Category: Life After Retirement

Dr. Skip Eisiminger, Professor Emeritus of English, retired in 2017. He participates in the EC’s CIS program and its testing of English language competency. Dr. Eisiminger is a facilitator in the CU Veterans’ Writing Project. Following are his other accomplishments since retirement:

Book Details: I published a collection of personal essays in 2017 entitled, The Pleasures of Language.

Published Writing Details: I’m a regular contributor to Weekly Hubris, The Serving House Journal, and the SC Review.

Teaching Details: Teaching at Osher Lifelong Learning Institute  since 2012.

Dr. Bhuvenesh Goswami, Alumni Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Materials Science and Engineering retired in 2006. Dr. Goswami has been very active in his field since his retirement. His achievements are listed below:

Published Works:  numerous research papers, handbooks and encyclopedia chapters; published two books and co-holds 14 patents on high temperature insulation; member of the editorial board of a number of research journals; Consultant to UNIDO and a number of corporations in the USA

Associations: Fellow of the Textile Institute; Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers; Gold Medalist of The American Society for Testing and Materials; Honorary member of The Fiber Society; Past Chairman of the Gordan Research Conferences on Fiber Science; President, of The Fiber Society; Chairman of Textile engineering Division, ASME

Awards: Lifetime Achievement Awards by Technical Association of Pulp and Paper Industry (non-woven division); Docteur Honoris Causa, University Haute Alsace, Mulhouse France; Recipient of The Fiber Society’s Distinguished Service Award 2017

Dr. Harold Cheatham, Professor Emeritus of Behavioral, Social and Health Sciences and Dean of BSHS, retired in 2001. Dr. Cheatham is involved with the Emeritus College Advisory Board as well as is a member of Pennsylvania Society of Distinguished Alumni.

Awards: Named a Presidential Counselor, advisor to the Office of the President, Pennsylvania State University.

Chip Egan, Alumni Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Performing Arts and Dean of AAH, retired in 2010. The following are a few of his accomplishments since retirement:

Awards: Inducted into the College of Architecture, Arts and Humanities Hall of Fame on Friday, March 9, 2018, as a member of the second class of inductees. South Carolina Theatre Association’s Lifetime Service Award 2018-The Lifetime Service Award is a plaque awarded to a person judged to have contributed significantly to theatre in South Carolina throughout his/her career.

Teaching/Advising: I serve as an evaluator for CESP testing administered by the Emeritus College to determine classroom readiness for international students for whom English is a second language. Chip continues to advise and mentor faculty in the department of performing arts. 

Exhibitions: In March and April 2017, I played Joe Keller in the Warehouse Theatre production of Arthur Miller’s ALL MY SONS.  He is scheduled to direct a production of the play, OTHER DESERT CITIES, by Jon Robin Baitz, for Lean Ensemble Theatre in Hilton Head Island, SC, in January 2022. 

Volunteering: I am serving in my 29th year as an assistant scoutmaster for Boy Scout Troop 235 in Clemson, sponsored by Fort Hill Presbyterian Church, and as the Charter Organization Representative for the troop sponsor.  He also sings in the church choir and serves as a deacon. He serves on the executive committee of the Clemson Class of ’39, as class treasurer.

Other Details: I served as the Interim Artistic Director for the Warehouse Theatre in Greenville from July 1 – December 31, 2016.

