This award honors an outstanding graduate in discovery with a theoretical/computational emphasis. Andrew J. Peloquin is from Colorado Springs, Colorado.
Peloquin joined Clemson in 2019 under an arrangement with the U.S. Air Force and a prestigious Air Force fellowship. In 2008, he obtained his M.S. at the University of Florida under a similar program. His research focuses on incorporating halogen bonding interactions in solution and the solid state to both influence and direct reactivity and stabilize very unstable products such as hydrazines. He has published 16 papers on the subject and is the first author of 13. Peloquin will defend his dissertation in May. After being promoted to lieutenant colonel on July 1, his first assignment will be as deputy division chief for the Test Sciences Division at the Defense Threat Reduction Agency. After that, he is expected to join the department of chemistry at the U.S. Air Force Academy.
Clemson Department of Chemistry Chair William Pennington said Andrew is “quite simply the most intelligent, creative, organized and productive person I know.”
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