Dr. Doug Ferguson, professor of communication at College of Charleston, is one of those people. Even though he estimates that 90 percent of his students and two-thirds of his university colleagues own them, Ferguson has chosen to keep his basic cellphone. “There’s a peer pressure,” Ferguson said. “There’s a pressure to be like everybody else.”
Von Bakanic, a sociology professor at the College of Charleston, said the correlation between television (and, by extension, other visual media) and violence has long been observed by researchers. A Canadian study in the 1970s compared children raised in a small town without television with those with regular exposure to television and found substantial differences,
The financial advantage of Riley and Summey does not surprise College of Charleston political science professor Andy Felts. "It's very typical for the incumbent to be able to raise substantially more money than somebody who is working to get name recognition," he said. "It's a predictable thing for money to flow to ones that they
From the time Derrick Niederman was in elementary school, he buried his head in puzzle books for entertainment. Years later, after earning a degree in mathematics from Yale, he was working toward his PhD at M.I.T. when he decided to try his hand at crossword puzzles. Now a professor of mathematics at the College of
Margaret Lacey, on the other hand, finds that many people are quite well-mannered in her everyday life. A sophomore at the College of Charleston — in the South Carolina city that is often cited as one of the most courteous in the country — Lacey notes that people can be polite without trotting out the
The swarm was there to support local business, yet participants may get something in return, says Jennifer Baker, an assistant professor of philosophy at the College of Charleston in South Carolina. Under the "virtue ethics" point of view, she says, if folks strive to continually do what they think is right, "It becomes second nature,
See Venus and Jupiter "up-close" on March 16.
Ken Czubay will discuss the Ford turnaround, his vision for Ford's future and his experience working in different cultures.
Nirupama Rao's visit was part of her inaugural trip to the United States.
We're often told that young people tend to be the most tech-savvy among us. But just how savvy are they? A group of researchers led by College of Charleston business professor Bing Pan tried to find out. Specifically, Pan wanted to know how skillful young folks are at online search. His team gathered a group
