Honors College Senior Featured in the Wall Street Journal
Honors College Senior Lucas Moyon, triple majoring in economics, astronomy, and physics recently had an opinion piece published in the Wall Street Journal. The piece, Are We Headed for World War III – The Chinese Computational War, was published on March 21st, and features opinions from students across the country. Read all about Lucas’ take […]
Honors Faculty/Staff Members Receive Award for Contributions to Inclusive Education
College of Charleston faculty and staff support the College’s commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion in a variety of ways. One of those ways is through the College’s REACH Program. Established in 2010, the REACH Program is a four-year, fully inclusive certificate program for students with mild intellectual and/or developmental disabilities. Students in the REACH Program […]
Honors Faculty Fellow Partners with Trust for Public Land to Promote Access to Public Parks
The College of Charleston and the Trust for Public Land have teamed up to identify and promote high-impact policies that support equitable access to parks. Morgan Hughey, assistant professor of health and human performance and Honors College faculty fellow, and Kendra Stewart, director of the College’s Joseph P. Riley Jr. Center for Livable Communities […]
College of Charleston sophomore heads up successful local honey business
College of Charleston Honors College sophomore William Helfgott has turned a beehive he won through his 4H program when he was just 8 years old into a thriving business called River Bluff Honey. In the summer of 2017, at the age of 15 , Helfgott set out with a backpack full of honey jars and […]
Beloved Professor Couldn’t Be More Connected
Every homemaker knows the importance of the family table – the place we come together, share stories and connect with one another in meaningful ways. That is how we build family – and that is what makes a home a home. And that’s why, at the College of Charleston, Lancie Affonso ’96 (M.S. ’08) has […]
Honors Students Join Public Health Research Team and Makes Strides in Studying Plastic Pollution
In a nondescript room in the recesses of the Willard A. Silcox Physical Education and Health Center, four students sit around a lab table dissecting small fish. Though it’s not immediately evident, they’re engaged in work that will lead to new insights regarding the dangers of plastic pollution. And those dangers don’t solely pertain to […]
Music Major Connects with Cultural Heritage Through Filipino Art Song
Meleana Cabales was scrolling through YouTube earlier this year when the song “Madaling Araw” by Francisco Santiago popped up in her recommendations. Curious, she clicked on the link. “I was hooked from the first listen,” she recalls. “It vaguely sounded like something I’d sung before, but it was also familiar for other reasons. The lilt […]
Honors Students Score High in Statewide Pitch Competition
Pitch competitions can be nerve-racking, especially when you’re pitching to an audience of over 200 people with judges watching intently and cash prizes on the line. That’s part of why it’s so impressive that five student teams from the College of Charleston made it to the semi-final round of SC Innovates 2022 – a statewide […]
Bonner Leader Coordinates Service Saturday Rooted in Gullah Culture, Cuisine
Food has a way of connecting us. It brings us together, builds relationships and teaches us about different cultures and histories. And – although chef James Beard probably wasn’t thinking of land preservation, climate change and agriculture when he said, “Food is our common ground” – it also connects us to the land that feeds […]
Opera Workshop Showcase Explores ‘What If’ with Honors Student Meleana Cabales
Life is made up of many moments and decisions that lead to the next. But how would things have played out if we made a different choice, gone in a different direction, decided to pursue another opportunity in a different city? College of Charleston Opera explores the power choices can have in shaping our lives with the […]