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 earned the highest levels of national and international recognition in their fields and who have reached rare career milestones. URSAAA designation is earned by meeting one of these criteria: i. Amassing more than 1,000 citations on a publication; ii. Earning exclusive fellowships and national and international honors, awards and recognitions; or iii. Exceeding research expenditures of $1 million in a fiscal year. Nominations are accepted each spring, and awards are announced annually at the Clemson University Research Symposium in May. Recipients are lifetime URSAAA members. Clemson’s URSAAA members, including the 2025 recipients, are listed below.
Class of 2025 URSAAA Recipients
Stephen Buckman
Associate Professor
Nieri Department of Construction and Real Estate Development
CAAC
Fulbright Award
Associate Professor
Nieri Department of Construction and Real Estate Development
CAAC
Fulbright Award
Alain Litwin
Co-director
Center for Addiction and Mental Health Research
CBSHS
Expenditures exceeding $1 million
Co-director
Center for Addiction and Mental Health Research
CBSHS
Expenditures exceeding $1 million
Steven Long
Assistant Director
Regulatory Services-Plant Industry
CAFLS
Expenditures exceeding $1 million
Assistant Director
Regulatory Services-Plant Industry
CAFLS
Expenditures exceeding $1 million
Trevor Rife
Assistant Professor
Plant and Environmental Sciences
CAFLS
Expenditures exceeding $1 million
Assistant Professor
Plant and Environmental Sciences
CAFLS
Expenditures exceeding $1 million
URSAAA Members
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URSAAA Members
Click the buttons to sort by each table header title 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 EnglishCAH National Endowment for the Humanities faculty fellowship DAVID FREEDMAN Professor and Chair Environmental Engineering and Earth Sciences CECAS Publication exceeding 1,000 citations RONALD GIMBEL Professor and Director
Clemson Rural HealthCBSHS Annual expenditures exceeding $1 million SUDEEP HEGDE Assistant Professor
Department of Industrial EngineeringCECAS 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 BiochemistryCOS Annual expenditures exceeding $1 million 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 EngineeringCECAS Annual expenditures exceeding $1 million JOE WATKINS Chair
General EngineeringCECAS 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 DevelopmentCOE Publication exceeding 1,000 citations ROBERT ANHOLT Provost’s Distinguished Professor
Department of Genetics and BiochemistryCoS Annual Expenditures Exceeding $1 million MASHRUR "RONNIE" CHOWDHURY Eugene Douglas Mays Chair of Transportation
Department of Civil EngineeringCECAS Annual Expenditures Exceeding $1 million SHELIA COTTEN Associate Vice President for Research Development and Provost’s Distinguished Professor
Sociology, Anthropology and Criminal Justice; and CommunicationDivision of Research Publication exceeding 1,000 citations STEPHEN FOULGER Greg-Graniteville Endowed Chair and Professor
Materials Science and EngineeringCECAS Fulbright award recipient LUIZ G. JACOBSOHN Associate Professor of Materials Science and Engineering CECAS Fulbright Fellow Award ERIC JOHNSON Comporium and PalmettoNet Endowed Chair in Optoelectronics
Electrical and Computer EngineeringCECAS Annual expenditures exceeding $1 million FENG LUO Marvin Pinson Jr. Distinguished Professor
School of ComputingCECAS Publication exceeding 1,000 citations YE LUO Professor
Sociology, Anthropology and Criminal JusticeCBSHS Publication exceeding 1,000 citations and Fellow, Gerontological Society of America TRUDY MACKAY Self Family Endowed Chair
Human GeneticsCoS 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
Industrial & Civil EngineeringCECAS Annual Expenditures Exceeding $1 million GEORGE PALACIOS Associate Professor
LanguagesCAAH Asociacion de Colombianistas Prize for best research book on Colombia ELIZABETH RIVLIN Associate Professor
EnglishCAAH National Endowment for the Humanities Award MASHAL SAIF Associate Professor
