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.
Researchers caution us not to get ahead of ourselves when it comes to the logical, though still theoretical, possibilities of how these drugs may influence related health conditions such as cancer.
Winkelmann is the 2025 recipient of the University of South Carolina’s clinical practice teaching award, which recognizes a faculty member for outstanding clinical teaching, practice, advising and mentoring of health science students.
Muskaan Makkar, a May public health graduate, has receiving funding from Fulbright Fance to study food policy in Paris before returning to the U.S. to earn graduate degrees in public health and dietetics.
Joshua Sellner's work is focused on advancing public health from the ground up. His research spans maternal and child health, the public health impacts of cannabis and alcohol use, and the application of population-level data to improve outcomes.
Her 1983 arrival turned into a 40-year adventure, with Varnedoe leading the clinic for 20 years and contributing to the growth and evolution of the school and the field for more than four decades.