Clemson welcomes new faculty members; Open forums for Executive Vice President and Provost begin today

DAILY NEWSLETTER
SEPTEMBER 8, 2025

ABOVE THE FOLD

Good morning! Clemson welcomes new faculty members who have recently joined the University. Open forums for Executive Vice President and Provost candidates begin today; CCIT announces a High Performance Computing Day to showcase research and education.

New faculty and leadership gather outside of Sikes Hall.

What to know today:

Clemson welcomes faculty members who have recently joined the University. The new faculty join a robust team of educators to help Clemson achieve its mission of supporting Clemson Elevate‘s goals of delivering the No. 1 student experience, research ascension and transforming lives within the state of South Carolina and beyond.

Open forums for the Executive Vice President and Provost candidates start today. Candidate names and information, including forum schedules and Zoom links, are available on the University’s Provost Search webpage.

Kronos is back up and running at a new URL: kronos.app.clemson.edu. All employees should update their bookmarks to reflect the new webpage. Hourly employees should follow the time tracking instructions for guidance on how to turn in timesheets for time worked during the outage.

NEWS AND UPDATES

David Allison presents in front of a large audience in the Madren Center auditorium.

David Allison, Alumni Distinguished Professor and director of graduate studies in Architecture + Health, and Anjali Joseph, endowed chair of Clemson’s School of Architecture, recently hosted a summit at the Madren Conference Center that brought together some of the country’s top thinkers in health care architecture.

Sachin Rustgi, a molecular plant breeder at the Pee Dee Research and Education Center, has received a grant from the Clemson University Research Foundation to develop a more reliable, sustainable way to fight aflatoxin contamination, which jeopardizes food safety and costs farmers millions of dollars each year.

WELLNESS IN DESIGN

Stephen Parker sits on a bench in front of a brick wall.

Stephen Parker ’11 is an architect, but a particular kind of architect known as a Behavioral Health Planner. He focuses on designing health care facilities that see people at their most vulnerable. His attention to detail reflects his education at Clemson and experience as a design professional. But most of all, it’s personal.

MORE FROM TIGERTOWN

Clemson’s Research Computing and Data (RCD) group is hosting its inaugural High Performance Computing (HPC) Day event to showcase HPC research and education on Friday, September 26, from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. in the Watt Family Innovation Center. Registration is free and open for faculty, staff and students.

Today's shout-outs feature the CBSHS Grant Administrators Team, Joy Patton, Beth Schneider, Susan Keck, Katherine Mulholland and Anthony Harvey! Fill out our short nomination form to include your colleagues in future editions and check out previous shout-outs!