Philosophy and ReligionCAAH Senior Fellow, American Institute of Pakistan Studies CHRISTOPHER SASKI Associate Professor
Plant and Environmental SciencesCAFLS Publication exceeding 1,000 citations JAMES WANG Professor
School of ComputingCECAS Publication exceeding 1,000 citations KUANG-CHING WANG C. Tycho Howle Endowed Chair of Collaborative Computing
Department of Electrical and Computer EngineeringCECAS Annual Expenditures Exceeding $1 million LIN ZHU Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering CECAS Annual Expenditures Exceeding $1 million MARCO AJELLO Assistant Professor
Physics and AstronomyCoS Publication exceeding 1,000 citations TODD ANDERSON Assistant Professor
ArtCAAH Exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, November 2017-February 2018 RONALD ANDRUS Professor
Civil EngineeringCECAS Publication exceeding 1,000 citations JEFFREY N. ANKER Associate Professor
ChemistryCoS Publication exceeding 1,000 citations AMY APON Professor and C. Tycho Howle Director
School of ComputingCECAS Annual expenditures exceeding $1 million SUSANNA ASHTON Professor and Chair
EnglishCAAH Fulbright Award SCOTT BAIER Chair
EconomicsCoB Publication exceeding 1,000 citations JOHN BALLATO J. E. Sirrine Endowed Chair in Optical Fiber
Materials Science & EngineeringCECAS 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 DevelopmentCoE Annual expenditures exceeding $1 million STAN BIRCHFIELD Adjunct Associate Professor
Electrical and Computer EngineeringCECAS Publication exceeding 1,000 citations DAVID BLAKESLEY Professor and Campbell Chair in Technical Communication
EnglishCAAH Fellows of the Rhetoric Society of America and awarded the George E. Yoos Distinguished Service Award HOWARD BODENHORN Professor
EconomicsCoB John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship in 2008/09 RAJENDRA K. BORDIA Chair
Materials Science & EngineeringCECAS 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
PsychologyCBSHS Publication exceeding 1,000 citations DAVID BRUCE Chair and Professor
Chemical & Biomolecular EngineeringCECAS Publication exceeding 1,000 citations JULIA BRUMAGHIM Professor
Department of ChemistryCoS Publication exceeding 1,000 citations JAMES BURNS Chair and Professor
HistoryCAAH Fulbright Award winner ORVILLE VERNON BURTON Professor
HistoryCAAH Pew National Fellow Carnegie Scholar (2000-2001) GEORGE CHUMANOV Professor
ChemistryCoS Publication exceeding 1,000 citations STEPHEN CREAGER Professor
Analytical ChemistryCoS Publication exceeding 1,000 citations MURRAY S. DAW R.A. Bowen Professor
Physics and AstronomyCoS Publication exceeding 1,000 citations LIANG DONG Professor
Electrical and Computer EngineeringCECAS Annual expenditures exceeding $1 million ANDREW DUCHOWSKI Professor
School of ComputingCECAS Publication exceeding 1,000 citations SANDIP DUTTA Lecturer
Mechanical EngineeringCECAS Publication exceeding 1,000 citations RON FALTA Professor
Environmental Engineering and Earth SciencesCECAS John Hem Award for Excellence in Science & Engineering, National Ground Water Association F. ALEX FELTUS Associate Professor
Genetics and BiochemistryCoS Publication exceeding 1,000 citations ANAND GRAMOPADHYE Dean
College of Engineering, Computing and Applied SciencesCECAS Annual expenditures exceeding $1 million WILLIAM HALLER Associate Professor
Sociology, Anthropology and Criminal JusticeCBSHS Publication exceeding 1,000 citations SARAH HARCUM Professor
BioengineeringCECAS Expenditures exceeding $1 million DIETER H HARTMANN Professor
Physics and AstronomyCoS Publication exceeding 1,000 citations CYNTHIA HAYNES Professor
EnglishCAAH Rhetoric Society of America 2017 Annual Book Award ADAM HOOVER Professor
Electrical and Computer EngineeringCECAS 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 SciencesCECAS 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 WinnerMIRIAM KONKEL Assistant Professor Genetics and Biochemistry CoS Publication exceeding 1,000 citations ROBIN KOWALSKI Professor
PsychologyCBSHS Publication exceeding 1,000 citations STEPHEN KRESOVICH Robert and Lois Coker Trustees Endowed Chair of Genetics
