Ferris Bueller took the day off. The Breakfast Club found friendship in detention. The Outsiders didn’t play by the rules. The Heathers lost their cool. Karate Kid stood up to his rivals. The Teen Wolf became a hero. The teens of the 1980s films did what they wanted. They didn’t conform or follow. They embraced […]
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Looking Back at one Alum’s Top 100 Finish at the Boston Marathon
Last year at this time, Chris Bailey ’12 and ’15 was making his final preparations to run in the 2015 Boston Marathon. Despite a less-than-ideal weather forecast, his lofty goal of completing the 26.2-mile distance in under 2 hours and 30 minutes seemed quite doable. After all, Bailey, a former student-athlete in the Honors College and […]
CofC Students Awarded Prestigious Rotary Ambassadorial Global Grants
Two College of Charleston students have earned nationally competitive awards that will help fund their graduate studies abroad. Chelsea Roland and Ellie Flock have each been awarded Rotary Ambassadorial Global Grants. These grants are sponsored by the regional Rotary Club district and are intended for students who will pursue advanced degrees leading to sustainable, high-impact outcomes […]
Senior Soccer Player Wraps Up College Career With Success On and Off The Field
For women’s soccer player Claire Newman, soccer is life, but it’s not everything. She has been a stalwart in the defensive backfield for The College of Charleston for three seasons and a team captain this past season, but her biggest contributions may have come off the field. Over the course of her four-year career at […]
Southern Roots Inspire CofC Student to Publish Novel
Writing a book is no easy feat, not to mention writing an entire novel while still in high school and having it published before graduating from college. But that is exactly what Derek Berry did. Berry, who hails from Aiken, S.C., and is a senior international studies and political science double major in the Honors […]
Young Adult Novelist Ryan Graudin ’09 Reveals the Truth About Writing for a Living
So you want to be a writer. Your notebooks are filled with words, stories you’re sure people will want to hear. When you close your eyes, you can see your name on the cover of the next big thing to hit book clubs across the country. Well, good luck. As young adult novelist Ryan Graudin […]
The Shrimp-Studying Fulbright Scholar Who Finds Time to Sing Opera
Patricia Cooney ’16 is an inquisitive student who isn’t afraid to ask questions or try something new. She’s fascinated by how things work and the biological factors that drive organisms to function the way they do. The biology major has spent the bulk of her time at the College researching neural plasticity in snapping shrimp […]
Fab Four: Meet the College’s 2016 Student Fulbright Winners
Four College of Charleston students have been awarded Fulbright grants in the 2016 Fulbright U.S. Student Program competition. Of the record 32 students who submitted applications through the College’s Office of Nationally Competitive Awards, 15 semifinalists made it through the National Screening Committee, and four were named alternates. This impressive showing was made possible by the […]
Top Honors College Grads Starting Anew Across the World
The College of Charleston Honors College Class of 2016 has studied on almost every continent, presented award-winning research and volunteered in the Charleston community. These top academic performers have taken their talents all over the world, and they aren’t stopping after graduation. Many graduating seniors received nationally-competitive grants to continue their studies at home and abroad. […]
Meet Hamlette, the Alum Expert on Women Portraying Shakespeare’s Tortured Prince
Frailty, thy name is woman! The outburst isn’t fooling anyone. Everyone can see exactly what’s going on here: ’Tis unmanly grief: Hamlet is acting like a girl. When Shakespeare wrote Hamlet, he swathed his protagonist in so much internal and dramatic conflict, the irony of the attitudes toward gender roles is enough to get through […]