carolina students serving across the city this summer as a part of the AmeriCorps VISTAs program. She has spent her summer days helping children younger than 12 read at St. Lawrence Place, a nonprofit organization in Columbia.
Leaving the legal profession to pursue a career in academia was a tough, but life-changing experience for Joan T.A. Gabel. "We prepare students for success, we answer questions and we positively impact our community at home and around the world - where else can you say that?" Gabel was named new executive vice president of academic affairs and provost at the University of South Carolina on July 28.
The ancient Greek word "kosmos" has to do with order and achievement -- which nicely describes the academic prowess of Del Maticic, a 2015 classics and history graduate of the Honors College.
Paul Bliese, a former researcher at the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, spent 22 years designing statistical models to study such issues as PTSD and soldier wellbeing. Now, he's brought his applied statistics expertise to the Darla Moore School of Business.
Ryan Stevens play lets him explore those feelings of uncertainty that many college seniors and recent graduates feel as one phase of their life comes to an end.
It has been a momentous year for the Supreme Court of the United States. It's also been a big year for alumnus Andrew Bentz, who has spent that time in a coveted position at the highest court.
Growing up in West Virginia, Jill Turner saw a lot of friends with promising futures derailed by drug problems. That's one reason the assistant professor in the South Carolina College of Pharmacy went into addiction research.
During his 25-year career as a registered piano technician, Paul Williams has tuned, voiced and repaired the School of Music's 120 pianos. He has worked on instruments used in ensembles featuring the likes of Itzhak Perlman, Yo Yo Ma and Winton Marsalis.
KeKe Fuller was never your average little girl. Instead of a play kitchen, her playroom was set up like a doctor's office where she wore scrubs and a surgical mask. But all of that precociousness and childhood energy disappeared in 2013.
Take a look at a few ways to close out the summer before returning to campus for another great school year.
Some of the world's oldest artifacts are located in some of the world's most volatile locations, making them vulnerable to destruction either intentionally or as collateral damage. Digitally preserving those historic items and locations is the goal of technology startup PIVOT.
Many an injury will heal, but the damaged spinal cord is notoriously recalcitrant. There's new hope on the horizon, though. A team of researchers led by the University of South Carolina's Jeff Twiss just reported an innate repair mechanism in central nervous system axons that might be harnessed to regenerate nerves after brain or spinal cord injuries.
William Welsh is spending the summer in a country he's never visited before, immersing himself in a language with which he's had only limited exposure. He couldn't be happier.
The NanoLINK program is designed to immerse engineering students in the rapid development of nanotechnology and its prevalence in our daily lives.
Alumna Julie Whitehead is the founder and CEO of the Kurt Vonnegut Memorial Library and Museum in Indianapolis. She has made it her life's mission to excite readers about the work of her favorite author.
Andrea Martin graduated from the University of South Carolina in May with a degree in mathematics. Next month, the Columbia native will be flying to England to help a British client implement a new software program.
Allie Mason came to the University of South Carolina to study marine biology, but a few semesters locked in a lab led her to discover something important about herself. She needed sunshine a lot like a plant.
University of South Carolina conflict archaeologist Steven Smith has been hot on the trail of Revolutionary War hero Francis Marion for years, but recent discoveries at Fort Motte, the site of an important battle in May 1871, are now fanning the flames.
The silo approach to health care education was the norm for decades, but it's rapidly giving way to interprofessional education (IPE), which draws students from multiple health care fields into one classroom for a common course experience.
As connections between mental illness and chronic medical illnesses are better understood, researchers and clinicians are looking for ways to integrate mental health care with primary care.
After years of study in graduate school, Evan Phelps recently joined the workforce in an area far afield from the particle physics research that defined his daily routine at the University of South Carolina. Although working toward a Ph.D. in physics might be a road less traveled on the way to a position in the health sciences, from his point of view the effort had a lot of merit.
Carolina's Promise, the University of South Carolina's $1 billion campaign launched in 2008, has reached its goal on time and on target, securing private funds for many key university goals, including new scholarships, professorships, academic programs and facilities.
