Hilton Head resident receives student service award from Clemson University

Published: May 23, 2011

CLEMSON — Jennifer Johnson of Hilton Head received the Algernon Sydney Sullivan Award from Clemson University at the May 13 Commencement. Johnson received her bachelor’s degree in civil engineering at the ceremony.

The award is given annually “in recognition of the recipient's influence for good, excellence in maintaining high ideals of living and genuine and disinterested service to others.” The award, named in honor of the first president of the New York Southern Society, was established by an agreement between the society and Clemson University.

Johnson received several scholarships and fellowships, including the Federal Highway Administration Dwight D. Eisenhower Transportation Graduate Fellowship, the Heritage Classic Foundation Scholarship, the Tau Beta Pi Lindeburg Scholarship, the American Public Transportation Foundation Lous T. Klauder Scholarship and the Society of Women Engineers Ada I. Pressman Memorial Scholarship.

She was recognized by the civil engineering department as outstanding senior and twice as outstanding junior. Her ePortfolio about her work at Clemson twice was named the university’s Best General Education ePortfolio, and she received the Thea McCrary Student Award for Outstanding Service from the President’s Commission on the Status of Women.

Johnson participated in Habitat for Humanity and volunteered to coach basketball for several Upstate youth teams, as well as D.W. Daniel High School’s girls’ team.

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