Celebrating G&B excellence in 2024-25! |
The 2024-25 academic year is winding down, with graduation this coming week. We finished the year on a high note with several notable milestones and achievements.
G&B faculty and staff walked away with several College of Science awards for teaching and service, including staff Rick Moseley, Kimi Brown, Alyssa Taylor and Britney Maston and faculty Alison Starr-Moss, Heidi Anderson and Jim Morris. At the University level, Associate Professor Michael Sehorn received the Ted G. Westmoreland Faculty Excellence Award for outstanding contributions to undergraduate student success. Speaking of undergraduate success, biochemistry student Elizabeth Caldwell received the Norris Medal and Adam Gatch was one of 16 students nationally to receive a Churchill Scholarship. And don’t miss the inspiring story about David Hess, who went from pitching in Major League Baseball to fighting a rare cancer before enrolling here as a biochemistry student.
Meanwhile, our faculty were busy making and reporting major discoveries about … our humanity! Check out “How Neandertal DNA May Affect the Way We Think” in Scientific American, coauthored by Professor Alex Feltus. In addition, Assistant Professor Miriam Konkel led part of a large international consortium reporting genetic connections with our contemporary cousins, the apes, as reported in Nature.
And I close by announcing yet more international recognition for our Professor Trudy Mackay, director of the Clemson University Center for Human Genetics, who received the Darwin-Wallace Medal, one of the top international prizes in evolutionary biology.
Go Tigers!
David
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Tara Doucet-O'Hare is an assistant professor housed at the Center for Human Genetics.
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Using chicken embryos for human DNA research |
Tara Doucet-O’Hare uses chicken embryos from the Clemson University poultry farm to study dysfunctional chromatin remodeling’s impact on endogenous retrovirus expression and neural development, learning how these developments can lead to cancer.
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David Hess played professional baseball for the Tampa Bay Rays, Miami Marlins and Baltimore Orioles.
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David Hess: student, athlete and survivor |
David Hess has been booed by 40,000 people at Fenway Park in Boston — he was pitching a bad game. This is nothing compared to the years of chemo and radiation therapy.
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David is now cancer-free and is currently enrolled in the biochemistry program at Clemson University, coaching a travel ball team, running a podcast with his wife and actively training to get back on the baseball field.
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Gatch’s achievement makes Clemson the only university whose students have been awarded a Churchill Scholarship in each of the last three years.
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Gatch ’25 named Churchill Scholar |
Adam Gatch, a biochemistry Honors student from Charleston, South Carolina, has been named a 2025 Churchill Scholar. He was one of 16 students nationwide to win the award, widely seen as the most prestigious and competitive international science, mathematics and engineering award for post-undergraduate researchers.
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Faculty, and students honored with awards |
Trudy Mackay has been honored by the Linnean Society of London with the Darwin-Wallace Medal, one of the top international prizes in evolutionary biology. Read more about this and other awards here and below.
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Biochemistry Honors student Elizabeth Caldwell received the Norris Medal, Clemson’s highest undergraduate student honor for best all-around graduating senior. Read more here.
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Associate professor Michael Sehorn was awarded the Ted G. Westmoreland Faculty Excellence Award, which honors a faculty member who has made outstanding contributions in the area of undergraduate student success. Read more here.
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College of Science faculty, staff and student awards |
The Clemson University College of Science recognized some of its most outstanding undergraduate and graduate students, faculty and staff of 2024-25. Read more here.
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Brooke Dillingham: Outstanding Junior in Science Award
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| Elizabeth Caldwell: Outstanding Senior in Science Award
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| Adam Gatch: Outstanding Undergraduate in Discovery Award
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Rick Moseley: Outstanding Staff Member Award
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| G&B Advising and Registration Team: Outstanding Team Award
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| Heidi Anderson: Excellence in Teaching Award
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Alison Starr-Moss: Dean’s Distinguished Lecturer Award
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| James Morris: Dean’s Distinguished Professor Award
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Faculty and students publish articles |
Ph.D. student Roger Zhang published his first paper as a co-first author in Plant Growth Regulation titled, “Paclobutrazol induces changes in transcriptomic and endogenous hormone profiles in yellow camellia for reproductive phase transition.” Read about this and other articles here.
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Faculty and students attend events |
Biochemistry student Mary Grace Flowers represented Clemson University and the Department at the 2025 ACC Meeting of the Minds conference, presenting her research “Examining the Role of Sex in Bone Remodeling Using Differential Feeding Stresses.” Read more about this and other events here.
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Assistant Professor Stephen Dolan has been awarded a Major Research Instrumentation grant to acquire the university’s first hyperspectral snapshot imaging system. The title of the grant is “CU-MRI: Next-Generation Hyperspectral Snapshot Imaging for Enhanced Phenotypic Profiling of Eukaryotic Pathogens Impacting Human Health.” Read more about this here.
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