Montana : Kate Rauscher Davis ’02
Kate Rauscher Davis ’02 and her mother, Paula Rauscher of Pumpkintown, visited Clyde Park, Montana, for a yoga and horseback riding retreat.
Parks Establishes Endowment Honoring Architecture Professor David Allison
He has been named one of the “Most Influential People in Healthcare Design,” but to his students, he’s simply Professor Allison. Since 1990, David Allison ’78, M ’82 has been the director of Clemson’s Architecture + Health master’s program in the School of Architecture. Under his leadership, the program has become recognized as a premier […]
Real-life Examples: Generous Gifts of Leadership Circle Donors Make Students’ Dreams Possible
For many students, financial aid is their only hope for receiving a college education, regardless of how qualified or driven they may be. Tyler Love is one of those students. Just over three years ago, he was living on a friend’s couch, desperate to find a way to provide for himself. Thanks to his grandmother’s […]
Abney Foundation Provides Life-changing Scholarships
Emma Clements ’18 is one of the more than 170 students — 172 to be exact — who are attending Clemson this year with the help of the Abney Foundation. She spoke at a luncheon in February of this year for the Abney Foundation trustees and the recipients of their generosity.
My Clemson: Bennie Lee Cunningham Jr.
Bennie Cunningham was one of the greats of college and professional football. Yet, while his fame may have come from his prowess on the football field, his legacy was the many lives he touched and changed in those years and the years since.
Hardin Joyce’s lost ring comes home
When Hardin Joyce graduated from Clemson with an engineering degree in 1951, he purchased a Clemson ring, which he wore proudly. He had served in the military after high school and chose Clemson in part because a fellow soldier was always talking about his time there. In 1966, Joyce lost his ring, and no matter […]
Clemson scientist sending research on cotton genome into outer space
A Clemson University scientist is sending his research on the cotton genome into outer space after being selected as a winner in the Cotton Sustainability Challenge. Christopher Saski, associate professor in the plant and environmental sciences department, is the principal investigator on a project that seeks to explore the cotton genome and how it reacts in […]
Soccer Startup: Blakely Mattern M ’16
It was like something out of a movie. Blakely Mattern was picking up her journal one day in 2014 when a newspaper clipping slipped out of its pages. It was a small article she’d cut out months before from The Greenville News. Flipping it over, she saw, fitting perfectly in the cut-out square, an advertisement […]
Crafting a Plan: Bobby Hottensen ’11
It’s a way of life the locals call “tranquilo,” and it led Bobby Hottensen to take a leap of faith and trade a fast-paced urban lifestyle in Washington, D.C., for the laid-back tropics of Nicaragua. A series of trips to the beach town of San Juan del Sur brought Hottensen and fellow surfers Brendan DeBlois […]
Designing Dream Worlds: Colie Wertz ’92
Colie Wertz taught himself to draw by copying the characters and vehicles he saw in Star Wars comic books. “All I had were pictures,” Wertz says. “I bought all the comic books, studied all the ships and read about all the ships. I didn’t really have any big dreams. I just wanted to keep drawing.” […]