The university will be able to detect different variants of the COVID-19 virus on campus by testing saliva samples. New technology will go into production "in a couple of weeks," Carolyn Banister, a clinical assistant professor in the College of Pharmacy, said.
When two lawsuits against professor David Voros and the university were filed in late November, a group of students decided to do something to raise awareness. The Coalition to Fire David Voros created a petition calling for the university to fire the professor, along with other demands.
According to the university's online COVID-19 dashboard, USC is facing a total of 113 active cases on campus.
The Presidential Commission on University History approved a new set of criteria as a way to evaluate what names can be removed from buildings or monuments.
The announcement of Student Government executive office candidates.
The student senate voted to include a referendum eliminating the position of student body treasurer in the upcoming student government election and discussed discontinuing Zoom at USC over privacy concerns during their Wednesday meeting.
Students at USC think the required testing will help combat the pandemic but wouldn't be getting tested without it.
The university updated it's online COVID-19 dashboard to reveal 118 current active COVID-19 cases.
Columbia citizens and USC students may agree the the federal minimum wage needs to be raised, but the question lies in by how much.
Student Body President Issy Rushton and Vice President Hannah White sent an open letter to the Presidential Commission on University History expressing their disappointment in the lack of action taken by the commission in renaming campus buildings such as the Sims residence hall.
Sustainable Carolina is a campus organization that is directly affiliated and works with the university to promote sustainability on campus.
The university updated its COVID-19 dashboard to reveal 187 current active cases, which is an increase in the amount of positive cases reported since Tuesday, but a decrease in the overall positive rate.
USC leadership discussed the Fall 2021 semester, vaccine eligibility and the status of the faculty hiring freeze that was implemented last year during a presidential town hall on Friday.
The student senate finance committee presented a referendum Wednesday to eliminate the position of student body treasurer and replace it with a position in the student body president's cabinet. The senate also proposed a recommendation to encourage transparency between the university and students about the COVID-19 vaccine.
After USC failed to pay tuition in a timely manner to a school in Russia for William Brown, a master of international business student who was studying abroad, Brown was deported from Russia and stranded in Armenia during the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic before returning to the U.S. a month later.
The South Carolina Senate voted 30-13 to pass a bill outlawing abortions performed after the detection of a "fetal heartbeat" Jan. 28. A "fetal heartbeat" can be detected as early as six weeks into a pregnancy, which is before most women even know they are pregnant. Abortion rights advocates worry about the repercussions of the bill.
USC updated it's online COVID-19 dashboard to show 179 active COVID-19 cases. Almost 1,000 cases have been reported to the university since Jan. 1.
