This is a guest post by Sarah Dinning ’20. On September 14th, the Honors Entrepreneurship Living Learning Community students gathered to hear Eliza Starr as the inaugural speaker of the Honors ELLC’s “Alumni Speaker Series.” Starr, who was a member of the first Honors ELLC class last year, talked about her internship at Boeing and […]
For students at the College, the acronym ICAT equals opportunity. Based in the School of Business, the Interdisciplinary Center for Applied Technology (ICAT) is a progressive initiative that offers students an opportunity to engage in technology entrepreneurship in meaningful ways. One of those ways is ICAT Academy, an eight-to-ten-day session in which students travel to different […]
This was truly a standout year for the Office of Undergraduate Research and Creative Activities (URCA) Celebration of Summer Scholars poster session. More than 30 honors students were represented at the session, with projects ranging from musical composition to neuroscience to the psychology of memory. The session showcased 102 posters circling the Addlestone Library rotunda […]
“My name is Stephanie Selker and I’m a rising sophomore in the Honors College with a double major in Political Science and German. This summer, I’m interning for 10 weeks at National Public Radio in Washington, D.C. with NPR Berlin and NPR Worldwide. I’m about halfway through my internship and so far, it’s going really […]
Each year, more than 200 freshmen in the Honors College at the College of Charleston participate in a unique community outreach program called Honors Engaged that provides more than 5,000 combined hours of service to the Charleston community. Founded in 2010 as a unique aspect of the Honors First Year Experience, the Honors Engaged program […]
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 […]
Congratulations to Honors College student and William Aiken Fellow, James Peyla, on being named a 2016 Goldwater Scholar from a field of over 1,150 applicants. James is majoring in Marine Biology at the college and hopes to achieve a Ph.D. in Marine Biology as well. His career goal is to conduct research on the biology of […]
Congratulations to Honors Alumni – Erica Tracey, Brenna Norton-Baker, Andrew George, and Dyanne Vaught – for receiving National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowships! Honors Alum, Tyler Perini, also earned an Honorable Mention. The NSF GRFP helps ensure the vitality and diversity of the scientific and engineering workforce of the United States. The program recognizes and supports […]
The Most Beautiful Campus in the Country Located in the heart of historic Charleston, SC, the College of Charleston has an aesthetic no other university can tout. By law, no building in the city is allowed to be taller than the steeple of St. Michael’s cathedral (the oldest surviving religious structure in Charleston), so […]