University Research, Scholarship and Artistic Achievement Award

About URSAAA

The University Research, Scholarship and Artistic Achievement Awards were created in 2018 to recognize Clemson University faculty who have achieved rare career milestones, such as: Receiving the highest level of national or international recognition in their field; Authoring a paper that has received more than 1,000 citations; Expending more than $1 million on research in a fiscal year. Those earning the URSAAA designation are lifetime members who will be invited to an annual gathering to celebrate scholarship and discovery at Clemson University. Recipients are listed below, along with their URSAAA achievement.

2018 Banquet Photos

Class of 2024 URSAAA Recipients

KYLE BRINKMAN
Professor and Department Chair
Department of Materials Science and Engineering
CECAS
Fellow of the American Ceramic Society and the Royal Society of Chemistry

MAZIYAR FARIDI
Assistant Professor
Department of English
CAH
National Endowment for the Humanities faculty fellowship

ZORAN FILIPI
Director, School of MAE and VIPR-GS Research Center
School of Mechanical and Automotive Engineering
CECAS
Annual expenditures exceeding $1 million

DAVID FREEDMAN
Professor and Chair
Environmental Engineering and Earth Sciences
CECAS
Publication exceeding 1,000 citations

RONALD GIMBEL
Professor and Director
Clemson Rural Health
CBSHS
Annual expenditures exceeding $1 million

SUDEEP HEGDE
Assistant Professor
Department of Industrial Engineering
CECAS
Publication exceeding 1,000 citations

LESLIE HOSSFELD
Dean
CBSHS
Annual expenditures exceeding $1 million

NATHAN McNEESE
McQueen Quattlebaum Endowed Associate Professor
Human-Centered Computing
CECAS
Annual expenditures exceeding $1 million

JAMES MORRIS
Professor
Genetics and Biochemistry
COS
Annual expenditures exceeding $1 million

J. BRUCE RAFERT
Director of Initiatives
Eukaryotic Pathogens Innovation Center
COS
Publication exceeding 1,000 citations

LESLEY ROSS
Professor and SmartState/SmartLife Endowed Chair in Aging and Cognition
CBSHS
Annual expenditures exceeding $1 million

JOSEPH B. RYAN
Sue Stanzione Distinguished Professorship for ClemsonLife
COE
Fulbright Scholar

DIVYA SRINIVASAN
McQueen Quattlebaum Professor
Industrial Engineering
CECAS
Annual expenditures exceeding $1 million

JOE WATKINS
Chair
General Engineering
CECAS
Annual expenditures exceeding $1 million

HAI YAO
Associate Vice President for Biomedical Innovation and Ernest R. Norville Endowed Chair and Professor
Bioengineering
CECAS
Annual expenditures exceeding $1 million

MEIHUA QIAN
Associate Professor
Education and Human Development
COE
Publication exceeding 1,000 citations

URSAAA Members

ROBERT ANHOLT
Provost’s Distinguished Professor, Genetics and Biochemistry
Department of Genetics and Biochemistry
CoS
Annual Expenditures Exceeding $1 million

MASHRUR "RONNIE" CHOWDHURY
Eugene Douglas Mays Chair of Transportation
Department of Civil Engineering
CECAS
Annual Expenditures Exceeding $1 million

SHELIA COTTEN
Associate Vice President for Research Development and Provost’s Distinguished Professor
Sociology, Anthropology and Criminal Justice; and Communication
Publication exceeding 1,000 citations

STEPHEN FOULGER
Greg-Graniteville Endowed Chair and Professor
Materials Science and Engineering
CECAS
Fulbright award recipient

LUIZ G. JACOBSOHN
Associate Professor of Materials Science and Engineering
Department of Materials Science Engineering
CECAS
Fulbright Fellow Award

ERIC JOHNSON
Comporium and PalmettoNet Endowed Chair in Optoelectronics
Electrical and Computer Engineering
CECAS
Annual expenditures exceeding $1 million

FENG LUO
Marvin Pinson Jr. Distinguished Professor,
School of Computing
CECAS
Publication exceeding 1,000 citations

YE LUO
Professor
Sociology, Anthropology and Criminal Justice
CBSHS
Publication exceeding 1,000 citations and Fellow, Gerontological Society of America

TRUDY MACKAY
Self Family Endowed Chair
Human Genetics
CoS
Publication exceeding 1,000 citations; and Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Royal Society of London and the National Academy of Sciences

