Archive | March, 2011

  College of Charleston religion professor Doctor John Huddlestun said the Committee on Bible Translation made the decision in the spirit of gender equality, but it has sparked an equally spirited debate.     http://www.live5news.com/Global/story.asp?S=14281985  

  “Ask an astronomer and they say, ‘Half a degree, 180th of a right angle’ (the same as any other full moon),” said Terry Richardson, College of Charleston senior astronomy instructor, chuckling. “This will be a big half a degree.”   http://www.postandcourier.com/news/2011/mar/18/moon-to-loom-large-in-close-encounter/

It’s important to give back to the community, but it’s also important to do that in your own way and your own style, says Mignon Clyburn, head of the Federal Communications Commission. Clyburn spoke to College of Charleston students about women in public service Thursday as part of the College of Charleston Office of Institutional […]

The Avery Research Center at the College of Charleston has acquired an 1860 first-edition copy of the pre-eminent slave narrative, ‘Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom.’ The book contains the dramatic account of William and Ellen Craft’s 1848 escape from Macon, Ga. to Philadelphia. It describes how the light-skinned Ellen Craft dressed as a man […]

  College of Charleston history professor Bernard Powers acknowledges the popular debate but says there’s no doubt the war started over slavery.   “I’m going to start out with a controversial statement,” Powers said during a lecture at a Charleston County Public Library branch Tuesday. “Slavery was at the heart of the coming of the […]

Carol Ann Davis has recent or forthcoming work in Volt, the Iowa Review, the Threepenny Review, the Kenyon Review and Denver Quarterly. Her first book, “Psalm,” was published by Tupelo Press in 2007. She directs the undergraduate creative writing program at the College of Charleston in South Carolina and edits the journal “Crazyhorse” with her […]

  College of Charleston Associate professor Dr. Steven Jaume is a member of the Lowcounty Hazards Center. He has also been hired by the government to look over the geological aspects of proposed nuclear plants in the U.S. Dr. Jaume says the fact that basically all of the nuclear power plants in the state are […]

  Seismographs at the College of Charleston did not report any earthquakes, said Erin Beutel, S.C. Earthquake Education and Preparedness director. She suspected sonic booms, but a public affairs officer for the Marine Corps Air Station in Beaufort said no F-18s were flying in the area at that time. A public affairs officer for the […]

Jean Everett, a senior biology instructor at the College of Charleston, says we all should know that this Palmetto State tinsel is neither Spanish nor moss, but is a bromeliad, related to the pineapple, and appears primarily in the coastal plains. And there is a moss line, if you will, that runs across the state, […]

  “It may not be in the realm of the impossible, but this is pretty ambitious because some of it involves guesswork,” said Patricia Williams Lessane, executive director of the Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture at the College of Charleston. “It’s not simple work. You have to be creative to find […]