Clemson’s Missy Ryan named Outstanding Fundraising Executive
November 2, 2010CLEMSON, SC – November 2, 2010 – Missy Ryan, senior director of development for the College of Business and Behavioral Science at Clemson University, has received the Outstanding Fundraising Executive…
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Furman University Welcomes Seven New Trustees At Fall Board Meeting
November 2, 2010GREENVILLE, SC – November 2, 2010 – The Furman University Board of Trustees welcomed seven new members at its fall meeting Saturday. The new trustees, who began their terms in…
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Rose Theatre’s Stephen Unwin To Visit USC Upstate
November 1, 2010SPARTANBURG, SC – The theatre department at the University of South Carolina Upstate is pleased to announce that Stephen Unwin, artistic director and chief executive of The Rose Theatre in…
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Greenville elementary school teacher stunned by national honor, $25,000 prize
November 1, 2010COLUMBIA – November 1, 2010 – A Greenville elementary school teacher got the surprise of his professional life today with the news that he had won the prestigious Milken Family…
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Stockwell Receives Prestigious Milliken Medal of Quality Award
November 1, 2010SPARTANBURG, SC – November 1, 2010 – Dr. John C. Stockwell, chancellor of the University of South Carolina Upstate, recently received the prestigious Milliken Medal of Quality Award that recognizes…
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Bioengineering Class Takes on Real-World Problems
October 27, 2010CLEMSON, SC – October 27, 2010 – Today’s headlines seem eerily familiar to John DesJardins’ bioengineering students. Cholera outbreaks were the subject of a class assignment in DesJardins’ bioengineering design…
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USC Upstate Announces Upstate Direct Connect Partnership With Three Local Two-Year Colleges
October 27, 2010Initiative Offers Students Deliberate Pathway To Baccalaureate Degree Attainment SPARTANBURG, SC – October 27, 2010 – With the demand for higher education in Upstate South Carolina on the rise and…
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Leadership seminar to feature Clemson alumnus Adam Witty
October 27, 2010CLEMSON,SC – October 26, 2010 – Clemson University’s Arthur M. Spiro Institutefor Entrepreneurial Leadership and the Clemson MBA program will presenta leadership seminar at 5 p.m. Friday, Nov. 5, at…
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Clemson to webcast wind-turbine facility groundbreaking ceremony
October 25, 2010NORTHCHARLESTON, SC – October 25, 2010 – Clemson University will stream liveon the Internet Thursday’s groundbreaking ceremony for the wind-turbinedrive-train testing facility at the Clemson University RestorationInstitute. The ceremony begins…
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Teachers in grades 3-8 may now apply for 2011 Science PLUS Institute in Greenville
October 25, 2010GREENVILLE, SC – October 25, 2010 – Roper Mountain Science Center is now accepting applications from public school teachers in grades 3-8 interested in attending the 2011 Science PLUS Institute…
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Spartanburg Community College’s Early Childhood Development Program Offers Students a Seamless Transfer to Clemson University
October 24, 2010SPARTANBURG, SC – October 24, 2010 – Spartanburg Community College (SCC) and Clemson University recently signed an articulation agreement that offers students in SCC’s Early Childhood Development (ECD) Program the…
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Erskine Board welcomes new president, honors Ruble
October 24, 2010DUE WEST, SC – October 24, 2010 – The Erskine College and Seminary Board of Trustees gathered on campus last week for its first official business since Dr. David A.…
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GSSM Now Accepting Applications for Class of 2013
October 24, 2010HARTSVILLE,SC – October 24, 2010 – The S.C. Governor’s School for Science andMathematics (GSSM) is accepting applications from rising high schooljuniors (current sophomores) now through March 1 for its two-year,residential…
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Hash family gift endows Clemson chair in sustainable development
October 22, 2010CLEMSON, SC – October 21, 2010 – More than a decade ago, as a senior executive with one of the world’s largest engineering and construction firms, Tom Hash first embraced…
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Clemson ends fiscal 2010 with highest research funding ever
October 20, 2010CLEMSON, SC – October 20, 2010 – Clemson University Vice President for Research Gerald Sonnenfeld gave the board of trustees’ Research and Economic Development Committee good news at last Thursday’s…
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Beck Named President Of South Carolina Association of Teachers and Educators
October 15, 2010SPARTANBURG, SC – October 15, 2010 – Dr. Judy Beck, director of the teacher education programs for the University of South Carolina Upstate Greenville Campus, was named president of the…
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Clemson information goes mobile with m.Clemson
