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Features Vol WINTER 2007 Features VOL. 60, NO. 1 Life and Legacy 10 Find out why Thomas Green Clemson was hard to ignore as we celebrate the bicentennial of his birth. Where the Wild Things Grow 14 Take a fresh look at the Clemson Experimental Forest through the eyes of creative inquiry students. Someone in These Hills 16 Meet the man behind “Something in These Hills” and see how he helped create the fabric of Clemson. The World Is My Laboratory 20 Learn how Clemson’s research laboratories extend throughout the world. ‘Symphony of Motion’ 24 Discover another team of Tigers working hard to win. A+ Ambassadors 26 Departments Clemson has a traveling force of volunteers President’s View intent on helping the University achieve its vision. page 2 World View page 4 Lifelong Connections page 28 Student Life page 30 Classmates page 32 Commitment page 46 TAPS page 48 Cover photo: Aerial, by Patrick Wright President’s View Executive Editor As to statewide public service and economic development, recent milestones include: Dave Dryden Economic development • Dedication of the $10 million Timken Technology Center at the Clemson University Art Director International Center for Automotive Research (CU-ICAR); Judy Morrison is our mission • Rededication of the former Clemson research park near I-85 as the Clemson University Advanced Editor Materials Center, in partnership with Anderson County; Liz Newall • Approval by the state Budget & Control Board to provide $10.3 million in bond funding, and by We have begun our celebration of the 200th anniversary of the birth of the city of North Charleston to transfer land, for the Clemson University Restoration Institute. Classes Editor & Thomas Green Clemson. Advertising Director These centers are direct descendants of our founder’s vision, as expressed in his will. When he wrote Sallie Leigh (864) 656-7897 As you read his story elsewhere in this issue, you will learn that, even today, the about programs “intended to benefit agricultural and mechanical industries,”Mr. Clemson authored South remarkable life of Clemson University’s founder provides us with a template for the Carolina’s first economic development plan. Contributors truly educated person. Mr. Clemson was the “total package,” as today’s students might Dale Cochran “I trust that I do not exaggerate the importance of such an institution for developing the material Debbie Dunning say. resources of the State,” he added. Catherine Sams News Services A transplanted “Yankee” born in Philadelphia, he was educated in the United States Publications and Promotion He did not exaggerate. Clemson’s historical role cannot be overstated in developing and providing expert and in the universities and salons of Paris and Brussels. He was a scientist, a farmer manpower to the state’s agriculture and forest industries, textiles, fibers, chemicals, construction, bricks and a diplomat who also loved and participated in the arts. He painted, played the Photographers and ceramics, packaging and many more. Patrick Wright violin and wrote music. Craig Mahaffey Statewide economic development is not “mission creep” for Clemson. Economic development is our Mr. Clemson understood that scientific education was the key to economic progress University Officials mission, and always has been. If the research universities don’t now build a knowledge economy for South and prosperity in the poverty-stricken South Carolina of the 1880s. In the “high President Carolina, who will? James F. Barker q seminary of learning” he envisioned, intellectual development would be forever Clemson is taking an wedded to practical knowledge and economic development. Clemson has no ambitions to build a law school, or a medical school, or a gigantic student body on Board of Trustees Leon J. Hendrix Jr., multiple residential campuses. These are, frankly, hallmarks of most of the institutions ahead of us in the His wisdom guides us today. chairman; John J. Britton, unconventional route to ranks of top-30 national public universities. We have determined that is not our way. vice chairman; Bill L. Amick, Mr. Clemson’s will is the foundational document of Clemson University. It is to our Lawrence M. Gressette Jr., Clemson’s way is to be the best at what we do best, which is undergraduate teaching and targeted, highly Thomas C. Lynch Jr., the top 20. Because when institution what the Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution are to focused research, which demands outstanding graduate programs as well. Louis B. Lynn, we get there, we want to our nation. Patricia Herring McAbee, Leslie G. McCraw, Our commitment is to limit undergraduate enrollment, control class size and maintain the special I invite you to read the full text online at www.clemson.edu/TGC200/. I do that E. Smyth McKissick III, make sure Clemson will . Our challenge is periodically, and I find it a humbling and inspiring experience. relationship that students have with teachers, and alumni have with their alma mater Thomas B. McTeer Jr., not only to find a way to balance