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In Charleston on the day of the drill, College of Charleston earthquake experts will lead lectures and walking tours of damage from the earthquake in 1886. http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2012/10/17/southeastern-states-join-national-earthquake-drill/1636445/

He is more than an artist, said Mark Sloan, director of the Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art. He’s a visionary whose work pushes boundaries and probes big questions. It’s not meant to serve as an explicit blueprint for a sane new world, Sloan said. It is ZanFagna’s way of channeling profound concerns.   http://www.postandcourier.com/article/20121021/PC1201/121029984/1003/don-zanfagna-visionary-artist-reimagines-way-we-live-pulse-dome-series-on-display-at-halsey-institute  

Alix Generous never expected to be presenting research at a United Nations convention, at least not as a sophomore at the College of Charleston. Then again, she never expected to discover a new way to deal with coral reef deterioration, either. Yet on Wednesday, she’ll be presenting original research at the U.N. Convention on Biological […]

  Researchers at the College of Charleston and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory have recently completed a study concerning the fate of a newly discovered gas cloud that soon will be devoured by a supermassive black hole that resides at the center of the Milky Way galaxy. The gas cloud, known as G2, is expected to […]

An interview with College of Charleston students Allison Sullivan and POLI major James Smith about the upcoming race.  They appear at the 35 minute mark of the program from 03/10/2012. http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00yhnxj  

By Jack Bass, College of Charleston   Maybe the Obama campaign needs to bring Bill Clinton back for another lesson in Arithmetic. When Steve Croft on CBS’s 60 Minutes confronted President Obama Sunday a week ago about an unemployment rate of more than eight percent, he got a stumbling response.   Bass is author or […]

Ever wonder what would happen to a giant gas cloud if it moved close to a massive black hole? Maybe not, but researchers at the College of Charleston say considering questions like that could lead to a greater understanding of how the universe works. Recently, CofC scientists partnered with researchers at the Lawrence Livermore National […]

A who’s who of business, including the CEO of aerospace giant Boeing Co., is descending on the College of Charleston campus this morning to talk about the future of South Carolina’s economy and creating new jobs. Boeing chief Jim McNerney, whose company employs more than 6,000 workers at its 787 Dreamliner factories in North Charleston, […]

“It’s a very vulnerable coastline from Little River down,” said Scott Harris, associate professor of geology and environmental geosciences at the College of Charleston geologist who has researched landscape evolution and shoreline dynamics. “The only reason we realize there’s a problem is because people live on the coast.” http://www.myrtlebeachonline.com/2012/09/21/3072339/sc-coastline-more-vulnerable-23.html#storylink=misearch    

I had my stereotype of sailors blown to the wind last week. My limited experience with sailing and sailors gave me the impression that they didn’t really have to be in great shape. After all, I’ve known way too many sailors who had pot bellies and used rum and cigarettes as their performance-enhancing drugs. At […]