Archive | March, 2012

Have you ever wondered what the seafloor of the Charleston Harbor is like? Some students at the College of Charleston have spent their spring break figuring that out. “We have a very extensive seamap program where we train students how to go collect data, how to process data, analyze it and actually put out data […]

Indeed, the literature is conflicted. Some academics, like Harvard Medical School’s Howard Schaffer, say that the number of gambling addicts has not increased alongside casino expansion. Douglas Walker, a professor of economics at the College of Charleston, has criticized Grinol’s methodology in studying casino-related crime. http://www.salon.com/2012/03/09/casino_capitalism_as_gambling_spreads_metaphor_becomes_reality/singleton/  

 Dr. Doug Ferguson, professor of communication at College of Charleston, is one of those people. Even though he estimates that 90 percent of his students and two-thirds of his university colleagues own them, Ferguson has chosen to keep his basic cellphone. “There’s a peer pressure,” Ferguson said. “There’s a pressure to be like everybody else.” […]

 Von Bakanic, a sociology professor at the College of Charleston, said the correlation between television (and, by extension, other visual media) and violence has long been observed by researchers. A Canadian study in the 1970s compared children raised in a small town without television with those with regular exposure to television and found substantial differences, […]

 The financial advantage of Riley and Summey does not surprise College of Charleston political science professor Andy Felts. “It’s very typical for the incumbent to be able to raise substantially more money than somebody who is working to get name recognition,” he said. “It’s a predictable thing for money to flow to ones that they […]

 From the time Derrick Niederman was in elementary school, he buried his head in puzzle books for entertainment. Years later, after earning a degree in mathematics from Yale, he was working toward his PhD at M.I.T. when he decided to try his hand at crossword puzzles.  Now a professor of mathematics at the College of […]

Margaret Lacey, on the other hand, finds that many people are quite well-mannered in her everyday life. A sophomore at the College of Charleston — in the South Carolina city that is often cited as one of the most courteous in the country — Lacey notes that people can be polite without trotting out the […]

 The swarm was there to support local business, yet participants may get something in return, says Jennifer Baker, an assistant professor of philosophy at the College of Charleston in South Carolina. Under the “virtue ethics” point of view, she says, if folks strive to continually do what they think is right, “It becomes second nature, […]

 We’re often told that young people tend to be the most tech-savvy among us. But just how savvy are they? A group of researchers led by College of Charleston business professor Bing Pan tried to find out. Specifically, Pan wanted to know how skillful young folks are at online search. His team gathered a group […]

 On Feb. 28, 1946, Jackie Robinson and his wife, Rachel, boarded an American Airlines flight in Los Angeles bound for Daytona Beach, Fla., for spring training. There he would try to prove that he was good enough to join the Montreal Royals, the top minor league team in the Brooklyn Dodgers‘ organization, and integrate professional […]