For environmental chemistry professor Susan Richardson, it's a question she hears a lot: Is bottled water safer to drink than tap? To help find the answer, she enlisted Honors biochemistry students Gretchen Bollar and Anthony Kocur.
The students will learn about the mission of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration in honor of the career of Hollings, who was a longtime U.S. senator from South Carolina and a former governor of the state.
Talking to Luke Rankin, our newly installed student body president, you would think that he was born to be a politician. He’s friendly, charming and inspiring. When he speaks there’s at least one motivational phrase in each sentence, which is exactly what people love to hear when they’re trying to be convinced they can do something or that their community can be better.
Growing up in Lexington, South Carolina, Patrick McKenzie never imagined he'd leave the United States. But as of today, thanks in large part to his time at the South Carolina Honors College, he has traveled to 22 countries, and he's just getting started.
Friends since freshman year, seniors Casey Hasenbein and Rachel Wood grew so close during their four years in the Honors College that they can finish each other's sentences. So it was only natural that the exercise science majors would want to work on their senior thesis together. Hence the creation of Be Your Best S.E.L.F. (Strength, Energy, Life Skills and Fitness), their thesis project that ultimately bonded them to a group of girls at Epworth Children's Home in Columbia.
Cystic fibrosis affects more than 30,000 people across the United States with hundreds of those affected living in South Carolina.
Many little kids dream of becoming rock stars, but Honors College sophomores Evan Delp and Robert Magee are on their way to making that fantasy a reality.
This week, we're speaking with Lauren (McLaughlin) Longo '01 in celebration of Small Business Week 2019.
UofSC adds 3 more names to the list of prestigious Goldwater Scholarship winners
UofSC Pickering Fellow hopes to connect cultures through foreign service career
The South Carolina Honors College is the top-ranked public university honors college in the nation. Again.
New Associate Dean Andrea Tanner is not stranger to working with honors students.
Honors College students came together for a night of fun and dancing.
Honors College alumni Tyler Singleton's passion is what's defined her career.
Twenty-eight high school juniors and seniors from across the state have been named finalists in the sixth annual South Carolina High School Writing Contest.
“We want to focus on things that are conducive to creating a good academic environment and not just studying all the time,” junior Katie Aretakis says.
Second-year Honors College student Tyler Quehl wrote and composed the musical, "The Restaurant: Millennial Commentary on Middle America" with the help of student organization Off Off Broadway.
Three students from the Charleston County School of the Arts have won first, second, and third-place awards in the fifth annual South Carolina High School Writing Contest.
Walter Edgar, one of South Carolina's most-noted historians, will judge the sixth annual South Carolina High School Writing Contest.
“There’s so much about the brain and the different pathways that cause us to think and react in different ways that are really fascinating to me, and something I want to continue learning about.”
"I don't think I ever came to this place and not had a good laugh," says Munn Sanchez, a philosophy professor who arrived at Carolina in 1995 to teach logic. This summer, he will leave USC for the Pierre Laclede Honors College at the University of Missouri-St. Louis--this time as dean.
"Before every race, there is a moment at the starting line when everything goes silent. Your heart is pounding; your adrenaline is pumping. You look to your left and to your right and you see your teammates, those who will push you further and faster than you could go on your own."
Ask Honors junior Emily Fisher about the highlight of her week, and she doesn't even have to think about it. It's her volunteer work with the Waverly After-School Program.
Forty-one high school juniors and seniors from across the state have been named finalists in the fifth South Carolina High School Writing Contest.