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The Conservation of Marine Resources Creative Inquiry team participates in marine ecology research to benefit the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary. Current projects include studying (1) the impact of shelter loss on the survival of juvenile Caribbean spiny lobsters, (2) using acoustic telemetry technology to track the movement of Caribbean spiny lobsters, (3) estimating effects of structure on reef fish diversity and abundance, (4) studying the effects of coral disease on coral cover and reef fish communities, and (5) the impact of marine debris on reef communities in the Florida Keys.
What is courage? Can people become more courageous? How can people lead better lives? The Courage and Positive Psychology CI team conducts scientific investigations into courage and other virtues and human well-being.
Becauseof their amazing diversity, there are multiple ways to study the fauna ofinsects and their relatives. Students will investigate insects in the ClemsonUniversity Experimental Forest. Explorations for particular groups may beaccording to their taxonomic relationships (e.g., ants, spiders, flies, etc.),habitats (e.g., soil, foliage, water, etc.), behavior (e.g., nocturnal ordiurnal activity, attraction to different baits, phototropism, etc.), or othercharacteristics. Students in this Creative Inquiry will ask one or morequestions about some aspect of the fauna of insects and their relatives,provide testable hypotheses to answer that/those question(s), and design one ormore field and laboratory experiments to test the hypotheses. Students mayexplore their questions independently or in teams over one to four semestersfor 1 or 2 credits each semester. Results and conclusions about them will bereported by the students in professional venues.
This Creative Inquiry will explore the effects of lifestyle medicine in conjunction with traditional medicine practices on the patient population at the Joseph F. Sullivan Center. Lifestyle Medicine is an evidence-based approach shown to prevent and treat disease, using a whole food dietary lifestyle, regular physical activity, restorative sleep, stress management, avoidance of risky substances and positive social connection as a primary therapeutic modality for treatment and reversal of chronic disease.
Studentsparticipating in this Creative Inquiry will help to lead the design and development of sustainable systems to provide drinking water and associated water treatment for communities in developing countries as part of an official project with the Clemson University Student Chapter of Engineers Without Borders.
This project examines a variety of aversive interpersonal behaviors, most notably cyberbullying, hazing, and school shootings. People engage in a variety of aversive interpersonal behaviors. Some of these behaviors are more mundane, such as guilt-induction. Others, such as those that constitute the focus of this team, are more insidious in nature, and have potentially fatal consequences. One of the interesting things about these behaviors is that, as seemingly disparate as they appear, there is actually quite a bit of overlap between them. For example, our research suggests an overlap between bullying and hazing. Additionally, one of the key predictors of perpetrating a school shooting is a long-term history of rejection, manifested most often through a history of bullying. One focus of our team with all of these behaviors is not only understanding antecedents and consequences but also prevention and intervention strategies.
This team studies the transfer and survival ofbacteria on various surfaces related to food. This team has tested numerousfood-related surfaces and activities such as the 5-second rule, double-dippingand beer pong in the past. Inthe future we will investigate new topics related to food and bacteria such astransfer of bacteria by wiping table tops with cleaning cloths, sanitation ofbottles and cans and transfer of bacteria while sharing snacks.
This CI team evaluates various Food AdvertisingClaims including those claiming to taste "better", last longer andmeet a certain specification.Last semester the team tested the Alkaline water claim, which included samplingdifferent types of alkaline water and also temperature effects on the pH of thewater.
From Fields to Fuel, team members will be researching all aspects of sustainable biofuels production and engineering while facilitating biodiesel and ethanol production to be utilized by University Facilities. Projects will focus on facility optimization through relief of production bottlenecks, and research increasing biodiesel feedstock acquisition through cultivation of energy crops and harvest of waste lipid streams. Led by Biosystems Engineering faculty.
This project teaches the fundamentals of programming using Python as the starting language. It will introduce how python is being used in all modern research in artificial intelligence, data science, big data, and other engineering applications. The project also prepares students to learn other programming languages, especially C for hardware programming.
