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Zaria Killingsworth and Anthony Rovinski are Making the Campus and Grounds Crew Healthier
Anyone walking around the College of Charleston campus has seen and heard the Grounds Crew hard at work maintaining and ...
Zaria Killingsworth and Anthony Rovinski are Making the Campus and Grounds Crew Healthier
Anyone walking around the College of Charleston campus has seen and heard the Grounds Crew hard at work maintaining and enhancing the beauty of our campus. While the drone of the equipment can be loud, it’s the emissions, which are toxic for humans and the environment, that caused Zaria Killingsworth, a chemistry major and medical […]
Madison Meeks Inspires and Enacts Change on Campus, in STEM and Beyond
Junior biochemistry major Madison Meeks was one of three students selected to ask U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris a question during her visit to the College of Charleston on Wednesday, Oct. 11, 2023. “The opportunity to meet and witness Vice President Kamala Harris on campus was surreal. To be afforded the opportunity to meet such […]
Tyler Glymph Helps Plan NASA Mission to Dwarf Planet
Planning a NASA mission to land a rover on the dwarf planet Ceres isn’t something a whole lot of people can say they’ve done. But that’s exactly what College of Charleston sophomore Tyler Glymph did during his internship with NASA last summer. A Columbia, South Carolina, native majoring in geology and minoring in astronomy and […]
Jamirika Randall Receives Highly Selective Gates Scholarship
Jamirika Randall is one of the 34,000 students across the country who applied to The Gates Scholarship (TGS), a highly selective scholarship for outstanding minority high school seniors from low-income households. The scholarship provides complete funding for all collegiate expenses not funded by other scholarships to the college of their choice. “The College of Charleston was […]
Sydney Pearson’s Summer Internship Offers Marketable Skills, Launches Careers
On this episode of the Speaking of … College of Charleston podcast, Nick Plasmati ’18, associate director of marketing and academic programs in the College of Charleston Honors College, speaks with Sydney Pearson, a junior Honors student majoring in systems engineering, about her summer internship. Pearson interned as a project manager at the Mercedes-Benz Vans production […]
Internship Gives Savana Kate Schwanda Hands-On Experience
As the South Carolina economy continues grow, so to do the internship opportunities for College of Charleston students. Case in point: Savana Kate Schwanda, an Honors systems engineering major who interned at REI Automation, a company in Columbia, South Carolina, that designs and builds manufacturing automation equipment. “We try to give the intern an experience […]
Eric Conger and Tita Curtin Help Examine the Health of Gulf Coast Bottlenose Dolphins
Two College of Charleston seniors spent their summer as part of a research team examining the health of wild bottlenose dolphins in Florida and Louisiana. Eric Conger, a marine biology major, and Tita Curtin, a public health major, worked with Leslie Hart ’03 (M.S.), associate professor of public health and director of the College’s B.A. […]
Honors College Welcomes New Staff
The Honors College has welcomed several new team members in the past year. Let’s get to know them! Bridget Alaniva Associate Director of Honors College Admissions, Honors College Background: I am originally from Plymouth, Michigan, in the Lower Peninsula. I attended college at Michigan Technological University in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, majoring in communication, […]
Summer Research Grants Keep Learning Cool
Each summer, students at the College of Charleston gain hands-on experience through Summer Undergraduate Research with Faculty (SURF) grants, which pair students with faculty mentors to pursue experiential research that tackles real-world problems. For summer 2023, a total of 22 student projects have received grants of up to $6,500. “Faculty-student collaboration in a challenging, scholarly project […]
William Helfgott is Busy as a Bee
Extraordinary. Simply put, that’s William Helfgott’s story. As a rising junior in the Honors College, he’s not only a recipient of the Charleston Fellows scholarship; he’s also been a freshman senator in the student government association and a member of the Entrepreneurship Living-Learning Community, and continues to serve as a student ambassador for the School […]