Archive | May, 2012

Dick Burr, a defense lawyer, said the judge had ignored findings by experts hired by Butler’s lawyers, including Dr. Denis Keyes, a special education professor at the College of Charleston, and Dr. Jack Fletcher, a psychology professor at the University of Houston.. http://www.texastribune.org/texas-dept-criminal-justice/death-penalty/reviews-death-row-cases-leave-unsettled-issues/  

  “The moon’s orbit isn’t round, so sometimes it is closer to Earth than at other times,” said College of Charleston senior instructor Terry Richardson. “The close approach happens to coincide with the full moon.” http://www.postandcourier.com/article/20120505/PC16/120509493&slId=1  

By now, most everyone knows that smile! It’s the smile of the Zeddie Little, known by people all over the world as The Ridiculously Photogenic Guy. He received the title after a picture of him running this year’s Cooper River Bridge Run went viral. This weekend the College Of Charleston graduate is back in the […]

An economics professor from Georgia Southern University has been named to lead the College of Charleston’s North Campus. Godfrey Gibbison takes over at the College of Charleston’s campus located near the SCRA Trident Research Center in North Charleston on July 1. Gibbison also serves as director of GSU’s School of Economic Development in the College […]

As a senior at the College of Charleston, Marshall Simmonds knew where he wanted to work: Blackbaud, a local company that provides software and services for nonprofit organizations. But he didn’t know anyone at the company, and he wasn’t sure where to start. So he asked his school’s alumni association to connect him with other […]

The Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art with special recognition for Mark Sloan The Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art in Charleston is like a museum you might find in Cincinnati or Chicago — places with big arts scenes and an emphasis on culture. It’s not out of the box, then, for senior director and curator Mark […]

Bernard Powers, a College of Charleston history professor who is African-American, said the two races have a different understanding of history. “When you look at the disparities between African-Americans and whites, there are only two ways of explaining the disparities,” Powers said. “One is that one race is inferior and one is superior. Science has […]

“This is a very nice and a very good way to gain information on these hard-to-study animals,” says Nicolas Straube, a shark biologist at the College of Charleston in South Carolina. David Ebert, who studies sharks at Moss Landing Marine Laboratories in California, agrees, saying that deep-sea sharks often fail to get the same attention […]

A team from the Department of Health and Human Performance from the College of Charleston, in South Carolina and colleagues measured blood cortisol levels in 13 male college students after carrying out the same exercise workout with and without a mouthpiece, seven days apart.   http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/9226204/Mouthguards-may-aid-sports-recovery-research.html