Astrophysicist Sean Brittain straddles two worlds Sean Brittain has used some of the world’s most powerful telescopes to study the chaos swirling around a young star about 335 light years from Earth. Huge chunks of rock are slamming together to form what could be the first planets of a budding solar system. Back home in […]
U.S. Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker has selected Clemson University President James P. Clements to serve as a co-chair of the National Advisory Council on Innovation and Entrepreneurship (NACIE). NACIE is a federal advisory committee charged with identifying and recommending solutions to issues critical to driving the innovation economy, including enabling entrepreneurs and firms to successfully access and develop a […]
In October, trustee Ellison Smyth McKissick III of Greenville and retired professor Jerome V. Reel Jr. of Clemson were awarded the Thomas Green Clemson Medallion, the University’s highest public honor. The medallion is awarded to those members of the Clemson Family whose dedication and service embody the spirit of the University’s founder. “These two gentlemen […]
Listen to the MISTERs sing “One MISTER”: Providing positive role models in classrooms and communities TEACHING ELEMENTARY SCHOOL was not the future that Daniel Spencer ’09 envisioned as a high school senior in Swansea, South Carolina. With two brothers having dropped out of high school (one of whom served prison time) and parents who didn’t […]
President Clements visited the University’s Belle W. Baruch Institute of Coastal Ecology and Forest Science on Hobcaw Barony near Georgetown in October for the dedication of the John Bunyan Harris III Student Center. The student center provides affordable short-term housing for graduate students studying or conducting research at the institute. The cottage is a gift from John Harris […]
Botanist, teacher, curator, scholar — Dixie Damrel encourages her students to experience the green world around them. One step off the asphalt parking lot, Dixie Damrel enters another world. It is a world of individuals, families, clans and communities. Damrel knows the names of thousands of the inhabitants, their Latin names and their familiar ones. […]
Cadets from both Army and Air Force ROTC programs worked with members of Purple Heart Homes, who are veterans themselves, to fix up the home of World War II veteran Fred Turner. These cadets worked at scraping old paint and repainting windows and awnings, as well as clearing out brush and debris in Turner’s back […]
Tigers on the High Seas! Family cruise on Disney’s Fantasy — December 2014. To St. Thomas, USVI, San Juan, PR and Castaway Cay, Bahamas. David Wells ’84, Mary, Elizabeth (9), David, Jr (5 1/2) and Anderson (5 1/2)
Tiger siblings Stephen, Sarah, and Carlene Vance visit their parents who live in Rio De Janeiro, Brazil, during the winter holidays. Encountered locals who recognized the Tiger Paw on 12/30/14 and said they watched Clemson beat Oklahoma in the bowl game the night before.
Bob Jones, Clemson’s new executive vice president for academic affairs and provost, has called many places “home” over the years. A native of western New York state, he came to Clemson as an undergraduate to study forestry, drawn to the area for the biodiversity of its trees. Since then, he and his wife, Jeri ’80, […]