Dixie Goswami, Professor Emerita of English at Clemson University, was a Senior Scholar at Clemson’s Strom Thurmond Institute for Policy and Analysis and a Senior Scientist at the American Institutes for Research in Washington, DC.  Professor Goswami retired from the university in 1996. She is director and co-founder of the Write to Change Foundation, which supports youth leadership, literacy, and advocacy, and director of Special Projects for Middlebury College’s national Bread Loaf School of English Teacher Network.  As a long-time member of the Middlebury Bread Loaf faculty, she held the Robert Frost Chair of Literature and Language; as a South Carolina educator, she received the Richard Riley Award for Service to SC Public Education from the SC Council of Teachers of English.  She holds honorary d

egrees from Presbyterian College and Middlebury College. Goswami’s current work focuses on inclusive education policies and practices that provide vulnerable young people with the skills, resources, and support they need to thrive.  She serves as Director of the Middlebury Bread Loaf NextGeneration Leadership Network, which is supported by a two-year grant from the Ford Foundation’s Youth Opportunity and Learning initiative. BLTN NextGen will engage an exceptionally diverse cohort of youth from six states, including South Carolina, as allies and advocates in writing and acting for social and educational change. Goswami’s 15 great-grandchildren represent a wide range of ethnicity and experiences in South Carolina and beyond.

 She is a social media pioneer founding  a successful electronic network for teachers from the United States, Haiti, South Africa, Kenya, Mumbai, and beyond.  This network  “Breadnet” has received grants from the Rockefeller Foundation, Arthur Vining Davis Foundation, Wallace-Reader’s Digest Fund, and the Carnegie Foundation.   She taught in high school and then at Clemson and Greenville Tech.  She worked for the American Institute of Research in Washington, D.C.  She combined her skills in linguistics, technical communications, business writing, and composition to develop curriculum for college writing programs.  Her book “Writing in Non Academic Settings” became immensely popular on how to improve the craft of professional writing and editing in and out of work settings.    She recently started a non-profit organization called “Write to Change” which gives small grants to young people in developing literacy and new media skills.   She has a lifetime of public service.  In 1997 she won the Richard Riley Award for being  a senior scholar of the highest quality.    She was nominated for the award by an English professor at USC Aiken.   Professor Goswami received the South Carolina Humanities Governor’s Award in Humanities  in 2017. The annual awards were established in 1991 to recognize excellence in research, teaching, scholarship and other outstanding contributions to cultural life in South Carolina and beyond.

Dr. John Idol, Alumni Professor Emeritus of English, retired in 1995. After his retirement, he continued teaching in North Carolina at Duke University’s program for learning in retirement and at the Chapel Hill Senior Citizen’s Center. In 2017, he created two scholarship endowments creating new opportunities for aspiring students in English and creative writing. The John and Marjorie South Idol Endowed Scholarship in English will provide one need-based or merit-based scholarship to a Clemson student majoring in English, and the John and Marjorie South Idol Creative Writing Scholarship Endowment will provide scholarships to Clemson English students who excel in creative writing. Dr. Idol also pledged gifts to the previously established Idol-South Endowment, which supports faculty research and writing, and to the South Carolina Review, Clemson’s literary journal.

Dr. Bonnie Holaday, Professor Emerita of Nursing and Dean of the Graduate School, retired in 2014. Dr. Holaday has recently taken part in the publishing of a book titled: Holaday, B. (2018). Dorothy E. Johnson: Behavioral System Model. In M.R. Alligood, Ed., Nursing Theorists and Their Work, 9th Ed. St. Louis: Elsevier (pp 273-291). She also serves as a mentor in the EC Language Skills Program.

Dr. Stephen Hedetniemi, Professor Emeritus of Computer Science, retired in 2011 and has been very busy since his retirement. See below for all his publications and efforts within his discipline:

Book Details:

In November 2016, he co-edited the following book, published by Springer:
R. Gera, S. Hedetniemi, and C. Larson, Editors, Graph Theory, Favorite Conjectures and Open Problems, Springer, 2016, 291 pp.

He published the following chapter in the above book:
S. T. Hedetniemi, My Top 10 Graph Theory Conjectures and Open Problems, in Graph Theory, Favorite Conjectures and Open Problems, R. Gera, S. T. Hedetniemi and C. Larson, Editors, Springer, 2016, 109-134.

In November 2018, he co-edited Volume II of this book: R. Gera, T.W. Haynes and S. T. Hedetniemi, Editors, Graph Theory, Favorite Conjectures and Open Problems, Springer, 2018, 281 pp.

