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.
With the movie release of Catching Fire right around the corner, Hunger Games trilogy fans are excited to watch the next installment of the young-adult fiction series on the big screen. Four College of Charleston professors show how the government, scientific advances and sociological elements of the Hunger Games’ Panem – post-apocalyptic America – is not so fictitious after all.
That's what students say after being paired with science and math professors and challenged to create a visual representation of the professor's current research. The artworks will be on display in the Academic Advising and Planning Center.
Mace Brown donated more than 1,500 rare fossil specimens to establish the Mace Brown Natural History Museum. The collection spans more than 3 billion years and is gaining recognition from scientists at the Smithsonian Institute's Natural History Museum.
Recent graduates in STEM fields are working in engineering, doing research for Boeing, and teaching high school physics. They are helping to fill the projected national shortage of qualified STEM workers.
The solar eclipse taking place November 3, 2013 will appear over Charleston at sunrise and last from approximately 6:40 a.m. to 7:07 a.m. College of Charleston astronomy instructor Terry Richardson highlights the best places to see the entire eclipse.
Stargazers should be able to see Venus, the Moon, and possibly Uranus and Neptune during the open house at the College of Charleston Observatory on October 18 from 7:30 until 9 p.m.
