Rural decline concerns us all By Tammy Ingram Atlanta may be the largest city in the Deep South, but every Georgian knows that Atlanta — or ‘lanter, as I thought it was called while growing up in South Georgia — is hardly representative of the state, much less the entire region. The metro area is […]
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Billion-year-old artifacts displayed at SC museum
By Mike Robertson on November 13, 2013 in CofC Expert, CofC in the Community, In the News, National News
Charleston has long been known for its history from colonial days to being besieged by the British during the Revolution and as the site where the Civil War began. Now visitors can glimpse much farther into the past.
Designing Charleston: How creative entrepreneurs are transforming the city
Mark Sloan, director of the Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art, who earned a design degree, said most people don’t think about design from day to day; they just assume that what they are looking at is fated: from signage to script to the way parks are constructed or chairs are made. When things are proportional […]
College of Charleston honors 1st black graduate
The College of Charleston has renamed its diversity center to honor the school’s first African-American graduate. The Post and Courier reports ( http://bit.ly/16vXqG0) the college on Saturday dedicated the Eddie Ganaway Diversity Education and Resource Center.
Italian film festival to offer 13 movies, seminars, Q&A sessions
“Like past editions of the festival, this seventh one is open to everyone, not only students and faculty,” Giovanna De Luca, festival director and professor of Italian studies and cinema at the College of Charleston, said in a statement. “This year we selected movies that tackle specific social and ethical topics, such as the function […]
College of Charleston’s teacher education program receives national reaccreditation
The College of Charleston’s School of Education, Health, and Human Performance has been reaccredited by the National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education after a review of its teacher education program. The college’s teacher education program was recognized for meeting all six accreditation standards, and its performance was rated at the highest level for three […]
SC’s Graham, Clyburn on panel seeking budget, deficit deal
Mistrust and ideological differences between the two political parties will make consensus a challenge, said Jordan Ragusa, a College of Charleston political science professor. “How do you create a compromise when both sides want very different things?”
Lasers, Drones, and Future Tech on the Front Lines of Archaeology
James Newhard is Director of Archaeology at the College of Charleston, where he works to bring 3D imaging, mobile technology and geographic information systems to a field more popularly associated with shovels and dusty brushes. Gizmodo got in touch with Dr. Newhard to learn how he uses emerging tech to dig deep into ancient societies.
Q&A with Alison Bechdel, author of CofC’s the College Reads! selection
Allison Bechdel is an award-winning cartoonist and author of the graphic memoir Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic (2006). Bechdel came onto the cartooning scene in the late 1980s with Dykes to Watch Out For, a politically- and socially-charged comic strip about a community of friends in an unspecified city. In Fun Home, the author dives […]
Costume designer Christine Bieselin Clark crafts ‘Ender’s Game’ flash
Bieselin Clark, 41, began her career in a much lower-tech space: the theater. She grew up on Long Island, a stone’s throw from Broadway, earned a degree in theater arts from Stony Brook University and went on to design costumes for regional theater productions all over the East Coast. She was managing a costume shop […]