Smiths' $500,000 gift will support Clemson academic programs
October 1, 2010CLEMSON, SC – September 30, 2010 – Clemson University alumnus Doug Smith and his wife, Lynn Westmoreland Smith, have given the university $500,000 to endow a scholarship and to provide…
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Inaugural ‘Deep Orange’ car unveiled at motorsports event
September 30, 2010GREENVILLE, SC – September 23, 2010 – Amidst the din of roaring race car engines, one vehicle stood out for its sound of silence. With an electric motor, the inaugural…
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Call Me MISTER celebrates 10th anniversary at Clemson University
September 30, 2010CLEMSON, SC – September 23, 2010 – The Call Me MISTER program at Clemson University began in 2000 with the goal of placing more teachers from diverse cultures and backgrounds…
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Clemson University honors Duke Energy with innovation center naming
September 30, 2010CLEMSON, SC – September 24, 2010 – A new facility under construction at the Clemson University Advanced Materials Center in Anderson County will be named the Duke Energy Innovation Center,…
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Forty-eight seniors named semifinalists in 2011 National Achievement Scholarship competition
September 29, 2010EVANSTON, IL – September 29, 2010 -Forty-eight Black Americanseniors in 32 South Carolina public schools have been named 2011semifinalists in the 47th annual National Achievement Scholarshipcompetition. They are among more…
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31 Spartanburg County schools win federal awards for healthier meals
September 29, 2010SPARTANBURG, SC – September 29, 2010 – USDA Food and Nutrition Service Southeast Regional Administrator Don Arnette today recognized 31 Spartanburg County schools from five districts for meeting USDA’s HealthierUS…
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Caster Edits Video Shown On United Airlines
September 29, 2010SPARTANBURG, SC – September 29, 2010 – Peter Caster, associate professor of literature and film at the University of South Carolina Upstate, edited a video for the local nonprofit GlobalBike,…
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South Carolina getting $47 million in federal Teacher Incentive Fund grants program
September 26, 2010DORCHESTER, BAMBERG, BEAUFORT COUNTY, SC – September 23, 2010 – For the third time in four years, South Carolina’spublic schools are receiving millions of dollars in federal funds tohelp train,…
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Sudan minister to visit Erskine
September 26, 2010DUE WEST, SC – September 29, 2010 – The Rev. Orozu Lokine Daky, a minister in the Presbyterian Church of Sudan (PCOS), will speak at 11 a.m. on Wednesday, Sept.…
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The Washington Center Honors Furman as Private University of the Year
September 26, 2010GREENVILLE, SC.- September, 26, 2010- The Washington Center, an organization that provides college students with the opportunity to work and learn in the nation’s capital, has named Furman University as…
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Education, ministry meld at university’s Greenville location
September 22, 2010GREENVILLE, SC – September 22, 2010 – It’s part education, part ministry for Terry Blackwell, regional director of the Greenville, S.C., location of Southern Wesleyan University. “Our job is a…
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First car designed and built by students to be unveiled Thursday
September 22, 2010GREENVILLE, SC – September 21, 2010 – The veil will be lifted from Deep Orange, the first concept car created by graduate students at the Clemson University International Center for…
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Sewanee’s Mark Kelly Named VP for Marketing and Public Relations at Furman University
September 20, 2010GREENVILLE, SC – September 20, 2010 – Mark Kelly, executive director of Marketing and Communications at the University of the South in Sewanee, Tenn., has been named vice president for…
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Biochemist studies DNA repair with more than $780,000 in grants
September 20, 2010CLEMSON, SC – September 20, 2010 – A Clemson biochemist has received grants totaling more than $780,000 to study how cells repair damaged DNA, which can cause cancer and genetic…
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Innovate Anderson, Clemson University ready to grow advanced materials industry
September 19, 2010Clemson University Advanced Materials Center master plan completed ANDERSON, SC – September 16, 2010 – Anderson County today announced its strategy to aggressively pursue the advanced materials industry with the…
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Spartanburg Community College Offers Gateway to College Program For High School Dropouts
September 19, 2010SPARTANBURG, SC – September 19, 2010 – Spartanburg Community College continues to provide a second chance to high school dropouts and students at risk of dropping out through Gateway to…
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Bing Travel Lists Furman University Among Nation’s Most Beautiful Campuses
September 19, 2010GREENVILLE, SC – September 19, 2010 – Furman University is included among the nation’s 19 most beautiful college campuses in a special slide show on the Bing Travel website. Furman…
