Alex Hennessey, also known as Broadway star Patti LuPone's "favorite rehearsal pianist," sits at Starbucks one morning, thoughtfully sipping coffee. One could definitely say the award-winning, classically trained pianist and composer has "the world on a string." A recent summa cum laude graduate of the College of Charleston, Hennessey, 22, has a degree in music
College of Charleston's visiting professor Jay Ball knows the rules of good theater. Which is why he knows how to break them properly. "I was tired of ritualized theater and decided to throw the rules of good theater out the door. I said, 'Let's do Dada for the hell of it,'" Ball explains. Under his
These short plays aren't just homework assignments, either. Theater professor Todd McNerney maintains that the caliber of the scripts selected for Under the Lights is very high. "For a period of 15 years, a College of Charleston student playwright has been either the winner of, or a finalist for, a major regional or national award,"
There will also be an exhibition at the Halsey, which Director and Senior Curator Mark Sloan likens to "a visitor's center, a Whitman's Guide to Kcymaerxthaere." Along with general information about the project, the Halsey will exhibit scaled-down replicas of some of Demetrios' work and associated Namibian embroideries. http://www.charlestoncitypaper.com/charleston/an-ambitious-artist-links-charleston-to-his-living-novel/Content?oid=3391396
Meetings will be held on May 25.
College of Charleston graduate Brittany Johnson wrung everything she could from her college experience. The computer science major from Sumter worked as an undergraduate researcher with the Cyber Infrastructure Research and Development Lab for the Earth Sciences for three years. That work provided her with the opportunity to attend several national and state research conferences
The College of Charlestonโs School of Business is working with Greenville-based tire-manufacturer Michelin North America to develop a professional development program focused on global logistics and transportation. Eventually, the School of Business plans to turn the program that emerges from the partnership into a comprehensive logistics professional development program open to any business, education or
Jaime E. Aleman, ambassador of the Republic of Panama, recently was inducted into the Order of the Discoverers, one of the National Collegiate Hispanic Honor Society's highest honors, at the College of Charleston. http://www.postandcourier.com/news/2011/may/12/panamanian-ambassador-receives-award-c-c/ ย
The School of Education, Health and Human Performance at the College of Charleston received the grant from the U.S. Department of Education, according to a news release from the college. The grant looks to improve science, technology, engineering and mathematics instruction. It will pay for 60 teachers from Berkeley and Georgetown counties and Dorchester County
Mark Sloan, director and senior curator of the College of Charleston's Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art, says he does not think there is a universal standard by which visual art may be judged. "I am interested in work that makes me think, feel or perceive something in a novel way, and I do not care
