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Education CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 “We also do advisemen-t for particular categories of stu dents,” Hurt said. “We advise all non-decree students, which would cover people that have fin ished their degree and want to come back and take some class es.” The Continuing Education Academic Credit Program also works to accommodate students who need courses at sites and times compatible with their jobs or other schedule restrictions, ac cording to the program’s Web site. The program achieves this mis sion by offering undergraduate courses for regular academic credit through classes in the evening, at Fort Jackson and dur ing the weekend. The evening and weekend pro grams also offer undergraduate courses, usually condensed into only a few class meetings per week. The Fort Jackson program of fers associate degrees in arts and science and a bachelor of arts in interdisciplinary studies for ac tive-duty military, their depenr dents and government-contracted on-post civilians. Boyd said the courses the pro gram operates account for 10 per cent of the undergraduate enroll ment at USC. “The purpose of the Continuing Education Academic Program is to link the under graduate courses with students who need flexibility and schedul ing,” Boyd said. Comments on this story?E-mail gamecockudesk@hotmail.com Herbarium CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 the Southeast. The plants that the herbarium collects are first dried and pressed and then glued onto 100 percent cotton fiber, acid-free pa' per. Next the plants are annotat ed, labeled and stored in metal cases that fill the herbarium wall to-wall. Such measures for preserva tion are taken because the speci mens are meant to last indefi nitely. Although Nelson said most of the herbarium’s speci mens are recent, it has a number of plants preserved from the 19th century. “The herbarium is important to the university because it rep resents a long-term collection; that is, it has been going for a long, long time,” Nelson said. “A lot of energy has been directed into it, and it represents the largest collection of its kind in the »» While Nelson said most of the specimens of plants have come from students working on pro jects or from outside agencies such as the Department of Natural Resources, many herbaria exchange plants from their collections in order to ex pand their resources. “Say the University of Oklahoma — they send us speci mens, and then we send them specimens, and see, their people don’t often get over this far east, and we don’t often get that far west, so it’s kind of a convenient way to mix and match,” Nelson said. “It’s kind of another good way the university gets free ad vertising.” Students and staff, as well as the community, use the resources provided by the herbarium. Jamie Civitello, an anthropol ogy graduate student, said that her work there as an anthropolo- ] gy student shows the interdisci plinary nature of the herbarium. Civitello, who studies ethnob- 1 otany, the study of how particu- 1 lar cultures make use of plants, i used her research at the herbari- I um to create an extensive Web : site on ancient gardening in i South Carolina. ] Linda Lee, collections manag- l er, has been working at the < herbarium since September. “It’s always good if you feel like i you’re doing something that is personally meaningful,” said Lee, < who has been working on adding digital photographs of various >lants to the South Carolina Plant Ulas online. The Atlas displays lie piailL UlSLI i mtions for na ive and natu •alized ferns, 'em allies, and ;eed- and flow sr-bearing ilants in each Smith Carolina :ounty. “Obviously, it’s a valuable as set to other taxonomists,” Lee said. Lee said it is also an asset to )ther researchers. In fact, she said, researchers are now in volved with some molecular-bio logical work studying mutant plants. “They’re creating all these uiiieitmi mu tant plants to study different things,” Lee said. The herbarium is keeping speci mens of the mutant Dlants so that researchers can extract DNA from the plants later, they can. Nelson said the herbarium, which is continually acquiring new specimens, hopes to move from its location at the Coker Life “The herbarium is important... because it represents a long-term collection.” JOHN NELSON HERBARIUM CURATOR Sciences building to new quar ters. “We are running out of room, and we need more space,” said Nelson, who said that the herbar ium is considering moving to McKissick Museum. “It would be kind of great because if we were over there, it would be possible to have the herbarium as the uni versity’s largest natural-history collection, kind of like this sort of focus of all the other natural-his tory collections.” Comments on this story?E-mail gamecockudesk@hotmail.com PHOTO BY JOHNNY HAYNES/THE GAMECOCK . Although Its Initial specimens were provided by A.C. Moore’s own collection, the herbarium’s assortment of preserved plants now numbers more than 89,000 specimens. 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