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Ghost Hunting 101 to be Held October 7 – 28
September 19, 2010PENDLETON, SC – October 7 – 28, 2010 – On a regular basis, the Ghost PRO team gets calls or e-mails from strangers, telling them about peculiar and out of…
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S.C. Governor's School for Science and Mathematics Leads State High Schools in ACT, SAT Scores
September 19, 2010HARTSVILLE, SC – September 16, 2010 – The S.C. Governor’s Schoolfor Science and Mathematics (GSSM) had the highest ACT and SAT scoreaverages among the Palmetto State’s 2010 graduates, according torecently…
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Erskine freshman woman follow tradition and 'Sign the Book'
September 15, 2010DUE WEST, SC – September 14, 2010 – The women of the Erskine College Class of 2014 participated in the annual Signing of the Book on Thursday, Sept. 2. Marking…
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172 high school seniors named semifinalists in 2011 National Merit Scholarship Program
September 15, 2010CHARLESTON, SC – September 15, 2010 – One hundred seventy-twostudents in 56 public high schools across South Carolina are among the16,000 semifinalists announced today in the 56th annual National MeritScholarship…
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Clemson engineering program ranked 17th by recruiters
September 15, 2010CLEMSON, SC – September 15, 2010 – Clemson University’s engineering program ranks 17th among those at the nation’s colleges in a new study by The Wall Street Journal. The ranking…
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K-12 public schools, technical colleges and state universities form crucial partnership
September 15, 2010K-12 public schools, technical colleges and state universities form crucial partnership CHARLESTON, SC – September 14, 2010 – K-12 public school officials, andpartnering technical college presidents and state university officialssign…
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Clemson professor elected director of Society of Manufacturing Engineers
September 15, 2010CLEMSON, SC – September 15, 2010 – Thomas R. Kurfess, BMW Chair of Manufacturing in the Clemson University automotive engineering department, has been elected a director of the Society of…
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Study reveals possible conflict of interest in industry-funded basic research
September 15, 2010CoEE Endowed Chair Bennett publishes major drug safetystudy revealing industry and academic researchers reached differentconclusions about ESAs and tumor growth; authors call for researchstandardization to protect patients. CHARLESTON, SC –…
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Five South Carolina schools named National Blue Ribbon Award winners
September 15, 2010CHARLESTON, SC – September 13, 2010 – Five South Carolina schoolsare winners of 2010 National Blue Ribbon Schools Awards, U.S. Secretaryof Education Arne Duncan announced. The Palmetto State’s public school…
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Kaplan/Newsweek recognize Clemson in new rankings
September 14, 2010CLEMSON, SC – September 14, 2010 – Clemson University’s academics, location and athletic spirit land it on several ranking lists in the just-released 2010-2011 Kaplan/Newsweek’s “Finding the Right College for…
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Greenwood Genetic Center’s Saul selected for Riley Institute Leadership Program
September 9, 2010COLUMBIA, SC – September 9, 2010 – Dr. Robert A. Saul, Senior Clinical Geneticist at the Greenwood Genetic Center (GGC), has been accepted to the Upstate Diversity Leaders Initiative through…
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New Equipment Can Help Researchers Brew Biofuel
September 9, 2010CLEMSON, SC – September 7, 2010 – A new piece of equipment for the Clemson University biosystems engineering program will help researchers conduct novel research on new biomass sources, such…
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Alexander Named Director of Corporate and Foundation Relations
September 9, 2010CLEMSON, SC – September 9, 2010 – Ann Marie Alexander, senior director of development for the College of Engineering and Science at Clemson University, has been promoted to senior director…
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Furman University Listed among Sierra Club’s “Cool Schools”
September 8, 2010GREENVILLE, SC – September 8, 2010 – The Sierra Club has ranked Furman University among the top 50 eco-friendly universities in the country for the second year running. Furman is…
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ACM Chemistries Inc. Makes $100,000 Gift to Clemson
September 8, 2010CLEMSON, SC – September 8, 2010 – Led by a pair of Clemson University civil engineering alumni, a Georgia company has pledged $100,000 to support the expansion and modernization of…
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New Erskine President, Volunteers Help Freshmen Move In
September 7, 2010DUE WEST, SC – September 7, 2010 – Erskine College and Seminary President Dr. David A. Norman joined an enthusiastic group of faculty, staff and upperclassman volunteers Friday to help…
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Tri-County’s Foundation Board Welcomes Five New Members
