Thursday Events 

Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) is sending two members of its award-winning media design team to Clemson July 22–24 to train an elite group of South Carolina middle and high school teachers in advanced DVD production. Blake Porch and Jennifer Bricken of the HHMI BioInteractive group will be working with Clemson scientists Dale Layfield and Jim Morris. HHMI BioInteractive has received recognition from Scientific American and has won Aurora and Telly awards for its educational programming used by thousands of teachers worldwide. “Potent Biology: Stem Cells, Cloning and Regeneration,” a DVD recently completed by Porch for the “Holiday Lectures on Science” series will be the basis for this year’s program. This teacher education project is a part of Clemson University’s S.C. LIFE, supported by $5,400,000 from HHMI over the past 10 years. For details, contact Barbara Speziale (656-1150, bjspz@clemson.edu) or Susan Benson (656-3869, benson2@clemson.edu).

Thursday-Friday Events

Clemson hosts top high school juniors and seniors from around the country for the S.C. Commissioner’s School for Agriculture all week. Students will participate in field-based experiences designed to introduce them to careers in agriculture and natural resources. On Thursday, the group will learn about beekeeping, will see Clemson’s microcreamery and will learn how to make Clemson ice cream, will tour the packaging lab and will learn about Clemson’s research in biofuels. For details, contact Katie Black (650-0621) or Angela Nixon in News Services (656-0382).

A second group of incoming freshmen who are first generation college students will get a jump-start on their college careers with the FIRST program. Twenty first generation students who are entering majors in the College of Agriculture, Forestry and Life Sciences or the College of Engineering and Science will spend two-and-a-half weeks on campus taking a computation science course and learning about college life. FIRST is supported by a National Science Foundation Grant and is meant to serve and retain first generation college students majoring in science, engineering or math. For more information, contact Sherry Dorris (656-1674) or Susan Benson (656-3869).

Clemson’s Summer Science, Engineering and Architecture Enrichment Program is under way this week with more than 100 7th-12th-graders getting hands-on experience and a taste of what life is like as a Clemson student. University faculty conduct classes and workshops on biology, bioengineering, DNA science, chemistry, communication skills, computer science, earth science, mathematics, engineering graphics and psychology. One-week sessions run through July. For details, contact Nell Coffey (656-5849) or Susan Polowczuk in News Services (656-2063 or 207-1165).

Friday Events

PHOTO OP: They’re at Clemson to learn the ropes of college life, so today students from the FIRST program will tackle the ropes course at Clemson’s Outdoor Lab from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. The two-and-a-half week program is for first generation college students who are entering majors in the College of Agriculture, Forestry and Life Sciences or the College of Engineering and Science. For more information, contact Sherry Dorris (656-1674) or Susan Benson (656-3869).

Story Source

With Hurricane Dolly bearing down on South Texas, Clemson structural engineer professor Scott Schiff says coastal communities from Texas through Massachusetts are at risk for catastrophic hurricane events. He warns, "We must learn to manage risks by reducing the vulnerability of structures and improving the performance of homes, shelters, hospitals and critical facilities." Through the Clemson Wind and Structural Engineering Research Facility http://www.clemson.edu/ce/pdf/wiser.pdf, Schiff conducts fundamental research into these areas in an effort to change public-policy approaches to dealing with hurricanes. Contact Schiff at (864) 656-0456 or e-mail scott.schiff@ces.clemson.edu or News Services' Susan Polowczuk at (864) 656-2061 or e-mail spolowc@clemson.edu.

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