Today’s discoveries, tomorrow’s innovations

Dean Cynthia Y. Young discusses how discoveries being made today by College of Science faculty are driving innovations that will improve lives, including through biologically-informed AI, sequencing of the human Y chromosome and developing ways for soybeans to tolerate weather extremes.

Trudy Mackay, the director of the Clemson University Center for Human Genetics, has been named Clemson’s first-ever member of the National Academy of Medicine, one of the highest honors in the field of health and medicine. She is now a member of two of the three academies that make up the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine.

Professor Ken Marcus knows what makes a good researcher — he has advised nearly four dozen Ph.D.s during his career. He could tell Benjamin Manard had that talent. Now, both have received the same award for analytical atomic spectrochemistry.

An international team of researchers, including Clemson University’s Colin Gallagher, the Emily Peek Wallace ’72 Director of the School of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences, says our planet has gotten warmer over the last half century. But find out why the scientists say it’s not ‘surging.’

As an undergraduate student, Paris Hamilton found introductory biology courses too easy, so he decided to take chemistry. He struggled — and that’s the reason he selected it for his major. Now, Hamilton helps pharmaceutical companies navigate government regulations on drug development.

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Chris Chouinard, an assistant professor in the Department of Chemistry, was spotlighted by the Journal of the American Society of Mass Spectrometry as one of its 2024 Emerging Investigators. Chouinard’s research specializes in development of methods and technology to detect illicit compounds such as performance-enhancing drugs and psychoactive substances.

National STEM Day was earlier this month, and some College of Science faculty members told the stories of how they decided to pursue a career in science.

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