The 49 newest top scholars at USC have been chosen. The university has awarded the annually given Carolina, McNair, Horseshoe and Hamilton scholarships to 44 incoming freshmen, and five new students have received Stamps Carolina Scholarships, established this year through a gift from the Stamps Family Charitable Foundation.
Recent Honors College graduate, William “Cole” Franks has been awarded the National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellowship (NDSEG).
John McDermott, chair of the economics department, has been appointed interim dean of the Darla Moore School of Business.
USC’s board of trustees approved a $4.965 million project May 28 intended to mitigate the settlement of dirt near Carolina Stadium’s left field that has caused cracking in sidewalks and the stadium’s facade. The high price tag comes from the amount of engineering work the project requires, which USC spokesman Wes Hickman said is “pretty significant.”
The Gamecocks will play at home for yet another bid to travel to Omaha for the 2013 College World Series. The team, which finished second to Arizona for last year’s national championship, will face off against Saint Louis, which has been seeded fourth of the four teams which will play at Carolina Stadium.
Charlotte’s mayor will join Obama’s cabinet, a woman was arrested in the killing of a former S.C. State football player and three cast members from “Welcome to Myrtle Manor” were arrested over the weekend.
Near the 29th obstacle of Saturday’s USMC Ultimate Challenge Mud Run, 20 people were lying in the mud. A Marine stood over them shouting instructions.
Less than 1 percent of Richland County’s population is estimated to be homeless. But that doesn’t mean the other 99 percent doesn’t have a stake in addressing the problem of homelessness.
USC’s endowment was among the fastest growing in the SEC last year, but on a per-student basis, it’s still the smallest in the conference.
A Columbia rapper pleads guilty to sex trafficking, a suspected bank robber is arrested while waiting for a getaway cab, and four children die in a Hartsville mobile home fire.
Running into Callcott Auditorium on Thursday night to “2001,” Cocky presented an award of his likeness to Mark Sarosi, the art director behind the Budweiser “Brotherhood” advertisement. The Cocky Award, voted on annually by members of Professor Bonnie Drewniany’s “Super Bowl of Advertising” class, is presented to the best Super Bowl commercial each year.
George Cook has a lot on his plate right now.
The tiny blue bins that were once posted around the floors of the Thomas Cooper Library have been replaced with hard-to-miss gray receptacles.
Student ticketing requests will return to a weekly system this football season, just a year after USC made the switch to season tickets for students, according to a Thursday release from Student Ticketing Coordinator Adrienne White.
Student ticketing will return to a weekly system this football season just a year after USC made the switch to season tickets for students, according to a release from Director of Student Ticketing Adrienne White. Students will request tickets for each individual game instead of being granted lower or upper deck season tickets, as they were in the 2012-2013 season.
Jay Fletcher, Amy Pastre and Courtney Rowson don’t think design is fine art. Instead, the Charleston-based designers see their craft as a medium to help their clients represent their brands.
Dara Brown regularly hears excuses for why someone “can’t” do yoga, so the instructor laughs when recalling how Sherwood Toatley told her he just isn’t flexible after his first class. She responded the way she would to any other student. Yoga will help make you more flexible, she told him.