Clemson Newsroom

Clemson celebrates 40th anniversary of architecture center in Genoa

Wed, 20 Mar 2013 10:40:00 -0400

Clemson University will celebrate the 40^th anniversary of the Charles E. Daniel Center for Building, Research and Urban Studies in Genoa, Italy, Monday, March 25, with a virtual handshake that spans two continents and four cities.

Clemson University Shotgun Club wins Southeast Collegiate Invitational

Thu, 14 Mar 2013 13:18:00 -0400

The Clemson University shotgun club brought some new shooters to Jacksonville, Fla., for the Southeastern Invitational Collegiate Championship, but the result was familiar. Clemson's team outshot those from eight other universities to win for the fourth straight time, knocking down 940 clays and beating second-place finisher Embry-Riddle by 93 clays.

Five Clemson University alumni to receive Distinguished Service Award

Tue, 12 Feb 2013 10:05:00 -0500

The Clemson Alumni Association has announced five recipients of the Distinguished Service Award, the university’s highest alumni honor. The awards will be presented on April 5.

Clemson celebrates birthday of Anna Calhoun Clemson

Tue, 12 Feb 2013 10:00:00 -0500

Most Clemson University students and alumni are familiar with the name Thomas Green Clemson, the man who bequeathed his land to the state of South Carolina to establish an agricultural college. But behind every great man there is a great woman, so the saying goes, and the great woman in Thomas Green Clemson’s life was his wife, Anna Calhoun Clemson. Clemson University and the Women’s Alumni Council will celebrate Anna’s 196^th birthday Wednesday, Feb. 13.

Safety-Kleen and EcoPower fund fellowships at CU-ICAR

Wed, 23 Jan 2013 10:00:00 -0500

The Clemson University International Center for Automotive Research (CU-ICAR) has partnered with Safety-Kleen, a leader in used oil recycling and re-refining, parts cleaning and environmental solutions, and its re-refined motor oil EcoPower, to give teachers new tools to excite students in the fields of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM).

$1 Million+ gift creates Erwin Center at Clemson University

Wed, 12 Dec 2012 10:50:00 -0500

Clemson University President James F. Barker Wednesday announced a $1.05 million gift from Joe and Gretchen Erwin, co-founders of leading advertising and marketing firm Erwin Penland, to establish the Erwin Center for the Study of Advertising and Communication at the school.

Clemson students raise money to send Belizean children to school

Tue, 11 Dec 2012 09:25:00 -0500

A Creative Inquiry team at Clemson University has launched $60 Scholarships, a social enterprise that provides educational opportunities to impoverished children living in the Burial Grounds area of Belize. Class members and volunteers from various campus organizations will staff a donation booth in the Hendrix Student Center breezeway from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Wednesday-Friday.

Clemson's COMSET partners with OFS for fiber optic research lab

Mon, 03 Dec 2012 09:25:00 -0500

OFS Laboratories is teaming with Clemson University’s Center for Optical Materials Science and Engineering Technologies (COMSET), to create fiber optics research space in the Clemson’s Advanced Materials Research Laboratory.

Gift from Clemson couple honors Alumni Association president

Thu, 15 Nov 2012 09:10:00 -0500

Jim and Barbara McCabe of Clemson have honored a long-time friend with a $100,000 gift to Clemson University's Alumni Association. The Ann Harvin Hunter Leadership Endowment honors Alumni Association President Ann Harvin Whetstone Hunter of Greenwood and will support leadership development for student and alumni volunteers.

Friends of Clemson honor Brooks Performing Arts Center director

Mon, 12 Nov 2012 09:45:00 -0500

Closed-door meetings, hushed conversations and covert operations — it all sounds like something from a spy novel, but that’s what went into surprising Lillian “Mickey” Harder, director of Clemson University’s Brooks Center for the Performing Arts, about naming the main stage in her honor.