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Dear World storytelling project visits CofC to help students share their own unique stories

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A Dear World storyteller is coming to campus to guide students through a transformative storytelling session that will help you share your own powerful personal narrative.

When: Tuesday, Jan. 23 from 5-8pm, Stern Center Ballroom.

What to Expect: You’ll be guided through an innovative storytelling method called Brain Tattooing that will help you uncover your values and purpose by exploring your own unique life stories.

Benefits:

  • Delve into your own meaningful experiences and memories.
  • Better articulate your values and purpose.
  • Receive a Brain Tattoo photograph – a visual testament to the profound insights gained during the session.
  • Start developing your own unique personal narrative.

The experience is free to all CofC students. More details available on the campus calendar.

Honors College scholarship opportunities are available for 2024/25

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Honors College scholarship opportunities are available for the 2024/25 academic year.

The Jill Conway Annual Scholarship recognizes former Honors College employee Jill Conway and her amazing impact on Honors College students. The scholarship supports a current Honors College student who demonstrates engagement, personal growth, and curiosity to explore new interests within the Honors College. Apply here.

  • Great Fit For: Students who have made the Honors College an integral part of their college experience.

The Chad V. Adams ’18 Memorial Scholarship celebrates the life of Honors College alumnus Chad V. Adams ‘18 who embraced adventure and had a dedication to bring his best to whatever he pursued. This memorial scholarship supports students studying the natural sciences who, like Chad, have immersed themselves in the Honors College experience. Apply here.

  • Great Fit For: Rising seniors majoring in the natural sciences.

The deadline to apply for both opportunities in March 1st, 2024.

Get your summer research funded through SSME summer research funding

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SSME undergraduate students are invited to apply for funding which will enable them to conduct summer research.

The Funding: Stipends of up to $5000 are available to successful applicants. Students conducting a 10 week project with a College of Charleston research mentor will be given priority.

Great Fit For: All students majoring/minoring in an SSME discipline and planning to conduct summer research.

How to Apply: Online application by 11:59 p.m. on Friday, February 9, 2024.

  • Important: Your faculty research advisor must also submit their own faculty application, so be sure to coordinate with them.

Honors Student Association hosting Smore Fun Fridays

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Join the Honors Student Association for tasty fireside treats and fun-filled activities!

What kind of fun? Every third Friday of the month throughout the spring semester, HSA is hosting an afternoon get-together filled with gooey goodies and casual activities.

When: From 4:00 – 5:00 p.m. in the Honors Center on the following dates:

  • Friday January, 19
  • Friday, February 23
  • Friday, April 19

Benefits:

  • Connect with other Honors students
  • Enjoy scrumptious snacks
  • Kick-start your weekend

No RSVP necessary, just add the event to you calendar and join us upstairs in the Honors Center. Non-Honors students are welcome!

Summer Research Fellowship with MUSC’s Diversity in Addiction Research Training

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Applications are open for MUSC’s Diversity in Addiction Research Training (DART) Summer Research Fellowship.

The Fellowship: A 10-week, full-time research training opportunity (completed virtually or in-person in Charleston, SC) and open to medical, graduate, and undergraduate students.

  • DART scholars are matched with a research faculty mentor who will guide them on a research project. Students will present at the Annual DART Summer Research Day and awarded a stipend.

The Benefits:

  • Mentorship from experts in addiction research
  • Experience in various types of research, including clinical trials, basic science studies, neuroimaging, brain stimulation, pharmacotherapy, co-occurring psychiatric conditions
  • Training though didactic seminar series, the DART Journal Club, and professional development panels
  • Working with faculty and near peer mentors, with opportunities to later serve as a near peer mentor
  • Professional networking in research and the field of addiction

How to Apply: Online application (in-person fellowship application or virtual fellowship application) by February 1, 2024.

  • For questions, contact Ms. Hailey Britt, DART Program Coordinator.

Volunteers Needed: Be a Green Heart Buddy in Spring 2024

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The Green Heart Project is looking for volunteers to serve as Green Heart Buddies for the spring 2024 semester.

What’s a Green Heart Buddy? They play a key role in helping grow our gardens, our community, and our students through volunteering with one of our in-school and/or after-school programs. Buddies…

  • Commit to one of our school garden programs for a semester, volunteering once a week for 1+ hours.
  • Are urban farmers, teachers and mentors, working alongside our students, connecting, encouraging and supporting.
  • Do not need to have any gardening experience!

How to Apply: Complete the online interest form by January 18.

 

Call for Submissions: Student activist projects, poetry, and visual art that honors Septima Clark

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The College’s Discovering our Past initiative is sponsoring a contest for student projects that continue the legacy and impact of Septima Clark’s activism.

The Projects: Prizes will be awarded for students activism, poetry, and visual artwork that interprets the causes and values that Clark is known for.

The Benefits: Winning submissions will receive a cash prize and will be included in an exhibit installed in the Septima Clark Auditorium (ECTR 118).

How to Submit: Online application by February 1.

Gothic Literature in London: A horrible way to spend Summer 2024

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Spend a month this summer exploring gloomy gothic literature in London and Edinburgh and earn Honors immersed credit.

The Trip: June 26 – July 31 through an affiliate program taught through USM’s British Studies study abroad program.

The Classes: Explore how British culture uses Gothic themes to express fears, anxieties, and misgivings about gender & sexuality, nation & empire, race & class. We’ll also visit the gloomy moors and dark city streets where these stories are set.

Benefits:

  • Earn six total credits of gen-ed humanities ENGL credit.
  • Approved for Honors immersed credit.
  • Explore the cities, villages, museums, theaters, parks, and graveyards of Great Britain.

Learn More: Attend an info session on Thursday, January 25 at 5:00 p.m.; contact professor Tim Carens (carenst@cofc.edu) to express interest (even if you can’t come to the info session).