This is a guest post written by Reilly Kilpatrick ’20 for her study abroad blog thechilebean.wordpress.com! Settling In Hello everyone! Apologies for the delayed update, I am simply having too much fun in Santiago! Since I last wrote, I have spent more time with my family, enjoyed lots of delicious food, started classes, and seen more […]
This is a guest post by Elaina Cole ’18. The other day I had the opportunity to attend a talk by Tui Allen, the Director of Product Management at Blackbaud. The presentation titled “Surviving and Moving Up Using Innovation and Culture” detailed the important qualities that are required to succeed in today’s work environment, such as […]
The CofC Boucher Research Group unites a whole host of exceptional chemistry students, including Dillon Presto ‘16, a CofC Honors student. Dillon’s research was recently accepted for publication in the Journal of Polymer Science Part B: Polymer Physics. The paper entitled, “P3HT/graphene Composites Synthesized Using In-Situ GRIM Methods”, also includes co-authors Vivian Song (a student […]
Sarah Wiegreffe is a data science Honors senior at The College, who spent the spring semester of her sophomore year studying abroad in Tartu, Estonia, through the exchange program with the University of Tartu. In today’s blog post, Sarah was gracious enough to share highlights of her life-changing experience in Estonia. Alluding to Estonia’s name in […]
This is a guest post by Sarah Dinning ’20. On September 14th, the Honors Entrepreneurship Living Learning Community students gathered to hear Eliza Starr as the inaugural speaker of the Honors ELLC’s “Alumni Speaker Series.” Starr, who was a member of the first Honors ELLC class last year, talked about her internship at Boeing and […]
For nearly as long as she can remember, CofC Honors junior Kathryn Templeton has wanted to be a teacher. She loves working with children, and admits she could spend hours on Pinterest clicking through endless examples of lesson plans aimed at getting kids excited about learning. Even before her freshman year as an education […]
For students at the College, the acronym ICAT equals opportunity. Based in the School of Business, the Interdisciplinary Center for Applied Technology (ICAT) is a progressive initiative that offers students an opportunity to engage in technology entrepreneurship in meaningful ways. One of those ways is ICAT Academy, an eight-to-ten-day session in which students travel to different […]
“My name is Stephanie Selker and I’m a rising sophomore in the Honors College with a double major in Political Science and German. This summer, I’m interning for 10 weeks at National Public Radio in Washington, D.C. with NPR Berlin and NPR Worldwide. I’m about halfway through my internship and so far, it’s going really […]
Last May, Zach Sturman stepped off a plane and into an Eastern European city rife with palpable political tension. Just a little earlier that month, the three Baltic members of NATO – Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania – had asked the organization to send them each thousands of ground troops to prevent further hostility from Russia. This […]
Every basketball player is looking for a big break. When Evan Bailey got his, though, it was a little disappointing. A compound fracture in his femur wasn’t exactly the break the seventh grader had been hoping for. It did, however, lead to a breakthrough: It was during his rehabilitation that he realized what he wanted to […]