Research @ Coastal
At Coastal Carolina University, we nurture a richly textured environment of creativity and discovery for our faculty and students. Research, a primary mission of the university, opens new pathways to interpret and understand our world. Whether in the classroom, the laboratory, on stage, or in the field, undergraduate and graduate students work side by side with scientists, scholars, educators, visual and performing artists, and others engaged in research, innovation, and performance.
Research News
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Historical Archaeology Field School at Cat Island, Georgetown County Dr. Sharon Moses is studying the history of the Hume Plantation slaves who lived on Cat Island in Georgetown County, South Carolina. She has set up an historical archaeology field school using the Slave Street as the first sub-surface archaeology site to be conducted on Cat Island. Moses' goals include devling deeper into the daily life of mixed populations and how this changed over time, European domination and its influences over traditional beliefs, practices and values of Native Americans and African populations, and particularly of slaves and their children...more |
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Constructing Basic Algebras for Nearly Simple Groups The Higman-Sims group is a rare connection between different areas of Tom Hoffman's research. Computing the basic algebra of Higman-Sims in characteristic 2 has been one of Tom Hoffman's focuses. Higman-Sims is the symmetry goup of a 2-graph on 176 points. This two graph has 44,352,000 symmetires...more |
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National Science Foundation GK-12 Program GK-12 stands for Graduate STEM Fellows in K-12 Education, and the program, funded by the National Science Foundation, awards fellowships to graduate students in Stem disciplines (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math) to enhance their skills as scientists and educators and to bring their knowledge and assistance into local public schools...more |
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Anti-Bacterial Drug Discovery Research Professor Richardson's lab space is a closet, a fridge, and a spill-proof bench. |
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Cyberdeviance As technologies continue to permeate and restructure our work lives, the opportunities to misuse technologies at work have also increased rapidly, resulting in significant loss of productivity and other negative consequences for organizations and its employees. It has been shown that organizations nicur substantial losses due to employees' deviant use of information technologies in the workplace..more |
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Ground Water and Coastal Hypoxia In July of 2004, Myrtle Beach fisherman were startled to encounter scores of flounder clustered in andle-deep water along the shoreline of the Grand Strand. While the huge catch of flatfish may have been good news for anglers, the reason for this floundr jubilee, as it came to be called, was worrying: A "dead zone" of extremely low levels of dissolved oxygen in offshore waters had foced the animals towards land. Coastal Carolina University (CCU) led the effort to launch.....more |
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Undergraduate Math Research The telephone rings in Dr. James Solazzo's small office in the corner of the Wall building. Dr. Solazzo politely explains to Public Safety that they have dialed the wrong number and that he lacks the ability to transfer them. He begins to hang up, then bursts into a grin as he excitedly jokes, "I can help you with math, though!" |
