{"id":22911,"date":"2020-10-09T14:22:46","date_gmt":"2020-10-09T18:22:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/?p=22911"},"modified":"2020-10-09T14:22:46","modified_gmt":"2020-10-09T18:22:46","slug":"faculty-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/faculty-awards\/","title":{"rendered":"Seven Faculty Win Top Awards for Early Career Achievement"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Seven assistant professors are receiving some of the nation\u2019s top awards for faculty who are early in their careers, providing a boost to Clemson\u2019s research in smart materials, supercomputers, environmental sustainability, math education and soil science.
\nTheir awards came from three separate federal agencies, each of which have grant programs aimed at supporting researchers early in their careers, including several hundred thousand dollars in research funding.
\n1 | Fadi Abdeljawad
\n<\/strong><\/span>assistant professor of mechanical engineering
\n<\/span>Army Research Office Young Investigator Program Award<\/span><\/strong>
\nAbdeljawad and his team are working to better understand how nanocrystalline metallic alloys respond to extreme environments. Their work could be the next step in creating a new generation of alloys with unprecedented properties, resulting in lighter, more fuel-efficient cars and airplanes.<\/span>
\n2 | Abby Allen
\n<\/strong><\/span>assistant professor of special education<\/span><\/strong>
\nInstitute of Education Sciences\u2019 Early Career Award<\/span><\/strong>
\nAllen is researching and designing a sentence writing intervention for students with learning disabilities. She hopes to fill both a research and practice gap she first noticed during her time as an elementary school speech-language pathologist.
\n3 | Jon Calhoun
\n<\/strong><\/span>assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering<\/span><\/strong>
\nNational Science Foundation CAREER Award<\/span><\/strong>
\nCalhoun\u2019s project is aimed at helping engineers and scientists use supercomputers to solve increasingly large problems, potentially clearing the way for new research ranging from predicting the weather to designing better airplanes.
\n4 | Carlos Gomez
\n<\/strong><\/span>assistant professor of education<\/span><\/strong>
\nNational Science Foundation CAREER award<\/span><\/strong>
\nGomez will use the grant to characterize and analyze the developing mathematical identities of Latinx students transitioning from elementary to middle-grade mathematics. He is interested in how mathematics and language intersect, especially for students who are pulling double duty learning math and the English language for the first time.
\n5 | Kara Powder
\n<\/strong><\/span>assistant professor of biological sciences<\/span><\/strong>
\nNational Science Foundation CAREER Award<\/span><\/strong>
\nPowder investigates gene regulatory elements that determine craniofacial development and evolution. Insights from Powder\u2019s research may someday provide targets for gene therapies addressing craniofacial malformations, which occur in about 70 percent of all human birth defects.
\n6 | Ulf Schiller
\n<\/strong><\/span>assistant professor of materials science and engineering
\n<\/span>National Science Foundation CAREER Award<\/span><\/strong>
\nSchiller and his team will employ sophisticated supercomputing techniques to better understand complex fluids, a step toward creating new smart materials that could potentially be used in energy storage, drug delivery and water treatment, and have applications in the food, cosmetics and pharmaceutical industries.
\n7 | Rongzhong Ye<\/span>
\nassistant professor of plant and environmental sciences<\/span><\/strong>
\nNational Science Foundation CAREER Award<\/span><\/strong>
\nYe studies soil biogeochemistry to understand physical, chemical and biological processes that affect microbial communities, soil health and crop production. The grant will allow him to extend his research in identifying the links between soil microbial communities and soil functions in agriculture.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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