"At the moment, we don't have the connections to the commercial ventures," said Mitchell Colgan, director of the South Carolina Space Grant Consortium, which oversees the NASA-bound experiment program in the state. He also is chairman of the College of Charleston Geology Department. Even with the loss of space research, those who have taken part
Architect Jerry English is happy to hear the story about a College of Charleston trustee giving a child a tour of the college's historic Cistern Yard, which recently emerged from a multimillion- dollar face-lift of its buildings and grounds. http://www.postandcourier.com/news/2011/jul/11/cistern-yard-aglow-with-face-lift/
Daniel Aldrich beats the best hitters in the nation to win TD Ameritrade College Home Run Derby.
Rising prices inevitably force tough financial choices. And the steep climb in college tuition, a rise that began long before this year's upward spike in gas and food prices, has required many students to choose between large loans and lowering their educational sights. So it was gratifying to see the College of Charleston Board of
“The greatest success we can have is in some way to have saved the music and given it back to black people,” said Edward Hart, 45, a music professor at the College of Charleston and a second-generation member of the society. “It’s their music.” http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/18/us/18religion.html
The open, oozing flesh of a few of the sea turtles brought in to the aquarium "is a gruesome-looking thing," says David Owens, College of Charleston biology professor who specializes in sea turtles and advises the hospital. It's most likely a combination of stresses are responsible for the apparent, unusual spike in turtles stranded with
The College of Charleston is opting not to change tuition for in-state students this year. The school says its board of trustees did vote Monday to raise tuition prices for out-of-state students by 5 percent. South Carolina students will pay just under $10,000 this coming year. Out-of-state students will pay more than $24,000. http://www.midlandsconnect.com/news/story.aspx?id=629294
"We are grateful for Michelin's interest in College of Charleston's strong global logistics program and look forward to a productive and meaningful training relationship with the company, its affiliates, our faculty and students," says Alan T. Shao, dean of the School of Business. http://www.postandcourier.com/news/2011/jun/16/michelin-c-of-c-team-up-for-program/
When construction crews recently removed the heavy curtains lining the side walls of the Sottile Theatre, they revealed pieces of its past that had been covered over for more than a generation. Two murals of the seven muses, each measuring 15 feet by 27 1/2 feet, existed when the building first opened in 1927 as
Crazyhorse, the literary journal at the College of Charleston, recently announced the winners of two major prizes out of nearly 2,000 entries. Judge Jaimy Gordon, who won the 2010 National Book Award for Fiction for her novel Lords of Misrule, selected Matthew Vollono as the recipient of the Crazyhorse Fiction Prize for his story “Samaritan.”
