Every basketball player is looking for a big break. When Evan Bailey got his, though, it was a little disappointing. A compound fracture in his femur wasn’t exactly the break the seventh grader had been hoping for. It did, however, lead to a breakthrough: It was during his rehabilitation that he realized what he wanted to
For professor Malcolm Clark, 50 years of teaching history has taught him that the lessons of the past can shape the future.
Everybody knows the College is a magical place – but, for the students taking a Harry Potter course, it’s even easier to get wrapped up in the fantasy of it all. “I start the semester just like they do at Hogwarts – by letting the Sorting Hat assign each student to one of the four
As an entering freshman, the way it was put to me three years ago was that only about 20 percent of your time is spent in class – the rest of the time is up to you. I remember thinking, That’s cool. But what no one told me, or could have even foreseen, was how
Emily Torchiana had been hijacked. The cyberbullies had taken everything she was, everything she had, and dropped her off in a dark, lonely place. But in that place she found a powerful voice – and she’s using it to stand up to cyberbullies everywhere and to show people like herself that they are not alone.
As a little girl growing up in a single-parent household, Ebony Hilton ’04 thought that a career as a doctor seemed like a faraway dream. Now, as the first black female anesthesiologist at the Medical University of South Carolina, the accomplished physician teaches other young girls to pursue their passions. by Jason Ryan Photography by
Photo-essay by Mike Ledford The summer Olympic spirit is upon us – a four-year reminder that people from across the globe speak a common language of competition. It’s in that light that we wanted to highlight some of the College’s own international talent– men and women who have come to Charleston to share their athletic
You could call him the Rumpelstiltskin of digital video. Whereas the ill-tempered imp from the German fairy tale could spin straw into gold, Patrick Latcham ’11 transmutes raw video footage into crisply edited highlight reels. And whereas Rumpelstiltskin demanded a newborn child for his services, Latcham is content to accept a modest fee, no matter
Robert Blank ’11 knew it wouldn’t be easy. All the same, he quit his job in Colorado to pursue a dream: building drones that could drop dynamite and help control avalanches. After spending six months in a business incubator, Blank's startup, Mountain Drones, is getting off the ground. by Jason Ryan photography by Brett Schreckengost
Over the four decades that Joe Riley served as mayor of Charleston, he had a hand in shaping virtually every facet of life in the Holy City. Under his guidance and leadership, Charleston has become an international tourism destination, a hub of culture and the arts, an economic powerhouse and a model for historic preservation