economic development and intellectual development, but to design Robert L. Peeler, still be Clemson. I also believe that, in 2007, our university has finally begun to realize the fullness of William C. Smith Jr., relationships and structures that allow them to reinforce and strengthen each other. Joseph D. Swann Thomas Green Clemson’s vision. One way we plan to do that is through undergraduate research and creative inquiry. There are some things © 2007 Clemson University In this issue, you will learn that Clemson faculty have been awarded a campus you just cannot learn by listening or reading, or from someone else’s experience. Some things you must Clemson World is published quarterly for alumni and friends of Clemson Univer- chapter of Phi Beta Kappa, the nation’s oldest and most prestigious academic honor learn by doing and discovering for yourself. sity by the Division of Advancement. society. This is an important milestone for us because it recognizes the excellence of Editorial offices are in the Department Even our freshmen can make contributions to our important work of research, service and economic of Publications and Promotion, Clemson our undergraduate programs in the humanities, arts and sciences. University, 114 Daniel Dr., Clemson, development as they learn the skills to be questioning, knowledge-seeking, self-educating adults. We must SC 29631-1520 (FAX: 864-656-5004). The learned, artistic Mr. Clemson would be proud. ready them for a lifetime of learning. Copyright© Publications and Promotion, Clemson University. Story ideas and letters are welcome, but publisher assumes Another story documents progress toward our long-range goal of providing an This is a “Big Idea” worthy of Thomas Green Clemson himself. Yet it is entirely consistent with the path no responsibility for return of unsolicited international experience for every Clemson student. As one of our globe-trotting to the top 20 that we have chosen — a path based on commitment to students, focus, tenacity, service … manuscripts or art. Send address changes to Records, 110 Daniel Dr., Clemson, SC undergraduates observed: “Our world is demanding that we think more like global and big ideas. 29631-1520 (FAX: 864-656-1692), or call citizens.” 1-800-313-6517. Clemson is taking an unconventional route to the top 20. Because when we get there, we want to make Consider this question: Can you be a truly educated person in the 21st century sure Clemson will still be Clemson. CLEMSON WORLD without traveling abroad, experiencing foreign cultures and seeing for yourself how CORPORATE SPONSORS interdependent we are in a global economy? Alumni Online Services ARAMARK The answer is no. Mr. Clemson, the world traveler and diplomat, understood that Blackbaud The Clemson Corps th way back in the 19 century. Coca-Cola Company James F. Barker, FAIA Conference Center and Inn at President Clemson University Tom Winkopp Properties 2 CLEMSON WORLD WINTER 2007 3 Quest for Major hydrogen Parkinson’s research cure he U.S. Department of Energy is WWorldorld VViewiew THE MICHAEL awarding $2 million to Clemson J. Fox Foundation to fund hydrogen research and T CRAMMERMARK HurriQuake nail, top invention Top honor society for Parkinson’s development that may help change Research has the way we power the country. IVIL ENGINEERING ALUMNUS ED SUTT M ’96, PHD ’00, A FASTENING ENGINEER THE PHI BETA KAPPA SOCIETY, America’s provided $125,000 The research project, headed with Bostitch, has designed a nail that could save thousands of lives and homes oldest and most prestigious academic honor in supplemental by chemical and biomolecular in a hurricane or earthquake. C society, has funding to advance engineering chairman Jim Goodwin, For that, Popular Science magazine Flyin’ Tigers — the best! selected Clemson the promise of will involve collaboration with the has named the HurriQuake nail its for one of six Clemson professor Xuejun Wen’s quest for Savannah River National Laboratory lemson’s Air Force ROTC Detachment 770 2006 Innovation of the Year. new chapters in a cure. and John Deere on research directed has earned the Right of Line Award as Sutt took notice of a hurricane’s recognition of Wen uses novel bioengineering at understanding the effect of the most outstanding midsized Air Force devastating effects when, as a C the University’s technology in combination with dopamine impurities in hydrogen and oxygen ROTC detachment in the nation. The annual Clemson student, he visited the excellence in neurons derived from human stem cells. streams on the performance of award goes to the top small, medium and large Caribbean following Hurricane liberal arts and hydrogen fuel cells. detachments. Marilyn in 1995. He noticed the His lab specializes in inducing human stem sciences. This funding is part of $100 Clemson’s Air Force ROTC also has fasteners, not the wood, had failed cells into different types of cells aimed “What this means to our students is that million used to fund 25 hydrogen been home to Arnold Air Society national in house after house.
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