Professor’s Diversity Fellowship Proves Transformative
When Honors College Faculty Fellow Kendall Deas was accepted into a prestigious diversity-focused fellowship program at the University of Michigan in 2016, he assumed the experience would help him grow as a professional and impart invaluable skills and insights that he could put to use in his role as a faculty member at the College of […]
I was rejected by every PhD program I applied to. This year, I got into my top choice.
This article was written by Honors College Alum, Levi Vonk for Quartz. It can be found in its entirety here. Around this time last year, I was reading my final rejection letter from the University of California-Berkeley. It wasn’t much of a surprise. By the time the email appeared in my inbox, four other universities—Yale, […]
2 CofC Honors Students Named Goldwater Scholars
Three College of Charleston students have been named Goldwater Scholars, one of the nation’s highest honors for undergraduates studying science, technology, engineering or mathematics. Biochemistry major Alexandra Schwartz (Honors) and chemistry majors John Cobb (Honors) and Alyssa Johnson were among the 240 undergraduates to be honored by the Barry Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Foundation for their […]
South Carolina War Veterans use Poetry for Healing in New Reading Group
It’s a story as old as human conflict. Odysseus returns from war and senses that a gulf has opened between him and the people he loves. “Strange woman!” he says when he first sees his wife in Book 23 of Homer’s ancient Greek epic poem The Odyssey. “Strange man,” Penelope replies. A new reading group […]
Honors Students Establish First-Ever Aesthetics Conference at the College
Open, interesting discussion regarding beauty. That’s what’s at the heart of the College’s Aesthetics Work Group (AWG). This group, established by philosophy and Honors Western Civ professor Jonathan Neufeld several years ago, meets regularly and features both student and faculty participants whose discussions range widely over theoretical topics in and about the arts. The group’s […]
Honors Student Research Accepted to the AMIA Translational Bioinformatics Summit
Congratulations to Honors student, Sarah Wiegreffe for the acceptance of her research, “Can Classifications of Publications into Translational Categories be Automated?” at the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) Translational Bioinformatics Summit, which will take place March 27-30, 2017 in San Francisco, CA. Wiegreffe’s research is a collaborative effort between Dr. Paul Anderson’s data science research […]
CofC Honors Students Get Political Experience in Washington Semester
College of Charleston students are joining their peers throughout South Carolina and taking advantage of a different kind of immersion experience in our nation’s capitol. The South Carolina Washington Semester Internship Program (WSP) offers college students hands-on experience with the political process as they spend a semester living and working in Washington D.C. Housed in […]
College of Charleston Among Top Fulbright Producers
Fulbright awards are among the most prestigious honors that a U.S. college student can earn. Recently, a record four students from the College of Charleston won Fulbright awards for 2016-2017. In recognition of this accomplishment, the U.S. Department of State, which oversees Fulbright awards, named the College among the country’s Top Producers of Fulbright Students […]
Diversifying Tech is Goal of Student Group
In a landscape filled with computers and digital devices, one College of Charleston group is doing its part to make sure students of all ages and backgrounds feel empowered to participate in an increasingly tech savvy world. With an eye toward diversifying the field of computer science, leaders in the student organization Women in Computing […]
Honors Alumna Leading High-Needs Classrooms Throughout U.S.
It all starts in the classroom. And, for nine members of the 2016 Teach For America corps, that classroom was at the College of Charleston. With graduates from the Classes of ’16, ’13, ’11 and ’06 in the 2016 Teach For America corps, a record number of CofC alumni are making a difference in classrooms around the […]