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Inside 225 years of on-campus housing at USC

On-campus living has been a rite of passage at the University of South Carolina since before it was actually a university. But the campus housing experience has changed pretty dramatically since the first nine students arrived at South Carolina College in 1805.

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USC researchers land major AI-driven grants from Department of Energy

Two University of South Carolina faculty were recently awarded significant grants as part of the first wave projects selected for the Department of Energy’s Genesis Mission. Designed to bring together a national consortium of researchers and pair them with Department of Energy resources, the Genesis Mission will help build AI-enabled workflows to expedite discoveries in energy, national security and more.

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USC welcomes new and returning students to Columbia

The University of South Carolina’s Columbia campus is welcoming thousands of new college students from across South Carolina, the nation and the world. With an increase of overall enrollment, now approaching 42,000, USC is serving more students today than at other time in its 225-year history.

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USC researchers work to better understand the human brain

Understanding how the brain works and improving outcomes for patients are major priorities for USC researchers. That work gained momentum this year with the opening of the new Brain Health Center, which is just one of the ways the university is concentrating on the brain.

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"AI is remaking the workforce faster than universities can decide how—or whether—to teach it"

(feat. Sabrina Habib, school of journalism and mass communications) Fortune via Yahoo!News

"South Carolina lawmakers examine how state government should regulate AI"

(feat. Homayoun Valafar, AI Institute director; and Bryant Walker Smith, law) WLTX News 19

South Carolina lawmakers examine how state government should regulate AI

(feat. Homayoun Valafar, AI Institute director, and Bryant Walker Smith, law) WLTX News 19

“How much do universal lunch programs affect academic performance?”

(feat. Orgul Ozturk, economics) Scientific American

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