KAPIL CHALIL MADATHIL
Wilfred P. Tiencken Endowed Associate Professor of Industrial & Civil Engineering
Department of Industrial Engineering
CECAS
Annual Expenditures Exceeding $1 million

GEORGE PALACIOS
Associate Professor
Languages
CAAH
Asociacion de Colombianistas Prize for best research book on Colombia

ELIZABETH RIVLIN
Associate Professor
English
CAAH
National Endowment for the Humanities Award

MASHAL SAIF
Associate Professor
Philosophy and Religion
CAAH
Senior Fellow, American Institute of Pakistan Studies

CHRISTOPHER SASKI
Associate Professor
Plant and Environmental Sciences
CAFLS
Publication exceeding 1,000 citations

JAMES WANG
Professor
School of Computing
CECAS
Publication exceeding 1,000 citations

KUANG-CHING WANG
C. Tycho Howle Endowed Chair of Collaborative Computing
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
CECAS
Annual Expenditures Exceeding $1 million

LIN ZHU
Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
CECAS
Annual Expenditures Exceeding $1 million

MARCO AJELLO
Assistant Professor, Physics and Astronomy
CoS
Publication exceeding 1,000 citations

TODD ANDERSON
Assistant Professor, Art
CAAH
Exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, November 2017-February 2018

RONALD ANDRUS
Professor, Civil Engineering
CECAS
Publication exceeding 1,000 citations

JEFFREY N. ANKER
Associate Professor, Chemistry
CoS
Publication exceeding 1,000 citations

AMY APON
Professor and C. Tycho Howle Director
School of Computing
CECAS
Annual expenditures exceeding $1 million

SUSANNA ASHTON
Professor and Chair, English
CAAH
Fulbright Award

SCOTT BAIER
Chair, Economics
CoB
Publication exceeding 1,000 citations

JOHN BALLATO
J. E. Sirrine Endowed Chair in Optical Fiber, Materials Science & Engineering
CECAS
Fellow of: The American Ceramic Society; International Society of Optical Engineering; Optical Society of America; Academician in the World Academy of Ceramics; National Academy of Inventors

CELESTE BATES
Associate Professor, Education and Human Development
CoE
Annual expenditures exceeding $1 million CoE

STAN BIRCHFIELD
Adjunct Associate Professor
Electrical and Computer Engineering
CECAS
Publication exceeding 1,000 citations

DAVID BLAKESLEY
Professor and Campbell Chair in Technical Communication
English
CAAH
Fellows of the Rhetoric Society of America and awarded the George E. Yoos Distinguished Service Award

HOWARD BODENHORN
Professor
Economics
CoB
John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship in 2008/09

RAJENDRA K. BORDIA
Chair
Materials Science & Engineering
CECAS
Fellow, American Ceramic Society; Fellow, Indian Institute of Metals; Fellow (Academician), World Academy of Ceramics; Humboldt Senior Scientist Research award from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Germany

THOMAS BRITT
Trevillian Distinguished Professor
Psychology
CBSHS
Publication exceeding 1,000 citations

DAVID BRUCE
Chair and Professor
Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering
CECAS
Publication exceeding 1,000 citations

JULIA BRUMAGHIM
Professor
Department of Chemistry
CoS
Publication exceeding 1,000 citations

JAMES BURNS
Chair and Professor
History
CAAH
Fulbright Award winner

ORVILLE VERNON BURTON
Professor
History
CAAH
Pew National Fellow Carnegie Scholar (2000-2001)

GEORGE CHUMANOV
Professor
Chemistry
CoS
Publication exceeding 1,000 citations

CHRISTINE COLE
Emeritus Professor
Materials Science and Engineering
CECAS
Expenditures exceeding $1 million

STEPHEN CREAGER
Professor
Analytical Chemistry
CoS
Publication exceeding 1,000 citations

MURRAY S. DAW
R.A. Bowen Professor
Physics and Astronomy
CoS
Publication exceeding 1,000 citations

LIANG DONG
Professor
Electrical and Computer Engineering
CECAS
Annual expenditures exceeding $1 million

ANDREW DUCHOWSKI
Professor
School of Computing
CECAS
Publication exceeding 1,000 citations

SANDIP DUTTA
Lecturer
Mechanical Engineering
CECAS
Publication exceeding 1,000 citations

RON FALTA
Professor
Environmental Engineering and Earth Sciences
CECAS
John Hem Award for Excellence in Science & Engineering, National Ground Water Association

