Joy Vandervort Cobb’s stomach is turning flips. It happens every time someone mentions Baton Rouge. “I can’t help it,” Cobb said. “This will be the first time I’ll perform the play outside of Charleston, and, well, there it goes again — my stomach just flipped.” http://www.2theadvocate.com/entertainment/arts/102170474.html

Mathematically, scientists can create rogue waves, but until now they were unable to actually produce one. The physics just seemed too unlikely in the real world. "It is as if a roomful of people whispering produced the sound of an explosion," said Alex Kasman, a soliton scientist at the College of Charleston who wasn't involved

They spoke for the last time on the morning of Sept. 11, 2001. It was a quick phone call between father and daughter, with the 9-year-old lamenting that she didn't want to get out of bed, didn't want to go to school. But United Airlines co-pilot Mike Horrocks had a way of getting his daughter,

Now entering his junior year at the College of Charleston, Thomas lives a pretty typical life for a 21-year-old. Although he has his moments—like falling when getting out of the shower and realizing the “permanency” of his condition, he says—Thomas credits his incredible physical progress to sheer will and determination. http://www.successmagazine.com/your-personal-best-amputee-jordan-thomas-presses-on/PARAMS/article/1178/channel/22

The Society for the Study of Early Modern Women has named the book "Journey of Five Capuchin Nuns" the winner of the Josephine Roberts Prize for a scholarly edition award competition. College of Charleston Hispanic studies associate professor Sarah E. Owens is the author. Owens, an expert in the writings of early modern religious women,

"The connection between Africa and Carolina through the people who grew rice in Africa ... and knew how to make the basket, bringing it to this country and it becoming part of the economic engine that made the colony so successful -- that's kind of the back story of the Lowcountry basket," said Dr. Dale