For College of Charleston undergraduates Daniel Hodge and Coti Phillips, who interned on an earlier leg of that cruise as far as Bermuda, pulling in those nets was a wake-up call. "I was expecting to see bottles, plastic bags. It was almost the perfect size for plankton, for small animals to be eating," Phillips said.

Bernard Powers, a professor of African American history at the College of Charleston, is an advisor to Drayton Hall, near Charleston, S.C. Slaves are buried here, their graves unmarked. "I come out here and walk over in this area and there's a certain spirituality that pervades this place," he said. "One of the things that

A team from the College of Charleston, South Carolina, used hi-tech satellite transmitters to track migrant loggerhead turtles from Florida, up and down the U.S. Atlantic coast. Lead author Jared Ragland, from the College of Charleston, said: “The risks posed by persistent organic pollutants, known as POPs, remains largely a mystery for threatened loggerhead sea

One hundred and fifty years ago, the first shots of the US Civil War were fired in Charleston, South Carolina. Historian Bernard Powers talks to the BBC's Paul Adams about the history of slavery and why it triggered the secession of southern states. Speaking at Boone Hall Plantation outside Charleston, Powers says the US has

Professor BERNARD POWERS (College of Charleston): We must always remember that there's great potential in this country, its institutions, in the Constitution to further the interests of civil rights and equality and justice. That's the beauty of America. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3032619/#42561251  

"The Union was not only preserved, it was transformed through the destruction of slavery and made more perfect," said Bernard Powers Jr., a Professor at the College of Charleston and author of "Black Charlestonians: A Social History 1822-1885. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/42493906  

"There's a big difference when you win a war," said Edmund Drago, a history professor at the College of Charleston. "When you win a war, and you lost someone in that war, you can say they died for a good cause. How can you justify your kin dying in a bad war?" http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/news/s_731798.html    

College of Charleston geology professor Scott Harris, with guidance from Gianfranco Morelli of Italy, scanned almost the entire square in just a few hours. With earlier systems, it would have taken weeks. http://www.postandcourier.com/news/2011/apr/15/exploring-the-unseen/