He co-published the following chapter in the above book:
R. Gera, T. W. Haynes, S. T. Hedetniemi and M. A. Henning, An annotated glossary of graph theory parameters, with conjectures, Graph Theory, Favorite Conjectures and Open Problems, Vol. II, R. Gera, S. T. Hedetniemi and C. Larson, eds., Springer, 2018, 177-281.

In 2018,  Dr. Hedetniemi co-edited with T. W. Haynes a special volume of the Journal of Combinatorial Mathematics and Combinatorial Computing in Memory of Peter J. Slater.

In April 2020, he co-edited the following two books, now in press, to be published by Springer.
1. W. Haynes, S. T. Hedetniemi, and M. A. Henning, Editors, Topics in Domination in Graphs, Springer, in press.

2. W. Haynes, S. T. Hedetniemi, and M. A. Henning, Editors, Structures of Domination in Graphs, Springer, in press.

He is currently under contract with Springer to co-write the following research text, to be published in 2021:
W. Haynes, S. T. Hedetniemi, and M. A. Henning, Domination in Graphs, Core Concepts.

He is currently a co-editor of the following special volume:
G. Chartrand, P. Zhang, T. W. Haynes and S. T. Hedetniemi, Special Volume in Honor of Frank Harary of Discrete Mathematics Letters, to appear in March 2021.

 

Published Writing Details: The following is a listing of all research journal articles Dr. Hedetniemi has published since retiring:
2012

[226]    W. Goddard, S.M. Hedetniemi, S.T. Hedetniemi, and A. A. McRae, The algorithmic   complexity of domination digraphs, J. Combin. Math. Combin. Comput. 80:367-384,  2012.

[227]    T. W. Haynes, S.M. Hedetniemi, S. T. Hedetniemi, T. L. McCoy, and I. Vasylieva, Cost effective domination in graphs, Congr. Numer. 211:197-209, 2012.

[228]    J. T. Hedetniemi, K. D. Hedetniemi, S.M. Hedetniemi, and S. T. Hedetniemi, Secondary  and internal distances in graphs II, AKCE Int. J. Graphs Comb., 9(1):85-113, 2012.

[229]    S.M. Hedetniemi, S.T. Hedetniemi, H. Jiang, K. E. Kennedy and A. McRae, A self- stabilizing algorithm for optimally efficient sets in graphs, Inform. Process Lett. 112(16):621-623, 2012.

[230]    S.T. Hedetniemi, D. P. Jacobs and K. E. Kennedy, Linear-time self-stabilizing algorithms  for disjoint independent sets, The Computer Journal 2012: doi: 10.1093/comjnl/bxs128.

2013

[231]    M. Chellali, T. W. Haynes, S. T. Hedetniemi, and A. McRae, [1,2]-sets in graphs, Discrete Appl. Math. 161:2885-2893, 2013.

[232]    G. Fricke, T. J. O’Brien, W. C. Schroeder and S. T. Hedetniemi, A new lower bound for the irredundance number of a tree, J. Combin. Math. Combin. Comput. 85:345-352, 2013.

[233]    J. T. Hedetniemi, S.M. Hedetniemi and S. T. Hedetniemi, Perfection in graphs, a new look at irredundance, J. Combin. Math. Combin. Comput. 85:129-139, 2013.

[234]    J. T. Hedetniemi, S.M. Hedetniemi, S. T. Hedetniemi, and T. M. Lewis, Analyzing  graphs by degrees, AKCE Int. J. Graphs Comb. 10(4):359-375, 2013.

[235]    S.M. Hedetniemi, S. T. Hedetniemi, K. E. Kennedy and A. A. McRae, Self-stabilizing algorithms for unfriendly partitions into two disjoint dominating sets, Parallel Process. Lett., 23(1), 2013 (11 pages), DOI:10.1142/S0129626413500011.