From 55 yards away, a five-inch yellow circle appears miniscule. But that little circle is plenty big enough for archery champions Garrett Abernethy and Carli Cochran, who can consistently drive one arrow after another into the bullseye.
When Ondina Miranda came to South Carolina from Honduras, she wanted to learn English, to finish school and to offer her future children a better life. But, she needed a little help, especially when she was pregnant with her first child.
Chemistry professor Linda Shimizu oversees a series of crowd-pleasing chemistry demonstrations in middle and high schools throughout central South Carolina every year. They are spirited affairs, and her research in the laboratory is just as dynamic -- but with a sense of order that really keeps atoms in line.
Lily Gullion had a passion for helping children with disabilities when she came to Carolina, and it's taken the exercise science junior all the way to the Netherlands this summer for an intensive research project.
Want to make use of all your library has to offer, but not sure how to find anything since they did away with the card catalogue? Worry no more. Koios is here.
School of Medicine alumnus Randy Bolton has enjoyed a long career in surgery and hospital administration. Now, the S.C. native has returned home to be the new chief of surgery at the William Jennings Bryan Dorn V.A. Medical Center in Columbia.
Alumna Joni Jordan cleared a lot of roadblocks to make a career as a high school chemistry teacher. Now at Orangeburg's Edisto High School, she's a master teaching fellow in a new UofSC program designed to strengthen science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) education in high-needs and rural districts throughout the state.
There are two constants in Erin Noble’s life, but she’s not really wild about the first one — waking up every day before 5 a.m. to start the ovens at her Silver Spoon Bake Shop.
Aaron Greene's life motto "peace, love and unity" took root on the University of South Carolina's campus and hasn't stopped growing yet.
Columbia attorney and University of South Carolina alumnus Luther Battiste has helped shape his alma mater for forty years. Now, as president of University Associates, he is helping guide the conversation between the university and the larger Midlands community.
The doctor of nursing practice program at the University of South Carolina is marking 15 years this year and is expanding to include a psychiatric/mental health specialty starting in the fall. It is just one of the innovative changes made since UofSC's doctorate became just the fourth such program in the nation.
Lauren Brown decided after graduate school that being a counselor wasn't the career for her. At the University of South Carolina, though, she's found the perfect way to put her counseling skills to work by helping students in University 101.
Karina Liles started helping bridge the gap between people and technology when she was just a kid. Now, as a graduate student studying human-robot interaction in the College of Engineering and Computing, she's making a career of it.
Coy Gibson and James Armstrong, both 2014 Carolina graduates, are in the middle of a 500-mile journey on foot across northern Spain called El Camino de Santiago or the Way of St. James.
Alumni Amy Coquillard and David Chadwell arrived at their new jobs at Cairo American College in 2013, just weeks after the ouster of Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi. Despite nightly curfews and the occasional sound of gunfire in the streets, the couple stuck it out and is now thoroughly enjoying life abroad.
Caroline Roberts has identified two things that are central to her development as a leader: her faith, and challenges that put that faith to the test. In the University of South Carolina, she has found a home where the latter is strengthening the former.
Robert Weyeneth, a professor of public history and preservation, has devoted much of his career at the University of South Carolina to the study of public spaces, particularly those related to race, the Civil Rights movement and segregation. In recognition of his work, Weyeneth has been awarded the 2015 Governor's Award in Historic Preservation.
"Frankenstein" is never a dull read, but when Jeanne Britton unrolls enormous 18th- and 19th-century maps for her English 419 class, Mary Shelley's novel really springs to life.
Nathan Harris did not anticipate that his on-campus leadership role would open doors in the real world. The rising senior credits his time as a peer instructor with the University of South Carolina's Student Success Center with helping him land a coveted summer internship with the Seattle Seahawks.
UofS nursing professor Karen McDonnell is developing programs to help lung cancer patients and their families to stop smoking and stay smoke free.
Dashiell Hammett was famed for creating the epitome of the hardboiled detective, Sam Spade, and turning the detective novel into literature. "He wasn't just a crime writer," his granddaughter Julie M. Rivett says. "The best of his work is not so much about crime as it is about human nature, and it defies genre." Rivett and her family unveiled a comprehensive collection of Dashiell Hammett's works, including the Hammett Family Archive.
