USC awarded Voices of South Carolina: Black Lives Matter a grant this fall to collect, archive and publish South Carolinian experiences after the police killing of George Floyd in May.
South Carolina Republican Gov. Henry McMaster signed a bill banning most abortions into law Thursday afternoon. Abortion rights groups have announced they will challenge the law in court.
The student senate passed a resolution to remove a Robert E. Lee memorial on the Horseshoe during Wednesday's meeting. Last week's proposed Zoom ban for university purposes failed to pass.
Student Government executive candidates touched on topics such as diversity and inclusion and sexual harassment during Tuesday night's Student Government debate.
The USC chapter of the NAACP said the group will now be referring to the Thomas Cooper Library as the "Dean" Willie. L Harriford Library, or "The Ford," during a press conference on Wednesday afternoon.
Following a donation of thousands of material hours worth of footage, scripts and reporting, Charlotte-based reporter and documentary filmmaker Steve Crump spoke at a webinar.
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.
The ongoing renovations to the South Caroliniana Library building on the Horseshoe, together with the COVID-19 pandemic, have affected the library's approach to sending out its research materials.
A new humanities collaborative has plans to start on campus as early as fall 2021. This collaborative would help those in and outside the university focus on the issues facing the humanities and initiate conversations.
The university has updated its online COVID-19 dashboard with new numbers.
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.