[236]    S.M. Hedetniemi, S.T. Hedetniemi, R. C. Laskar and H. M. Mulder, Quorum colorings of graphs, AKCE Internat. J. Graphs Combin. 10(1):97-109, 2013.

[237]    S. T. Hedetniemi, R. R. Rubalcaba, P. J. Slater, and M. Walsh, Few compare to the great  Roman empire, Congr. Numer. 217:129-136, 2013.

[238]    I. Justus, T. W. Haynes and S. T. Hedetniemi, Vertex types in trees, Congr. Numer. 215:105-113, 2013.

2014

[239]    M. Chellali, O. Favaron, T. W. Haynes, S. T. Hedetniemi, and A. A. McRae, Independent    [1,k]-sets in graphs, Australas. J. Comb. 59(1):144-156, 2014.

[240]    M. Chellali, T. W. Haynes, and S. T. Hedetniemi, Bounds on weak roman and 2-rainbow domination numbers, Discrete Appl. Math., 178:27-32, 2014.

[241]   P. Delgado, T. W. Haynes and S. T. Hedetniemi, Bipartitions based on degree constraints, Congr. Numer. 219: 193-206, 2014.

[242]    T. W. Haynes, S.M. Hedetniemi, and S. T. Hedetniemi, Two parameters equivalent to paired-domination, Graph Theory Notes of New York LXVI, 1-4, (2014).

[243]    T. W. Haynes, S. T. Hedetniemi, J. D. Jamieson, and W. B. Jamieson, Downhill domination in graphs, Discuss. Math. Graph Theory 34:603-612, 2014.

[244]    T. W. Haynes, S. T. Hedetniemi and H. Scott, Balanced sets in graphs, Util. Math. 93:343-356, 2014.

[245]    S. T. Hedetniemi, New upper bounds for the pseudoachromatic and upper irredundance numbers of a graph, Util. Math. 94:83-100, 2014.

2015

[246]    D. Ahmadi, G. H. Fricke, C. Schroeder, S. T. Hedetniemi and R. C. Laskar, Broadcast irredundance in graphs, Congr. Numer. 224:17-31, 2015.

[247]    S. Arumugam, S. T. Hedetniemi, S.M. Hedetniemi, L. Sathikala and S. Sudha, The covering chain of a graph, Util. Math. 98:183-196, 2015.

[248]   M. Chellali, T. W. Haynes and S. T. Hedetniemi, Roman and total domination, Quaest. Math., 38(6):749-757, 2015.

[249]    T. W. Haynes, S. T. Hedetniemi and I. Vasylieva, Very cost effective bipartitions of  graphs, AKCE Internat. J. Graphs Combin. 12:155-160, 2015.

[250]   S. T. Hedetniemi, D. P. Jacobs and K. E. Kennedy, A theorem of Ore and self-stabilizing  algorithms for disjoint minimal dominating sets, Theoret. Comput. Sci. 593:132-138, 2015.

[251]   K. R. Hutson, S. T. Hedetniemi and R. Forrester, Constructing -sets of grids, J. Combin. Math. Combin. Comput. 95:3-26, 2015.

2016

[252]    S. T. Hedetniemi, D. P. Jacobs and V. Trevisan, Domination  number and Laplacian eigenvalue distribution, European J. Combin. 53:66-71, 2016.

[253]    M. Chellali, T. W. Haynes, S.M. Hedetniemi, S. T. Hedetniemi and  A. A. McRae, A Roman Domination Chain, Graphs Combin.,32(1):79-92, 2016.

[254]    M. Chellali, T. W. Haynes, S. T. Hedetniemi, and A. A. McRae, Roman {2}-domination, Discrete Appl. Math. 204:22-28, 2016. 

[255]    R. Boutrig, M. Chellali, T. W. Haynes and S. T. Hedetniemi,Vertex-edge domination in graphs, Aequationes Math. 90(2):355-366, 2016.

