Landmarks & Legends: Howard's Rock
We thought it might be a good opportunity to revisit the origins of the famous rock that gets rubbed as players head down the Hill for home football games.
Archive for year: 2022
Alumni Story: Alumni Spring Break
We all know there’s something special about coming back to Clemson.
Sure, campus has changed. The Wilbur O. and Ann Powers College of Business and the new Samuel J. Cadden Chapel are breathtaking. There are new athletic fields and facilities scattered across campus (and this Columbus resident particularly relishes a few of the Ohio State tombstones in the football “graveyard”). But when you get to experience moments with old friends in a place full of memories, time stands still, and your world does a little, too.
Enter Clemson Alumni Spring Break 2022. The weekend of March 25-27 was packed with campus tours, activities, a golf outing, and a concert that featured Clemson favorites Rough Mix and Cravin’ Melon. Alumni traveled from all over to take in the sights and the sounds of their favorite town and reminisce with old friends and classmates.
On Friday night, this Tiger walked into Tiger Town Tavern and found the same large friend group sitting in the same spot where we used to meet in 1985. Memories flow easily at an event like this. And from a distance, you’d think you were watching just a bunch of college kids enjoying a night on the town. You were, but the kids were a little older, their experiences a bit greater.
For a weekend, time turned back. Dear old Clemson greeted us with open arms and made us feel like we were home. It was a fantastic stroll down memory lane and a perfect three-day opportunity to meet up with old friends and make some really great new ones. You can bet I’ll be back next year and every single year after.
Alumni Profile: Jesica Galloway Johnson ’16
As an engineer on a Clemson construction project, Jesica Johnson is fulfilling a lifelong dream
Alumni Profile: Kelly Gramlich ’14, M ’16
Kelly Gramlich’s love for basketball has taken her from the court to the TV studio
Alumni Profile: Josiah Hester ’11, Ph.D. ’17
Josiah Hester ’11, Ph.D. ’17 is turning his passion for sustainable energy into tomorrow’s technology — including a battery-free Gameboy.
My Clemson: Asa Briggs ’02
Through career changes and moves across the country, Asa Briggs keeps finding his way back to Clemson
Alumni Profile: Douglas Piper ’09
Douglas Piper carves out a place for himself in Greenville’s art scene through block prints
Packaging Science Students Win in International Design Competitions
Three teams from the packaging science program captured international awards for projects ranging from a skin care package to quarantine survival kits for shipping and gifts on the go. One team won first place in the United States/United Kingdom division at the Packaging Impact Design Award competition. They traveled to Monaco along the French Riviera to present their Golden Bee Skin Care package design during the Grand Finale at Luxe Pack Monaco.
“The packaging industry’s focus on sustainability was the main driving force for our design,” said Samantha Johnson, a senior from Michigan. “We created a package without any plastic that contains a sustainable product. Not only will it look beautiful, but it will be gentler to the environment.”
Two other teams won awards
in the annual Student Packaging Design Competition held in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, by AICC, The Independent Packaging Association.
Understanding UFOs
Generally, when you see a headline about UFOs, it doesn’t involve understanding the evolution of galaxies. Unless, that is, the UFOs being discussed are ultra-fast outflows — powerful winds launched from very near supermassive black holes that scientists believe play an important role in regulating the growth of the black hole itself and its host galaxy.
Using data gathered by the Large Area Telescope onboard NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope and a stacking technique combining signals too weak to be observed on their own, researchers detected gamma rays from UFOs in several nearby galaxies for the first time, providing a basis for scientists to understand what happened in our own Milky Way galaxy.
Clemson scientists collaborated with other researchers from 12 countries as part of the Fermi-LAT Collaboration on published research findings that outline the detection of gamma-ray emission from UFOs launched by supermassive black holes.