Category: Students

Kristin Chapman a graduate student in Dr. John Ballato’s group was awarded the Dr. Samuel Blankenship Directed Energy Scholar Award. Congratulations on this accomplishment!

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.) […]

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.

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 […]

The 16th Annual Materials and Optics Poster Competition was hosted by graduate student chapters of the Materials Research Society (MRS) and Optica on March 16, 2023 at the state-of-the-art Watt Family Innovation Center housed on Clemson University’s main campus. This competition serves as the primary showcase of materials and optics research being performed at Clemson University and […]

Many MSE students spend the summers on internships.  This past summer, MSE rising junior Annika DeVol and MSE grad student Zachary Caprow were selected for internships at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Oak Ridge Tennessee.  Here’s how they spent their summer: Annika DeVol: “This summer, I had the opportunity to participate in the Science Undergraduate […]

Congratulation to the following MS&E December 2021 Graduates! BS Graduates: Andrew Allmen, Scott Brandon, Christine Demild, Charles (Chase) Godwin, Hannah Guida, Logan Howard, Joshua Melton MS Graduates: Jason Dobyne PhD Graduates: Linyu Pan, Yanting (Ding) Xing  

Congratulations to Arabella Hunter for being named a Beckman Scholar. Go here to watch a video about what inspires Arabella and her research. Read more about Arabella here

Congratulations to the Following For Passing Their Comprehensive Exams Xiner Lu – Dr. Kai He, Advisor Bailey Meehan – Dr. John Ballato, Advisor Aaron Santomauro – Dr. Joshua Tong, Advisor Ximei Zhai – Dr. Joshua Tong, Advisor Hongkui Zheng – Dr. Kai He, Advisor