Increasing Research Funding & Opportunity
2007 was an influential year to the research efforts of our students.
The Graduate Studies Office hosted the inaugural Responsible Conduct of Research (RCR) seminars this past Fall, and they were attended by 52 students. Now mandatory for all graduate students, the RCR seminars provide training on the ethical standards of research.
To help expose the community to our students’ research, we also held our first Graduate Research Poster Session in 2007. Twenty-eight graduate students competed for one of six honorarium awards. This year's Poster Session featured 20 presentations; you can see the winners here.
Finally, students are able to electronically publish their thesis through UMI Dissertation Publishing - a leader in thesis publishing. Our students’ theses are now published, archived and distributed with the option to be filed with a copyright registration with the United States Copyright Office. Their work is preserved in microform and digital format and is searchable on the internet.
Doing research related to the Carolina Lowcountry and/or Atlantic World?
Apply for a travel grant!
In Fall 2005 the CLAW program inaugurated a new research travel grant. Graduate and advanced undergraduate students may apply for a travel grant of $150 to allow them to pursue or present research on a topic related to the Carolina Lowcountry and/or Atlantic World.
Up to five grants will be awarded in any given academic year on a first come-first served basis. Please apply at least one month in advance of the proposed travel by sending two copies of a letter of application to Professors Simon Lewis (lewiss@cofc.edu) and David Gleeson (gleesond@cofc.edu) describing
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Date
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Destination
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Occasion of your travel (professional meeting, conference, research, etc.)
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A brief description of the nature of the work you are doing and its pertinence to the Carolina Lowcountry and/or Atlantic World.
Please also include an outline of the costs you will incur and list any other sources of funding (and amounts awarded or applied for) you are seeking.
If your application is successful, we simply ask that you send us a brief summary of your experience on return (maximum one page), and that you acknowledge our support in any published version of your research. While there is no deadline for applying to this grant, only five will be awarded on a first-come, first-serve basis.
Associate Dean Dave Owens with graduates of the Marine Biology Program