[256]    W. Desormeaux, T. W. Haynes and S. T. Hedetniemi, Neighborhood-restricted [≤ 2]- achromatic colorings of graphs, Discrete Appl. Math. 207:39-44, 2016.

[257]    R. A. Beeler, T. W. Haynes and S. T. Hedetniemi, Double Roman domination, Discrete Appl. Math. 211:23-29, 2016.

[258]    M. Chellali, T. W. Haynes and S. T. Hedetniemi, Lower bounds on the Roman and independent Roman Domination Numbers, Appl. Anal. Discrete Math., 10(1):65-72, 2016.

[259]    T. W. Haynes, S. T. Hedetniemi, T. L. McCoy and T. K. Rodriguez, Bounds on cost effective domination numbers, Quaest. Math., 39(6):773-783, 2016.

[260]    G. H. Fricke, T. O’Brien, C. Schroeder, and S. T. Hedetniemi, On the equivalence of the upper open irredundance and fractional upper open  irredundance numbers of a graph, J. Combin. Math. Combin.  Comput. 99:187-198, 2016.

[261]    S. T. Hedetniemi, My Top 10 Graph Theory Conjectures and Open Problems, in Graph Theory, Favorite Conjectures and Open  Problems, R. Gera, S. T. Hedetniemi and C. Larson, Editors, Springer, 2016, 109-134.

[262]    R. Gera, S. Hedetniemi, and C. Larson, Editors, Graph Theory, Favorite Conjectures and Open Problems, Springer, 2016, 291 pp.

[263]   T. Fenstermacher, S. Hedetniemi and R. Laskar, Edge cut domination, irredundance and independence in graphs, Congr. Numer. 226:319-325, 2016.

[264]   S. Hedetniemi, F. Knoll and R. Laskar, Split domination, independence, and irredundance in graphs, Congr. Numer. 227:231-239, 2016.

[265]   S. T. Hedetniemi and R. C. Laskar, Connectivity parameters of  graphs, Congr. Numer. 227:293-308, 2016.

2017

[266]    M. Chellali, T. W. Haynes, S. T. Hedetniemi and T. M. Lewis, On ve- degrees and ev- degrees in graphs, Discrete Math., 340(2):31-38, 2017.

[267]    M. Chellali, T. W. Haynes, S. T. Hedetniemi and T. M. Lewis, Restricted optimal pebbling and domination in graphs, Discrete Appl. Math. 221:46-53, 2017.

[268]    J. Deering, T. W. Haynes, S. T. Hedetniemi, and W.  Jamieson, Downhill and uphill domination in graphs, J. Combin. Math. Combin. Comput. 100:27-35, 2017.

[269]    G. H. Fricke, C. Schroeder, S. M. Hedetniemi, S. T. Hedetniemi, and R.C. Laskar, A contribution to upper domination, irredundance and distance-2 domination in graphs, J. Combin. Math. Combin.  Comput., 100:97-112, 2017.

[270]    G. Chartrand, T. W. Haynes, S. T. Hedetniemi and P. Zhang, From connectivity to coloring,  J. Combin. Math. Combin. Comput.102:203-219, 2017.

[271]    J. Deering, T. W. Haynes, S. T. Hedetniemi and W. Jamieson, A polynomial time algorithm for downhill and uphill domination, Util. Math. 104:23-30, 2017.

[272]    J. T. Hedetniemi, S. M. Hedetniemi, S. T. Hedetniemi and T. M. Lewis, Classifying graphs by degrees, Util, Math. 104:333-349, 2017.

[273]    B. M. Case, S. T. Hedetniemi, R. C. Laskar, and D. J. Lipman, Partial  domination in graphs, Congr. Numer. 228:85-95, 2017.

2018

[274]     G. Chartrand, S. Devereaux, T. W. Haynes, S. T. Hedetniemi and P. Zhang, Rainbow disconnection in graphs, Discuss. Math. Graph Theory 38:1007-1021, 2018.

