Research Archive
Clemson, nine other South Carolina schools to lead groundbreaking research in organ replacement
Clemson University today joins nine other South Carolina higher education institutions in a research program that offers new hope for the thousands of individuals whose lives are threatened by organ failure and who wait in vain for too-few available transplant organs.
[Published: July 23, 2009]
Ozen Engineering Inc. donates human body-modeling software to Clemson
A gift from California-based Ozen Engineering Inc. to Clemson University is enabling researchers to create detailed computer models of the human body, which can be used to explore a variety of issues, from improving hip replacements to making more comfortable car seating.
[Published: July 23, 2009]
Clemson receives $3 million for Center of Economic Excellence in tissue-based research
Clemson University Monday received approval from the South Carolina Endowed Chairs Review Board to establish a Center of Economic Excellence in Tissue Systems Characterization with $3 million in state funds that require an additional $3 million in non-state matching funds.
[Published: June 08, 2009]
Clemson faculty member elected ACerS Fellow
John Ballato, professor in Clemson University’s School of Materials Science and Engineering, has been elected as a Fellow of the American Ceramic Society.
[Published: May 11, 2009]
ANSYS Inc., a global innovator of simulation software and technologies designed to optimize product development processes, and Clemson University, a top-tier research institution, today announced an agreement under which ANSYS software will be deployed as the preferred solution for engineering simulation at the Clemson University Computational Center for Mobility Systems (CU-CCMS). The center’s charter is to foster commercial innovation in automotive and other “mobility” industries, such as aviation/aerospace and energy. CU-CCMS works with commercial and government organizations, as well as world-class academic researchers, that want to push the boundaries of engineering simulation.
[Published: April 21, 2009]
Clemson astronomers study mysterious antimatter in the Milky Way
NASA has awarded Clemson astronomers $244,000 to use data from several space-based gamma-ray telescopes to study a mysterious emission coming from the central regions of the Milky Way galaxy.
[Published: February 16, 2009]
Centers of Economic Excellence program lauded for job creation and investment
In just six years, South Carolina’s Centers of Economic Excellence Program has generated 2,000-plus jobs in South Carolina and boosted the state’s economy by nearly $246 million in non-state investment or pledges to the program.
[Published: January 12, 2009]
Clemson physicist Apparao Rao named Fellow of the American Physical Society
Clemson University professor of physics and astronomy Apparao Rao has been named Fellow of the American Physical Society.
[Published: December 16, 2008]
FIRST Robotics Competition returns to Clemson
Clemson University will host the sixth annual FIRST Robotics Competition Palmetto Regional March 26-28 at Littlejohn Coliseum.
[Published: December 15, 2008]
DOE funds Clemson, Savannah River National Laboratory hydrogen research
The DOE has awarded Clemson University researchers $409,000 to develop a new polymer membrane that may enable the production of hydrogen using heat.
[Published: December 08, 2008]
Clemson researchers and Itron Inc. generate electric power savings
Imagine being away over the holidays with most of the electric power in your home turned off while the neighbors host their holiday guests, using lots of electricity.
[Published: December 03, 2008]
Clemson computing professor receives NSF CAREER grant to study embedded network systems
The National Science Foundation has awarded Clemson University School of Computing professor Jason Hallstrom a $400,000 grant to research embedded network systems, a technology Hallstrom says is “changing the way we safeguard natural resources and protect local communities.”
[Published: November 25, 2008]
Clemson Geoscientists Without Borders tackle water project in India
India and Thailand are sites for the first two projects sponsored by the Geoscientists Without Borders program, and Clemson University researchers will lead the way in India addressing the severe water crisis in rural areas.
[Published: November 24, 2008]
Clemson computing recognized for achievement
Supercomputing at Clemson University is gaining worldwide attention.
[Published: November 24, 2008]
Clemson research may someday travel to the Moon
If NASA’s ATHLETE (All-Terrain Hex-Legged Extra-Terrestrial Explorer) robotic vehicle ever travels across the Moon’s surface, it may do so with the aid of Clemson student research.
[Published: November 13, 2008]
Clemson researchers advance nano-scale electromechanical sensors
They are the width of a human hair or smaller –– micro- and nano-scale cantilevers that under an electron microscope, look like tiny diving boards, each one with the potential to read and alert us to different toxic chemicals or gases in the air. Put them into a small handheld device and the potential is there for early chemical real-time alerts in battle, in industry, in healthcare and even at home.
[Published: November 11, 2008]
Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation awards grant for imaging-agent research
Imaging agents being developed by Clemson University researchers to allow a new method of detecting breast cancers has received $180,000 in funding from the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation. Breast cancer is the second leading cause of cancer deaths in American women.
[Published: October 29, 2008]
Clemson honors Nobel laureate Charles H. Townes with optical science laboratories dedication
Clemson University Tuesday celebrated its long-time connection with Nobel Prize-winner Charles H. Townes by naming its state-of-the-art optical science laboratories in his honor.
[Published: October 28, 2008]
Clemson scientists create practical silicon optical fiber
Scientists at Clemson University for the first time have been able to make a practical optical fiber with a silicon core, according to a new paper published in the current issue of the Optical Society’s open-access journal, Optics Express.
[Published: October 28, 2008]
Clemson sponsored research tops $150 million, exceeds goal
Clemson University announced Thursday its sponsored research funding for fiscal year 2008 exceeded its goal of $150 million with more than half a million dollars to spare.
