Please provide some specifics to back up your opinion of the poor “attitudes” found in the college of Arts and Sciences. I am most familiar with the department of Chemistry and Biochemistry; and as far as I can see, the vast majority of the faculty are well rounded with respect to research, scholarship, and community service. As a matter of fact, the department has spawned and supports several start-up companies located in the state.

I stand by my comments, if properly read.

Where do I begin; your preceding comment makes no sense. You equate “doing science” with being useless?!?! Just look around…..electronics, medicines, cancer treatments, agriculture, etc. all came about from “doing science”. Granted, much of the science being performed is considered basic; but it is from this work that almost all of the wonders of modern society evolved. The university research model is what made the USA the technological giant it is today. You suggest that the College of Engineering and School of Public Health have a much better attitude about their societal responsibilities than those in the sciences; How so?? Just because their professions put them closer to practical applications, does NOT make science less important to society. Most of the research carried out in the fields of engineering and public health had their roots in basic scientific research.

In part due to these attitudes, USC is unfortunately creating an ever larger group of citizens and SC professionals who don’t really like it.

And hydrogen as a fuel would largely be just a convenient conveyor of energy, not a source. It would take a lot more energy to produce the hydrogen (e.g., “nuke” electrical power to release hydrogen from water). Finally, anyone who thinks fusion is involved (as in the sun) is living in la la land.