South Carolina Honors College student and Stamps scholar Hannah Brennen is a 2026 Rhodes Scholarship finalist. If selected for this award, Brennen will become the University of South Carolina’s 11th Rhodes scholar, the first since Jory Fleming in 2016.
Using a second National Institutes of Health grant awarded this year, health promotion, education, and behavior assistant professor Leila Larson will examine the factors influencing childhood development from yet another angle: weather.
Richard Strater has been an Arnold School staff member since 2020, but that's not the only reason why the Master of Public Health (MPH) degree he's currently pursuing feels like coming full circle.
Khushboo's work examining the formation of environmentally persistent free radicals was recently recognized with an International Student Excellence Scholarship from USC's Office of International Student and Scholar Support.
Delores Marie ("Marie") Thomas only had four years at USC yet her impact touched every one of the faculty, staff, students and community members she interacted with.
The list of students and their placements reveal a diverse set of locations and experiences the students can learn from both individually and collectively as they've returned to campus for the fall semester after completing their six-week commitments.
Leila Larson has been awarded nearly three million dollars from the National Institutes of Health to lead a five-year study aimed at improving childhood health and development.
Manufactured chemicals and medications can impact maternal and child health well beyond pregnancy, and Pengfei Guo is using environmental and perinatal epidemiology to better understand and mitigate these impacts.
Entomology Today features the career path of Katherine Brown, a professional dancer who was inspired by the pandemic to pursue an MPH in Epidemiology at the Arnold School. Now she's the tick surveillance manager for the Nolan Lab.
Harris Pastides is most often associated with his 11-year tenure as USC President, but few keep it top of mind how his five years as dean of the Arnold School were incredibly impactful for both the school and Pastides' own career.
The Duke Endowment has awarded $650,000 to epidemiology professor Jihong Liu to continue developing a new program designed to protect the health of pregnant and postpartum women in South Carolina.
Lisa Rose has lived around the country (and even overseas), but she's made her home in the Midlands, and she plans to stay. It's the perfect place to make an impact in her area of expertise: using environmental health sciences to fight the opioid epidemic.