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12 03, 2016

Lift as You Climb

By |2020-01-16T09:48:33-05:00March 12, 2016|Alumni, College of Charleston Magazine|Comments Off on Lift as You Climb

Late last summer, Jasmine Twitty ’10 generated quite a bit of buzz when she was appointed to the bench in Easley, S.C., and became one of the state’s youngest judges and yet another example of millennial audacity. by Mark Berry photography by Gately Williams She stands in front of the mirror. Everything is quiet. Eyes

12 03, 2016

Campaign Central

By |2018-05-07T10:31:31-04:00March 12, 2016|College of Charleston Magazine|Comments Off on Campaign Central

It’s election season in America, and that means many college students around the country are volunteering, interning and organizing their fellow students in support of a presidential candidate. Students are doing everything from holding and attending rallies to canvassing and registering people to vote. Here, at the College, students are getting a more up-close-and-personal, front-row

12 03, 2016

Support Service

By |2016-03-12T17:01:42-05:00March 12, 2016|College of Charleston Magazine|Comments Off on Support Service

It’s hard enough to hide the pride at the College, but when it comes to campus members of the U.S. armed forces, it’s nearly impossible. On Veterans Day 2015, the College showed both pride and gratitude for its approximately 335 students who are using some form of the GI Bill – whether as family members/dependents of

12 03, 2016

Strong Suit

By |2017-01-06T12:25:37-05:00March 12, 2016|College of Charleston Magazine|Comments Off on Strong Suit

It doesn’t seem like the fitness regimen of a world champion weightlifter. Stephen Lesage eats what he wants. He eschews the help of a personal trainer, improving his technique instead by watching YouTube videos. He never jogs, boldly claiming that “cardio is a myth.” And he only entered the local weightlifting competition as a show of solidarity

12 03, 2016

Taken by Storm

By |2017-01-31T15:25:51-05:00March 12, 2016|College of Charleston Magazine|Comments Off on Taken by Storm

Mention Hurricane Katrina and most people recall exactly where they were when that historic storm made landfall in 2005. Physics professor Gabe Williams certainly does. At the time, he was an undergraduate at Morehouse College in Atlanta. For Williams, Hurricane Katrina was a game changer. “At that point, I was actually interested in astronomy,” Williams

29 12, 2015

How CofC Helped Launch the Acting Career of Matt Czuchry

By |2020-02-25T13:02:47-05:00December 29, 2015|Academics, Alumni|Comments Off on How CofC Helped Launch the Acting Career of Matt Czuchry

As a star and mainstay on The Good Wife, Matt Czuchry ’99 is perhaps one of the most recognizable faces in College of Charleston history.

21 10, 2015

The Awakening

By |2020-01-16T09:49:25-05:00October 21, 2015|Alumni, College of Charleston Magazine|4 Comments

As a star and mainstay on The Good Wife, Matt Czuchry ’99 is perhaps one of the most recognizable faces in school history. His breakout performance last season on the critically hailed drama staked his claim for being one of the top talents in this new golden age of television. by Mark Berry photos by

21 10, 2015

Hollings Marine Laboratory: Gavin Naylor’s Lab

By |2015-10-21T13:22:28-04:00October 21, 2015|College of Charleston Magazine|Comments Off on Hollings Marine Laboratory: Gavin Naylor’s Lab

I work in Professor Gavin Naylor’s molecular evolution lab at the Hollings Marine Laboratory at Fort Johnson on James Island. I first met Professor Naylor at the School of Sciences and Mathematics’ research matchmaking day my first semester at the College. I was very interested in working with him, and I finally got the opportunity through

21 10, 2015

Swimming Upstream

By |2020-01-16T09:49:16-05:00October 21, 2015|Alumni, College of Charleston Magazine|Comments Off on Swimming Upstream

It was the late 1980s, and Tony Harold was in the thick of research for his dissertation on phylogeny and taxonomy of deep-sea hatchetfishes at Memorial University of Newfoundland. He had been working with a sample of hatchetfish when he noticed some specimens had a unique pattern of dark skin down the sides of their bodies, resembling

21 10, 2015

Buzzing Along

By |2015-10-21T13:11:46-04:00October 21, 2015|College of Charleston Magazine|Comments Off on Buzzing Along

Everyone talks about the bee’s knees, but what about its compound eyes? That’s what biology major Anna Collett cares about when she’s studying the European honeybee in professor Jason Vance’s lab at the College’s Harbor Walk campus on the Charleston Harbor. Collett and Vance are trying to better understand the visual system of honeybees, including their compound