December 19, 2016, Allen Wallace
Many of us share the memory from school days gone by: a glob of something that might be carrots one day, a heap of something green the next, unceremoniously plopped into a compartment of our school lunch trays and then avoided at all costs. The University of South Carolina is working with several state agencies to end that unpleasant tradition and make the lunches healthier and tastier.
December 15, 2016, USC Times
A is for alphabet, at least according to USC Times. To help close out 2016, the University of South Carolina’s monthly magazine for faculty and staff devoted its entire December issue to the ABCs of 2016 — with each letter representing a different accomplishment, announcement or notable arrival from the past year.
November 30, 2016, Page Ivey
Tena B. Crews has wanted to be a teacher ever since she had a teacher. For her dedication to students and passion for her profession, Crews has been awarded a Garnet Apple Award for Teaching Innovation.
November 14, 2016, Allen Wallace
UofSC graduate students are learning about e-sports, a fast-growing industry offering new careers in sport management.
October 17, 2016, Allen Wallace
When you’ve already been Cocky, what do you do for an encore? A UofSC alumna has traded her mascot costume for a job in the NFL.
September 19, 2016, Allen Wallace
A UofSC alumna took her fashion merchandising degree and headed to Zambia. Her efforts to empower women there and help them break the cycle of poverty have succeeded beyond all expectations.
August 16, 2016, Erin Mikes
The new Spirit Communications Park not only is providing a new venue for the public to enjoy, it also has opened up job and internship opportunities for University of South Carolina students and alumni. In fact, 10 Carolina students and three alumni are helping the Columbia Fireflies minor league baseball team glow.
June 20, 2016, Dan Cook
Tourism is a global industry by its very nature — and the United States is a leader in the sector. Enter the International Hospitality and Tourism Academy, a three-week summer program that welcomes foreign students for intensive training in hospitality and tourism management.
March 22, 2016, Dan Cook
For some recent college graduates, a job overseas is a distant aspiration — maybe even a pipedream. For Danielle Minter, it’s a fast-paced reality.
March 04, 2016, Steven Powell
A team of faculty from UofSC is traveling to Ecuador in mid-March to work out details of an exchange program and collaboration with Universidad San Francisco de Quito. The universities are working together to bring a sustainable tourism approach to the management of the Galápagos Islands.
January 25, 2016, Brad Muller
Former Gamecock football defensive linemen Langston Moore and Preston Thorne knew all about reading an opposing offensive line. Now they want families to spend more time reading together. To that end, Moore, ’02, and Thorne, ’04, teamed up with fellow USC alumnus Kev Roche, a freelance illustrator, to hatch the Gamecock-themed children’s book “#JustaChicken.”
January 12, 2016, Chris Horn
Columbia’s start-up culture is getting hotter, and Carolina is helping fan the entrepreneurial flames. Incubating companies is only part of the start-up equation. There’s a thriving entrepreneurial vibe now among students — enrollment in entrepreneurship classes has doubled and membership in the Entrepreneurship Club is at an all-time high — and the university has built an ecosystem on campus to foster that interest.