CLEMSON — Clemson University has been recognized as one of the nation's 35 colleges revolutionizing online education, according to Affordable Colleges Online. The website researched thousands of universities and colleges throughout the United States to identify those that made the largest strides in engaging, assessing and teaching students at multiple levels. ...

CLEMSON — Clemson University completed construction of a world-class nanomaterials facility specifically designed to support research projects that are funded by the National Science Foundation, Air Force Office of Scientific Research and the Department of Energy. The new Clemson Nanomaterials Center (CNC) allows leading scientists and engineers to better conduct interdisciplinary nanotechnology ...

Venkat Lakshmi recently assumed chairmanship of the American Geophysical Union’s Chapman Conference program, and he plans to continue what he’s spent his professional career doing: bringing people together to create solutions. “In science today, it’s not just a person sitting in a closed room, working on a problem,” said Lakshmi, a ...

CLEMSON — Clemson University’s Charles H. Houston Center for the Study of the Black Experience in Education, in partnership with Fayetteville State University, has been awarded a $349,697 grant from the National Science Foundation to study the effects of a STEM career-development program. “The research project is designed to study the ...

CLEMSON — “Active workstations” in Clemson University’s Cooper Library and Academic Success Center are encouraging students and employees to get moving while studying or doing research. Researcher June Pilcher, Alumni Distinguished Professor of Psychology, is partnering with the library and the Academic Success Center on the project, which may lead to ...

CLEMSON, S.C. — With a year or less to go before the GOP primary of June 2014 and fall general midterm election, the incumbents of South Carolina’s senatorial and gubernatorial offices may decide to “stump the state” more often to reacquaint themselves with voters. A new Clemson University Palmetto Poll finds ...

Venkat Lakshmi recently assumed chairmanship of the American Geophysical Union’s Chapman Conference program, and he plans to continue what he’s spent his professional career doing: bringing people together to create solutions. “In science today, it’s not just a person sitting in a closed room, working on a problem,” said Lakshmi, a ...

Medical tourism is one of the growing trends across the world. Due to high increase in the cost of health care facility, individual as well as companies are providing incentives to travel across the countries to get the surgeries they need. While travelling other countries for the medical tourists not ...

Senior Kate McKinney, an aspiring professional opera singer, came to USC from Denver because she knew the music program here could propel her to center stage. And it has – her first leading role came as a junior, performing the part of Laurie in Aaron Copland’s opera “The Tender Land” ...

CLEMSON — Clemson University researchers and students are tackling a national health concern by advancing concussion awareness and prevention through research. Assistant professors David Kwartowitz and John DesJardins and associate professor Delphine Dean in the department of bioengineering at Clemson are mentoring an undergraduate Creative Inquiry student research team that is investigating the scientific implications of concussions. ...

CLEMSON — Research by Clemson University conservation geneticists makes the case that landscape-level tiger and leopard conservation that includes protecting the corridors the big cats use for travel between habitat patches is the most effective conservation strategy for their long-term survival. Sandeep Sharma and Trishna Dutta, with colleagues from the Smithsonian Conservation ...

CLEMSON — Fall semester classes began Wednesday at Clemson University, and more than 4,400 new freshman and transfer students are starting their Clemson careers. Approximately 3,260 freshmen are enrolled at Clemson this semester along with 1,175 transfer students. Once again, Clemson received a record number of applications for the year: 18,653 ...

The procession to the Brooks Center is a convocation tradition. CLEMSON — A series of campus events honoring Clemson University President James F. Barker and his wife, Marcia, begins Tuesday, Aug. 20, when he will deliver the keynote address at the Victor Hurst Convocation at the Brooks Center for the ...

CLEMSON — Clemson University is ranked at the top of U.S. schools in student sports participation and community relations, according to The Princeton Review. In its new “The Best 378 Colleges: 2014 Edition,” the organization used student surveys to rank Clemson No. 1 in three categories: “Everybody plays intramural sports” “Jock schools” “Town-gown relations ...

CLEMSON — Descendants of some of the “founding families” in Pickens, Oconee and Anderson counties will gather at Clemson University this weekend to explore their roots. More than 100 people related to the Calhoun, Clemson, Pickens and Ravenel families are expected to attend the Friday-Sunday reunion, where they will tour three ...

More than a decade ago, Thomas Vogt and Yongjae Lee, then colleagues at Brookhaven National Laboratory, uncovered a counter-intuitive property of zeolites. When they put these porous minerals in water, and then put the water under high pressure, the tiny cavities within the zeolites actually grew in size. Pressure failed to ...

The Deepwater Horizon explosion on April 20, 2010, caused the largest marine oil spill in history, with several million barrels of crude oil released into the Gulf of Mexico over the course of three months. Soon after the spill began, a massive oil slick was visible from orbiting satellites, yet ...

A favorite beach. Homes along the river or coast.  Crop yields that sustain the populace. These are just some of the things that climate changes are threatening, and scientists are beginning to focus on three essential questions about how to prepare for our planet’s future. The first: How long will we be ...