Steven Gantt's great-grandmother and Bryant White's grandfather are no longer around -- but the commitment they inspired to giving back would make them both proud.
Sabrina D’Angelo couldn’t make her college graduation. Luckily, she had a pretty good excuse. May 8, when the exercise science major should have been walking across the stage at the University of South Carolina’s Colonial Life Arena, she had other goals on her mind — the kind she spent four years preventing as a standout goalkeeper for Carolina’s women’s soccer team.
When Kate Boyd first entered the library profession, there weren't many libraries in the digital world. But a class project in graduate school led Boyd to discover a new realm for information science and, eventually, to University Libraries at the University of South Carolina.
Biologist Jennifer Fill's doctoral research may help identify surrogate habitats for the eastern diamondback rattlesnake's dwindling numbers. A famous emblem of revolutionary-era America featured on the “Don’t Tread on Me” flag, the eastern diamondback has had its habitat reduced to just three percent of what it was when Europeans first arrived.
Stacey Olden has always had a sympathetic ear for family and friends with troubles - even when she thought she wanted to be a Wall Street financier.
There are newer school buildings in more affluent school districts in South Carolina, but Hampton Elementary School has something this year that’s the envy of them all. Her name is Melonee Ginn Mattie, a fifth-grade teacher whose commitment to educational excellence netted her the 2015 Milken Educator Award, the only one given in the Palmetto State.
Alumni Brynley and Chris Farr are the co-founders ByFarr, a Columbia-based boutique letterpress printing company. The company uses vintage equipment to create modern designs for a variety of clients.
University of South Carolina student Vincent Felix owns a business that makes and sells decorated covers for cell phones. But his plans for his business are so much more than sales and revenue.
Augusta Schneider reinvented her career several times but it's the latest position at the University of South Carolina that has proven to be the most rewarding. Working with student employees landed her the Supervisor of the Year award.
Whether it's the flu, truck emissions or an anthrax attack, Shamia Hoque is on a mission to keep people safe when the air they breathe in this highly interconnected world is a hazard.
Along with learning how to tell stories, several of Northrop Davis’ former students are writing the beginning chapters of their own successful careers — in TV, the animation industry and the popular Japanese artform of manga. Their success stems from a mixture of talent and personal mentoring from a professor whose contacts have helped open doors.
S.C. Gov. Nikki Haley, U.S. Sen. Tim Scott and Gamecock women's basketball coach Dawn Staley delivered addresses at the 2015 undergraduate commencement exercises. Haley and Scott also received honorary degrees of doctor of public service.
Not many college graduates land their dream job before their diploma is in hand but Chris Rosa's hard work at the University of South Carolina landed him that coveted gig. Just a few weeks after graduation, Rosa, a senior public relations major, will move to the Big Apple to work for VH1 as an entertainment writer.
Senior Kara Jones is graduating this May, and the light at the end of her academic tunnel is shining bright from the nation's capital. A few weeks after commencement, the public health major will start work as an analyst for The Galen Institute, a nonprofit health policy research organization located in the D.C. suburb of Alexandria, Va.
Four years ago when Katie Jerald started classes at the University of South Carolina, her mother, Lisa, was trying to finish up her own degree, which had been put on hold decades earlier for marriage and a family. Now, mother and daughter will graduate on the same weekend: Lisa with a degree in sociology and Katie with a business degree in marketing and human resources.
James Wilton Holiday never doubted he would earn a degree in mechanical engineering from the University of South Carolina. Not when he struggled in his first year of studies. Not when a car accident nearly ended his life, and not when he missed three consecutive semesters.
As a sophomore, history major Alexander Keene participated in a study abroad program at the University of Warwick in Great Britain. Meeting members of the international student community there led to an interest in all things Indian and, later, a decision to further his studies after graduation by attending the American Institute for Indian Studies in Jaipur, where he plans to learn Hindi.
There are professors students find approachable, and then there is David Reisman, a biology professor who seems to embody the word. Little wonder that he was named the 2015 Michael J. Mungo Distinguished Professor of the Year.
While on a month-long cruise doing research on the East Pacific Rise, senior Avery Lee had the opportunity to dive more than a mile below the ocean's surface in the deep sea submersible Alvin.
