USC President 06 Scholarships and best, and our First-Year Experience program for freshmen also was singled out in the “Programs to Look For” section in the 2007 Amer- 07 Research ica’s Best Colleges Guide published by U.S. News & World Report. Productivity Carolina’s graduate international business program is ranked No. 1 SEASON TEAM in the magazine among public institutions in the country. With every new class, USC’s These are just a few reasons why Carolina has become a destination student body grows in academic of choice for undergraduate students. excellence. This year’s freshman SEASON class promises to be the most tal- Dr. Andrew A. Sorensen ented academically in the history of the university. And they’re Andrew A. Sorensen came to USC after serving as president of the joining an impressive group of University of Alabama (1996-2002) and provost and vice president students. Last year, University for academic affairs at the University of Florida (1990-1996). Dr. students won 43 national awards, Dr. Andrew A. Sorensen also has been executive director of the AIDS Institute at earning more than $1.3 million for Sorensen the Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions and director of the School of TEAM advanced academic study. Win- University President Public Health at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. He was ners included a Truman Scholar a faculty member at Lincoln University, the University of Rochester, and Truman Scholar Finalist, Fulbright Fellows, a Udall Scholar, and Cornell University, and has been visiting faculty member at the three National Science Foundation Research Fellows, a U.S. Depart- Harvard University School of Medicine and the University of Cam- STAFF ment of Homeland Security Scholar, two Goldwater Scholars and an bridge School of Medicine. Honorable Mention, a Knowles Science Teaching Fellow, a Nation- Author or editor of seven books and more than 138 articles, he is al Physical Science Consortium Scholar, five Rotary International professor of epidemiology and biostatistics in USC’s Arnold School STAFF Scholars, three National Security Education Program Scholars, eight of Public Health. He holds a bachelor’s degree in ethics and mater’s Gilman Scholars, a Freeman-Asia Scholar, a NOAA Hollings Schol- and doctoral degrees in medical sociology from Yale University. He ar and three Tau Beta Pi Scholars among others. also earned a B.A. in history from the University of Illinois and a Carolina has received the Carnegie Foundation’s highest designa- master of public health from the University of Michigan. tion for its superior research activity and is the only university in the OPPONENTS Currently, he is president of the Southeastern Conference, past state to be designated for very high research activity. As Carolina president of the Southern University Conference, past chair of the builds its research campus, faculty are garnering prestigious grants Southern Universities Research Association Council of Presidents, to conduct research in areas that have real world applications for our and a trustee of the Universities Research Association. He was a state and our nation. Carolina is collaborating with other institu- member of the Education Advisory Committee for President Bush’s tions to move our state forward. Health Sciences South Carolina is Transition Team during 2000-2001, and was appointed in 2005 to the just one such collaborative. Earlier this year, HSSC received a $21- NIH National Science Advisory Board for Biosecurity. He is active million grant from the Duke Endowment to fund research that will in community affairs, serving as Honorary Chairman of the Board of support the establishment of the Center of Healthcare Quality and Big Brothers/Big Sisters Clinical Effectiveness. USC researchers also are directing their efforts toward the environment, biomedical REVIEW RECORDS sciences, and nanotechnology, and recently collaborated with researchers at Johns Hop- kins University on a groundbreaking cancer study. Life at Carolina At Carolina, we’re committed to creating one of the very best living and learning en- vironments in the country for our students. Our Healthy Carolina Initiative is well un- der way. We have expanded our Student Success Center to help undergraduate students suc- HISTOR ceed academically, and we have created a new research opportunity for undergradu- ate students. Called the Magellan Scholar program, the initiative pairs undergraduate students with faculty and pays each student a stipend to support research. Carolina continues to do well in national Y HISTORY RECORDS REVIEW OPPONENTS rankings. Carolina’s undergraduate inter- President Sorensen (second from left) visits with Gamecock seniors Tre’ Kelley, Bryce national business program is the nation’s Sheldon and Brandon Wallace at his home on the historic Horseshoe. 108 THE GAMECOCKS UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA WWW.USCSPORTS.COM 2006 . 