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MSE student Annika DeVol has won multiple awards this year.  She was named “Student of the Game”, The Materials Advantage Service Award, The Gilbert Robinson Research Award for the top undergraduate researcher and the highly prestigious NASA Astronaut Scholarship. Annika was presented her NASA Scholarship on April 24th by Astronaut and NASA Deputy Administrator (RET.) […]

Top MSE students were recognized at the MSE Honors and Awards Ceremony held on April 10th. The undergraduate award winners are: Annika Devol – G.C. Robinson Research Award Bridget Kilmer – Robert Knight Eaton Honor Award Peyton Anderson – Robert Bendheim Honor Award Ian Mozzola – Robert S. Small Award Jacson Hoffler – Hugh H. […]

The 17th Annual MRS/OSA Poster Symposium took place at the Watt Center on March 28, 2024.  MRS and Optica members did a fabulous job. Thank you to the many sponsors, judges, and students who helped make this a fabulous event! Graduate Level Winners: 1st Place: Rahul Rajeev 2nd Place: Soma Dixit 3rd Place: Cassie Simpson […]

The Spring 2024 External Advisory Board meeting was March 28, 2024. At this the Graduate and Undergraduate Student Organizations (Materials Advantage, Materials Research Society, and Optica) made presentations on goals for their organizations as well as received feedback from board members. The board also was updated on the status of the MSE department.  The highlight […]

Dr. Raj Bordia was recently featured in the American Ceramic Society  Bulletin regarding his becoming president of ACerS.  You can read the article in Vol. 103, No.1.  Dr. Bordia was also interviewed by an editor of the American Ceramic Society.  The link to the podcast is https://ceramictechchat.ceramics.org/974767/14318688-focusing-on-the-fundamentals-rajendra-bordia <!– /* Font Definitions */ @font-face {font-family:”Cambria Math”; […]

Congratulations to Annika DeVol on being named Student of the Game at the 9/23/23 football game!

Congratulations to Bailey Meehan for winning the Glass Age Scholarship from Corning Research & Development group.  Bailey is a MSE grad student in Dr. John Ballato’s group.

AATCC is proud to announce the 2023 recipient of the Olney Medal, Philip J. Brown, Swetenburg Professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Clemson University. He is being recognized for his prolific work with fiber materials, including spinning and the production of deep groove capillary surface channeled fibers; fabrication of polymeric photonic […]

Marcus Murdoch was awarded the Percy W. Woodruff Jr. Textile Manufacturing Scholarship Travis Wanless (Foulger Group) was named the Connelly-Perkins Fellow

Dear alumni and colleagues,  We head into summer on an incredibly high note with Advanced Materials Innovation Complex (AMIC) groundbreaking ceremony and start of construction for this important new facility for the department, university and the State of South Carolina.  This facility represents a $130 Million investment in the future of advanced materials and will […]

GEORGE BISHOP ANNUAL FELLOWSHIP Awarded annually to MSE graduate students in memory of George J. Bishop III Haley Jones, from South Carolina, advised by Dr. Stephen Foulger – Bachelor’s degree from Clemson University – Interests focus on radioluminescent crystalline colloidal arrays for bioimaging    applications. Ximei Zhai, from China, advised by Dr. Joshua Tong – […]

MSE senior Arabella Hunter (Mefford) received the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship (GRPF) and Dean’s Graduate Fellowships. Giovanni Orlandi, a student in Mechanical Engineering was awarded a 2023 Goldwater Scholar advised by Dr. Fadi Abdeljawad (Joint MSE) and Dr. Enrique Saez (Joint MSE) and Dr. Todd Schweisinger (ME) as mentors. Vaibhav Palkar (PhD student in Kuksenok […]

Materials Science & Engineering hosted the 2023 MSE Honors & Awards on Wednesday, April 12,2023 at 4:00 pm in Sirrine Hall. Undergraduate Awardees Trenae Sutton and Trinity Sutton – Robert Knight Eaton Honor Award Annika DeVol – Robert Bendheim Award John Nickles – Robert Small Award and Materials Advantage Service Award Leo Beck – Gilbert […]