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At a small, primarily baccalaureate public institution, the resources normally available to astronomers at larger campuses are not to be found. No trained graduate student population is present, and limits on funding, computing resources, and standard astronomical equipment availability create obstacles to research that are unique to smaller campuses. These problems are particularly pronounced in the absence of a major or minor program in astronomy.In this paper, we will discuss the research in computational astrophysics being conducted at Shepherd College, a public institution in West Virginia with a student population of 4600. Shepherd has no physics major, no astronomy or astrophysics major or minor, and a physics minor that has had no students complete it in the past four years, and only four students complete it in the twelve years prior to 1997. Nevertheless, astrophysical research has been undertaken at Shepherd forsss the past four years, and incorporates students and staff into research in every semester. We will discuss some of the pitfalls that have been encountered, and successes that we have achieved.