Archive | May, 2012

It had all the characteristics of a typical afternoon for the College of Charleston’s Avery Center garden. On a warm Tuesday, students eating lunch crowded picnic tables and peppered amphitheater steps, and a small, babbling waterfall was drowned out by their conversation. http://www.postandcourier.com/article/20120524/PC16/120529571/visiting-college-of-charleston-haut-gap-middle-school-eighth-graders-prepare-for-high-school-college-search  

It may soon become easier for some Lowcountry school children to eat produce right off the farm. The College of Charleston launched its pilot farm-to-school initiative Thursday. The program’s goal is to provide fresh produce for kids at lunchtime and teach them about farming, as well as boost the local economy. Organizers say the farm-to-school […]

“Return to the Sea: Saltworks by Motoi Yamamoto” opens at the Halsey Institute of Art, the latest of Yamamoto’s full-scale installation pieces that have appeared across the world, and once before at the Halsey, in 2006. “I like for art to have an awe factor, for people to be gobsmacked and astonished,” said Mark Sloan, […]

The College of Charleston has received a $1.4 million award from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. The award is part of a national $50 million initiative to enable schools to create more engaging science classes, bring real-world research experiences to students, and increase the diversity of students who study science. This is the second grant […]

Harlan Greene, an author and senior manuscript and reference archivist for College of Charleston libraries, said slave and free men’s tags are now valued artifacts. Square, round and diamond shaped, slave tags were numbered and listed the type of work a slave could perform. http://www.postandcourier.com/article/20120529/PC16/120529101/rare-free-man-s-tag-taps-slave-era-history-in-charleston-sc  

On April 22nd, a video dialogue took place between American students of Professor Ali Demerdas at the College of Charleston, and Egyptian students, primarily from the American University in Cairo. Discussion centered on the students’ experiences of the Arab Spring, whether as a participant or a distant observer, as well as Egypt’s on-going political transition. […]

  A rare book almost 270 years old and found in a library vault in Charleston is being returned to its rightful owners.   The Charleston Library Society returns the book to representatives of the College of Charleston on Thursday. The book was published in London in 1743, and was part of the 800-volume library […]

College of Charleston marine geology students studying ocean floor and the invasive lionfish off South Carolina coast. Many college students studying marine geology hope to one day work with NOAA to learn more about the ocean floor. For some students at the College of Charleston, they have been working with NOAA for awhile. http://www2.counton2.com/news/2012/may/10/7/college-charleston-marine-geology-students-studyin-ar-3768983/

A rare 18th century political book uncovered in the vaults of the Charleston Library Society has been turned over to the College of Charleston, marking another step toward rebuilding the 800-book Mackenzie collection. Harlan Greene, an archivist in the Addlestone Library’s Special Collections, said finding “A Dissertation Upon Parties” by Henry St. John Bolingbroke was […]

The College of Charleston, which was founded in 1770 and chartered in 1785, sent a total of 1,465 newly minted graduates into the world at morning and afternoon ceremonies at the oak-canopied Cistern. http://www.postandcourier.com/article/20120513/PC16/120519627