Harmonizing with nature: Clemson University and partners share up to $13.6 million to solve maritime challenge
Clemson
University is leading an international team that is trying an
innovative tack to solve an age-old maritime challenge, and researchers
said the solution involves working with nature instead of fighting it.
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is providing up
to $13.6 million over four years for the project. Partnering
institutions are Duke University, the University of Essex, the
University of Copenhagen and Pompeu Fabra University.
Student bioengineering team wins national competition for U-Sert medical technology
Four
recent Clemson University graduates will collect a national award this
month for creating medical technology designed to help nurses monitor
babies for urinary tract infections.
Reagan Hamm, Allie Beiter,
Maddie Thomas and Anna Wichmann were students last academic year when
they developed the U-Sert, which adheres to diapers and changes colors
to signal when the child has an infection. (See the team’s pitch video here.)
SC-TRIMH receives major grant for pioneering research into musculoskeletal health
A
biomedical research center that is headquartered at Clemson University
and has resulted in more than 400 publications in its first five years
is entering its second phase with an $11.13-million grant.
The center is called South Carolina Translational Research Improving Musculoskeletal Health (SC-TRIMH).
It is funded through a National Institute of General Medical Sciences
program aimed at establishing Centers of Biomedical Research Excellence.
Nine Clemson students and alumnae awarded graduate research fellowships
Seven
graduating Clemson University seniors and two recent alumnae are
receiving three years of financial support towards their graduate
degrees through Graduate Research Fellowships provided by the National
Science Foundation (NSF), with an additional student receiving an
honorable mention.
The national fellowship program is highly
competitive, with more than 12,000 applications every year. Recipients
receive an annual stipend of $37,000 towards their graduate program and
an additional $12,000 cost of education allowance that covers their
tuition and fees. They also benefit from professional development
opportunities offered to fellowship recipients.
Clemson University recognizes its newly tenured and promoted faculty for 2023
At
the end of the Spring semester, the University announced the tenure and
promotion of 126 faculty. Access details on each faculty member by
visiting their linked information.
Congratulations to the five Bioengineering faculty who received tenure and promotion!
Undergraduate research recognized at Focus on Creative Inquiry poster forum
Hundreds
of Clemson students gathered at the Watt Family Innovation Center to
share their research at the 18th annual Focus on Creative Inquiry (FoCI)
Poster Forum on April 5-7. Projects from every college were presented
with topics ranging from archaeology to Parkinson’s Disease to food
safety to high-performance computing.
Creative Inquiry is Clemson’s
nationally recognized cross-disciplinary undergraduate research and
experiential learning program, that gives students the opportunity to
work in small groups with a faculty mentor to answer challenging
questions and solve real-world problems.
The event allows students
to showcase their work, reflect on their experiences and to gain skills
that will help them communicate their work to the general public. The
three-day event featured 240 student projects.
Clemson University’s Jeremy Mercuri appointed to leadership positions in partnership with Prisma Health
Jeremy Mercuri has been appointed deputy director of the Clemson University Biomedical Engineering Innovation Campus (CUBEInC) and faculty fellow at the Clemson University School of Health Research.
Postdoctoral fellow Cherice Hill launches career at Clemson University with $1-million research project
Clemson
University postdoctoral fellow Cherice Hill is leading a $1-million
research project aimed at better understanding why a type of jaw
disorder is more common among some groups than others.
Hill said
that she has wanted to work in higher education since she was first
introduced to research in high school, and the funding is helping her
make the transition to a tenure-track faculty position. She is looking
for her first faculty job and said Clemson is on her short list.
