Moreover, men don't possess the same coping mechanisms as women do, said George Dickinson, professor of sociology at the College of Charleston and author of "Understanding Dying, Death, and Bereavement." "For men of Mr. Paterno's generation, work was everything, and after retirement they don't really know what to do with themselves," he said, noting that

Over dinner on R.V. Calypso while anchored on the lee side of Glover’s Reef in Belize, Jacques Cousteau told Phil Dustan that he suspected humans were having a negative impact on coral reefs. Dustan—a young ocean ecologist who had worked in the lush coral reefs of the Caribbean and Sinai Peninsula—found this difficult to believe.

Christopher Starr, chairman of the computer science department at the College of Charleston, remembers the days before Blackbaud. At the beginning of his 25-year career at the college, most of his graduates left town for jobs. http://www.postandcourier.com/news/2012/jan/29/keeping-tech-talent-in-town/

John Allison's talk is part of the College of Charleston BB&T Free Market Process Speaker Series. It will be held Feb. 9 from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. in Wachovia Auditorium at 5 Liberty St. in downtown Charleston. The title of the talk is: "The Practical Impact of the Federal Reserve on Decision Making in Large

Science and math have come out winners in the College of Charleston's 20-year campus building plan. The college has completed a draft of the campus master plan, which would bring the landlocked, downtown campus an additional 863,000 square feet of space without significantly increasing the school's footprint, said Steve Osborne, executive vice president for business