Archive | April, 2011

The group, led by Jared M. Ragland, a graduate student at the College of Charleston, in Charleston, S.C., captured 19 loggerheads near Cape Canaveral, Fla., in 2006 and 2007. Group members measured and weighed the turtles, took blood samples, and examined their reproductive systems with testicular biopsies. Then they fitted them with satellite transmitters and […]

College of Charleston senior Sara Sprehn is the first undergraduate in the school’s history to land a full Fulbright Scholarship. Sprehn, from Fort Myers, Fla., is a Spanish major who also will earn minors in anthropology and chemistry. http://www.postandcourier.com/news/2011/apr/23/c-of-c-undergrad-wins-fulbright-scholarship/

Rather than navigate the globe after completing college, sailor Molly Robinson took another route. The San Francisco native did venture halfway across the world after graduating from the College of Charleston in 2009, but it was hardly a pleasure cruise. Robinson spent two months in a Hazmat suit, spraying glue for a sail-making company in […]

College of Charleston biology professor Gavin Naylor has received a $2.2 million grant from the National Science Foundation to study the evolution of sharks, rays and chimaeras. Under the terms of the five-year research grant, Naylor will categorize the diversity of sharks, skates, rays and chimaeras; provide a genealogy of relationships based on DNA sequence […]

For College of Charleston undergraduates Daniel Hodge and Coti Phillips, who interned on an earlier leg of that cruise as far as Bermuda, pulling in those nets was a wake-up call. “I was expecting to see bottles, plastic bags. It was almost the perfect size for plankton, for small animals to be eating,” Phillips said. […]

Bernard Powers, a professor of African American history at the College of Charleston, is an advisor to Drayton Hall, near Charleston, S.C. Slaves are buried here, their graves unmarked. “I come out here and walk over in this area and there’s a certain spirituality that pervades this place,” he said. “One of the things that […]

  A team from the College of Charleston, South Carolina, used hi-tech satellite transmitters to track migrant loggerhead turtles from Florida, up and down the U.S. Atlantic coast.   Lead author Jared Ragland, from the College of Charleston, said: “The risks posed by persistent organic pollutants, known as POPs, remains largely a mystery for threatened […]

  One hundred and fifty years ago, the first shots of the US Civil War were fired in Charleston, South Carolina. Historian Bernard Powers talks to the BBC’s Paul Adams about the history of slavery and why it triggered the secession of southern states. Speaking at Boone Hall Plantation outside Charleston, Powers says the US […]

  Professor BERNARD POWERS (College of Charleston): We must always remember that there’s great potential in this country, its institutions, in the Constitution to further the interests of civil rights and equality and justice. That’s the beauty of America.   http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3032619/#42561251  

  “The Union was not only preserved, it was transformed through the destruction of slavery and made more perfect,” said Bernard Powers Jr., a Professor at the College of Charleston and author of “Black Charlestonians: A Social History 1822-1885.   http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/42493906