There’s a good chance a dead parrot will find its way into Gavin Hawk’s January 2025 Eckerd College Winter Term course titled Sketch Comedy Writing. The course surveys and analyzes iconic sketches from television shows in America, Great Britain and Canada—from trailblazers like Your Show of Shows to more modern programs like Key & Peele. Using examples from those shows as models, students will then write their own sketches in a variety of styles.

Written by Tom Zucco and read by Brennan Coleman '28.

Eckerd College senior Shane McCaghey started selling sneakers online from his home in Wilton, Connecticut, when he was a first-year student in high school. He would find a pair of discounted Nike Air Jordans and resell them for a small profit. It was 2017, and Shane was just getting rolling.

Written by Tom Zucco and read by Brennan Coleman '28.

Sadie Kramer’s Eckerd story didn’t start last August when she moved into Alpha Gandhi House at Eckerd as a first-year student.

Written by Hilary Lehman and read by Brennan Coleman '28.

For most first-year undergraduate students, the first semester is a time to adjust to college life, but for Grace Nowak it’s been an opportunity to launch a business at Eckerd College.

Written by Aiden Brill '26 and read by Brennan Coleman '28.

Well over 100 researchers, educators, state and federal biologists, conservationists, and students packed a conference room at the Eckerd College Continuing Education Center Nov. 15 and 16 to learn more about a reptile that carries its home on its back, is valued by people across the southeastern U.S. and is becoming increasingly threatened.

Written by Tom Zucco and read by Brennan Coleman '28.

Richard Tetrault, technical theatre coordinator for Eckerd College, envisions a new local venue to temporarily replace the damaged Bininger theatres for student productions with access to the stars.

Written and read by Emmi Elmaleh ’27.

Eckerd College recently announced three winners of its prestigious internal scholarships designed to recognize outstanding students with high academic achievement and community involvement.

Written and read by Emmi Elmaleh ’27.

Every other Thursday, Eckerd College junior Jeff Hughes hosts the Triton Automotive meet on campus. The student-led organization encourages those with an interest in or curiosity about cars to attend.

Written and read by Emmi Elmaleh ’27.

Eight years ago Eckerd College marine science graduate Lauren Vonnahme ’10, a senior museum specialist in the Herpetology Department at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City, reached out to Eckerd Associate Professor of Biology Jeff Goessling, Ph.D., and offered to help arrange Winter Term internships for Eckerd students at the museum.

Written by Tom Zucco and read by Brennan Coleman '28.

The British Museum, Kew Gardens and the Musée Curie Museum were just a few sites students visited on Eckerd College’s History of Science Winter Term trip to London and Paris this January.

Written and read by Madison DeVore ’25.