Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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More reasons why USC is the right choice •Since the Office of Fellowships and Summer Programs was established in 1994, university students have won 114 national fellowships and scholarships, to taling more than $3 million dollars. To date for the 1999-2000 competition, 17 awards and more than $500,000 in na tional fellowships have been won. •USC’s planned expansion of its sci ence research complex has helped win a $9.3 million federal grant to conduct an array of high-tech research in biological, chemical, physical and mathematical sci ences and medicine for the U.S. Depart ment of Defense. The grant is the largest single research grant ever awarded to the university. •USC is closing in on its $300 mil lion Bicentennial Campaign goal. It has raised more than $250 million, with the deadline for the goal still more than a year away. •The Department of Government and International Studies has been selected as tlie new home for the prestigious Jour nal of Politics, one of the premier jour nals in political science. It will move to USC in January 2001 from the Univer sity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. •For the past 10 years, the Sociolo gy Department faculty have ranked ;unong the top 10 departments nationally for having articles published in the field’s most prestigious journals. •The Geography Department is con sidered No. 1 in the Southeast and in the Top 5 nationally for programs in geo graphic information systems, remote sens ing and cartography. •The College of Engineering and In formation Technology recently com pleted the research and development of an improved electrical system for de veloping naval surface vessels. The three year grant is part of a larger naval project to develop the PEBB (Power Electron ic Building Block), a revolutionary de vice for controlling electrical power. •USC historians Dr. Lacy Ford and Dr. Lawrence Glicknian received Na tional Endowment for the Humanities Fellowships for 2000-2001. •USC’s History Department is one of the only departments in the country to have two faculty members receive Ful bright Fellowships. Dr. Constance Schulz and Dr. Ronald Atkinson will be Fulbright scholars in 2000-2001. •The university libraries house many comprehensive, valuable collections, in cluding the papers of Gen. William C. Westmoreland, the world’s most com prehensive collection of F. Scott Fitzger ald research materials, the literary archive of writer Joseph Heller, the archive of James Ellroy and a collection of books, stamps, letters and material associated with the Italian patriot Guiseppe Garibal di. •Dr. Dan Carter, one of the leading American and Southern historians in the country will join USC’s faculty as its first Educational Foundation Professor of His tory •Thirty-five South Carolina gover nors hold degrees from USC. •USC theatre graduate students con sistently out perform other graduate the atre students in the Southeast. This year USC swept all the first place design awards (lightning, scenic design and costume) at the Southeastern Theatre Conference. •USC’s Marine Science Department is ntnked among the top 10 programs in the United States. •USC's Institute for Southern Stud ies has been selected as the home for the prestigious South Carolina Academy of Authors, the state’s “hall of fame” for dis tinguished writers. •USC is ranked in the second tier in the 2000 edition of U.S. News and World Report’s College Guide. The undergrad uate International Business Program is ranked No. 1. •Research funding for USC reached a record $97 million in 1998-99. •McKissick Museum, one of the lead ing university museums in the Southeast, houses 12,000 artifacts that document the social, economic and political histo ry of the Southeast. •The Geography Department’s Haz ards Research Laboratory, launched in 1995, is one of the few centers national ly that uses geographic information processing techniques in analysis and m;m agement of environmental Lizards. •Through its public service programs, USC touches every comer of the state. The School of Music reaches 28,000 peo ple statewide through concerts, lessons and music programs. The Writing Cen ter has helped more than 3,000 people with writing questions. Its Writers Hot line averages 9 calls a day from citizens, government employees, teachers, lawyers and libraries. The Palmetto Poison Center at USC’s College of Pharmacy answers more than 35,000 calls annual ly from South Carolinians. •The Center for Outcomes Research and Evaluation in the College of Phar macy is one of only a few such centers in the United States established to con duct research in drug therapy and phar macy service, including issues such as health care costs and quality of life. •All of USC’s language programs, from Chinese, German and Russian, to Spanish, French and Italian offer study abroad