Psychology Professor Writes About the Need for Humility
College of Charleston psychology professor Jen Wright has published an article for The Conversation that examines the need for humility.
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09, 2023
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09, 2023
A Meeting of the Mind: CofC Faculty Awarded NSF Grant to Help ‘Build-A-Brain’
Psychology professor Nicholas Hindy has found a unique way to teach students about connections in the brain. He has been awarded a $400,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to develop the program, called Build-A-Brain.
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08, 2023
Graduate Assistant Discovers Nation’s Largest Auction of Enslaved People
As a graduate assistant for the College's Center for the Study of Slavery in Charleston, Lauren Davila '21 (M.A. '23) uncovered the largest auction of enslaved people in the United States. She's now taking what she learned and sharing it with students in a new CofC course on slavery and the slave trade.
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08, 2023
CofC Receives NSF Grant to Study Mass Extinction
Thanks to a nearly $300,000 grant from the National Science Foundation Frontier in Research in Earth Sciences program, CofC students will study how terrestrial ecosystems rebuilt following mass extinction.
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08, 2023
Students Help Examine the Health of Gulf Coast Bottlenose Dolphins
CofC students Eric Conger and Tita Curtin joined public health professor Leslie Hart in the Gulf of Mexico this summer to study the health impacts of plastic pollution on wild dolphins.
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08, 2023
Public Health Professor Writes about the Global Childhood Obesity Epidemic
College of Charleston public health professor Kathleen Trejo Tello discusses the growing global childhood obesity epidemic.
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07, 2023
Summer Research Grants Keep Learning Cool
From the testing of flood water contaminants in Charleston to the study of witchcraft and medicine to the use of mathematical models to target brain cancer, students at the College are getting a variety of hands-on experiences through Summer Undergraduate Research with Faculty (SURF) grants.
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07, 2023
Director of Tourism Analysis Receives Fulbright to Teach, Study in Panama
Daniel Guttentag, assistant professor of hospitality and tourism management and director of the Office of Tourism Analysis, has received a Fulbright award to teach and study in Panama for the 2023–24 academic year.
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07, 2023
CofC Podcast: Best-Selling Author Bret Lott on Teaching Writing with Humor and Goodwill
On this episode of 'Speaking Of…College of Charleston,' author Bret Lott talks about his 34 years of teaching, writing, an upcoming nonfiction book and making Oprah's Book Club list.
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07, 2023
History Professor Writes About the Importance of the New International African American Museum
Bernard Powers, professor emeritus of history and director of the College's Center for the Study of Slavery in Charleston, reflects on the significance of the opening of the new International African American Museum in Charleston.