University of South Carolina Beaufort

Sierra Brown, a USCB Nursing student in the Beaufort College Honors program, was awarded the Outstanding First-Year Student of the Year award on April 13.

University of South Carolina Beaufort's Karina Julia Dorris has been selected by the University of South Carolina-Columbia TRIO Department to become a Ronald E. McNair Scholar. Dorris is from Bluffton, SC and graduated from Bluffton High in 2021. She will graduate from USCB in 2025 with a B.S.N. in Nursing.

Campus Compact, national coalition of colleges and universities working to advance the public purposes of higher education, has named 173 student civic leaders who will make up the organization's 2022-2023 cohort of Newman Civic Fellows. Richard Bennett, a junior majoring in Human Services at University of South Carolina Beaufort, will join students from 38 states, Washington, D.C., and Mexico to form the cohort.

Announcing University of South Carolina Beaufort's Fall 2021 Academic Honor Lists!

The most recent USCB Biology publication on mitogenomics features 12 USCB undergraduate co-authors, including the first and second authors. Click their names below for the full story!

USCB alumna and Hilton Head Island native Mary Katherine Schramm (B.A. History, Class of 2016) has been recognized with the University of Chicago's Outstanding Educator award. Click her name below for the full story!

Congratulations to our TV Studio Production II students who have won a Communicator Award for their episode of the much-loved Sand Shark Show!

In a virtual event on January 27, 2021, Chancellor Panu congratulated each of the 41 students chosen as Standout Students at USCB. Click their names below for the full story!

Jerry Houston, USCB Class of 2025, is teaching the culinary arts all while studying for his Hospitality degree. Click his name below for the full story!

The university is employing new, interactive technologies including artificial intelligence (AI), virtual reality, gaming and 360-degree photography to tell the story of the first self-governed town of formerly enslaved people in the United States and to dynamically present Harriett Tubman, Robert Smalls and other historical figures, places and events in the Lowcountry. Click the student names below for the full story!

Three USCB Communication Studies Majors spent last week gaining valuable broadcasting experience with local TV station WHHI. Seniors Makayla Bing and Julia Flemming and junior Nicholas Milhan learned about working on air and behind the camera, producing, editing, and day-to-day operations of the TV station.

Life coaches and other experts agree: Once you find something that ignites your passion, follow it! Recent USCB graduate Khadashia McMillian found she loved working with youth, and her passion recently landed her a job helping at-risk kids rise above their circumstances.

Two USCB English majors and recent graduates have been accepted into Converse College's prestigious M.A.T. program to pursue their dreams of becoming English teachers. Christopher Hunt and Leah Nixon, both members of USCB's Class of 2020, began their graduate studies in Secondary English Education this month. Click their names below for the full story.

Most of us aren't destined to catch a 2,500-lb. shark using just a rod and reel, but watching USCB graduate Taylor Horton's documentary "Passion Led Me Here" is the next best thing.

The University of South Carolina Beaufort is celebrating the success of Theodora (Tedi) Light, who is the first USCB student to receive a Fulbright Student Award. The Fulbright U.S. Student Program provides grants for individually designed study and research projects abroad. Light (Class of 2020, B.A. in History and Spanish) will spend five to seven months in Spain researching the enslavement of indigenous people along the coast of La Florida in the 16th century.

Alexis Henderson, who graduated from USCB in 2017 with a B.A. in English, is celebrating the release of her first novel. "The Year of the Witching" was published by Penguin/Random House and debuted last month. The book is a major achievement - it would be for any novelist, but a two-book contract with a major publisher just three years after graduation is almost unheard of.

What's your new favorite show? If it's not The Sand Shark Show, you're missing out! Click a student's name below for the full story.

Mentored by Dr. Lynn McGee, the USCB Sales Team competed in the 2020 Parker Regional Sales Competition (PRSC) in Statesboro. The PRSC is a great place for students to mesh their classroom-based knowledge of sales with real-world applications. Individual feedback, networking, and even recruiting for future opportunities often occurs as the PRSC.

"By the River," a University of South Carolina Beaufort (USCB) and South Carolina ETV (SCETV) collaboration, has been honored with a bronze Telly Award in the category of Set Design for Season 2. This season features interviews with prominent Southern authors. Click the names below for the full story!

Daniel Conrad, USCB Class of 2020, has been an exceptional student at USCB. His interests are vast, which led him to our Interdisciplinary Studies program where he was able to creatively mesh all of them into one program of study. His beautifully written statement about his time at USCB is inspirational. Click his name below to enjoy!

Josh Bing's script for a feature film, "Wait for Me," won the Gordon K. Haist Award for excellence in Interdisciplinary Studies. Click his name below for Josh's full story, written by him!

Melissa Milligan, USCB Human Services Class of 2020, has a fascinating life and inspiring story. We originally planned on writing an article about her, but her written responses were so eloquent that we couldn't do it better ourselves - literally! Please enjoy our interview with Melissa below.

USCB Early Childhood Education grad, Stephanie Moldenhauer, has been named Red Cedar Elementary's 2020 Teacher of the Year. Click her name below for the full story!

Taylor Cauley, USCB Class of 2019, credits USCB for equipping her to adapt to new teaching dynamics, even amidst unforeseen challenges. Click her name below for the full story!

Logan Smith, USCB Class of 2020 Early Childhood Education graduate, recently completed her student-teaching at Red Cedar Elementary amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, and has recently been offered a teaching position in Beaufort County next year! Click her name below for the full story.

Hannah Parrott, senior USCB Elementary Education major and student teacher at Red Cedar Elementary, is adapting well to her 3rd grade virtual classroom. Not surprisingly, her practicum experience changed drastically when her class moved online during the COVID-19 pandemic. Hannah acknowledges that as an educator, adapting to this new 'normal' is essential. "We owe it our students to provide them with quality education, no matter the circumstances." Click her name below for the full story!

Josh Ward, senior USCB Interdisciplinary Studies major, captures Beaufort's beauty through his senior videography project. Click his name below for the full story!

Jennifer Porter has been working tirelessly seven days a week as a Public Health Nurse for the Virginia Department of Health during the COVID-19 outbreak. Click her name below for the full story!

The first year of teaching is often regarded as the toughest for any new teacher, but perhaps most especially for those having to navigate an entirely new delivery method as a result of COVID-19 school closures. Click Taylor's name below to see how she is supporting her second graders!

Teachers are superheroes, especially now! USCB Early Childhood Education alumna, Danyelle Bozeman Wilson, is teaching her Oakridge Elementary (Clover, SC) kindergartners in her at-home virtual classroom. Click on her name below for the full story!