May 4, 2023
Department faculty, staff, students, and family members gathered at the Hendrix Student Center Friday, April 28 to honor our May graduates, departmental award winners, and Sigma Pi Sigma inductees. Graduating with Bachelor of Science degrees in May are William Bain, Rohan Chitrao, Natalie Combs, Logan Cruse, Kathryn Evancho, Regan Frye, Stone Gardner, Alexander Pendris, Michael […]
April 18, 2023
Physics and Astronomy Ph.D. student, Scott Joffre has teamed up with Prakrit Subba, a graduate student in Biological Sciences to launch a podcast called Breaking Silos. The pair began the podcast in January and have released ten episodes to date. “Inspired to solve complicated problems by bringing together experts from different fields,” Joffre says, “Breaking […]
April 17, 2023
On April 14, 2023, five Physics & Astronomy graduate students and one CU-ICAR graduate student conducting research at the Clemson Nanomaterials Institute (CNI) presented six papers at the annual SC EPSCoR conference in Summerville, SC. Basanta Ghimire, Evan Watkins, Nawraj Sapkota, Peshal Karki, and Janak Basel each presented their work at this year’s conference. In […]
April 13, 2023
The sun is an abundant — but still largely untapped — energy source. With the push for renewable energy, researchers from the Clemson Nanomaterials Institute (CNI), led by Dr. Apparao Rao, and the Indian Institute of Science have designed a smart supercapacitor using a novel stack of metal oxides — vanadium pentoxide and zinc oxide […]
March 24, 2023
It is our pleasure to host Dr. Dipti, an atomic physicist from the International Atomic Energy Agency in Vienna Austria. She will be presenting a public lecture titled, “Spectroscopy: From Femtometer to Cosmic Scales”. Spectroscopy is the study of photons at different wavelengths that enables us to determine the temperature and composition of matter. In […]
July 7, 2022
The Sonoco FRESH initiative at Clemson University has awarded three research grants to professors who are addressing issues regarding the safety, security, and sustainability of food throughout the value chain. With funding provided by Sonoco (a global provider of a variety of consumer packaging, industrial products, protective packaging, and displays and packaging supply chain services), […]
