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Our next guest was a member of his high school’s first graduating class in 1990, now he’s back and he’s running that school. Mike Switzer interviews Danny Dorsel, president of the South Carolina Governor’s School for Science & Mathematics in Hartsville.

One of our state’s institutions of higher learning will soon be bringing in over 30 globally-recognized financial professionals to help conduct a symposium on the latest trends in the investment industry. Mike Switzer interviews Mark Pyles, finance professor and director of the School of Business Investment Program at the College of Charleston, which will host its eighth annual Strategic Investment Symposium on March 11th.

“C” is for Campbell, Lord William (ca. 1730-1778). Governor.

“F” is for Fishing Creek, Battle of (August 18, 1780). Coming on the heels of the defeat at Camden, the rout of Thomas Sumter’s force at Fishing Creek marked the low point of the patriot cause in South Carolina.

River Alliance CEO Mike Dawson talks with Walter Edgar about how the Alliance has worked together with riverside communities, city and county governments, and many other organizations to create community resources along the Saluda, Broad, and Congaree rivers in the Midlands of South Carolina.

The members of the modern violin family are descendants of various kinds of medieval fiddles—fiddle, by the way, being an older word than violin.

This week Bobbi Conner talks with Dr. Christine Cooper about the important role that nutrition and healthy foods can play in the lives of patients living with Parkinson’s disease. Dr. Cooper is an Assistant Professor in the College of Medicine and she’s a neurologist specializing in movement disorders at MUSC.

“N” is for Newman, Isaiah DeQuincey (1911-1985). Clergyman, civil rights leader.

“P” is for Partisans. After the fall of Charleston in May 1780, bands of partisans or irregular soldier sprang up to fight royal control of South Carolina during the Revolutionary War.

“R” is for Reconstruction. The defeat of the Confederacy in 1865 posed a problem for the federal government: how were the defeated states to be brought back into the Union?