Bragging Rights - Student Achievements
Clemson’s Unit C-4 of the Pershing Rifle Drill Team has won that organization’s coveted National Championship the last four years in a row. Comprised of Air Force ROTC cadets, as well as cadets from other service ROTC programs and civilian students alike, this team has become synonymous with excellence in drill, and they are a fixture as the color guard unit at Clemson University sporting events.
Air Force ROTC Detachment 770’s Rudolf Anderson Squadron of Arnold Air Society (AAS) has served for two years in a row as the National Headquarters of the organization. AAS is a professional, honorary service organization of Air Force ROTC cadets from 145 Detachments around the nation. Clemson’s Detachment 770 is the first detachment to ever be selected to serve as National Headquarters in back-to-back year.
Air Force ROTC Detachment 770 has been selected the last two years consecutively as the Air Force Association Outstanding ROTC Detachment in the state of South Carolina. The Air Force Association (AFA) is an independent, nonprofit, civilian education organization promoting public understanding of aerospace power and the pivotal role it plays in the security of the nation.
Three recent graduates from the department of graphic communications - Wade Beard, Zachary Nicholas, and Griffin Hockswender - took top honors and a clean sweep in the 2006 CORRPAK Student Design Competition of the Technical Association of the Pulp and Paper Industry (TAPPI).
Beard, who took first place, developed a challenging structural design in the form of a corrugated robot. The robot was part of a teaching tool for young children to become interested in printing and packaging.
Nicholas, who took second place, completed a challenging structural design in the form of a corrugated guitar. The guitar was designed to be a mailing piece that holds brochures and electronic media inside the guitar body. Once the informative material is delivered, the package is unique enough to keep on display.
Hockswender, who took third place, designed a corrugated boat to challenge her 3D design skills. Creating an arched curve in corrugated board is a challenge few take on. The graphics were another challenge because of the nature of the various printing variables on the press she chose which required special graphic attention. She ended up with a project that printed efficiently, and many kids will enjoy the results of her efforts.
Three Graphics Communications students – Scott Brannock, Meredith Grady and Jessica Klein – won awards at the annual Specialty Graphics Imaging Association Trade Show in Las Vegas in September.
Air Force ROTC Detachment 770 has been selected the 2006 Outstanding AFROTC Detachment in the entire Southeast Region by Air Force ROTC Headquarters. As a result of this achievement, they are now competing for recognition as the best Air Force ROTC Detachment in the Nation. Air Force ROTC is comprised of 145 Detachments at colleges and universities nationwide, and is the U.S. Air Force’s largest source of officer commissions.
Dr. Varun Grover and doctoral students Rama Ayyagari and Jaejoo Lim’s paper “The Dark Side of Information and Market Efficiency in e-Markets” was selected as one of five finalists for the Decision Sciences Best Article Award for 2006.
Ravi Narayanaswamy, an information systems doctoral student in management, was runner-up in the Business Technology Management Institute Dissertation Competition. The award comes with a $5,000 stipend to support his research, “Exploring the Dynamics between Information Technology and Business Managers: A Control Loss Perspective.”
Varun Grover and doctoral students Ramakrishna Ayyagari, Rahul Gokale, and Jaejoo Lim had their article “About Reference Disciplines and Reference Differences: A Critique of Wade, et al.” accepted for publication in the Journal of AIS, the flagship journal of the Association of Information Systems.
Varun Grover, along with doctoral students Ramakrishna Ayyagari, Rahul Gokale, Jaejoo Lim, and John Coffey has their paper “A Citation Analysis of the Evolution of State of Information Systems Within a Constellation of Reference Disciplines” accepted for publication in the Journal of the Association of Information Systems.
Jaejoo Lim, a doctoral student in management, along with professors Jason Thatcher and Misty Loughry and Harrison McKnight (Michigan State University) had a paper entitled “Internet Anxiety: An Empirical Study of the Effects of Personality, Beliefs and Social Support” accepted for publication at Information and Management.
Tiffany Greene-Shortridge and Laurie Wasko, doctoral students in the Industrial-Organizational program in the psychology department, were selected as Fellows for the 5th International Positive Psychology Summit. Greene-Shortridge presented “The Assessment of Psychological Stamina, which was co-authored by faculty member Tom Britt, graduate student Erik McKibbin and undergraduate Courtney Smith. Wasko presented “Predicting the Pleasant Life, the Engaged Life, and the Meaningful Life: An Empirical Integration of Affective Forecasting and the Good Life,” which was co-authored by faculty member Cindy Pury.
Catherine Gown, an honors student in psychology, and Dr. Tom Britt’s article “The Interactive Effects of Homosexual Speech and Sexual Orientation on the Stigmatization of Men: Evidence for Expectancy Violation Theory” was published in the Journal of Language and Social Psychology.
Undergraduate psychology majors Alex Walker and Matt Fiorello with Dr. Eric Muth published “Effects of Uncoupled Motion on Performance” in Human Factors, the top journal in human factors psychology.
Tobin Turner, a second-year PhD student in operations management, won first place in the APICS Region XI Graduate Student Division of the Donald W. Fogarty International Student Paper Competition for his paper entitled “The Key to Toyota’s Success: Effective Organizational Learning.” Turner also won first place at the national level, rising above submissions from fourteen other national and international regions.