More than a mile below the surface of the ocean, associate professor Scott White and undergraduate researcher Avery Lee explored a seafloor never before seen by humans, looking for signs of deep-sea volcanism.
Anyone who has watched the Netflix series "House of Cards" knows that Kevin Spacey is supposed to be from the South Carolina Upstate, but what many people outside the state and outside linguistics circles don't realize is that his accent is all wrong.
Graduating senior Connor Bain is a 2015 Algernon Sydney Sullivan Award winner. The computer science and math major used his time at Carolina to connect his various interests in science, math, the environment and teaching as he prepares for a career in education.
If it weren't for a rare winter snow in South Carolina four years ago, Adam Mayer would never have come to Carolina. And that would have been a shame because the exercise science major from Wisconsin has had a huge impact on the university -- and vice versa.
Catherine Davenport credits her Gamecock family with helping her survive the loss of her father during her sophomore year at the University of South Carolina.
Lindsay Richardson didn't come to Carolina looking for an opportunity to become a student leader, much less to become student body president. That path led her to be a finalist for Outstanding Woman of the Year and to receive the university's top honor, the Algernon Sydney Sullivan Award.
The University of South Carolina promises opportunities for its students. In the last month, Venisha Pendergrass and two friends have found this to be true. Just before spring break, Pendergrass and a few friends noticed a need to have more professional development opportunities for young women on campus.
Many sports involve intended or unintended contact, and with that comes the inevitable risk of an injury that is getting well-deserved attention at the moment: concussion. In the medical and scientific faceoff against this form of traumatic brain injury, the University of South Carolina has developed an extensive playbook to achieve success.
Amber Williams has painful, personal experience with carbon monoxide poisoning -- she lost her 11-year-old nephew and nearly lost her sister-in-law in a deadly incident two years ago. And that's why she's made it her mission to make people more aware of the danger.
Pharmacy students Alexas Polk and Sarah DeMott researched nearly 5,000 medical orders given on television medical shows since 1989 (Doogie Howser, M.D.). What they found was that fictional TV doctors were wrong about 12 percent of the time. They will present their findings at Discovery Day.
Taylor Boucher's family will be flying in from California this Friday night to support the junior in his greatest passion.
Several recent papers from biologist Tim Mousseau and colleagues show that the avian situation in areas contaminated by radioactive materials released during Japan's Fukushima-Daiichi nuclear disaster is just getting worse.
Caitlin McCormack came to the University of South Carolina to make her dance dreams come true. This week she'll return to the stage with a group of students and alumni to perform an original piece.
Over the past million years, global climate has undergone periods of stability, but also instability, with abrupt, rapid, and substantial climate changes occurring as a consequence of natural processes that scientists are actively working to understand. University of South Carolina paleoceanographer Kelly Gibson and colleagues contributed to this effort in a recent paper.
Alumna and Hollywood stuntwoman Jennifer Mobley, known professionally as Jasi Lanier, makes her living as a human projectile, punching bag and blowtorch -- and she loves every minute of it.
Kassandra Solsrud is taking the academic road less traveled in her quest to earn a degree in international business enroute to medical school. Then again, the sophomore from Atlanta, Ga., hasn't exactly set her sights on a traditional career in medicine.
One of the first things Clarie Randall has to combat as part of the Feminist Collective is the negative impression that tends to follow the word feminism.
Alumnus, attorney and University of South Carolina board member William Hubbard is serving a one-year term as president of the American Bar Association and making the most of the opportunity.
The U.S. naval base at Guantanamo Bay has had some seriously bad press over the past dozen years as the detention center for people deemed enemy combatants following the 2001 terrorist attacks. But the base was there for a century before that and was home to thousands of service members, their families and civilian contractors from both the U.S. and other countries.
Balancing family, work and studies is a challenge most graduate students face, but the Graduate Student Association wants to add one more thing -- getting involved on campus.
Gov. Nikki Haley, U.S. Sen. Tim Scott, and Gamecocks Women's Basketball Coach Dawn Staley will deliver the commencement addresses at the May 8-9 ceremonies at the University of South Carolina.