Genetics and Biochemistry; Plant and Environmental SciencesCAFLS Annual expenditures exceeding $1 million, and publication exceeding 1,000 citations MICHAEL LEMAHIEU Associate Professor
EnglishCAAH American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) Fellowship for 2018-2019 LINDA LI-BLEUEL Professor
Department of Performing ArtsCAAH Fulbright Award Recipient SUSAN LIMBER Dan Olweus Distinguished Professor
Youth, Family and Community StudiesCBSHS Publication exceeding 1,000 citations GORDON (JEFF) LOVE Research Professor
LanguagesCAAH First member of the Clemson faculty to be selected as a National Humanities Center Fellow IGOR LUZINOV Professor
Materials Science & EngineeringCECAS Publication exceeding 1,000 citations KEN MARCUS Professor
ChemistryCoS 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 SciencesCAFLS 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 JusticeCBSHS Fulbright Award winner ASHOK MISHRA Assistant Professor
Civil EngineeringCECAS Publication exceeding 1,000 citations LEE MORRISSEY Professor
EnglishCAAH Fulbright Scholar at the National University of Ireland-Galway, in the 2010-2011 academic year ANGELA NAIMOU Associate Professor
EnglishCAAH 2016 Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present (ASAP) Book Prize AMOD OGALE Dow Chemical Professor
Chemical & Biomolecular EngineeringCECAS 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 ScienceCBSHS Fulbright Award JUNE J. PILCHER Alumni Distinguished Professor
PsychologyCBSHS Publication exceeding 1,000 citations and Fulbright-Freud Visiting Scholar Award and Fulbright Specialist in Public/Global Health T. ANDREW POEHLMAN Assistant Professor
MarketingCoB Publication exceeding 1,000 citations AMIR POURSAEE Associate Professor
Civil EngineeringCECAS Recipient of Humboldt Research fellowship BRIAN A POWELL Professor
Environmental Engineering & Earth SciencesCECAS/CoS Annual expenditures exceeding $1 million SAMANTHA A. PRICE Assistant Professor
Biological SciencesCoS Publication exceeding 1,000 citations APPARAO RAO Associate Dean for Discovery
College of ScienceCoS Publication exceeding 1,000 citations PHIL ROTH Trevillian Distinguished Professor
ManagementCoB 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 LabEM Facility Publication exceeding 1,000 citations ZEKI SIMSEK Gressette Chair
Business Strategy & PlanningCoB 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 EngineeringCECAS 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 StudiesCAAH Fulbright Award winner MARK SMALL Chair
Youth, Family and Community StudiesCBSHS 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 BiochemistryCoS Annual expenditures exceeding $1 million JACOB SORBER Associate Professor
School of ComputingCECAS Fulbright Award Recipient CHAD SOSOLIK Professor
Physics and AstronomyCoS Annual expenditures exceeding $1 million WAYNE STEWART Professor
ManagementCoB Publication exceeding 1,000 citations STEVEN J. STUART Professor
ChemistryCoS Publication exceeding 1,000 citations YA-PING SUN Frank Henry Leslie Professor
ChemistryCoS Publication exceeding 1,000 citations ROBERT TAMURA Professor
EconomicsCoB Publication exceeding 1,000 citations RHONDDA THOMAS Calhoun Lemon Professor
LiteratureCAAH National Endowment for the Humanities Faculty Research Award recipient and Whiting Foundation Public Engagement Fellow LESLY TEMESVARI Alumni Distinguished Professor
Biological SciencesCoS Annual expenditures exceeding $1 million JERRY TESSENDORF Professor
School of ComputingCECAS 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 AstronomyCoS Publication exceeding 1,000 citations JIANHUA "JOSHUA" TONG Associate Professor
Materials Science & EngineeringCECAS Publication exceeding 1,000 citations BRYGG ULLMER Professor
School of ComputingCECAS Publication exceeding 1,000 citations KUMAR VENAYAGAMOORTHY Duke Energy Distinguished Professor
Electrical & Computer EngineeringCECAS Publication exceeding 1,000 citations MAREK URBAN J.E. Sirrine Foundation Endowed Chair
Materials Science & EngineeringCECAS 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
