Congratulations to the 2015 ExCEL Award Recipients
More than 30 students, staff, faculty and community members were honored for their commitment to creating a campus environment that promotes diversity and excellence.
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03, 2015
Business on the Fly
It’s every entrepreneur’s dream: an opportunity to pitch his/her wares on a national stage. And what better venue to market your startup than the White House? How about the Oval Office and an audience with its chief occupant – POTUS? When freshman business major Jesse Horine found himself standing next to President Barack Obama, the
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03, 2015
Second Wind
Nearly 10 years after losing her childhood home in one of the costliest and deadliest natural disasters in U.S. history, Clerc Cooper can look back on the terrifying ordeal and see a silver lining. It’s a time she remembers well for reasons beside the hurricane. A middle schooler, she’d been sailing competitively in her hometown
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03, 2015
Figure of Speech
Carefully arranged on an end table just below a window in the office of President Glenn McConnell ’69, a small gold medal about the size of a penny glistens in the late afternoon sun. McConnell picks up the medal. It is attached to one end of a pocketwatch chain that belonged to McConnell’s grandfather. Both
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03, 2015
As the Story Unfolds
She didn’t think they’d go for it. The concept was too out there, too abstract, too risky. Perhaps the short film that Megan Gural Oepen ’00 had pitched would be a better fit for some hip, edgy startup. But the client for this job was Chick-fil-A, a stalwart of American business known for its traditional
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03, 2015
Godfrey Gibbison Can Conquer It All
The dean of the College's new School of Professional Studies has been taking on challenges all his life.
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03, 2015
Anthropology Professor ‘Dr. O’ Honors Famous Grandfather’s Legacy
College of Charleston adjunct professor of anthropology Ade Ofunniyin, grandson of the late Charleston blacksmith Philip Simmons, has been named one of CHARLIE magazine’s “50 Most Progressive.”
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03, 2015
Cougar Nation Shows its Pride
See photos of the College of Charleston community decked out in maroon and white for Can't Hide the Pride Day!
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03, 2015
A St. Patrick’s Day Toast to Great Irish Poets
English professor Joe Kelly once shared a pint of Guinness with Nobel laureate Seamus Heaney, whose poem “When All The Others Were Away at Mass” was recently voted Ireland’s favorite poem of the last 100 years.
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03, 2015
Celebrating Pi is Not Square
College of Charleston mathematics professors explain why this year’s decimal Pi Day on March 14, 2015, is especially, well, round.