After nine months waiting for a new home, the Leadership and Service Center recently returned to the Russell House -- and the return after a displacement by construction work wasn't just a move back, it was a move up.
"If you had to write down the specifications of what you'd expect of a son, he would come as close to meeting them as anyone could," says Jim Pearce, a 1942 Carolina graduate who endowed a UofSC professorship to memorialize his son Mac, a 1972 Carolina grad. "I like the fact that this professorship will continue to honor Mac for generations to come."
David Bajo's latest novel, "Mercy 6," is a literary take on a medical thriller set in a California hospital -- "I tried to address the tropes of the genre and invert them rather than falling into them," says Carolina's creative writing MFA director -- but that's only one aspect of what Bajo intends to discuss April 18 at the Open Book series.
Lindsay Sexton began her undergraduate career at the University of South Carolina with plans to attend medical school after graduation. It was not until a professor asked Sexton to help with research and development that she realized she could pursue a career path in chemistry.
When Amelia Hare, an 11-year-old String Project violinist, practices at home she has help in the next room. Her mother, Michelle Martin, a UofSC professor, was a String Project student herself more than 35 years ago.
The high-tech teaching facility in the basement of the Coker Life Sciences building -- the ACE lab -- doesn't involve novice cardsharps learning the latest in sleight-of-hand. There's a much more serious kind of training going on in the South Carolina College of Pharmacy's Aseptic Compounding Experience laboratory.
CS First, created by a Google team in South Carolina, is a curriculum geared for children in grades 4 through 8 that’s organized around themes such as art or game design and includes easy-to-use programming software called Scratch. JameSue Goodman, the project lead, is a 1997 Carolina grad who took her first computer science course in her last semester of college.
Jacquline Plyler has always had an affinity for animals, her mother says, even though she was once kicked while trying to vaccinate a cow. Now the biomedical engineering senior wants to make a career out of studying and creating vaccines for farm animals. "I didn't decide to pre-vet until between my freshman and sophomore year," says Plyler, who was honored this week as the university's Outstanding Woman of the Year.
Elizabeth Moore has always been interested in science and math. Health care was something she was naturally drawn to but watching her grandmother struggle with Alzheimer's Disease sparked a passion for research that the University of South Carolina junior hopes to pursue in her career.
You could say that Jamie Scott has built his business on sweat -- his own and his customers'. But there's a lot more to Jamie Scott Fitness than perspiration, and that's why the former Gamecock football player has been so successful with his boutique-style gym in Columbia.
When he began considering a setting for a portrait of University of South Carolina alumna and benefactress Darla Moore, Heimans and Moore both looked to the new building for the business school that bears her name.
Like many undergraduate students, David Kneas studied abroad during his college experience. But Kneas never expected his semester away to change the entire course of his study.
Social work alumna Mary Lohman directs Girls on the Run Columbia, a nonprofit that develops self-esteem and other positive attributes in young girls while training them to run a 5k. Social work assistant professor Aidyn Iachini is conducting research that's helping making the program even better.
Leslie Knight doesn't consider herself a dancer. The dancing isn't why she first got involved with Dance Marathon. It's all about the cause; it's all for the kids.
University of South Carolina alumni Nick McCormac, Whitney McCormac and April Blake are part of a nonprofit responsible for planning Soda City Suds Week, a weeklong series of events designed to highlight Columbia's growing craft beer industry.
Maestro Donald Portnoy answers a few questions about his conducting career. Portnoy is a 2015 Elizabeth O'Neill Verner Award recipient.
Students in Carlina De La Cova's intro anthropology class learn best when they can touch and hold artifacts they are discussing in class. The problem is those artifacts are rare, sometimes one-of-a-kind links to the past that may not fare well in freshmen hands. The solution? Recreate the artifacts on a 3D printer, including the wear and tear of being in the ground for hundreds or thousands of years.
After losing Lt. Vinny Bocchino to heart disease, the USC police department has taken steps to ensure that they are all aware of their own health. The department has formed a team for the Midlands Heart Walk to honor Vinny and those who suffer from heart problems.
A compass would have been handy for Chris Plyler during his 37-year career at Carolina, which initially took him south to USC Salkehatchie, then west to USC Aiken, east to USC Beaufort, and, finally, north to the flagship campus in Columbia.
