Congratulations to Honors student, Sarah Wiegreffe for the acceptance of her research, “Can Classifications of Publications into Translational Categories be Automated?” at the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) Translational Bioinformatics Summit, which will take place March 27-30, 2017 in San Francisco, CA. Wiegreffe’s research is a collaborative effort between Dr. Paul Anderson’s data science research […]
College of Charleston students are joining their peers throughout South Carolina and taking advantage of a different kind of immersion experience in our nation’s capitol. The South Carolina Washington Semester Internship Program (WSP) offers college students hands-on experience with the political process as they spend a semester living and working in Washington D.C. Housed in […]
In a landscape filled with computers and digital devices, one College of Charleston group is doing its part to make sure students of all ages and backgrounds feel empowered to participate in an increasingly tech savvy world. With an eye toward diversifying the field of computer science, leaders in the student organization Women in Computing […]
What happens when silver nanoparticles are released into the environment? Does gas density impact the migration of a newly forming planet? These are heady questions. And two intrepid Cougars are trying to find the answers. Honors student Sondrica Goines and Wendell Roberson were recognized at the Research Bound in STEM workshop, which recently took place at Georgia Tech […]
Intellectual and emotional growth in college is apt to take place in a number of venues. Classrooms, for sure. The library, yeah. Coffee shops, dorm rooms, laboratories and stadiums also offer their share of lessons. But the most accelerated growth for college students often takes place off campus during service-oriented excursions. Students from the College take […]
This is a guest post by Emmanuel Lopez ’20. On Thursday, October 27, 2016 students from the South Carolina Alliance for Minority Participation (SCAMP) gathered to present their undergraduate research during the annual “Undergraduate Research Banquet” and thanked the program supporters for making their research possible. Honors College Junior Bravada Hill who’s majoring in history […]
Blaine Billings is a problem solver. He likes the thrill of chasing down a solution and the sense of satisfaction he gets once he arrives at the right answer. So when he found himself working alongside College of Charleston math professor Dinesh Sarvate the summer between his junior and senior years of high school, for […]
Growing up, she didn’t really play a lot of video games. Shannon Haas would occasionally log time with the odd Nintendo game here and there on the Game Cube, but that was about it. Although she had always wanted to play video games, a childhood focused on academics and extracurricular activities left little time for […]
Malcolm Kates ’16 has always been able to see the big picture. That’s why, upon graduating from the College, he knew that taking a “gap year” would be the best thing in the long run. It wasn’t until Kates received a National Institutes of Health Postbac Intramural Research Training Award to study genetically inherited […]
College of Charleston is a valuable community partner and provides Reading Partners with more than 100 volunteer tutors each year. Though students come and go, each class of attendees at the college remains committed to helping the community of Charleston during their four years of residency. Rachel Jaffe, a volunteer tutor, now AmeriCorps site coordinator, […]