College Profile 2023

Faculty Excellence

Our talented faculty are driving innovation and excellence, both in the lab and in the classroom. In a research environment that promotes connections across the life, physical and mathematical sciences, our faculty are harnessing the power and potential of science into real-world impact. In the classroom, they are building future leaders in science and transforming teaching and learning. Here are examples of our excellence.

AMERICAN PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY

ORAU RALPH E. POWE JUNIOR FACULTY AWARD

Trudy Mackay, director of the Clem son Center for Human Genetics and Self Family Endowed Chair of Human Genetics, was elected to the prestigious American Philosophical Society, the oldest learned society in the United States. Mackay, recognized as one of the world’s leading authorities on the genetics of complex traits, was the first professor at Clemson University to become a member when she was elected in 2021.

Kasra Sardashti, an assistant professor in the College of Science’s Department of Physics and Astronomy, has received a 2022 Oak Ridge Associated Universities Ralph E. Powe Junior Faculty Enhance ment Award. Forty-one junior faculty from across the country received awards, which aim to enrich junior faculty’s research and professional growth. Each winner receives $5,000 seed money for the 2022-23 academic year.

MATERIALS RESEARCH SOCIETY Clemson University Department of Physics and Astronomy faculty member Apparao Rao was selected as a 2020

FULBRIGHT SCHOLAR

Jeff Anker, a chemistry and bioengi neering professor at Clemson Universi ty, received a prestigious Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program grant to conduct re search and teach in Finland during the summer of 2022. A program of the U.S. State Department, the Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program provides more than 800 teaching and research fellowships to U.S. college and university faculty and artists and professionals from a wide range of fields. AMERICAN STATISTICAL ASSOCIATION

Fellow of the Materials Research Society (MRS) for developing liquid-based scal able synthesis methods to manufacture carbon nanotubes — a class of nanoma terials used in numerous applications, including energy storage, medicine, electronics, and composites.

AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Clemson University bioinorganic chem istry professor Julia Brumaghim was named a fellow by the American Chem ical Society in 2022 for her extensive contributions to the scientific commu nity. The ACS, one of the world’s largest scientific societies with over 150,000 members, selects fellows based on their outstanding scientific achievements and exemplary service to the society.

Chris McMahan, a professor in the Col lege of Science’s School of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences, was named an American Statistical Association Fellow in 2022. The ASA elects fellows based on their established reputation and excep tional contributions to statistical science. The ASA limits the honor to one-third of 1% of the organization’s total member ship each year.

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