opportunities. •USC is considered a national leader in phannacoeconomics research. Facul ty are called on to educate and train in dustrial and health care leaders in out comes research. •USC’s School of Medicine is rec ognized as a national leader in primary care education. More than 76 percent of the School of Medicine’s Class of 2000 graduates are pursuing primary care residencies. •USC’s medical school leads the nation in the percentage of graduates go ing into pediatrics. •In the College of Science and Math ematics, the chemistry and biochemistry department is ranked among the Top 50 chemistry departments in the country. The department is ranked in the Top 20 nationally for the number of doctoral graduates it produces annually. •USC’s College of library and In formation Science is ranked 15th in the nation in overall excellence, with three of the college’s programs ranking in the Top 10 in U.S. News and World Re port •The majority of USC School of Med icine graduates remain in South Caroli na to practice medicine, often in small and medium-sized towns where they are needed most. •The USC College of Pharmacy's “Virtual Families” class received the 2000 AACP Council of Faculties Innova tions in Teaching Award. AACP is the American Association of Colleges of Phar macy. •USC’s School of Public Health was the first in the United States to have a de partment of exercise science. The addi tion of this department underscores the important role that physical activity plays in public health. Today, exercise science faculty are recognized nationally and in ternationally for their research on the link between physical activity and health. •A ranking published by the Wall Street Journal Europe lists USC’s Inter national MBA among the top 15 MBA programs offered in Europe, and The Fi nancial Times of London ranks the MEA, MIBS and IMBA programs 34th in the world. •Based on its enrollment, USC’s School of Public Health is one of the largest schools of public health in the na tion. •Today, 65 percent of genetic coun selors in South Carolina are graduates of the USC School of Medicine program. •USC’s College of Journalism and Mass Communications' public relations and advertising programs are ranked 12th and 13th, respectively, at the graduate level in U.S. News and World Report. •For nearly two decades, USC’s student advertising team has consistent ly earned regional and national recogni tion in the National Student Advertising Competition: The College World Series of Advertising. •USC ’s College of Engineering and Information Technology has received $2 million to launch an information tech nologies program to train workers for the growing computer software industry. •The Darla Moore School of Busi ness continues to receive accolades and top rankings in some of the country’s top magazines. In March, USC was ranked No. 2 in the country in international busi ness at the graduate level in US. News & World Report, and the undergrade ate international business program is ranked No. 1 in the magazine. The un dergraduate business school as a whole is ranked 51 st in the U.S. News and World Report survey of 327 colleges. This rank ing puts The Darla Moore School of Busi ness in the Top 16 percent nationally. •The international business faculty in The Darla Moore School of Business have been ranked No. 1 in research productivity by the Journal of Interna tional Business. •USC’s College of Social Work ranks 29th among schools of social work in the United States and 4th in the Southeast. That ranking appears in U.S. News and World Report. •USC’s doctoral program in School Psychology was named the third best in the country in U.S. News & World Re port in March. USC’s school psycholo gy program ranked behind the Univer sity of Wisconsin at Madison (No. 1) and the University of Texas at Austin (No. 2). USC was tied with the University of Ne braska at Lincoln, the University Min nesota at Twin Cities and Columbia Uni versity for third place. •Through its Modem Political Col lections, USC is collecting the papers and memorabilia of some of the state’s leg endary political leaders. •USC’s School of Law is ranked in the second tier in U.S. News and World Report magazine’s rankings of American law schools. •USC has one of the most compre hensive string Music Education programs in the country. The program’s national ly lauded String Project, an effort for USC string music education majors to teach area school children to play stringed in struments, will be replicated at 10 uni versities this year. •USC’s Law School has received a $1 million grant from the law firm of Nel son, Mullins, Riley and Scarborough to establish the Nelson, Mullins, Riley and Scarborough Center on the Legal Pro fession. •A $1 million gift from Robert and Beth Dobson of Greenville has estab lished the Dobson Scholar Program, which enables USC students to participate in semester-long volunteer opportunities in