Month: March 2017

TiMOTION, a leading manufacturer of actuators and components for various applications, has committed $4,000 to support scholarships for undergraduate students majoring in agricultural mechanization and business in Clemson’s College of Agriculture, Forestry and Life Sciences. Through these scholarships, TiMOTION seeks to train the next generation of engineers that have the skills and knowledge needed for success in the workforce.

In addition to Clemson, TiMOTION has committed scholarship support to several universities in the Southeast, including East Carolina University, NC State University, Western Carolina University, and University of North Carolina, Charlotte.

Thank you, TiMOTION for supporting Clemson students!

For more information, visit: http://www.timotion.com/single.php?NewsID=92.

Two corporate partners have recently established undergraduate scholarships to support students in the School of Computing and the Department of Construction Science and Management.

Keymark, a supplier of enterprise content management (ECM) software, established the Keymark Annual Scholarship Fund in February 2017 to award merit-based scholarships to 10 undergraduate juniors and seniors in the School of Computing. Preference will be given to underrepresented students, including women and minorities, who are residents of Pickens, Oconee, Anderson, or Greenville counties in South Carolina.

Brasfield & Gorrie, one of the nation’s largest privately held construction companies, established the Brasfield & Gorrie Annual Scholarship Fund in March 2017 to award five scholarships to students majoring in Construction Science and Management. Preference will be given to underrepresented students, including women and minorities.

Thank you, Keymark and Brasfield & Gorrie, for supporting Clemson students!

Elin Wahmann, Program Administrator for the Annexstad Family Foundation’s Leaders for Tomorrow National Scholarship Program, visited the Clemson University campus on March 10 to meet Clemson’s first Leaders for Tomorrow Scholar, Xavier Smith.

The Annexstad Family Foundation has 61 partner institutions in its Leaders for Tomorrow National Scholarship Program, and these institutions identify, educate, and nurture a special group of talented young people into the next generation of leaders. Clemson was added as a partner institution for the Leaders for Tomorrow program in 2016.

While on campus, Elin met with partners from Financial Aid, the Clemson University Foundation, the Academic Success Center, and spent time with Xavier, Clemson’s first Leaders for Tomorrow Scholar. She also participated in a campus tour that included a sneak peek at the new Football Operations Complex.

Clemson looks forward to continuing to develop its relationship with the Annexstad Family Foundation in the coming years!

The CVS Health Foundation has awarded five Clemson School of Nursing graduate students with scholarships as they complete their studies to become family nurse practitioners. The scholarship funds were awarded through the CVS Health Foundation Advance Practice Nurse and Physician Assistant Scholarship program, which is aimed a reducing the nationwide shortage of family nurse practitioners and physician assistants by supporting the next generation of healthcare professionals.

Students were selected based on strong academic standing, and must intern or volunteer with an organization that supports underserved populations. At least 25 percent of the scholarships were awarded to bilingual students.

For more information about this grant award, visit: http://newsstand.clemson.edu/mediarelations/cvs-health-foundation-supports-clemson-nursing-students-with-scholarship. 

Rivkah Saldanha is a Clemson automotive engineering graduate and served as the Team Leader for the Deep Orange 5 concept vehicle project sponsored by GM. After earning her MS in Automotive Engineering in 2014, Ms. Saldanha went to work at GM in Detroit.

She returned to the CU-ICAR campus in February to speak with current students about how her CU-ICAR education and work on the Deep Orange project have benefitted her career.

Also pictured above are Aditya Yerra Verra, a fellow member of the Deep Orange 5 concept vehicle program who is pursuing his PhD in Automotive Engineering, Department Chair Dr. Zoran Filipi, and Associate Professor and Deep Orange faculty member Dr. Johnell Brooks.