Marva Smalls is not in the aerospace engineering business, but South Carolina is. That’s why Smalls, a USC alumna and executive at Viacom and Nickelodeon, donated $1 million to the McNair Center for Aerospace Innovation and Research.
A sea of pink raced through Columbia this Sunday as Zeta Tau Alpha’s largest ever Pink Ribbon 5k kicked off this week’s “Think Pink” activities with a resonant bang.
University Ambassadors welcomed 31 new members this weekend, concluding a complex recruitment process with a “rookie retreat.” The program received 212 applications this year, yielding an acceptance rate of 14.6 percent.
This festival had everything: dogs in rainbow outfits, giant sea urchin-esque backpacks, drag queens and a camel. What sounds like something out of the mouth of Saturday Night Live’s Stefon actually took place in downtown Columbia on Saturday: the 24th annual SC Pride festival, South Carolina’s oldest and largest gay pride celebration.
A rainbow of colors decorated the streets on Saturday as Columbia hosted the annual SC Pride Festival and Parade.
PCBs found in Columbia-area sewers Carcinogenic chemicals have been found in a Columbia-area restaurant’s sewers, The State reported. The revelation comes out of a state investigation of illegal chemical dumping in the Midlands and the Upstate. Now, the concern is whether PCBs found their way into rivers from wastewater treatment plants or onto farmland and landfills from contaminated sludge. PCBs have recently been found in multiple Upstate wastewater treatment plants, which release into rivers.
After years of waiting, students will soon be able to use their CarolinaCards off campus, but not all local businesses are on board.
Columbia will be colorful in more than one way Saturday. Starting the day bright and early at 8 a.m. is the Color Me Rad 5K, in which runners are pelted with five different colors of powdered paint.
Silence was the most persistent noise in the School of Law Auditorium as the audience waited to hear the words of award-winning poet Nikky Finney.
The Arnold School of Public Health sponsored the second annual Hispanic/Latino Community Forum at the Richland County Public Library Thursday evening.
Accused shooter out on bond during killing A man is accused of killing another man in a parking lot last week while out on bond on charges of attempted armed robbery and attempted murder, The State reported.
The sound of scripture and passionate sermons echoed down Greene Street and around Russell House Wednesday afternoon. Members of Rock of Ages Ministries shouted Bible verses and handed out fliers to students walking past Thomas Cooper Library.
The 66 members of the 2014 Dance Marathon morale team were announced on Monday after going through an online application process and interviews.
An overhaul of Student Government’s legislative codes was delayed for the second time Wednesday night, this time due to a dispute over a new system of implementing legislation.
USC’s Sorority Council was awarded the National Panhellenic Conference Excellence Award on Monday. The group is one of just 14 out of the nation’s 574 college Panhellenic organizations to be recognized with the award, according to NPC leaders.
A Sumter County woman is accused of stabbing her husband with a screwdriver, a 9-year-old boy dies after being struck by a tractor trailer while riding his bicycle, and former USC football coach Paul Dietzel dies at 89.
An event hosted by USC’s Center for Entrepreneurial and Technological Innovation encouraged students to share with their peers ideas that could potentially become startup companies.