W. Harold Allen
Creative Inquiry was integrated with the Biosystems Engineering senior capstone design sequence. All projects centered around design of bioenergy systems. Five teams of four students completed the sequence.
Felix Barron, Mike Henson and Jeremy Tzeng
Microbiology students learning about industry outreach activities.
Felix Barron
Design of diets to improve symptoms related to cardiovascular diseases.
Felix Barron
Further studies are needed to determine if food aromas effectively help on improving weight loss through decreased appetite.
Brian Bolt
Students will be exhibiting beef cattle, swine and sheep for the Clemson University Farms at local, regional and national events. Students will be expected to serve as mentors for youth exhibiting at these shows as well as CU students who elect to exhibit animals in the animal exhibition class.
Brian Bolt
Students involved with this project explore various and novel means of collecting performance data on beef cattle, dairy cattle and swine.
William Bowerman
We will have students help us identify the sex of birds of prey using blood samples and will teach them about population dynamics and determine adult replacements at eagle nests.
Katherine Cason
This team is examining the effectiveness of school-based interventions to prevent obesity.
Katherine Cason
This creative inquiry team will examine the effectiveness of interventions developed to help young children develop healthful eating and physical activity behaviors.
Michael Childress
Coastal marine communities are potentially the most threatened habitats in the world today due to increasing disturbances from both natural and anthropogenic sources. Our creative inquiry team will work on developing sustainable management strategies for the conservation of marine resources though field research, computer modeling and independent projects. Students will participate in a weekly discussion group and annual field research trips to the ACE Basin National Estuarine Reserve and the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary.
Aubrey Coffee
This research topic investigates recipe/formula development by going back in history to understand the present. Wonderful topic for those interested in researching food history.
Marge Condrasky and Paul Dawson
Team investigating chicken flavors with gas chromatography.
Marge Condrasky and William Norman
Team developed survey instrument, interviewed tailgaters, provided web link to participate in study.
Marge Condrasky and Michelle Parisi
Culinary nutrition team gained a more complete understanding of outreach program development, delivery and enhancement. These ambitious students committed to developing a variety of promotional and evaluation tools. Salt team investigated chefs opinions of various types of salt in cooking.
Joseph Culin
Monthly camping trips are used to stage collections of moths, butterflies, dragonflies and damselflies at the Kings Mountain and Crowders Mountain parks near Gastonia, NC. Outcomes will include a "field guide" for butterflies and dragonflies found in the parks. In addition, demonstration collections will be prepared for display in the three park nature centers.
Paul Dawson
This CI Research Team has completed several experiments over the past two years and recently received nationwide publicity on their work on Food Safety Myths.
Susan Duckett, Brian Bolt, and John Andrae
Research will examine best management practices for natural, grass-fed lamb production, measure lamb fat composition and alter lamb flavor.
Steven Ellis
An inquiry group to study calf production practices that affect animal health, welfare, and product quality.
Jillian Fain
Dairy Challenge is an advanced dairy management course that tests practical application of learned materials where students acquire additional skills of time management, data analysis, public speaking, leadership, and teamwork interactions. These students have the opportunity to travel around the nation observing and critiquing farms, learning along the way what makes a farm in this nation profitable and creating a vast network of friends and future colleagues.
Jillian Fain
Assisted reproductive technologies are having a growing impact on the profitability and efficiency of the livestock industries. For this research students will have the opportunity to work in the lab utilizing basic lab skills, learning new advanced techniques, and will additionally be able to work “cow-side” practicing an important and growing technique in the livestock industries, embryo transfer.
Jillian Fain
Students are given a standard by which we select and evaluate dairy cattle for the furthering of progress and efficiency in the dairy industry and for which they will acquire necessary skills in critical thinking, independent decision making based on preset standards, and effective public speaking.
John Gibbons
Students will be involved in all phases of bovine oocyte recovery, in vitro maturation, fertilization, and embryo culture. Students from the AVS (and other) Departments will use the anatomical, physiological, and biochemical knowledge gained through coursework, and apply it to the practice of one of the most fundamental of all sciences - reproduction and embryo development. Other opportunities that will likely develop from this project will be to provide material (oocytes, embryos, parthenogetically activated oocytes, etc.) for research, teaching (AVS 453), and as a reproductive service to the cattle industry in South Carolina and nationwide. This Creative Inquiry opportunity provides a rare instrument to implement graduate student level research and training at Clemson University.
John Gibbons
Students will be involved in an internship / externship at the University of Georgia-College of Veterinary Medicine. Duties include assisting with treatments, surgeries, and other medical attention provided to client animals in the Large Animal Teaching Hospital at UGA. Requirements are three hours of in-clinic time per registered credit hour, and a one-page synopsis of activities submitted to Instructor and Cooperator every other week.
John Hains
Studying the quality and biology of our lakes and streams.
Vivian Haley-Zitlin
Our team wants to develop effective strategies to prevent type 2 diabetes in the 52 million people with pre-diabetes. You can help - join us!
Vivian Haley-Zitlin
Why do you think so many people are becoming overweight and obese? Our team wants to get to the heart of this issue by thinking outside of the box.
Rita Haliena and Elizabeth Kunkel
Our team is working with the Clemson Free Clinic. This is a program that provides medical services and prescriptions to uninsured individuals. They have many nutritional needs, and we are trying to prioritize those needs and assist in addressing them.
