MARCH-APRIL 2025

Earlier this month, the College of Science held its Catalyst Competition, an annual entrepreneurial challenge where students pitch their innovative product ideas to a panel of judges. Read about the winning idea here.

Next year will be Catalyst’s fifth year. Please consider becoming a catalyst yourself by getting involved in the Catalyst Competition in some way. Serve as a judge, advise a team or speak to one of our classes about your experience. Learn more about the program here.

Dogs have long been man’s best friend. But research by Clemson assistant professor Kelsey Witt Dillon showed that bond has existed longer than originally thought.

It’s March, a month that honors women’s history. Here are the stories of five women with Clemson ties and their contributions to science, like an alumna studying the safety of genetically modified crops, a professor who didn’t start college until age 27 and a student athlete trying to help treat African Sleeping Sickness.

A study by Casey Youngflesh reveals how a bird’s pace of life — the rate at which it grows, develops, reproduces and how long it lives — is related to environmental conditions and what that reveals about how they might respond to a changing climate.

Fiercely Forward is Clemson’s most ambitious capital campaign to date. With a goal of $1.889 billion, it positions the University to launch lives of significance, unlock human potential and ignite change through ingenuity. Discover how Trudy Mackay, along with the team at the Clemson University Center for Human Genetics,  is advancing our understanding of the fundamental principles by which genetic and environmental factors determine and predict susceptibility to disease in humans.

The Clemson Alumni Association will celebrate the Class of 1975 on June 5-6 at the Clemson University Clyde V. Madren Center. The Golden Tiger Reunion features the induction of the 50th reunion class into the Golden Tiger Society and reunites Golden Tigers with former classmates in a celebration weekend. The College of Science will host a breakfast on Friday, June 6. More information to come.

Adam Gatch, a biochemistry Honors student, was one of only 16 students nationwide to be named a Churchill Scholar, which covers one year of master’s study at the University of Cambridge. It’s the third year in a row that a Clemson student won the scholarship, widely seen as the most prestigious and competitive international science, mathematics and engineering award for post-graduate researchers.

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Scout Hamrick has spent time in two different scientific epicenters: the Clemson University College of Science and the “Hawkins National Laboratory.” Hamrick not only works in the lab of Julia Brumaghim, a chemistry professor, but also as an actress who appeared in the Netflix series “Stranger Things.”

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