Longtime College of Arts and Sciences Dean Mary Anne Fitzpatrick has been tapped to participate in a panel discussion about the role the humanities play in public life as part of the National Humanities Alliance's Advocacy Day. She talked with us recently about the vital role the humanities play in a range of disciplines and why it is important to keep teaching these disciplines to college students.
Shelby Clemmer wants to show everyone that giving back to the community can make a difference. That's why the junior psychology major is spending her spring break helping various organizations in Charlotte, N.C., and leading an alternative break trip with five other students.
On March 18, students will have the chance to sign cards thanking alumni for giving to the Carolina's Promise campaign.
A team of researchers led by senior Kari Benson and associate professor Kate Flory just published a meta-analysis showing that one in six college students misuse the stimulant drugs prescribed for ADHD, such as Ritalin and Adderall, considerably more than reported in several of the earlier studies.
The answer to South Carolina’s quest for renewable energy might be blowing in the wind — about a dozen miles off the coast. The University of South Carolina’s Earth Sciences and Resources Institute (ESRI-SC) is partnering in a study of potential sites for offshore wind turbines that could generate enough electricity to power nearly 6 million homes.
Sam Spina has always wanted to make a living out of his doodles. Now, thanks to an opportunity to make a short cartoon for Nickelodeon, he works everyday as a storyboard artist on Cartoon Network's "The Regular Show."
In March of 1965, 23-year-old seminary student Carl Evans joined thousands of other civil rights activists in Selma and Montgomery, Ala., in support of voting rights for African-Americans. Fifty years on, the University of South Carolina religious studies professor emeritus looks back at how those events shaped his lifelong commitment to social justice.
The words of University of South Carolina broadcast professor Richard Uray have stuck with Leeza Gibbons for nearly 40 years, teaching her the lesson of "more." The 1978 alumna recently won TV's "Celebrity Apprentice" and plans to use her prize money to renovate a home for families dealing with chronic illnesses or diseases.
For Erin Steiner, saying 'Yes' to Carolina has led to research and study across the globe. The senior double majoring in political science and women’s and gender studies has been to Ghana, Thailand, India and places in between.
Unless you're a farmer, or just really into dirt, you're probably not familiar with the YouTube videos Robin "Buz" Kloot has produced for the U.S. Department of Agriculture. But Kloot's work is generating attention from farmers and soil scientists interested in an emerging agricultural practice with dramatic results.
L.M. Drucker remembers growing up in the 1950s with her mom taking her to Myrtle Beach, S.C. She recalls people dancing, and she would join in. "I didn't know it, but that was the early heyday of classic shag," she says. "So I was there for it, I just didn't realize it until much later."
In recent years, Preston Residential College has become a proving ground for young leaders on the University of South Carolina campus. Through community service programs, group arts projects and other endeavors, residents are learning what it means to take charge and make a difference.
The University of South Carolina and IBM break ground for the new Center for Applied Innovation. The center will include IBM and Fluor Corp. as inaugural tenants and will provide application services to both public and private sector organizations across North America with specialties in data analytics and curriculum technology for higher education.
The foremost playwright in English history shuffled off this mortal coil nearly 400 years ago, but the first collection of his plays was not assembled and published until some years later. Now a copy of that book, Shakespeare's First Folio, will make its way around the U.S., including a stop at Carolina.
The first step toward becoming a great teacher is to know your subject, and after earning her credentials at the University of South Carolina, alumna Emily Brown has the material down cold.
Just what makes an American family? The answer or answers, for Tessa Davis, can be found in the tax code. Tax law may seem far afield from Davis' bachelor's and master's degrees in anthropology, but she says the two disciplines fit together very nicely.
There is a demand to explain cyber security concepts in a way that is understandable to the general public, says Csilla Farkas, a computer science professor in the College of Engineering and Computing. "We can't expect business leaders to become cyber security experts, but the experts can learn to express cyber security threats so that business executives can make informed decisions."
When you think of track stars as leaders, you typically think of them leading from the front with their followers trailing behind. But University of South Carolina sprinter Sanura Eley-O'Reilly knows a little about leading from the bench.