Karen Hall and Kathy Kegley
Students in this Creative Inquiry project will work on various aspects of interpreting the natural and cultural history inherent in the Cherokee Garden, housed within the South Carolina Botanical Gardens. The purpose of this garden is to convey the worldview of Cherokee people through design and interpretation. Given that the original territory of the Cherokee included the land that became Clemson University, the gardens are meant to educate and honor the contributions of these important people through this garden that demonstrates a new (to us) way of knowing the world. Students participating in this project gain experience in qualitative research through interviews with Cherokee people, natural and cultural interpretation, filmmaking, photography and digital video editing.
Mary Taylor Haque
Clemson University Landscape Design students, along with The Friends of Lake Keowee Society (FOLKS) joined together in an effort to create a demonstration garden to help educate the community about protecting Lake Keowee and its surrounding watersheds. In order to accomplish the goals of the project, the team followed the five steps of landscape design. These steps include: research, site analysis, conceptual design, preliminary design, and final design. The proposed garden showcases different low impact development (LID) techniques that improve water quality. A few examples of low impact development (LID) techniques used in the design include: constructed wetland, rain garden, rain barrel, porous pavements, and shoreline buffer. By implementing the demonstration garden, the outcome will help educate the community about the importance for landscaping for water quality.
Brad Hersh
Students will use a variety of microbiological, cellular, and molecular techniques in the design, implementation, and presentation of research projects studying bacterial pathogenesis, insect cell signaling, and gene regulation in animal development.
Xiuping Jiang
Applied microbiology
Julia Kerrigan
Fungi are an integral part of forest ecosystems, and this Creative Inquiry focuses on surveying the fungal diversity in the Clemson Experimental Forest. Learn about different types of fungi, how to identify them, and their roles in forests.
DeeAnne M. Kimmel
Research to create multimedia presentation of history of the Packaging Science Department within the context of the history of the packaging industry
Kendall Kirk and Young Jo Han
In Spring 2007, the team worked on a yield monitor for peanut harvesting. Future groups may improve on this design or move towards other Ag-related projects. Students from all backgrounds are welcomed and encouraged to participate.
Drew Lanham
Forest management and Biodiversity in the Clemson Experimental Forest
Laura M. Morgan
Participating students are interested in becoming actively involved in the stock horse industry, focusing on working cowhorse, reining and cutting.
Laura Morgan and Kevin D. Layfield
Students will be trained to issue and proctor standardized exams and will become competent at collecting, organizing, and analyzing data from multiple sources.
Laura Morgan and Kristine L. Vernon
Students will form teams to evaluate different areas of the stock horse industry. The main areas to be studied are, but not limited to: Managing, Consulting, Judging, and Showing. Researchers will assess the current state of each category and become an active participant in the horse industry.
John Morse
Students will each inventory species of some particular insect group in the Forest and report findings to the Forest managers.
John Morse
INVENTORY OF INSECTS IN THE CLEMSON EXPERIMENTAL FOREST: Spend time outdoors in a beautiful setting; learning to collect, preserve, and identify natural history specimens; becoming an expert in a particular group of insects; and contributing to an inventory to be used to improve CEF management practices. Contact Dr. John Morse, <jmorse@clemson.edu>, 310 Long Hall, 864-656-5049
Paresh Patel
Are you interested in exploring new ideas for renewable energy? If you want to be part of exciting project on using waste products for bio-energy generation come join our team.
Ed Pivorun
Students will have an opportunity to learn a software program that will allow them to create interactive programs that are designed to be powerful learning tools. These programs are to be developed for courses that have many complex concepts or a large memory component such as human anatomy. The student will use creativity and prior knowledge of the subject material to create unique and useful educational materials.
Melissa Riley and Sandra Gray
Students investigate scientific literature to determine possible biological activity and contaminants reported in various herbal products. Herbal material is obtained for testing from various commercial sources after the students decide the specific material that they want to investigate. Testing includes isolation and identification of important bacterial and fungal contaminants. Biological activity testing includes: anti-tumor assays, anti-bacterial and anti-fungal activity, toxicity testing, plant growth inhibition, estrogenic activity, anti-oxidant activity and polyphenolic content. Students learn how to use various analytical equipment including spectrophotometers, gas chromatographs, high pressure liquid chromatographs during the conduct of their research. Oral and written reports are completed and incorporated into the student’s e-Portfolio.
Kenneth Robinson
This course is a unique research and service learning opportunity involving research in entrepreneurship, community and economic development, and marketing. An opportunity for participants to design a local food system and to promote sustainable agriculture, economic development, and good health in rural SC Lowcountry communities.
Peter Skewes
Hands-on opportunity to learn about animal behavior and research methods.
Skip Still
Wildlife Habitat Inventory
David Tonkyn and Carrie Wells
This research experience exposes students to field ecology and butterfly conservation in the Southern Appalachian Mountains.
Kristine Vernon
Clemson University’s Horse Judging Team will be competing in the All American Quarter Horse Congress Judging Contest and the Quarter Horse World Show Championship Judging Contest in the Fall 2007 semester. These two contests represent the most prestigious contests for collegiate horse judging teams. Students interested in participating in the Horse Judging Teams creative inquiry have a number of opportunities to participate by enrolling in AVS 309 or AVS 405.