Joy Vandervort-Cobb Joy Vandervort-Cobb, 49, can tell you the exact moment she realized that she wanted to be an actor. It occurred in the fourth grade. "I played Heidi," said Vandervort-Cobb, adding with a laugh, "yes, that one! I was on the Alps picking flowers for my grandfather, and I loved it. I did this

There's at least one college in the United States, the College of Charleston, that has never required robes at graduation. Instead, female students wear white dresses, and male students wear white dinner jackets during commencement. http://www.slate.com/id/2256753/  

Charleston also gives the Boston intellectuals a run for their money. Home to The College of Charleston (the 13th oldest university in the country), Charleston School of Law, Medical University of South Carolina, The Citadel (a military institution) and more, you’ll fit right in with that Harvard sweatshirt — even if it’s tied around your

"I would pay to be an arts patron," said Rachel Reid, a 23-year-old recent graduate of the College of Charleston. "If I could afford it." http://www.postandcourier.com/news/2010/jun/09/young-at-artcharleston-groups-pursue-a-new/  

So after the triathlon, I wondered if his sudden, enthusiastic switch to Five Fingers had anything to do with the injury, but I didn't bother to call him about it until I got an e-mail from Brian Johnson, an assistant coach for College of Charleston cross country. http://www.postandcourier.com/news/2010/jun/08/is-barefoot-running-backfiring/

The College of Charleston announced Monday that piano student Dotan Nitzberg has won an International Young Soloist Award from VSA -- the International Organization on Arts and Disability. Nitzberg will join three other winners for a group performance on the Kennedy Center's Millennium Stage tonight in Washington, D.C. The concert will be broadcast live at

Conventional theater wisdom will tell you that the best way to do good work is to produce it yourself. Theater students at the College of Charleston are doing one better: They're writing it, too. The result is "Under the Lights," an evening of 10, 10-minute plays written by College of Charleston students and being performed

"These impacts will cascade through the food web and eventually effect the larger species at the top of the food chain like marine mammal and birds, but we don't really know how it will happen," said Phil Dustan, College of Charleston biology professor, who has urged boaters to get involved. http://www.postandcourier.com/news/2010/jun/07/sc-boaters-to-watch-for-first-signs-of-spill/      

"The bottom line is, day to day, physicists are scrambling trying to figure out this (ocean) circulation," said Jack DiTullio, College of Charleston oceanographer who studies the currents. http://www.postandcourier.com/news/2010/jun/07/path-spill-tough-call/