September 7, 2010PENDLETON, SC – September 7, 2010 – Five community leaders havebeen elected to serve on Tri-County Technical College’s Foundation Boardof Directors. Joining the Board’s current members are Jim Alexander and…
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South Carolina part of two state groups getting $330 million to overhaul testing
September 6, 2010WASHINGTON, DC – September 6, 2010 – SouthCarolina is part of two groups of states that are getting $330 millionin federal grants over the next four years to develop a…
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Tri-County RTV Student Interns at The Bold and the Beautiful
September 1, 2010PENDLETON, SC – September 1, 2010 – Austin Fagan just returned from Los Angeles, California, where she spent the summer as an intern learning the ropes on daytime television’s Emmy-winning…
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Riley Institute’s WhatWorksSC Adds Information on Dropout Prevention
September 1, 2010GREENVILLE, SC – September 1, 2010 – The website of “WhatWorksSC,” the second phase of the Riley Institute at Furman University’s statewide public education project, now features new educational materials…
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Facebook votes pushing S.C. school closer to $500,000 national prize
September 1, 2010SPARTANBURG, SC – September 1, 2010 – With only two days to go,the Spartanburg Charter School is one of only 20 public schools in thenation that stand to receive $500,000…
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Imtiaz Haque named founding chairman of new automotive engineering department at Clemson
August 31, 2010CLEMSON, SC – August 31, 2010 – Imtiaz Haque has been named founding chairman of Clemson University’s new automotive engineering department, located at the Clemson University International Center for Automotive…
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Spartanburg Community College Receives 2010 Landscape Beautification Award
August 31, 2010SPARTANBURG, SC – August 31, 2010 – The Spartanburg Area Chamber of Commerce (SACC) and Spartanburg Men’s Garden Club (SMGC) recently presented Spartanburg Community College (SCC) with an honorable mention…
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Clemson Receives Computer Graphics Research Center Designation
August 31, 2010CLEMSON, SC – August 31, 2010 – Clemson University has been designated a Compute Unified Device Architecture Research Center by NVIDIA Corp., an international developer and manufacturer of integrated circuits…
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Erskine graduate selected as top football umpire in South Carolina
August 30, 2010DUE WEST, SC – August 30, 2010 – Matthew “House” Wiggins ’96 is a football official in the South Carolina High School Officials Association. In fact, you could say that…
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Clemson’s Aleda Roth Named to Competitiveness Executive Advisory Board
August 30, 2010CLEMSON, SC – August 26, 2010 – Aleda Roth, the Burlington Industries Distinguished Professor in Supply Chain Management at Clemson University, has been named to the executive advisory committee for…
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Covey center's Will Marre to outline leadership tactics at Clemson leadership seminar in Greenville
August 27, 2010CLEMSON, SC – August 27, 2010 – Revolutionary practices that lead to billions of dollars in sales will be the topic when Will Marre, co-founder of the Covey Leadership Center,…
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Furman University Ranked Among Top Schools in Washington Monthly College Guide
August 27, 2010GREENVILLE, SC – August 27, 2010 – According to the 2010 edition of Washington Monthly’s College Guide, Furman University is among the nation’s top liberal arts colleges when it comes…
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WARP University Online, East Coast Hands-On Training Facility, Offers Medical Respiratory Technician Classes
August 27, 2010Medical Robotics Repair Class FORT MILL, SC & CHARLOTTE, NC – August 27, 2010 – Woman-owned WARP University, Founded by Lynn LaRive located in Fort Mill, S.C. introduced today additional…
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Clemson Announces $600 Million Capital Campaign
August 26, 2010CLEMSON, SC – August 26, 2010 – Clemson University has kicked off the public phase of a capital campaign to raise $600 million in private gifts by June 30, 2012.…
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TRIO Student Support Services program receives over $2 million in funding
August 25, 2010GREENVILLE, SC – August 25, 2010 – Greenville Technical College¹s TRIO Student Support Services program has received funding from the U.S. Department of Education, worth $403,671 annually for the next five…
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Spartanburg Community College’s FlexStart Classes Offer Full Credit in Fewer Weeks
August 25, 2010SPARTANBURG, SC – August 25, 2010 – It’s not too late to register for fall classes at Spartanburg Community College. With SCC’s FlexStart fall terms starting on September 20, 21…
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Greenville Tech awarded $50,000 gift from Wachovia, a Wells Fargo Company
August 25, 2010GREENVILLE, SC – August 25, 2010 – Greenville Technical College has received $50,000 from the Wachovia Wells Fargo Foundation to support Achieving the Dream, a nationwide initiative aimed at helping…
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