Qiang Zhang from Chemistry and Biochemistry, Jiyong Heo from Civil and Environmental Engineering, and Jennifer Slobodian from Comparative Literature are the recipients of this year’s Summer Dissertation Fellowship. 

The Graduate School is partnering with Dr. Michael Matthews, Principal Investigator and Professor of Chemical Engineering, and the College of Arts and Sciences to increase access and success of underrepresented minority groups in the STEM fields.

Provost Michael D. Amiridis and Argiri Aggelopoulou-Amiridis hosted a new event to honor and give attention to the more than 70 doctoral students from the class of 2012-2013 who have already landed tenure-track faculty positions this year.

Twenty-four outstanding doctoral students will join the award-winning Presidential Fellows program this fall.

The University of South Carolina has seven graduate programs ranked among the nation's best in the latest U.S. News & World and Report’s list of top graduate schools. Those include programs in business, library science, public health, criminology and psychology.