The next time you marvel at the natural-looking forest in a movie or the realistic environments in a video game, you can thank Michael Sechrest and Chris King. And you won't be alone. The movie industry just thanked them, too -- with an Academy Award. In fact, their work prompted the academy to create a new category. For these Carolina grads, it was unfamiliar territory.
Steve Borgianini looks millions of years into the past with his research, but what he learns about days long gone has plenty of relevance to the here and now — particularly when it comes to South Carolina's coast.
It's common knowledge that people suffering from addiction and isolation often find healing in recovery groups such as Alcoholics Anonymous. The key is meeting regularly and, more importantly, having a willingness to share openly -- dynamics that also are at play in many ordinary civic or church groups.
UofSC marine science student Julia Bennett is the winner of the 2015 Photography Review Show. Her photographs are on view at the Columbia Museum of Art on Main Street.
Professor Thomas Brown's history class is bringing Civil War lessons to life by "live-tweeting" Sherman's historic march to Columbia 150 years later. They scoured historical documents to find the most compelling 140-character nuggets.
Dinosaurs went the way of the dodo a long time ago, but their modern-day descendants, birds, are spectacularly adaptable. One secret to their global success was the appearance of feathers: variations on this initial theme that evolved more than a hundred million years ago helped the dinosaur’s descendants really take off.
UofSC percussionist Greg Stuarts expands the boundaries of the traditional drum repertoire by exploring the realms of experimental music with longtime collaborator composer Michael Pisaro.
She never imagined that she would enjoy cooking, much less getting so hands-on in the kitchen as to write a cookbook. As an alumnae of the School of Journalism and Mass Communications, Michelle Margocee Gainey has put a lot of the skills she learned into action as she releases her first book.
When the Romantic Era Lyrics Project website launches later this year, people will be able to hear recordings of famous poems set to period music for the first time in 200 years.
What would rising sea levels do to South Carolina’s coast? Bradley Dean, a 2013 master of earth and environmental resources management, has created a preview that the public can see on the Internet. Put together with the mounds of data NOAA collects about perigean spring tides — also known as King Tides — the maps should provide policymakers with information they need to create sound coastal management plans.
Students and alumni met with state lawmakers as part of Carolina Day to advocate for a greater investment in higher education.
Ruben Galloway dealt with high blood pressure for years, ultimately taking eight medications to try to lower the runaway readings. But with three tiny incisions on Galloway's back, Dr. Fernando Navarro, a University of South Carolina medical school surgeon, removed a benign tumor on the left adrenal gland, which had been causing Galloway's uncontrollable blood pressure. With the tumor gone, so, too, were many of Galloway's medical problems.
All the rivers worldwide might constitute a relative trickle compared with an unseen torrent below the surface. Emeritus professor Willard Moore is part of a team that just showed that rivers might represent as little as 20 percent of the water flowing into the Atlantic and Indo-Pacific Oceans from the continents -- the remainder traverses what Moore has termed the "subterranean estuary."
What started as a silly idea between two good friends, turned into a character that has been famous on the University of South Carolina Columbia campus for more than 10 years: Boombox Guy.
Civil engineering graduate student Sally Bartelmo works full time at the Savannah River Site but spends her weekends on the run. Inspired by her father and a lifelong love of travel, the 23-year-old plans to run 50 marathons in 50 states before the age of 30.
Dr. Helga Rippen brings a wealth of experience in using technology to improve health care to the new position of president and chief executive officer of Health Sciences South Carolina. Health Sciences is the nation's first statewide health care research collaborative made up of health systems, research universities and medical schools.
If you work in advertising, Sunday was the "Super Bowl of" … well, it was the Super Bowl, and that is about as big as it gets for football, live television viewership and advertising. Advertising alumna Jennifer Hammond discusses her company's Super Bowl ad for Kia Motors and how ads are judged.
Like a lot of college students, Natalie Pita believes in finding her passion -- but she's taking a pluralistic approach. "I'm very passionate about everything I get involved with," says Pita, a sophomore majoring in international business, economics and Spanish and minoring in dance and public relations.
