Each year, USC celebrates exemplary alumni and friends with awards bestowed by the Alumni Association. Honorees include Walter Edgar, winner of the Algernon Sydney Sullivan Award, and E. Scott Moïse, winner of the biannual Bethea Volunteer Service Award. All seven award winners reflect the values that define the Gamecock community: service, integrity, character and leadership.
New College of Pharmacy building can move ahead with design, final approval granted to construct a new STEM building and a new institute created to analyze crucial state data
Transfer students find their way to the University of South Carolina in all sorts of ways. But regardless of how they get here, their numbers are steadily growing. Approximately 1,680 transfer students started classes this fall on the Columbia campus, an increase of 28 percent since the fall 2022 cohort. Meet three transfer students who have found their path at USC.
Agreement will explore opportunities to build the nuclear workforce needed to support fleet deployment of AP1000® reactors in the U.S. through USC’s planned Nuclear Innovation Center.
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Alden Zerkle turned a childhood love of the ocean into a path toward her dream career as a wildlife documentary filmmaker.
Four generations of the Hartsville Hungerpillers have attended the University of South Carolina. The latest, Colin Hungerpiller, is one of the 2026 honorees of the Gamecock35, a cohort of outstanding alumni under age 35 chosen by the Alumni Association’s Young Alumni Council.
Professor of mathematics Wei-Kai Lai accepted a teaching position at USC Salkehatchie after completing his Ph.D. in 2008 and has been there ever since. Over the course of those 18 years, he’s helped countless students get excited about math by meeting them where they are. It’s proven to be a winning formula.