[Published: October 16, 2008]
National Science Foundation grants Clemson professors award to develop nanoprobes
The National Science Foundation has awarded two Clemson professors in the School of Materials Science and Engineering and the Center for Advanced Engineering Fibers and Films (CAEFF) a grant of $250,000 to research and develop nanofiber-based probes for medical diagnostics – needles that are 10 times smaller in diameter than a human hair.
[Published: October 02, 2008]
NIH awards Clemson bioengineer $1.5 million to improve durability of tissue heart valves
The National Institutes of Health has awarded Naren Vyavahare, Hunter Endowed Chair and professor of bioengineering at Clemson University, more than $1.5 million over four years to develop durable bioprosthetic heart valves.
[Published: September 24, 2008]
CDC awards Clemson researcher $700,000 to study black lung prevention
Black lung disease is not a problem of the past: members of the mining work force continue to die from it and associated ailments. The Centers for Disease Control has awarded John R. Saylor, associate professor of mechanical engineering at Clemson University, a three-year $700,000 grant to investigate methods for reducing harmful particulate levels in coal mines.
[Published: September 11, 2008]
Clemson University turns idle computer time into solutions for world problems
Clemson University is tops in helping to tackle climate change, muscular dystrophy, cancer and a host of other world problems by contributing idle computer time to the World Community Grid, run by IBM, that lets researchers around the world work on life’s toughest issues.
[Published: September 04, 2008]
Arwood to serve as Clemson University’s research integrity officer
Clemson University Vice President for Research and Economic Development Chris Przirembel has appointed Tracy Arwood, director of research compliance, to serve as the university’s research integrity officer.
[Published: August 28, 2008]
NSF makes award to study path of pollutants to the dinner table
The National Science Foundation has awarded $356,000 to Cindy Lee, environmental chemist and a professor of environmental engineering and earth sciences at Clemson University, to look at how pollutants cycle through fish and other organisms and wind up on the dinner table. The research will focus on PCBs (polychlorinated biphenyls), pollutants which have been implicated in problems with brain development in humans.
[Published: August 26, 2008]
Clemson physics professor receives Governor’s Award for Excellence in Scientific Research
Clemson University physics professor Terry Tritt will receive the 2008 Governor’s Award for Excellence in Scientific Research Aug. 25 at 2:30 p.m. at the Governor’s Office in Columbia. Tritt has received international attention in his study of thermoelectric energy.
[Published: August 25, 2008]
Clemson bioengineer wins prestigious Early Career Award
Ning Zhang, assistant professor of bioengineering at Clemson University and the CU-MUSC Bioengineering Program, has received the prestigious 2008 Early Career Translational Research Award from the Wallace H. Coulter Foundation.
[Published: August 14, 2008]
Optics researcher elected to prestigious Russian Academy of Sciences
The prestigious Russian Academy of Sciences has elected Roger Stolen, a distinguished visiting professor in materials science and engineering at Clemson University, as a foreign member.
[Published: July 22, 2008]
CU-ICAR partners with Okuma, Morris South to support automotive engineering education and research
Clemson University and Okuma America Corp. announced a partnership that includes investments by Okuma and Morris South, Machine Tool Systems of $1.5 million in the Clemson University International Center for Automotive Research.
[Published: June 19, 2008]
Alternative energy research to get boost with major gift
The College of Engineering and Science at Clemson University has received a $1.1 million gift from Samuel and Patricia Deal earmarked for research for alternative energy sources.
[Published: June 16, 2008]
Clemson University breaks ground for advanced materials innovation center
Clemson University Thursday broke ground for a center that will anchor a research and innovation complex at the Clemson University Advanced Materials Center technology park in Anderson County.
[Published: June 12, 2008]
Endowed Chairs Review Board approves two new Centers of Economic Excellence at Clemson
Clemson University Monday received $4 million from the South Carolina Endowed Chairs Review Board for two new Centers of Economic Excellence, with endowed chairs for each of the programs.
[Published: June 09, 2008]
Ballato named associate vice president for research and economic development
Clemson University professor John Ballato, a leading international scholar in optical materials, has been appointed to serve as associate vice president for research and economic development focusing on advanced materials.
[Published: February 01, 2008]
New technology turns pool into 'sandbox classroom'
What once was an indoor swimming pool now is a cutting-edge classroom brimming with technology for the 21st century.
[Published: December 18, 2007]
Voltaire Inc. provides network for CU-CCMS
An important technology partner of the Clemson University Computational Center for Mobility Systems (CU-CCMS) is Voltaire, Inc., which provides the InfiniBand network used for the grid computing system. The Voltaire fabric is used to link CU-CCMS’ entire compute grid (1,600 CPUs and 7.2 Tbytes of RAM in the Sun Fire V40z cluster). Voltaire is a leading provider of super high-speed and ultra-wide bandwidth InfiniBand fabrics for grid computing. The Voltaire solution will provide a massive high performance computing infrastructure to address design, development and research issues for leading automotive, aviation and other mobility systems manufacturers.
[Published: May 31, 2007]
CLEMSON — The Clemson University Research Foundation (CURF) Board has appointed Joseph W. Kolis, Ph.D., as its executive director.
[Published: February 01, 2007]