n Researchers at the College of Engineering and Computing are part of a national team that will develop technologies to assess the structural health of the nation’s aging bridges. The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) awarded the $14 million dollar project, which will include the Physical Acoustics Corp. (PAC) of Princeton, N.J., the University of Miami and Virginia Tech as partners, with $4 million going to Carolina for its part of the study. n University archaeologists from the University of South Carolina and East Carolina University have located two large cannon from a sunken Confederate gunboat in the Pee Dee River and have identified where the Mars Bluff Naval Yard once stood on the east side of the river in Marion County. State underwater archaeologist Christopher Amer and state archaeologist and research associate professor Dr. Jon Leader will lead efforts to raise the three cannon, each weighing upwards of five tons, that were once aboard C.S.S. Pee Dee. n The University has been selected by the U.S. Department of Energy to house a research center that is expected to bring $12.5 million in federal funding, the largest award in the University’s history, to a team of internationally recognized energy researchers in the College of Engineering and Computing. The center is one of 31 Energy Frontier Research Centers (EFRCs) being set up by DOE’s Office of Science at leading universities around the country for advanced scientific research on energy. Sixteen additional centers are being established at DOE national laboratories, non-profit organizations and private firms across the nation. 102 Degree Programs Arts and Sciences Engineering and Computing African American Studies Biomedical Engineering Anthropology Chemical Engineering n BlueCross BlueShield of South Carolina Art Education Civil and Environmental Engineering and the University have created the Consortium Art History Computer Engineering Art Studio Computer Information Systems for Enterprise Systems Management, a unique Biological Sciences Computer Science Cardiovascular Technology Computer Science and Engineering n The University’s graduate programs in collaboration that will build information Chemistry Computer Software Engineering international business, school-library media technology (IT) opportunities of the future. The Classics Electrical Engineering Comparative Literature Engineering Science and social psychology have earned top rankings consortium, believed to be the first of its kind Creative Writing Mechanical Engineering anywhere, aims to converge business, academia Criminology and Criminal Justice Nuclear Engineering in U.S. News & World Report’s annual issue, Dance “America’s Best Graduate Schools.” The Moore and economic development to collaborate in Earth and Environmental Resources Hospitality, Retail, and Sport Management Management School of Business is recognized as the nation’s growing IT talent, nurturing IT management Economics Business and Technology Education highest-ranked public-university MBA program expertise and cultivating related business and English Hospitality Management Environmental Science Interdisciplinary Studies for international business and No. 2 among all organizational relationships. European Studies International Hospitality and Tourism Film and Media Studies Management institutions in that specialty. This marks the Foreign Languages Retailing 20th-consecutive year that the Moore School’s n The National Resource Center for The French Sport and Entertainment Geography Management International Master of Business Administration First-Year Experience and Students in Transition Geology Technology Support and Training (IMBA) Program has been ranked either No. 1 received the 2008 Special Merit Award from the Geophysics Management German Tourism Management or No. 2 in the publication. The University also Association for the Study of Higher Education History (ASHE). The ASHE Special Merit Award is Industrial Statistics Law was ranked No. 2 for its program in school-library Interdisciplinary Studies media, and in social psychology, the University presented to a person, group or organization International Studies Mass Communications and Italian Information Studies ranked No. 4, alongside Cornell University and in recognition of influential leadership and Latin American Studies Journalism and Mass ahead of Duke University, Emory University and contributions to the understanding and study of Linguistics Communications Media Arts Advertising the University of Michigan, among others. colleges and universities. Marine Science Broadcast Journalism Mathematics Information Science Philosophy Journalism (Print) n University research awards totaled nearly $83 n Representatives from China were on campus Physics Library and Information Science Political Science Mass Communication million for the first half of fiscal year 2009, an last fall for the official launch of a prestigious Professional Science Public Relations increase of almost 5 percent from the same time Confucius Institute at the University. The Psychology, Clinical-Community Visual Communications Psychology, Experimental last year. An increase of 10.2 percent in federal institute is expected to impact K-12 education Psychology, School Medicine and business and trade in South Carolina, as well Public Administration Biomedical Science grants and an award of more than $2.2 million Public History Genetic Counseling from the Duke Endowment put the University as undergraduate education at the University. Religious Studies Nurse Anesthesia Russian Rehabilitation Counseling in position to surpass its record $206 million in Sociology grants last year. n The S.C. Rural Health Research Center Spanish Music Statistics Composition has received $2.6 million for research on rural Theatre Conducting n healthcare needs, particularly among minorities. Women’s and Gender Studies Education The University’s three-part mission – teaching, History research and outreach – received significant The grant, which continues through September Business Jazz Studies Accounting Opera Theatre applause from the Carnegie Foundation for the 2012, is one of only six nationally from the Business Administration Performance Advancement of Teaching recently when the Office of Rural Health Policy at the U.S. Health Business Economics Piano Pedagogy Economics Theory University joined that organization’s “Curricular Resources and Services Administration. Finance Human Resources Nursing Engagement and Outreach & Partnerships” Insurance and Risk Management Nursing Administration classification. Carolina is the only University from n A new library of special collections will be International Business Clinical Nursing Management Community Mental Health and this state and one of only 23 public Universities named for former U.S. Senator Ernest F. “Fritz” Management Science Psychology nationwide to receive the foundation’s highest Hollings. The $18-million, 50,000-square-foot Marketing Health Nursing Real Estate Nursing Science ranking in both research and service to their building, to be named The Ernest F. Hollings Special Collections Library, will house the library’s Education Pharmacy communities. Community and Adult Programs Pharmaceutical Sciences growing Rare Books and Special Collections and Counselor Education Curriculum and Instruction Public Health provide a permanent home for the University’s Early Childhood Education Biostatistics S.C. Political Collections, which document the Education Administration Communication Sciences and Educational Psychology and Disorders careers and contributions of many of the state’s Research Environmental Health Sciences political leaders. Educational Research Epidemiology Educational Technology Exercise Science Elementary Education Health Education Foundations of Education Health Promotion, Education, and Health Education Administration Behavior Higher Education and Student Health Services Policy and Affairs Management Language and Literacy Physical Activity and Public Health Middle Level Education Physical Therapy Natural Sciences Speech Communication Physical Education Speech-Language Pathology Secondary Education Special Education Social Work Social Studies Social Work Teaching South Carolina Honors College Baccalaureus Artium et Scientiae 103 “My Carolina is living in Columbia, a great place for my wife and I to raise our kids; meeting great people, from Augusta to Florence, from Greenville to Charleston; working at the flagship university in our great state; coaching in the premier conference in the country in the SEC and competing at a high level; and looking forward to packing the Colonial Life Arena!” - Darrin Horn, Carolina Men’s Basketball Coach “My Carolina is living and working in one of the best states in America. My Carolina is coaching at a wonderful state university, the University of South Carolina; competing at the highest level in the Southeastern Conference; and hopefully one day soon being the Southeastern Conference football champions! This is My Carolina!” - Head Ball Coach Steve Spurrier “My Carolina is the chance to build a championship caliber program in the Southeastern Conference, helping our players “My Carolina is a place where dreams reach their potential on and off the court, being active in our can be reached by anyone willing to put local community, and great fans in the Colonial Life Arena.” forth the effort, and we have had a lot - Dawn Staley, Carolina Women’s Basketball Coach of young people put forth a great deal of effort