Kim Dawson is the Associate Director of the Arthur M. Spiro Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership in the College of Business and Behavioral Science at Clemson University.

Dr. Dawson oversees the Spiro Center’s service learning activities and many of the outreach programs. She came to Clemson University in 1994 and served as a development officer in the advancement division for nine years, where she raised private funds from alumni, corporations and foundations to support the educational, research and outreach missions of the university. She received a B.S. in Nuclear Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) in 1984. Upon graduation, she worked as a design engineer for Westinghouse-Bettis Atomic Power Laboratory in Pittsburgh, PA for three years. She returned to graduate school at Georgia Tech in 1987 and earned a M.S. degree in Technology and Science Policy in 1990. From 1990-1994, she completed her Ph.D. in History at the University of Georgia, specializing in the history of science and technology and U.S. industrial history.