Clements to Co-Chair Commerce Advisory Committee
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 […]
The Clemson Medallion
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 […]
Call Me MISTER
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 […]
Baruch Institute Student Housing Dedicated
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 […]
Walter L. Dantzler ’67
Family and farm By any measure, Santee farmer Walter Dantzler is a blessed man. After graduating from Clemson’s advanced ROTC program in June 1967, he helped his father bring in the harvest before heading off to Vietnam. Then he served a 13-month tour of duty before returning to the family farm. “I got home from […]
Clemson Forever
From one family to another When Ashley Snow visited Clemson as a prospective student from Connecticut, she attended a Zac Brown concert and the spring orange and white football game. She was sold. What sold her parents on Clemson was the community that embraced, nurtured and challenged her. “I was scared the school would be […]
Rooted: A Botanist in Her World
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. […]
MY CLEMSON Daniel Licata ’09
When I transferred to Clemson in the fall of 2006, I was looking for a better “college experience.” The university I had left behind was low on school spirit; they didn’t even have a football team. Clemson did not provide me with an experience; it transformed my life. I found a new family in those […]
Cadets Team Up with Veterans
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 […]