[275]    W. J. Desormeaux, T. W. Haynes, S. T. Hedetniemi and C. Moore, Distribution centers in graphs, Discrete Appl. Math. 243:186-193, 2018.

[276]    M. Chellali, T. W. Haynes and S. T. Hedetniemi, Client-server and cost- effective sets in graphs, AKCE Int. J. Graphs Comb. 15(2):211- 218, 2018.

[277]    T. W. Haynes and S. T. Hedetniemi, The graph theory of Peter J.   Slater, J. Combin. Math. Combin. Comput. 104:3-14, 2018.

[278]    Hedetniemi and S. T. Hedetniemi, The transitivity of a graph, J. Combin. Math. Combin. Comput. 104:75-91, 2018.

[279]    S. T. Hedetniemi, Ulam numbers of graphs, in: Graph Theory – Favorite   Conjectures and Open Problems, Vol. 2, 63-68, Probl. Books in Math., Springer, 2018.

[280]   R. Gera, T. W. Haynes, S. T. Hedetniemi and M. A. Henning, An   annotated glossary of graph theory parameters, with conjectures, Graph Theory – Favorite Conjectures and Open Problems, Vol. 2, 177-281, Probl. Books in Math., Springer, Cham, 2018

[281]    S. Hedetniemi, S. Holliday and P. Johnson, Neighborhood   representatives, Congr. Numer. 231:117-119, 2018.

[282]   T. Fenstermacher, S. Ganguly, S. Hedetniemi and R. Laskar, P-matchings in graphs: a brief survery with some open problems, Congr. Numer. 231:231-238, 2018.

2019

[283]   M. Chellali, T. W. Haynes and S. T. Hedetniemi, k-efficient partitions of graphs, Commun. Comb. Optim. 4(2):109-122, 2019.

[284]   J. T. Hedetniemi, S. T. Hedetniemi, R. C. Laskar and H. M. Mulder, Different-distance sets in a graph, Commun. Comb. Optim. 4(2):151-171, 2019.

2020

[285]   J. T. Hedetniemi, S. T. Hedetniemi, R. C. Laskar and H. M. Mulder, The 2-dimension of a tree, Comm. Combin. Optim. 5:69-81, 2020.

[286]   S. T. Hedetniemi, R. C. Laskar and H. M. Mulder, New resolvability parameters of graphs, AKCE Int. J. Graphs Combin.,https://doi.org/10.1016/j.akcej.2019.12.021

[287]   T. W. Haynes, J. T. Hedetniemi, S. T. Hedetniemi, A. A. McRae and N. Phillips, The upper domatic number of a graph, AKCE Int. J. Graphs Combin.,17 (2020), no. 1, 139-148.

Accepted for publication/to appear

[288]    T. W. Haynes, J. T. Hedetniemi, S. T. Hedetniemi, A. A. McRae and N. Phillips, The transitivity of special graph classes, J. Combin. Math. Combin. Comput., to appear.

[289]   T. W. Haynes, S. T. Hedetniemi, and M. A. Henning, Editors, Topics in Domination in Graphs, Springer, in press.

[290]   T. W. Haynes, S. T. Hedetniemi, and M. A. Henning, Models of domination in graphs, in Structures of Domination in Graphs, T. W. Haynes, S. T. Hedetniemi, and M. A. Henning, editors, Springer, in press.

[291]   T. W. Haynes, S. T. Hedetniemi, and M. A. Henning, Editors, Structures   of Domination in Graphs, Springer, in press.

[292]   T. W. Haynes, S. T. Hedetniemi, Alliances and domination related parameters, in Structures of Domination in Graphs, T. W. Haynes, S. T. Hedetniemi and M. A. Henning, eds., Springer, in press.

