Physics and Astronomy

Dr. Emil Alexov awarded $1.5M NIH grant

Congratulations to Dr. Emil Alexov for receiving a $1.5M R01 grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to maintain and further develop DelPhi, the popular method for modeling electrostatics in molecular biology. The new development includes (a) modeling non-electrostatic quantities as temperature, ion and particle flux, just to name a few; (b) expanding DelPhi capabilities to model large objects as molecular machineries, […]

Dr. Feng Ding is awarded an NSF CAREER award

Dr. Feng Ding, Assistant Professor, is awarded an National Science Foundation’s Faculty Early Career Development grant for his work in nano-bio interactions. His award was featured in a post on the Clemson Newstand. Learn more about Dr. Ding’s research.

Clemson Team Returns to Poker Flat Research Range for MTeX Mission

The Spring 2013 issue of Schrödinger’s Tiger described the Department’s participation in the newly awarded NASA sounding rocket experiment “MTeX,” led by the University of Alaska to study turbulence in the mesosphere-lower thermosphere region. During the holiday break of 2014/2015 I was fortunate enough to travel with Clemson coinvestigator Dr. Gerald Lehmacher to Fairbanks for […]