Bragging Rights
A $2.5 million gift from Sonoco Products Company will create the new Sonoco Institute of Packaging Design and Graphics, a collaborative effort with packaging science and graphic communications.
The Spiro Institute for Entrepreneurial Leadership will celebrate its 10th anniversary in November 2006. Over the past 10 years, the Spiro Institute has developed education, research and service programs that touch students in all colleges, engage faculty from a variety of disciplines, extend the work of the university to the community through project-based activities with inventors, entrepreneurs, and established companies.
Aleda Roth, Burlington Industries Chair of Supply Chain Management, was named Operations Management Scholar of the Year by the Academy of Management.
In Fall 2006, CBBS welcomed Clemson University’s first anthropologist, Melissa Vogel, to the Department of Sociology. Vogel completed a successful second season at the site of El Purgatorio located on the north coast of Peru. The continued collaboration with Peruvian archeologist Percy Vilcherrez found a higher degree of preservation than expected, including such finds as embroidered cloth, fishing nets, woven mats, packets of human hair and an abundance of seeds and dried fruit.
The Student Professional Development Program Office was formed to provide a central location for upperclassmen to find and explore internship and career options and programs available through the College. The office houses the College’s internship program, ILEAD! Leadership program, Horizons Professional Development Workshops, Leaders in the Classroom, the Washington, DC Semester program, various study abroad programs and professional development and career advising.
The Spiro Institute for Entrepreneurial Leadership hosted the Fourth Annual Master Panel of Entrepreneurs in September. A panel featured seven successful entrepreneurs who were winners and finalists in the Ernst and Young 2006 Carolinas Region Entrepreneur of the Year® competition.
In Spring 2007, CBBS will offer 12 entrepreneur-related courses, a strong slate of classes that would rival any university of Clemson’s size.
The Department of Graphic Communications in an effort with local publishers chronicled the history of Clemson in a coffee table book entitled There’s Something In These Hills. Along with department chair Sam Ingram and associate professor Eric Weisenmiller, undergraduates Lucy Belcher, Caroline Brunson and Laura Ogard assisted with the layout and photographic editing of over 450 photographs included in the 192 page book.
Clemson University’s Order of Athena Chapter of Mortar Board, Inc., a national senior honor society and the nation’s oldest academic service honorary, received the Project Excellence Award for the 2005-2006 academic year.
Jim Witte of the sociology department had a survey on discerning human facial expression posted on the National Geographic website. To view the results of the survey, please visit http://magma.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/survey2005/.
Clemson University’s Air Force ROTC dedicated the newly renovated Gantt Circle in front of Tillman Hall on October 5.
Terry Leap, professor in the management department, views on white collar crime were headlined in The Greenville News. Leap’s upcoming book, Dishonest Dollars: The Dynamics of White-Collar Crime will be released in early 2007.
Xiaobo Hu, professor of political science, was a Visiting Senior Fellow at the University of Wollongong, one of the top Australian universities. Hu continues his research on privatization and the rising middle class in China.
The Clemson Business Experience (CBE), a living-learning community, welcomed 44 freshman business majors into the program this fall. The students live together in Benet Hall, take classes together, and attend professional development workshops.