Materials Science and Engineering

Congratulations Nyx Mashkow & Jack Hoffler!

2 MSE undergraduate students have won the Charles H. Stone Scholarship. This is a $6,000.00 scholarship given by AATCC which awards thousands of dollars per year to students studying in textile-related fields. Once again MSE congratulates Nyx Mashkow and Jack Hoffler! To read more about the AATCC Foundation click here.

MSE Student Annika DeVol Wins Multiple Honors

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.) […]

MRS/OSA Hold 17th Annual Poster Competition

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 […]

Bailey Meehan wins Scholarship.

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.

Dr. Phil Brown to Receive the 2023 AATCC Olney Medal

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 […]

CONGRATULATIONS TO MSE 2022-2023 FELLOWSHIP RECIPIENTS!

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 Student Achievements in April

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 […]