After finishing a final exam, more than a few students might want to send it hurtling away at a few hundred miles an hour. In master teacher Ed Donovan's classes, they get to do just that, but by no means out of frustration. Donovan has found that a final exam assignment to build and launch a model rocket is a sure-fire way to get students excited about everything from hands-on craftwork to trigonometry to Newton's Three Laws of Motion.
For University of South Carolina students who want to be doctors, Timmy Global Health gives them real life experience, while helping others.
Gregory Garret stumbled into his career after an apprenticeship at a salon turned him on to hairstyling while attending the University of South Carolina. It wasn't the traditional path for a college graduate but as the owner, manager and head stylist of Columbia's newest salon, Garret isn't just styling hair.
Vera DuBose will pursue unconventional solutions to solve her costuming challenges even if that means spending time in local hardware stores.
Andy Hayes and Dale McCants, two alumni of the University of South Carolina's doctoral program in mechanical engineering, are the masterminds behind the nanofluid coolant Ice Dragon, which is used by online gamers to cool high-end PCs. Now the two hope to use the same coolant on a larger scale to cool everything from motorcycle engines to office buildings.
Toyota’s public response during its numerous recalls beginning in 2008 is a textbook case of how to thoroughly botch a crisis in consumer confidence, according to University of South Carolina researchers Shannon Bowen and Yue Zheng. Their quantitative study of print media underscores the importance of ethical conduct and an ethical response from any company when questions arise about the safety of its products.
For the whole of her 28-career at the University of South Carolina, Helen Doerpinghaus has focused primarily on undergraduate students — and they’ve benefited from the attention. Doerpinghaus’ newest role as interim provost of the university will dramatically broaden the scope of her duties, but she’s confident that the undergraduate initiatives under her purview won’t suffer in the meantime.
You cannot speak with Anna Scheyett for more than five minutes without realizing her passion to help people and, soon thereafter, her indignation at the obstacles to getting that help to those who need it most. It is the hallmark combination for any good social worker: individual well being and social justice.
Poet, associate professor of English and director of Women's and Gender Studies Ed Madden has been named the inaugural poet laureate for the City of Columbia. During his four-year term he plans to promote public art and the growth of the city's literary community.
What Edison was to the light bulb, Roman Vishniac was to the art and science of making films and photos with a microscope. Emeritus professor of biology John Herr Jr. had the good fortune to persuade Vishniac’s daughter, Mara, to donate a historic collection of her father’s work to the university’s Moving Image Research Collections in 1994 rather than to a similarly acronymed university in southern California.
Four months ago, Summer Swindle didn't know a Bugatti from a Bentley or a Maybach from a McLaren. Now she's managing events that draw more than 20,000 car enthusiasts to see some of the world's most exotic automobiles.
Have you already stumbled in your New Year's resolutions to lose weight, exercise more and be healthier? Have no fear, Campus Wellness is here to provide you with all the support you need to keep those resolutions in tact.
Andy Akiho's love of percussion began in the mid 1980s when his sister convinced him to play drums in a rock band. During his first performance on the high school drum line, he instinctively knew that "music had to be [his] life." The S.C. native was accepted into USC's School of Music where he says it all started.
The University of South Carolina was again recognized by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching for its commitment to community engagement activities, making it one of only 40 public universities to earn both the top-tier research classification and the community engagement classification from Carnegie.
A doctorate in epidemiology often opens doors to academia or government agencies, but for Kelly Johnson it started him on a promising career in the private sector. Now a fellow at pharmaceutical giant Merck, Johnson is putting his Carolina degree to work to help bring cost-effective vaccines to countries across the globe.
Silence is golden -- unless it's your own tongue that has become mute as the result of brain injury or stroke.
"The University of South Carolina was a proving ground for me," says Joseph Young, the recently appointed assistant conductor of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra. "I was tested in every aspect of my education. From playing in the marching the band, trying my hand at composing and singing in the choir to performing in the wind ensembles and student teaching, the university was critical in my development."
It has been a must-read for University of South Carolina students since publication began more than a century ago, and now The Gamecock archive is just a mouse click away for everyone. The keyword searchable collection of student newspapers that dates back to 1908 can be highly entertaining and addictive.