[293]   S. T. Hedetniemi, A. A. McRae and Raghuveer Mohan, The private neighbor concept, in Structures of Domination in Graphs, T. W. Haynes, S. T. Hedetniemi and M. A. Henning, eds., Springer, in press.

[294]   J. T. Hedetniemi and S. T. Hedetniemi, Domination in chessboards,  in Structures of Domination in Graphs, T. W. Haynes, S. T. Hedetniemi and M. A. Henning, eds., Springer, in press.

[295]   T. W. Haynes, S. T. Hedetniemi, and M. A. Henning, Domination in  digraphs and tournaments, in Structures of Domination in Graphs, T. W. Haynes, S. T. Hedetniemi and M. A. Henning, eds., Springer, in press.

[296]   S. T. Hedetniemi, A. A. McRae and Raghuveer Mohan, Algorithms and complexity of signed and minus domination in graphs, in Structures of  Domination in Graphs, T. W. Haynes, S. T. Hedetniemi and M. A.  Henning, eds., Springer, in press.

[297]   S. T. Hedetniemi, A. A. McRae and Raghuveer Mohan, Algorithms and  complexity of power domination in graphs, in Structures of Domination   in Graphs, T. W. Haynes, S. T. Hedetniemi and M. A. Henning, eds.,  Springer, in press.

[298]   S. T. Hedetniemi, Self-stabilizing domination algorithms, in Structures of Domination in Graphs, T. W. Haynes, S. T. Hedetniemi and M. A.  Henning, eds., Springer, in press.

[299]   S. T. Hedetniemi, Algorithms and complexity of alliances in graphs, in Structures of Domination in Graphs, T. W. Haynes, S. T. Hedetniemi and M. A. Henning, eds., Springer, in press.

[300]   T. W. Haynes, S. T. Hedetniemi and M. A. Henning, Domination in Graphs, Core Concepts, Springer, to appear.

[301]    T. W. Haynes, J. T. Hedetniemi, S. T. Hedetniemi, A. A. McRae and  Raghuveer Mohan, Introduction to coalitions in graphs, AKCE Int. J. Graphs Combin., to appear.

[302]    G. Chartrand, P. Zhang, T. W. Haynes and S. T. Hedetniemi, Editors, Special Volume in Honor of Frank Harary, Discrete Mathematics Letters to appear in March 2021.

[303]    T. W. Haynes and S. T. Hedetniemi, Vertex sequences in graphs,  Discrete Math. Lett., to appear.

Award Details:  In December 2015, Dr. Hedetniemi was invited to Jyvaskyla, Finland to be the “Opponent” for an Information Technology PhD dissertation at the University of Jyvaskyla. In August 2017, he served as an external examiner for a Mathematics PhD dissertation at Western Michigan University.
In September 2017, he served as an external examiner for a Computer Science dissertation at the University of Victoria, in Victoria, B.C.

Teaching/Advising Details: Since retiring, he has co-authored research papers with five graduate students in the Department of Mathematical Sciences and one graduate student in the School of Computing at Clemson University. He has also co-authored research papers with eight graduate students in mathematics at East Tennessee State University, one undergraduate computer science student at Appalachian State University, and one undergraduate mathematics student at Furman University.

Volunteer Details: Dr. Hedetniemi continues to referee for the journals of Discrete Mathematics, Discrete Applied Mathematics, Discussions Math. Graph Theory, Graphs and Combinatorics, AKCE J. Graphs Combin., and several other journals.

Tom Dimond has been retired since 2006. He began his career at Clemson first as the Director of Lee Gallery and then as Professor of Painting. He grew up in Massachusetts and received a BFA from the Massachusetts College of Art and an MFA from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. He taught for a year at Winthrop College and then moved to New York City to work as Art Director for the National Lampoon Magazine. In 1970, he returned to South Carolina and taught in the Greenville County School district for two years and in 1973 began his career at Clemson University.

He has exhibited his work extensively in the southeast and nationally and has many awards to his credit. This past year he has had exhibits Lander University, USC Aiken, the Governor’s School for the Arts in Greenville, SC. and the Upstairs Artspace in Tryon, NC.