BioengineeringCECAS Annual expenditures exceeding $1 million IAN WALKER Professor
Electrical and Computer EngineeringCECAS Publication exceeding 1,000 citations J. CRAIG WALLACE Chair
ManagementCoB Publication exceeding 1,000 citations LIANGJIANG WANG Associate Professor
Genetics and BiochemistryCoS Publication exceeding 1,000 citations SARAH WHITE Professor
Plant and Environmental SciencesCAFLS Annual expenditures exceeding $1 million PAUL W WILSON Professor
EconomicsCoB Publication exceeding 1,000 citations JACK G. WOLF Associate Professor
FinanceCoB Publication exceeding 1,000 citations HAI XIAO Samuel Lewis Bell Distinguished Professor and Chair
Department of Electrical and Computer EngineeringCECAS Annual expenditures exceeding $1 million VALERIE ZIMANY Chair and Associate Professor
ArtCAAH Fulbright Award winner -
Emeritus URSAAA Members
Click the buttons to sort by each table header title DONALD BEASLEY Professor
Mechanical EngineeringCECAS Publication exceeding 1,000 citations JAMES BOTTUM Research Professor
Electrical and Computer EngineeringCECAS Annual Expenditures Exceeding $1 million GERALD P. DWYER Professor and BB&T Scholar
EconomicsCoB 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 & BioengineeringCECAS Publication exceeding 1,000 citations CHRISTINE COLE Emeritus Professor
Materials Science and EngineeringCECAS Expenditures exceeding $1 million J. BRUCE RAFERT Director of Initiatives Eukaryotic Pathogens Innovation Center COS Publication exceeding 1,000 citations ANDREW MOUNT Associate Professor
Biological SciencesCOS Publication exceeding 1,000 citations STEPHEN HEDETNIEMI Professor Emeritus
School of ComputingCECAS Publication exceeding 1,000 citations LARRY HODGES Professor
School of ComputingCECAS Publication exceeding 1,000 citations DOUG HIRT Professor
Chemical and Biomolecular EngineeringCECAS Publication exceeding 1,000 citations BRUCE KING Professor
PsychologyCBSHS Fellow for three international societies: Association for Psychological Science, American Psychological Association, International Behavioral Neuroscience Society THOMAS KUEHN Professor Emeritus
HistoryCAAH National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship, 2003-04; Marraro Prize of the American Historical Association, 2010 RUSS MARION Professor
Educational & Organizational Leadership DevelopmentCoE Publication exceeding 1,000 citations JAMES MCCUBBIN Professor
PsychologyCBSHS Publication exceeding 1,000 citations. Fellow of the American Psychological Association, the Academy of Behavioral Medicine Research, and the Society for Behavioral Medicine SANDRA HEDETNIEMI Professor
School of ComputingCECAS Publication exceeding 1,000 citations ZORAN FILIPI Director, School of MAE and VIPR-GS Research Center School of Mechanical and Automotive Engineering CECAS Annual expenditures exceeding $1 million JOHN MORSE Professor Emeritus
EntomologyCAFLS Publication exceeding 1,000 citations MICHAEL PURSLEY Holcombe Chair
Electrical & Computer EngineeringCECAS Publication exceeding 1,000 citations TERRY TRITT Professor and Chair
Physics and AstronomyCoS Publication exceeding 1,000 citations VICTOR J. VITANZA Professor Emeritus
EnglishCAAH Fellows of the Rhetoric Society of America and awarded the George E. Yoos Distinguished Service Award -
Former Faculty - URSAAA Members
Click the buttons to sort by each table header title RACHEL GETMAN Associate Professor
Chemical and Biomolecular EngineeringCECAS Publication exceeding 1,000 citations KAI HE Assistant Professor
Materials Science and EngineeringCECAS Publication exceeding 1,000 citations JOSEPH P. MAZER Associate Professor, Associate Department Chair
CommunicationCBSHS Publication exceeding 1,000 citations JASON OSBORNE Former Dean Graduate School Graduate School Publication exceeding 1,000 citations SRIKANTH PILLA Robert P. Jenkins Endowed Professor
Automotive EngineeringCECAS Annual expenditures exceeding $1 million JILLIAN WEISE Associate Professor
Creative WritingCAAH Winner of the Academy of American Poets James Laughlin Award and the BOA Editions Isabella Gardner Award
