Clemson welcomes Wenxin Liu, Ph.D., a new lecturer in the Glenn Department of Civil Engineering who specializes in geotechnical engineering. A Clemson alumna, she earned her doctoral degree in civil engineering from Clemson in August 2018 before accepting an offer to continue working in the department as a lecturer. Liu grew up in Nanjing, China, […]
Faculty from the College of Science and College of Engineering, Computing and Applied Sciences have secured a $316,000 grant from the Department of Defense's Office of Naval Research to purchase the world’s newest and best server in the scientific supercomputing market for Clemson University.
Greg Cranmer has the cover of a local newspaper from the early 90s framed in his office. He’s featured in the top right, a four-year-old wearing wrestling head gear and a singlet. His lip is poked out, and he’s visibly upset while a referee cautions him against locking hands. The picture was taken during Cranmer’s […]
Heidi Zinzow has dedicated her life to understanding the depths of sadness, so that she can guide others to happiness. An associate professor in Clemson’s Department of Psychology, Zinzow’s work in the areas of gender equality, sexual assault, and PTSD has garnered a slew of accolades, grants and national attention, but the awards she truly […]
Eight Clemson University faculty members have received grant funding from the newly formed South Carolina Center for Translational Research Improving Musculoskeletal Health (SC-TRIMH). Led by bioengineers at Clemson, SC-TRIMH combines orthopedics and other clinical expertise from Prisma Health–Upstate (formerly Greenville Health System) and the Medical University of South Carolina with computer scientists, computational engineers, biophysicists […]
High-performance research computing at Clemson is discovering answers to complex issues we didn’t even know existed a decade ago. The workhorse behind much of that problem-solving is one of the planet’s largest supercomputers: the Palmetto Cluster — at home in Clemson and at work in the world.
CLEMSON – Dan Whitehead of the department of chemistry has received the 2019 Dr. Fred Bisplinghoff FPRF Innovation Award from the Fats and Proteins Research Foundation and the National Renderers Association for his work on odor mitigation and environmental remediation. The Bisplinghoff FPRF Innovation Award was founded in 2015 and is awarded annually to […]
The American Council on Education (ACE) named Sharon Nagy, associate provost for Global Engagement at Clemson University, an ACE Fellow for the 2019-20 academic year. Following a nomination by the senior administration of their institutions and a rigorous application process, 39 Fellows were selected this year.
John Whitcomb, an associate professor in Clemson’s School of Nursing, was elected in March as president-elect for Clemson University’s Faculty Senate. Whitcomb, who directs undergraduate programs for the School of Nursing, will serve as vice president/president-elect from April 2019 until April 2020, when he will become Faculty Senate president for the 2020-2021 term. During his term, […]
The Clemson University School of Nursing is 50! The school has celebrated its 50th anniversary throughout the school year, with a November event recognizing former deans, directors and longtime supporter Dr. Peggy Deane and a celebration in April that brought about 130 alumni to campus. In honor of the anniversary, the school also unveiled a […]
One year is not enough. That’s one of the lessons that Dan Hofmann learned as president of the Staff Senate. Hofmann, who handed over his gavel to 2019-2020 Staff Senate President Janeen Putman at a ceremony last week, said that the Senate embarked on a number of important initiatives during his term, many of which […]
Mike Coggeshall has had several memorable experiences in the Czech Republic, but a single encounter with school children on a train stands out. Coggeshall was accompanying several Clemson students in the Czech Republic on a study abroad trip when he encountered a group of school children eager to practice the few English words they knew […]
Perhaps because of their years of service as faculty and staff senators, Danny Weathers and Janeen Putman, the newly elected presidents of the Faculty Senate and Staff Senate, provide the best examples of Gandhi’s view that the “best to way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.” An associate professor […]
As the 2019-20 Faculty Senate president, this Tiger hopes to implement changes and policies that benefit faculty and make a positive impact on the university that he loves.
Clemson University College of Science physicist Hugo Sanabria’s collaborative research on a protein that is considered to be a suppressor of cancerous tumors has been featured in the journal Nature Communications.