Archive | March, 2012

In the state’s urban areas, the loss of an unemployment check – never meant to be a permanent safety net – likely will push more people back into the labor force, College of Charleston economist Frank Hefner said. http://www.thestate.com/2012/03/16/2194171/extended-jobless-benefits-to-be.html#storylink=cpy

Students at the College of Charleston’s Grice Marine Lab want it to rain. Not to help the drought problem, but to see their new rain garden put to good use. “Rain gardens are a wonderful way to help protect water here in the Lowcountry,” Clemson Cooperative Extension Agent Kim Counts said. The Green Teaching Garden […]

 The lab that produced the imaging is a workshop of College of Charleston students, on their spring break earlier this month. The dozen-or-so students are the third group in the United States to be introduced to new coastal visualization and mapping software developed by QPS. The software combines data such as multi-beam imaging, sound velocity, […]

“She’s not a martyr about it. She’s a complete human being,” said Claire Curtis, assistant professor of political science at the College of Charleston. “She’s a strong young woman who acts for her sister, and not some boy.”  http://www.postandcourier.com/news/2012/mar/23/a-new-kind-of-hero/

Thousands of accepted students and their families flocked to the College of Charleston Friday with a life changing decision hanging in the balance. The possible future Cougars will be in town this weekend to get a preview of where they could be spending the next four years. http://www.abcnews4.com/story/17239058/students-visit-cofc-to-see-if-they-want-to-be-cougars  

Hollis France, who grew up in a developing country, started learning about international issues much earlier than most, she says. France remembers hearing adults talk about policies that curbed her native Guyana’s economic development when she was just a girl, she says.  http://www.postandcourier.com/news/2012/mar/24/a-global-view/

  Heffernan will be in Charleston this week to serve as guest juror for the Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art’s annual “Young Contemporaries” exhibition, debuting Thursday with an opening reception 5-7 p.m. in the Marion and Wayland H. Cato Jr. Center for the Arts. The reception is free.  http://www.postandcourier.com/news/2012/mar/25/young-art-works-college-charleston-students-go-dis/  

Like tens of thousands of youngsters watching this year’s NCAA tournament, Jermel President once dreamed of an NBA career. And while the star guard for the College of Charleston in the late 1990s came close, he never quite made it. But for the past decade he has used that sometimes painful experience along with basketball […]

Yes, football is a violent sport. But 75 percent of knee injuries in sports don’t involve contact, according to a research study by a College of Charleston professor. Dr. Anh-Dung “Yum” Nguyen, an assistant professor in the Department of Health and Human Performance, and research assistant Kristin Keene are working to identify risk factors for […]

If you have ambitions to be a serious writer, the staff at Crazyhorse magazine, a national literary journal published at the College of Charleston, is hosting the Crazyhorse Writers Conference on March 15-18. It will bring together a group of varied literary artists for a full weekend of lectures and the opportunity to socialize with […]