He is represented in both public and private collections including Equitable Life Insurance in New York City, Federal Reserve Bank in Charlotte, NC, Health Resources in Birmingham, Alabama, Asheville Art Museum, Greenville County Museum of Art, Furman University, Greenville Technical College, the Fine Arts Center of Greenville County and the South Carolina State Art Collection.

His newer pieces are from a series that he began about three years ago exploring various techniques and materials that he has been layering together and combining with a mixture of mediums. How this happens varies somewhat but he will tell you that he combines free flowing gestural marks with watercolor, acrylic monoprints on Japanese papers, inkjet transfers of drawings, found objects, comic pages, watercolor washes, various acrylic mediums such as gloss medium, crackle paste, block out medium and gum arabic.

Not unlike the layering of advertisements and bulletins on billboards and urban walls, these works are meant to conceal and reveal images in a chance arrangement of color and shapes. The works themselves are metaphors for the process of memory and experience. As images are revealed and recognized, memories are triggered. The memories can vary from nostalgia to personal experiences. Tom also has works displayed at the Emeritus College Suite. Click HERE for more information.

Dr. John Diehl, Professor Emeritus of Animal and Veterinary Sciences, retired in 2014. Since his retirement Dr. Diehl submitted the following:

Teaching:  I designed a course in basic woodcarving for one credit.  To my knowledge at the time, it was the only for credit course in the US. It was part of the offerings in Leisure Skills in Parks, Recreation and Tourism.  I offered the course for 5 years before giving it to another wood carving colleague.   Of course, there were students who signed up because they thought it would be an easy A.  These students generally dropped out after the first class period.

Exhibitions:  My carvings have been on display and offered for sale for over 20 years.  I had 19 carvings on display in the Southern Living Showcase Home at the Botanical Gardens, was invited to participate in one of the top 100 craft shows in the US, and have had several 1^st, 2^nd or 3^rd place awards at carving show competitions as well as consideration for best of show awards.  In 2004, I started using a wood lathe to turn bowls and other items.  I learned this skill in High School Shop Class.  Since then I have offered these items along with carvings.  I have sold carvings and bowls all over the US and six foreign countries.

Currently, I have offerings at the Blue Springs Gallery in Cashiers, NC, The Frame Shop in Seneca and at my home shop.  I was asked by Clemson University’s Development and Alumni Relations Division to make thank you gifts for the highest-level donors to the recent Will to Lead campaign that raised more than $1 billion.  Clemson University commissioned me to redesign and make a set of new ceremonial maces for each administrative unit on campus and a new university mace.  I frequently design and make items for departments, the university as well as individuals.  A notable example of individual gifts was a bowl for T. Boone Pickens, utilizing wood from the Andrew Pickens home place – Hopewell. Other items I have been making for Clemson are a Keepsake box for donors who become Cornerstone Partners for Athletics and a base for the glass flame that is given to donors who become Cornerstone Partners for Academics.  In addition, I was instrumental in launching the process for using Clemson wood to make ring boxes for students who buy Clemson class rings. John also has pieces on display at the Emeritus College Gallery.

                For all CU projects, I use wood from trees removed from the campus because of damage from disease, construction projects or old age and that are in danger of falling apart.  I work closely with campus planners and the arborists to secure wood in good shape to use in making these projects.

Volunteer Work:  I have taught many wood carving workshops locally, and teach people interested in learning to use a wood lathe.  As Deacon in charge of Missions at my church, I was given permission by our eldership, to offer wood carving classes overseas with the intent of giving indigenous ministers a means of 1)  Making them less dependent on support from the US, 2)  Serve as a local source of expertise in teaching woodcarving to others.  I have conducted workshops in the Bahamas and Panama so far. This is a way for me to utilize and pass on the talents that God has given me to serve my neighbors.