F. ALEX FELTUS
Associate Professor
Genetics and Biochemistry
CoS
Publication exceeding 1,000 citations

ANAND GRAMOPADHYE
Dean
College of Engineering, Computing and Applied Sciences
CECAS
Annual expenditures exceeding $1 million

WILLIAM HALLER
Associate Professor
Sociology, Anthropology and Criminal Justice
CBSHS
Publication exceeding 1,000 citations

SARAH HARCUM
Professor
Bioengineering
CECAS
Expenditures exceeding $1 million

DIETER H HARTMANN
Professor
Physics and Astronomy
CoS
Publication exceeding 1,000 citations

CYNTHIA HAYNES
Professor
English
CAAH
Rhetoric Society of America 2017 Annual Book Award

SANDRA HEDETNIEMI
Professor
School of Computing
CECAS
Publication exceeding 1,000 citations

DOUG HIRT
Professor
Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
CECAS
Publication exceeding 1,000 citations

ADAM HOOVER
Professor
Electrical and Computer Engineering
CECAS
Publication exceeding 1,000 citations

ANJALI JOSEPH
Spartanburg Regional Health System Endowed Chair of Architecture and Health Design
CAAH
Publication exceeding 1,000 citations

TANJU KARANFIL
Professor
Environmental Engineering and Earth Sciences
CECAS
Scientific achievement award, The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TUBITAK)

ANTONIS KATSIYANNIS
Alumni Distinguished Professor
Special Education
CoE
Recipient of the Frederick J Winetraub Outstanding CEC Leadership Award

WILLIAM KETTINGER
William S. Lee Distinguished Professor
Management Information Systems
CoB
Publication exceeding 1,000 citations
Fullbright Award Winner

MIRIAM KONKEL
Assistant Professor
Genetics and Biochemistry
CoS
Publication exceeding 1,000 citations

ROBIN KOWALSKI
Professor
Psychology
CBSHS
Publication exceeding 1,000 citations

STEPHEN KRESOVICH
Robert and Lois Coker Trustees Endowed Chair of Genetics
Genetics and Biochemistry; Plant and Environmental Sciences
CAFLS
Annual expenditures exceeding $1 million, and publication exceeding 1,000 citations

MICHAEL LEMAHIEU
Associate Professor
English
CAAH
American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) Fellowship for 2018-2019

LINDA LI-BLEUEL
Professor
Department of Performing Arts
CAAH
Fulbright Award Recipient

SUSAN LIMBER
Dan Olweus Distinguished Professor
Youth, Family and Community Studies
CBSHS
Publication exceeding 1,000 citations

GORDON (JEFF) LOVE
Research Professor
Languages
CAAH
First member of the Clemson faculty to be selected as a National Humanities Center Fellow

IGOR LUZINOV
Professor
Materials Science & Engineering
CECAS
Publication exceeding 1,000 citations

KEN MARCUS
Professor
Chemistry
CoS
Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (London), the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the Society for Applied Spectroscopy, and the National Academy of Inventors

BERT MCCARTY
Professor
Plant and Environmental Sciences
CAFLS
Among fewer than 30 individuals worldwide to achieve each of the following: the Fred V. Grau Turfgrass Science Award; and fellowships with Crop Science Society of America and American Society of Agronomy

BRYAN MILLER
Associate Professor
Criminal Justice
CBSHS
Fulbright Award winner

ASHOK MISHRA
Assistant Professor
Civil Engineering
CECAS
Publication exceeding 1,000 citations

LEE MORRISSEY
Professor
English
CAAH
Fulbright Scholar at the National University of Ireland-Galway, in the 2010-2011 academic year

ANDREW MOUNT
Associate Professor
Biological Sciences
CoS
Publication exceeding 1,000 citations

ANGELA NAIMOU
Associate Professor
English
CAAH
2016 Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present (ASAP) Book Prize

AMOD OGALE
Dow Chemical Professor
Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering
CECAS
Fellow of three societies: Society for Advancement of Materials and Process Engineering; Society of Plastics Engineers; and the American Carbon Society

LAURA OLSON
Professor
Political Science
CBSHS
Fulbright Award

JUNE J. PILCHER
Alumni Distinguished Professor
Psychology
CBSHS
Publication exceeding 1,000 citations and Fulbright-Freud Visiting Scholar Award and Fulbright Specialist in Public/Global Health

