26 04, 2011

Migrating Sea Turtles Pick Up More Pollution โ€“ The New York Times

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The group, led by Jared M. Ragland, a graduate student at the College of Charleston, in Charleston, S.C., captured 19 loggerheads near Cape Canaveral, Fla., in 2006 and 2007. Group members measured and weighed the turtles, took blood samples, and examined their reproductive systems with testicular biopsies. Then they fitted them with satellite transmitters and

25 04, 2011

College of Charleston undergrad wins Fulbright Scholarship โ€“ The Post and Courier

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College of Charleston senior Sara Sprehn is the first undergraduate in the school's history to land a full Fulbright Scholarship. Sprehn, from Fort Myers, Fla., is a Spanish major who also will earn minors in anthropology and chemistry. http://www.postandcourier.com/news/2011/apr/23/c-of-c-undergrad-wins-fulbright-scholarship/

25 04, 2011

San Francisco native, college grad aims for Americaโ€™s Cup, Olympics โ€“ The Examiner: San Francisco

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Rather than navigate the globe after completing college, sailor Molly Robinson took another route. The San Francisco native did venture halfway across the world after graduating from the College of Charleston in 2009, but it was hardly a pleasure cruise. Robinson spent two months in a Hazmat suit, spraying glue for a sail-making company in

25 04, 2011

Biology professor wins research grant โ€“ The Post and Courier

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College of Charleston biology professor Gavin Naylor has received a $2.2 million grant from the National Science Foundation to study the evolution of sharks, rays and chimaeras. Under the terms of the five-year research grant, Naylor will categorize the diversity of sharks, skates, rays and chimaeras; provide a genealogy of relationships based on DNA sequence

25 04, 2011

Lives on the sea: Searching seas for plastic a wake-up call โ€“ The Post and Courier

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For College of Charleston undergraduates Daniel Hodge and Coti Phillips, who interned on an earlier leg of that cruise as far as Bermuda, pulling in those nets was a wake-up call. "I was expecting to see bottles, plastic bags. It was almost the perfect size for plankton, for small animals to be eating," Phillips said.