07 BASKETBALL USC Athletics Director 06 Former National Athletics Di- back regional appearances for the first time in school history. rector of the Year Eric Hyman is in As TCU’s Athletics Director, Hyman worked diligently to im- 07 his second year as the Director of prove athletic facilities. He directed a three-phase building plan Athletics at the University of South that included the construction of a soccer stadium, a track complex SEASON TEAM Carolina. Hyman officially began and football practice fields during the first phase, renovations to his duties at Carolina on July 1, the coliseum and the construction of an athletics center housing 2005. the football offices and meeting rooms, an academic center, athletic During the 2005-06 academic administration offices and an athletics heritage area in the second SEASON year, Carolina was one of only 11 phase, and the construction of a baseball stadium, basketball prac- schools in the country and the only tice complex, tennis offices and locker room building, an all-weath- school in the Southeastern Confer- er football practice field and a volleyball gymnasium in the final ence to have its football team par- phase. ticipate in a bowl game, have both Before joining TCU, Hyman was the athletics director at Miami its men’s and women’s basketball University in Oxford, Ohio. During his tenure, Miami had the fifth- Eric Hyman programs compete in post-season highest student-athlete graduation rate among all NCAA Division I TEAM tournaments and have its baseball schools in the country. His last two years at Miami brought home 10 Athletics Director squad reach regional play. In ad- conference championships. Hyman also served as athletics director dition, the women’s outdoor track & at VMI in Lexington, Virginia, in the 1980s. field team finished third in the country while crowning a pair of No stranger to the Carolinas, Hyman coached football for nine individual national champions and the equestrian hunt seat squad years under Art Baker and Dick Sheridan, and was an associate ath- STAFF claimed a national title. Men’s soccer earned a conference title letics director for two years at Furman University, where he earned while both men’s and women’s golf and tennis teams advanced to a master’s degree in educational administration (1975). He and STAFF post-season action. In Sept., 2006, Hyman announced USC would his wife, Pauline, coached the women’s basketball team at North add women’s lacrosse by the end of the decade. Greenville College in Tigerville, S.C., leading the team to national Hyman came to South Carolina from Texas Christian Univer- rankings in the ‘70s. sity in Fort Worth, Texas, where he served as the athletics direc- Hyman played football at the University of North Carolina at tor for over seven years. At TCU, Hyman worked to solidify a na- Chapel Hill where he was an all-ACC football player, on the Dean’s OPPONENTS tional reputation as an architect of championship programs, as an list and selected for the Hula Bowl. He also served as the Executive advocate for academic success and as a skilled administrator. For Associate Athletics Director at North Carolina State University in his success, Hyman was named the 2003-2004 Street and Smith’s Raleigh in the early 1990s. Business Journal National Athletics Director of the Year and was His wife, Pauline, is a native of North Carolina and also gradu- also chosen as the Division I-A West Regional Athletics Director of ated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Prior to the Year by the National Association of Collegiate Directors of Ath- her arrival at UNC, she played and later coached women’s college letics (NACDA). In his final year at TCU, the university produced basketball, taught sociology and psychology as well as serving as three conference championships, seven second-place finishes and a college administrator. Pauline developed and taught the NCAA the C-USA Male and Female Athlete of the Year. CHAMPS Life Skills course and various seminars for student-ath- Under his leadership, TCU teams recorded 32 conference titles letes at both Miami University and TCU. This past year she taught and consistently posted a graduation percentage rate higher than the Etiquette Seminar as part of South Carolina’s Life Skills course REVIEW RECORDS that of the overall TCU student body. Hyman was instrumental and will lead other seminars to help prepare the student-athletes for in orchestrating TCU’s invitation to join Conference USA in July their futures after Carolina athletics. 2001 and spearheaded the effort for TCU to join the Mountain West The Hymans have two adult children: Ryan, who graduated from Conference in July 2005, moving the program from the Western TCU in 2001 and Corrine, a 2004 graduate of TCU. Ryan works Athletic Conference it was in when Hyman arrived. for L.T. Barton Insurance Company in Fort Worth and Corrine is a In the 2000-2001 school year, TCU teams turned in the best ath- realtor with Williams Trew Real Estate in Fort Worth.