College of Charleston professors Bill Manaris, Yiorgos Vassilandonakis, and graduate student David Johnson have developed the Harmonic Navigator, a new computer-music project that combines artificial intelligence and human-computer interaction.
An Ocean Friendly Garden (OFG) is a garden that applies CPR – Conservation, Permeability, and Retention – to revive the health of watersheds and oceans.
Students and employees donated their time, money and expertise to help thousands of people in the Charleston region this holiday. These are just a few ways the College touched the community.
Approximately 80 fifth- and sixth-graders from the Charleston County School District (CCSD) will be visiting the College of Charleston campus on December 13 from 9 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. to learn more about plastics and biodegradable materials as part of the College's Literacy Outreach Initiative (LOI). These students have been reading "Tracking Trash" by Loree Griffin Burns and will visit C of C labs to participate activities related to the book.
Hannah Murray ’13 graduated from the Honors College with dual degrees in computer science and computing in the arts and moved to New York City a shortly after. As the Assistant Web Developer for Time Inc., Murray optimizes parts of the website for interactivity. In her position she uses skills she picked up as a computer science major and by customizing electives.
“Tourism audiences are changing,” said Mary Battle, a public historian with the Avery Research Center for African-American History and Culture at the College of Charleston. But many historians say that recognizing more recent history, like the widespread lynchings of the early 20th century, may remain a difficult task.
English Professor Simon Lewis lived in South Africa during his teenage years during apartheid. He saw Mandela not long after the leader was released from prison in 1990 and saw Mandela's impact on literature during the same time.
Katie Hladky, a professor of religious studies at the College of Charleston, who has studied the Trinity Broadcasting Network, said as TBN grew from a small California-based station into a global network of Christian broadcasters, the station, and prosperity theology, received more and more attention. "TBN is just enormously powerful," she said. "Anytime you have something
What changed, exactly, now that the U.S. Senate has “gone nuclear”? Is this really a big deal? And is this unconstitutional? As a technical matter, last month’s reform wasn’t a change in the Senate’s rules. In “going nuclear,” Harry Reid and Senate Democrats merely “reinterpreted” the rule requiring a three-fifths vote to end debate on
Since 2004, 16 states have legalized gay marriage. While gay rights activists recognize this as a victory of sorts, College of Charleston Professor of Communication Leigh Moscowitz contends it’s only one of many equality issues activists hoped to push into the public eye. In her new book, The Battle over Marriage: Gay Rights Activism through the Media, Moscowitz examines the mainstream media’s effect on marriage equality and the gay rights movement.