Medical implant devices have been used widely for more than 50 years, and it is estimated that 8 - 10 % of Americans (20-25 million people) currently have such a device. Orthopaedicimplants are medical devices made of biomaterials used to treat musculoskeletaldisorders inside the human body with an intended lifespan spanning years. Although implant deviceshave produced great benefits, it must be recognized that implants sometimes must beremoved or replaced. Bioengineers contribute to their continual state ofdevelopment to increase their performance and extend their useful lifespan. This cross-disciplinary project applies fundamental concepts in bioengineering, materials science, and biological sciences to investigate orthopaedic implants after they have functioned in patients. Long-term data on the behavior of implant devices and host response areessential inputs to the development process, yet there are few systematicprograms for the retrieval and analysis of implants in the USA. Independent andinternational data banks do exist however. The contributions to implant designprovided by retrieval and analysis will benefit patients through improvementsin implant performance. We can consider implants to be defined as having aminimum lifespan of 3 months, as penetrating living tissue, as having aphysiologic interaction and as being retrievable. A number of barriers exist tothe establishment of an implant retrieval program. Major impediments are thecosts associated with such a program and fear of litigation affectingmanufacturers, hospitals, physicians, and investigators. The long term goal ofthis Creative Inquiry project is to establish and develop a viable Clemson University Implant Retrieval Program and pursue hypothesis-driven research related to orthopaedic implants. The aimof this program is to provide a working repository for retrieved orthopaedic implants,and to develop the tools and techniques for the systematic evaluation ofimplant designs, materials, surfaces and function.
In this Creative Inquiry project, we explore the use of electric, magnetic or flow field for the transport and control of biological and synthetic particles in engineered microchannels with lab-on-a-chip applications to chemistry and biomedicine for point of care technology.
We know that microbes are the most abundant organisms on the planet and are found pretty much everywhere. However, we know very little about which microbes are present in different environments and what microbes are actually doing. The emphasis in our lab is to use genomics and transcriptomics of microbial communities combined with measuring environmental parameters in order to understand the global and local importance of microbes. We focus on ecologically important concepts, such as functional redundancy.
Interpreting the landforms around us lies at the heart of geologic exploration. Through the use of low tech and high tech methods, we propose geologic processes that would explain the world around us.
In this CI project, studentswill learn to use state-of-the-artanalytical instruments to analyze food components, such as vitamins, aminoacids, flavors, food additives, nutraceuticals, etc, which arethe major nutritional and functional chemicals in foods. At the end of theresearch project, students are expected to be able tohave gained critical thinkingskills, learned basicprinciples of experimental design, masteredone or more modern analytical instruments, learnedhow to perform basic statistical analyses and writtena professional report.
This Creative Inquiry team will examine meaningful work as a buffer against the effects of stressors on emergency physicians, as well as determine interventions that should enhance meaningful work and therefore reduce stress and burnout. Students will gain experience in all phases of the research process.
This CI will introduce students to the need forprograms addressing overweight and obesity in adult populations and how tocreate and implement effective interventions. A review of existing programs fordiverse populations will be included and the hypothesis(es) generated to plan anintervention for a local population reviewed. Students will be trained in anthropometricsand assessment measures such as blood pressure that often changes with weightgain. Students will plan/revise/implement an educational intervention and learn/practice physical assessments. The intervention component of the CI along with data collectionand data analysis will occur. The projectwill culminate in a writeup and presentation of the study results.
The Morris lab is focused on resolving the mechanisms that protozoan parasites use to sense and metabolize the important sugar glucose during infection of their human host. Through these studies, parasite-specific components of the sugar sensing and uptake pathway have been identified and, in an on-going collaborative effort, small molecule inhibitors of the pathways with anti-parasitic activity have been developed. While the team has historically focused on the African trypanosome, more recent work on the malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum and the brain eating amoeba Naegleria fowleri suggests that exploiting the sugar metabolism pathways of these single-celled invaders may also prove useful in the development of new therapeutics.
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