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Two professors receive prestigious NSF award

September 3, 2015 / in In These Hills / 0 Comments / by: Nancy Spitler

Two faculty members have received a total of $1 million in funding as part of the National Science Foundation’s highest honor for junior faculty members. Jacob Sorber and Yue “Sophie” Wang were among the honorees in this year’s Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program. Each has been awarded $500,000 for research. Sorber’s research enables low-cost, low-power sensors to […]

Long road to Clemson drives student’s entrepreneurial spirit to help others

September 2, 2015 / in In These Hills / 0 Comments / by: Nancy Spitler

Kaitlynn Lewis’s journey to Clemson has been a circuitous one. Through grit, determination and generous scholarship donors, she has overcome numerous obstacles and hopes to use what she learned from the school of hard knocks — and Clemson — to help others like her move beyond the hardships in their lives. Lewis is a junior business management […]

CU-ICAR students unveil Deep Orange 5

September 2, 2015 / in In These Hills / 0 Comments / by: Nancy Spitler

Students at the Clemson University International Center for Automotive Research (CU-ICAR) unveiled its newest concept vehicle, sponsored by General Motors, at the GM Renaissance Center in Detroit. Deep Orange 5, the fifth generation of Clemson’s concept vehicle program, is designed for young adults who will live in mega cities in 2020. The vehicle was designed by Art Center College of […]

Students flex fiscal muscles to win national competition

September 1, 2015 / in In These Hills / 0 Comments / by: Nancy Spitler

A proposal by economics students on how to stabilize the nation’s debt-to-gross-domestic-product ratio won first place at the national collegiate Fiscal Challenge on Capitol Hill this spring. The Fiscal Challenge is a competition among college teams to create a plan putting the U.S. on a sustainable fiscal path. “Our team put a tremendous amount of work […]

Basketball, graduation to call Greenville home for the year

September 1, 2015 / in In These Hills / 0 Comments / by: Nancy Spitler

Headed off to New Challenges and Opportunities

September 1, 2015 / in In These Hills / 0 Comments / by: Nancy Spitler

In May, almost 3,000 Clemson students received bachelor’s, master’s and doctoral degrees at Littlejohn Coliseum and joined the ranks of 137,000 alumni. President Clements voiced his hope that the graduates’ time at Clemson helped make them better all-around people. “I hope that your Clemson experience has been everything that you hoped it would be and […]

Applying Clemson heat to STEAM education

August 11, 2015 / in In These Hills / 0 Comments / by: Nancy Spitler

Clemson World recognized for print and digital versions

May 5, 2015 / in In These Hills / 0 Comments / by: Nancy Spitler

Clemson World brought home three awards from the Council for the Advancement and Support of Education’s District III conference in February. The magazine won a Grand Award in the category of Magazine III, which includes universities with 15,000+ students, as well as a Grand Award in the category of “Magazine or Publication Rendering for Tablet […]

Duckenfield Scholars return to campus to host symposium

May 5, 2015 / in In These Hills / 0 Comments / by: Nancy Spitler

Ten years ago, Clemson’s first Duckenfield Scholar, Lindsay Green-Barber, went abroad to study at Oxford. This spring, she and the 16 other Duckenfield Scholars have traveled back to Clemson to return the favor. The group of alumni planned and executed a Clemson Global Symposium, held in March, to celebrate the anniversary of the founding of […]

Zucker Family Graduate Education Center to bring engineering education to Charleston

May 5, 2015 / in In These Hills / 0 Comments / by: Nancy Spitler

It wasn’t your typical groundbreaking, but Jonathan Zucker certainly broke ground with a giant black and yellow excavator, marking the official beginning of construction of the $21.5-million Zucker Family Graduate Education Center in North Charleston. Located at the Clemson University Restoration Institute on the site of the former naval shipyard, the approximately 70,000- square-foot center […]

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