Archive | March, 2011

  So out of a long tradition of silence has come a belated acknowledgment of slavery’s centrality and an attempt to explore it. But something more systematic is needed. The subject is far from neglected in the Charleston Museum, but neither is it fully addressed. The Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture […]

  Federal Communications Commissioner Mignon Clyburn will speak in celebration of Women’s History Month at 3 p.m. Thursdayat the College of Charleston.   Clyburn will present, “Celebrating Women in Public Service: Past, Present, and Future” in the Stern Center ballroom.   “We are very excited that Mignon Clyburn has accepted our invitation to speak at […]

“Japan specifically had a subduction earthquake. And what you have happening is one log raft or plate going down underneath another and as it slides down it gets stuck,” Associate Professor Dr. Erin Beutel says. “And when it snaps up,it displaces water, and the water flows away towards the shore line.”   http://www.live5news.com/Global/story.asp?S=14234775

College of Charleston economist Frank Hefner agreed.   “We are always in better condition because of our diversification,” Hefner said. “We tend to weather things better than a one-mill town.”   http://www.postandcourier.com/news/2011/mar/11/jobless-numbers-get-better/    

College of Charleston preservation planning professor Ralph Muldrow asked whether the Board of Architectural Review should consider financial hardship, something it currently doesn’t do.   http://www.postandcourier.com/news/2011/mar/11/demolition-by-neglect/  

  U.S. Rep. Jim Clyburn will be the keynote speaker at a pre-college program at the College of Charleston on March 24.   Clyburn, a Democrat whose congressional district includes parts of Charleston, will address Upward Bound and other pre-college program participants during a luncheon scheduled to be held at 12:30 p.m. at the Stern […]

    In the past year, a record five College of Charleston students have received the Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship to study abroad. The Gilman Scholarship Program enables more students to study abroad by supporting undergraduates who might not otherwise participate due to financial constraints.   http://www.postandcourier.com/news/2011/mar/10/students-studying-abroad/  

  A group of College of Charleston business students and their professor will depart today for Cameroon, Africa, to bring new technology to elementary schools in the developing nation. Students Brittany Errico, Courtney Marous, Will Munce and Carolyn Upchurch along with Dr. David Desplaces will take 11 laptops and a Smart Board to the city […]

  “We all look for role models,” says College of Charleston communications professor Chris Lamb. “As stutterers, we want someone sympathetic,” he says, noting that when he was young, “it was Porky Pig.” He says he grew up thinking that the only viable career option for him was to do voice-overs for Looney Tunes.   […]

  James McPherson, one of the nation’s leading Civil War historians, will speak at the College of Charleston this week as part of the “Civil War — Global Conflict” conference.   McPherson, author of the Pulitzer-winning “Battle Cry of Freedom,” will speak at 6:30 p.m. Friday in the Stern Center Ballroom on “Ethnic Nationalism in […]