July 7, 2016
Clemson University’s efforts to attract top talent and enhance diversity are paying off threefold, as the department of bioengineering prepares to welcome a new assistant professor to the faculty and two postdoctoral researchers remain on track to join next year.
May 24, 2016
John Cullen Schlageter, a Packaging Science student, won the competition with a pitch for a replacement for styrofoam in cold chain packaging. He accepted the award from Dr. John DesJardins, Clemson’s Pathways to Innovation Program team leader. He and University Innovation Fellow and Bioengineering Ph.D. student Bre Przestrzelski worked to design the campus event, […]
May 16, 2016
Dan T. Simionescu, Ph.D., (center) has been promoted to full professor, making him the Harriet and Jerry Dempsey Professor of Bioengineering. His promotion will be recognized at a reception in early September.
May 4, 2016
This year’s awards ceremony, held on April 11, 2016, recognized both departmental and collegiate awardees. Departmental Awardees Larry S Bowman Outstanding Bioengineering Sophomore Award: Katie Tobik S W Shalaby Outstanding Bioengineering Junior Award: Katherine Bellino Poly-Med Outstanding Bioengineering Senior Award: Megan Skelly Barry W Sauer Outstanding Bioengineering Undergraduate Researcher Award: Aniqa Chowdhury Jonathan Black Undergraduate Leadership […]
May 3, 2016
In 2003, the Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Self-Financed Students Abroad was established to honor the academic excellence of Chinese PhD students studying abroad without financial aid from the government. After two rounds of judging by invited experts from each field in the host country and in China, awardees are selected mainly on their research […]
May 3, 2016
The Louis Stokes South Carolina Alliance for Minority Participation recognizes Dr Frank Alexis as the 2016 Research Mentor of the Year. Dr Alexis serves as research mentor for LS-SCAMP students selected to participate in international research in Singapore. The Alliance is designed to increase the quality and quantity of underrepresented minority students who complete baccalaureate […]
April 22, 2016
The Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology (FASEB)/Maximizing Access to Research Careers (MARC) Program announced Dr. Rodriguez’s selection for an FASEB MARC Travel Award to participate in the 2016 Postdoctoral Preparation Institute Workshop from June 2-3, 2016 in Bethesda, MD. The MARC program was created by the National Institute of General Medical Sciences. The program seeks […]
April 7, 2016
Ryan Borem, a United States Army combat veteran and current PhD student in Dr. Jeremy Mercuri‘s lab, was awarded an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship. The fellowship will support continuation of Ryan’s research on development of a tissue-engineered scaffold to assist in repair and regeneration of intervertebral discs in patients suffering from back pain. Graduate student […]
March 29, 2016
Graduate student Sarah Rowlinson was recognized by Clemson’s President’s Commission on the Status of Women for professional achievement, service as a role model within and outside the university, performance in “unique” circumstances of merit, and efforts to promote the status of women.
March 29, 2016
Clemson University nominated Dr. Renee Cottle, a recent graduate of the joint Biomedical Engineering program at the Georgia Institute of Technology and Emory University, for the NIH-funded 2016 Director’s Early Independence Award. The program is for exceptional junior scientists who possess the abilities and maturity to launch a research program directly after completion of a […]
