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USC touts next phase of high-tech growth spurt
Jason Reynolds
THE 6RmCC0CK
Signs of a unified campus under the
JneCarolina project will be increasingly
•isible this year, said a University
Technology Services official.
One University, One Network is the
university’s long-term initiative to replace
jtdated administrative computing
iplications, including Student
nformation Systems, the Business and
Finance Division, the Sponsored Programs
Department and the Human Resources
Division into one easily-accessible, Web
based system.
“This is an initiative that will provide
the needed technology and systems to
drive one of the most ambitious and far
reaching transformation initiatives in
USCs history,” said Kimberly South,
public information coordinator for
University Technology Services. “Basically,
OneCarolina will take several years to
complete, but it will update the computer
applications that exist on the university
campus, notably student information
systems.”
USC President Andrew Sorensen,
proponent of the initiative, said in a USC
IT Bulletin interview that the
development of OneCarolina would meet
faculty and students’ expectations for
instant mobile access to fast
communications networks, and the latest
in “computer-driven resources for
instruction, and scholarship.”
“The long-reaching plan is to virtually
unite all colleges so students can simply log
onto one site and access all their
information,” South said. “Our goal is to
make all that seamless, so that you can get
on with the same username, at the same
wireless or wired network.”
South said OneCarolina will eventually
replace VIP and other systems students
use. The unified system would cover more
services than existing programs.
“This is going to allow students, faculty
and staff to better access resources over the
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STUDENT
RESEARCH
Director: Undergraduate
opportunities abound
through stipend program,
curriculum integration
Justin Chapura
THEBaraECOCR
USC will put forth a massive effort this
fall to involve undergraduates in research
opportunities with faculty as part of USC
President Andrew Sorensen’s vision for a
robust research campus in Columbia.
Julie Morris was appointed director of
the new Office of Undergraduate
Research, part of the university’s Research
and Health Sciences division. A research
stipend program aimed at incoming
freshmen and an online database for
campus research opportunities are some of
the initiatives Morris is pursing.
The office’s Web site, www.sc.edu/our,
features a portal to federal and private
resources for funding research.
Morris said she wants interested
students to understand that opportunities
are available for everyone, especially those
majoring outside the sciences.
One tactic was developing research
based courses.
“Theatre students go through a
workshop experience,” Morris said,
“where students work hands-on to
research and design costumes and sets.
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University officials will push new
idergraduate research initiatives this
ill, including a stipend program and
urriculum integration.
Andrew Sorensen talks
research, the NCAA
inquiry into USC football
and summer jobs
Taylor Smith
news EDITOR
The rapid development toward making
USC a “pre-imminent research
university” can be, traced to a person’s
summer job as a construction worker
some 30 years ago.
During his 11 summers of
undergraduate and graduate studies, USC
President Andrew Sorensen can recall the
frustration of not completing goals as
quickly as he would have liked.
“I told our guys in facilities: ‘If you
guys don’t get that dirt moved I’m gonna
get in a bulldozer, go down there myself
and start pushing (it) around,”’ Sorensen
said.
Dirt appears to be the only thing
standing in the way of Sorensen’s vision,
as he has already earned majority funding
for the $140 million research campus.
Official groundbreaking began that
with the new Arnold School of Public
Health building.
Construction is scheduled to be
complete in the spring or summer of
2006.
Incoming students will feel the
excitement surrounding that first tangible
evidence of a research campus, Sorensen
said.
“There is huge excitement as to what
portends for the university,” Sorensen
said.
The manifestation of faculty research
excitement will take the shape of
undergraduate research programs initiated
when students return to classes on Aug.
18.
One-hundred $3,000 research stipends
will be available to students, who must go
to a faculty member and create a proposal
to apply for financing.
The stipend would be added to any
financial aid the student is receiving.
“By research, I don’t just mean
molecular biology or nanotechnology,”
Sorensen said.
“Research is scholarship of any sort
whatsoever ... and we have faculty that are
so diverse, I want students to sense their
excitement, which will create
opportunities for them.”
By pledging $300,000 for
undergraduate research funding and a
possible $2,000 stipend for students who
study abroad, Sorensen said USC is
“putting their money where their mouth
is.”
Undergraduate research has been an
idea since his arrival in 2002, but this will
be the year of tangibility, he said.
A fervent believer in the positive
impact of research on academics,
Sorensen said grants earned by colleges
could surprise students in the classroom
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College shujfle to start with move of public health school
Ian Chamberlain
THE GUmECOCH
Construction of the new Norman J.
Arnold School of Public Health is on
schedule to be finished in early 2006, and
movement to the new $22 million
building will start the across-campus shift
of some colleges.
Officials aren’t sure whether the move
will occur during the winter or summer
breaks, but said there would be no
interference for students in the fall or
spring terms.
“To the best of my knowledge, it’s on
schedule,” said Donna Collins, an
executive assistant in the Department of
Campus Planning and Construction.
The move is part of a larger shift in
several colleges’ locations slated to take
place during the next several years. After
the public health department moves into
its new building, the mathematics
department will move out of LeConte
College and into the current health
sciences building. The College of Mass
Communications and Information
Studies is slated to then move into
LeConte.
The timetable for the moves has not
been set, but extensive renovations of the
health sciences building and LeConte
College are being scheduled.
The new health sciences building will
be one of the first buildings completed in
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Police Report..A2
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