T. ANDREW POEHLMAN
Assistant Professor
Marketing
CoB
Publication exceeding 1,000 citations

AMIR POURSAEE
Associate Professor
Civil Engineering
CECAS
Recipient of Humboldt Research fellowship

BRIAN A POWELL
Professor
Environmental Engineering & Earth Sciences
CECAS/CoS
Annual expenditures exceeding $1 million

SAMANTHA A. PRICE
Assistant Professor
Biological Sciences
CoS
Publication exceeding 1,000 citations

APPARAO RAO
Associate Dean for Discovery
College of Science
CoS
Publication exceeding 1,000 citations

ALEDA ROTH
Burlington Industries Distinguished Professor
Management
CoB
Publication exceeding 1,000 citations

PHIL ROTH
Trevillian Distinguished Professor
Management
CoB
Fellow of the Society for Organizational Psychology and named one of top 100 most prolific researchers in his field by the Academy of Management Learning and Education

LAXMIKANT SARAF
Director
Electron Microscopy Lab
EM Facility
Publication exceeding 1,000 citations

ZEKI SIMSEK
Gressette Chair
Business Strategy & Planning
CoB
Publication exceeding 1,000 citations and named one of top 100 most prolific researchers in his field by the Academy of Management Learning and Education

RAJENDRA SINGH
D. Houser Banks Professor
Electrical & Computer Engineering
CECAS
Fellow of 4 major societies: International Society for Optics and Photonics; American Association for the Advancement of Science; Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers; and ASM International

AGA SKRODZKA
Associate Professor
Film & Media Studies
CAAH
Fulbright Award winner

MARK SMALL
Chair
Youth, Family and Community Studies
CBSHS
Fulbright awards in 2004 as a traditional scholar in the Czech Republic; in 2006 as a senior specialist in the Czech Republic; and as a core scholar in Albania from 2015-1017, and publication exceeding 1,000 citations

KERRY SMITH
Professor
Genetics and Biochemistry
CoS
Annual expenditures exceeding $1 million

JACOB SORBER
Associate Professor
School of Computing
CECAS
Fulbright Award Recipient

CHAD SOSOLIK
Professor
Physics and Astronomy
CoS
Annual expenditures exceeding $1 million

WAYNE STEWART
Professor
Management
CoB
Publication exceeding 1,000 citations

STEVEN J. STUART
Professor
Chemistry
CoS
Publication exceeding 1,000 citations

YA-PING SUN
Frank Henry Leslie Professor
Chemistry
CoS
Publication exceeding 1,000 citations

ROBERT TAMURA
Professor
Economics
CoB
Publication exceeding 1,000 citations

RHONDDA THOMAS
Calhoun Lemon Professor
Literature
CAAH
National Endowment for the Humanities Faculty Research Award recipient and Whiting Foundation Public Engagement Fellow

LESLY TEMESVARI
Alumni Distinguished Professor
Biological Sciences
CoS
Annual expenditures exceeding $1 million

JERRY TESSENDORF
Professor
School of Computing
CECAS
Received a Technical Achievement Award from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and is a Fellow of the Hagler Institute for Advanced Study

SUMANTA TEWARI
Professor
Physics and Astronomy
CoS
Publication exceeding 1,000 citations

JIANHUA "JOSHUA" TONG
Associate Professor
Materials Science & Engineering
CECAS
Publication exceeding 1,000 citations

BRYGG ULLMER
Professor
School of Computing
CECAS
Publication exceeding 1,000 citations

KUMAR VENAYAGAMOORTHY
Duke Energy Distinguished Professor
Electrical & Computer Engineering
CECAS
Publication exceeding 1,000 citations

MAREK URBAN
J.E. Sirrine Foundation Endowed Chair
Materials Science & Engineering
CECAS
Publication exceeding 1,000 citations and fellowship in the Chemical Heritage Foundation, The Royal Society of Chemistry, and The American Chemical Society (Polymeric Materials Science and Engineering Division)

NARENDRA R VYAVAHARE
Hunter Endowed Chair
Bioengineering
CECAS
Annual expenditures exceeding $1 million

IAN WALKER
Professor
Electrical and Computer Engineering
CECAS
Publication exceeding 1,000 citations

J. CRAIG WALLACE
Chair
Management
CoB
Publication exceeding 1,000 citations

LIANGJIANG WANG
Associate Professor
Genetics and Biochemistry
CoS
Publication exceeding 1,000 citations

