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Today it all comes to an end. No, not the world, but a 12-year streak in which each year has offered a magical day like today, when the day, month, and year all coincide. Harmonic convergences such as 12/12/12 aren’t to be sniffed at, as most of us won’t see another one, Mayan calendar or […]

Cougar Countdown started on Friday with Pancakes with the President, where students could eat a free pancake breakfast with College of Charleston President George Benson. “We have fourty different events over the week and a half, two week period where students are meeting with professors and taking exams and studying hard.  We thought, let’s give […]

College of Charleston political science professor Jordan Ragusa said Graham still could face problems in the 2014 GOP primary if the state’s conservative base is particularly mobilized. However, he also noted a recent poll showing that Graham still has support of almost two thirds of the state’s Republicans. “The reality is that Graham has been […]

Jordan Ragusa analyzes the outlook for South Carolina politics in 2014: What does Jim DeMint’s resignation mean for a primary against Lindsey Graham?     http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/wp/2012/12/06/happy-hour-roundup-6/      

The Harry and Reba Huge Foundation is establishing four annual study-abroad scholarships for students at the College of Charleston. Their $500,000 gift will also support four merit scholarships in The Honors College and a music scholarship in the School of the Arts at the College of Charleston.   http://beachcarolina.com/2012/12/03/500000-harry-and-reba-huge-foundation-gift-creates-vital-scholarships-at-the-college-of-charleston/  

Professor Joe Carson likes to joke with his astrophysics class: Find a planet, you get an “A.” No planet, “F.”   Seniors Thea Kozakis and Laura Stevens just scored the “A.” Analyzing photographic data from the Subaru telescope in Hawaii, Kozakis noticed a giant light shining closer in to the massive star kappa Andromedae than […]

Joe Carson, an astrophysicist at the College of Charleston and the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy and lead author of the paper describing the discovery, says that the most exciting part of the discovery is that κ Andromedae “is by far the most massive star where we see evidence of normal planet formation—the kind that […]

Kappa And b, the previously imaged planets around HR 8799 and Beta Pictoris, and the most massive planets discovered by non-imaging techniques likely all represent a class of object that formed in much the same way as lower-mass exoplanets,” said lead researcher Joseph Carson, an astronomer at the College of Charleston, S.C., and the Max […]

College of Charleston history professor Bernard Powers said he is not surprised that Scott most likely will be the only black Republican in the House because there have been so few in recent decades. “This is, to me, reflective of the party’s constituency, racially,” he said, adding that was the Republican Party’s strategy since even […]

Exactly what that destruction will look like is still open to debate. Computational physicist Peter Anninos worked with Murray, both of AX division within the Weapons and Complex Integration Directorate, Chris Fragile, at the College of Charleston in South Carolina, and his student, Julia Wilsonboth, to develop six simulations of the disaster.   http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2012/11/12/black-holes-destruction-g2-gas-cloud_n_2116036.html