October 13, 2010CLEMSON, SC – October 13, 2010 – Information about Clemson University now is available in the palm of your hand. The university’s new mobile application, m.Clemson, offers campus maps and…
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The Launch of BrailleSC.org Puts Braille Resources Online
October 13, 2010SPARTANBURG, SC – October 13, 2010 – With the launch of BrailleSC.org, a new scholarly resource in the field of braille literacy is now online. BrailleSC starts at the level…
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Furman Education Professor Authors Two New Books
October 13, 2010GREENVILLE, SC – October 13, 2010 – Furman University education professor Paul Thomas has published two new books—the first about parental choice in education, and the second about comics and…
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Clemson to host presentations on entrepreneurship
October 13, 2010CLEMSON,SC – October 15, 2010 – The future of entrepreneurship will bediscussed at 6 p.m. Friday, Oct. 15, at Clemson University’s BrooksCenter for the Performing Arts. Sponsored by the Arthur…
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New Workforce Initiative Designed to Engage People into High Skills Manufacturing Careers
October 13, 2010CLEMSON, SC – October 13, 2010 – Local business and education leaders will join Jennifer McNelly, senior vice president of The Manufacturing Institute/National Association of Manufacturers (NAM), at a meeting…
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Ten schools selected as literacy pilot sites to better identify, help struggling readers
October 12, 2010COLUMBIA,SC – October 12, 2010 – State Superintendent of Education Jim Rex todaynamed 10 elementary schools to a pilot project aimed at using studentperformance data more effectively in helping younger…
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ACT Reports That Significant Gaps Persist Between Career Interests of 2010 High School Graduates and Job Projections
October 12, 2010IowaCity, Iowa – October 11, 2010 – ACT has released national andstate-specific data for all 50 states that helps answer the question:Are students prepared for college and career? The analysis…
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History of Colonial Southeast Explored in USC Upstate Professor’s Book
October 8, 2010SPARTANBURG, SC – London-based publisher Pickering & Chatto has published University of South Carolina Upstate History Professor Timothy Paul Grady’s latest work, Anglo-Spanish Rivalry in Colonial South-East America, 1650-1725 as…
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SC Awarded Safe and Supportive Schools grant
October 8, 2010New state initiative awarded funding to measure school safety, improve learning environment WASHINGTON, DC – October 8, 2010 – The South Carolina School ClimateInitiative – a new plan to measure…
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Clemson’s Spiro Institute announces business competition
October 6, 2010CLEMSON, SC – October 6, 2010 – Students with an entrepreneurial flair are encouraged to submit their business concepts to the Launch Pad competition. Created by the Arthur M. Spiro…
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McGraw-Hill Senior Vice President Jeff Livingston Featured in 22nd Annual AT&T African-American History Calendar
October 6, 2010Headof McGraw-Hill Education’s College and Career Readiness CenterRecognized for Significant Contributions to the State of South Carolinaand the Field of Education NEW YORK, NY – October 5, 2010 –…
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Mayo Mac Boggs Exhibit Features Five Monumental Outdoor Sculptures Across Campus
October 3, 2010SPARTANBURG, SC – October 3, 2010 – In celebration of his 40-year teaching career and contributions to the visual arts community in Spartanburg, Converse College, University of South Carolina Upstate…
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USC Upstate School of Education to Host Open House for Graduate Level Programs
October 3, 2010SPARTANBURG, SC – October 20 & 26, 2010 – The University of SouthCarolina Upstate’s School of Education will host two open houses inOctober to share information about its graduate level…
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Spartanburg Community College’s Early Childhood Development Programs Earn NAEYC Accreditation
October 3, 2010SPARTANBURG, SC – October 2, 2010 – Spartanburg Community College’s (SCC) Early Childhood Development (ECD) Programs recently received continuing accreditation from the National Association for the Education of Young Children…
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Former Apollo astronaut to present scholarship to Clemson student
October 3, 2010CLEMSON, SC – October 1, 2010 – The first research paper Patrick Johnson wrote when he entered Clemson University as a 16-year-old freshman two years ago was a treatise on…
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Nine Foreign Languages Offered in Evening Classes
October 3, 2010SPARTANBURG, SC – October 3, 2010 – The University of South Carolina Upstate’s World Languages Institute will offer instruction in nine foreign languages this fall in non-credit, evening courses including…
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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