SARAH WHITE
Professor
Plant and Environmental Sciences
CAFLS
Annual expenditures exceeding $1 million

PAUL W WILSON
Professor
Economics
CoB
Publication exceeding 1,000 citations

JACK G. WOLF
Associate Professor
Finance
CoB
Publication exceeding 1,000 citations

HAI XIAO
Samuel Lewis Bell Distinguished Professor and Chair
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
CECAS
Annual expenditures exceeding $1 million

VALERIE ZIMANY
Chair and Associate Professor
Art
CAAH
Fulbright Award winner

Emeritus URSAAA Members

DONALD BEASLEY
Professor
Mechanical Engineering
CECAS
Publication exceeding 1,000 citations

JAMES BOTTUM
Research Professor
Electrical and Computer Engineering
CECAS
Annual expenditures exceeding $1 million

GERALD P. DWYER
Professor and BB&T Scholar
Economics
CoB
Publication exceeding 1,000 citations.The Society of Nonlinear Dynamics and Econometrics created the “Gerald P. Dwyer Award” in Financial Econometrics in 2008 to honor Dr. Gerald Dwyer’s academic contribution to the Financial Econometrics field

RICHARD FIGLIOLA
Alumni Distinguished Professor
Mechanical Engineering & Bioengineering
CECAS
Publication exceeding 1,000 citations

STEPHEN HEDETNIEMI
Professor Emeritus
School of Computing
CECAS
Publication exceeding 1,000 citations

LARRY HODGES
Professor
School of Computing
CECAS
Publication exceeding 1,000 citations

BRUCE KING
Professor
Psychology
CBSHS
Fellow for three international societies: Association for Psychological Science, American Psychological Association, International Behavioral Neuroscience Society

THOMAS KUEHN
Professor Emeritus
History
CAAH
National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship, 2003-04; Marraro Prize of the American Historical Association, 2010

RUSS MARION
Professor
Educational & Organizational Leadership Development
CoE
Publication exceeding 1,000 citations

JAMES MCCUBBIN
Professor
Psychology
CBSHS
Publication exceeding 1,000 citations. Fellow of the American Psychological Association, the Academy of Behavioral Medicine Research, and the Society for Behavioral Medicine

JOHN MORSE
Professor Emeritus
Entomology
CAFLS
Publication exceeding 1,000 citations

MICHAEL PURSLEY
Holcombe Chair
Electrical & Computer Engineering
CECAS
Publication exceeding 1,000 citations

TERRY TRITT
Professor and Chair
Physics and Astronomy
CoS
Publication exceeding 1,000 citations

VICTOR J. VITANZA
Professor Emeritus
English
CAAH
Fellows of the Rhetoric Society of America and awarded the George E. Yoos Distinguished Service Award

Former Faculty - URSAAA members

RACHEL GETMAN
Associate Professor
Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
CECAS
Publication exceeding 1,000 citations

KAI HE
Assistant Professor
Materials Science and Engineering
CECAS
Publication exceeding 1,000 citations

JOSEPH P. MAZER
Associate Professor, Associate Department Chair
Communication
CBSHS
Publication exceeding 1,000 citations

JASON OSBORNE
Former Dean
Graduate School
Grad School
Publication exceeding 1,000 citations

SRIKANTH PILLA
Robert P. Jenkins Endowed Professor
Automotive Engineering
CECAS
Annual expenditures exceeding $1 million

JILLIAN WEISE
Associate Professor
Creative Writing
CAAH
Winner of the Academy of American Poets James Laughlin Award and the BOA Editions Isabella Gardner Award

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Colleges

Academic Resources

Outside the Classroom

Applying to Clemson

Academic Opportunities

Financial Aid

Join Your Clemson Family

Services On Campus

Get Involved

Research Opportunities

Public Service and Agriculture

Innovation and Economic Development

For Tigers

Campus Resources

Campus Leadership

Colleges

Academic Resources

Outside the Classroom

Applying to Clemson

Academic Opportunities

Financial Aid

Join Your Clemson Family

Services On Campus

Get Involved

Research Opportunities

Public Service and Agriculture

Innovation and Economic Development

For Tigers

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Campus Leadership

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University Research, Scholarship and Artistic Achievement Award

About URSAAA

Class of 2024 URSAAA Recipients

URSAAA Members

Emeritus URSAAA Members

Former Faculty - URSAAA members