Clemson News

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Clemson ranked South Carolina’s top university by Forbes and US News, earns green light for free speech

These latest recognitions build on Clemson’s strong showing in rankings published in August.

byKatie Smithson

Livestock has been shown at the South Carolina State Fair for more than 150 years.

State Fair livestock shows teach lessons for life

November 2, 2026

A man stands behind a podium reading a speech off of his phone

Clemson faculty to use research award to study rural student success in science

November 2, 2026

Chickens scratching around on a chicken coop

Clemson animal health officials: keep domestic birds away from wild waterfowl and their waters

October 30, 2026

Rahul Kumar, a scientist at the Clemson Coastal Research and Education Center, extracts DNA from watermelon samples for analysis.

Clemson, USDA develop tools to breed disease-resistant watermelons

October 29, 2026

State Fair livestock shows teach lessons for life

November 2, 2026

Students walk on Clemson's campus on a fall day

Tigers Together Suicide Prevention Advocacy Training open session on Nov. 9

October 30, 2026

Cooper Library and the reflection pond on Clemson's campus

Clemson earns highly established action plan seal from ALL IN Campus Democracy Challenge

October 30, 2026

The hidden cost of a separate flu shot appointment

October 28, 2026

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Midterm elections are coming up on Tuesday, Nov. 3

October 23, 2026

Tigers Together Suicide Prevention Advocacy Training open session on Nov. 9

October 30, 2026

Clemson earns highly established action plan seal from ALL IN Campus Democracy Challenge

October 30, 2026

Midterm elections are coming up on Tuesday, Nov. 3

October 23, 2026

Three female students in black suits and one male student hold orange felt pennants in front of pop-up banner

Clemson students take consulting into the real world with new Signature Program

October 19, 2026

Former Miss Homecoming pageant winner crowns the 2025 recipient

Homecoming Week 2026 celebrates Clemson traditions through “Flight 1889” theme

October 15, 2026

Get to know Clemson University’s incoming students

byEmily Pietras Baker

Clemson University receives top marks in latest Princeton Review rankings

byClemson News

From the Colleges

Teaching Innovators: Emily Howell

byMichael Staton

October 13, 2026

Cross-disciplinary Clemson research team earns NSF award to develop science teachers

byMichael Staton

October 12, 2026

New safeguards could help protect young people from unsafe content generated by artificial intelligence

byPaul Alongi

October 1, 2026

Industry leader makes endowment gift for the Center for Roofing Innovation and Leadership, powered by the Roofing Alliance

byBailey Troutman

September 30, 2026

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An Asian woman wearing a white lab coat holds a test tube in a lab.

Hit TV show, lab work shows Clemson student radiation’s drastic implications

How chicken embryos are helping us fight pediatric brain tumors

byClemson News

Some black holes at the centers of galaxies have a buddy − but detecting these binary pairs isn’t easy

byClemson News

Clemson doctoral student brings education outside for science classes

byMichael Staton

Clemson rocket team goes ‘all in’ with Pocket Tens

byPaul Alongi

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Clemson Trustees hold Fall Quarterly Meetings

October 16, 2026

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Clemson posts strong FY26 financial results; continues investment in its mission

October 15, 2026

Clemson ranked South Carolina’s top university by Forbes and US News, earns green light for free speech

September 22, 2026

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Clemson Army ROTC earns top national honors at Cadet Summer Training

August 28, 2026

An exterior shot of the Brooks Center for the Performing Arts in the summer.

South Carolina Supreme Court to hold public session at Clemson University

August 28, 2026

MSSBA students stand in a group in front of a green wall. They are holding a tiger rag in the middle of the photo.

From the NCAA to the World Cup, Clemson’s inaugural Sports Business and Analytics cohort turns data into impact

September 17, 2026

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Clemson mechanical engineering grad steps off the graduation stage into U.S. Marine Corps

August 10, 2026

Researcher’s passion for predators helps bobcats rebound on Kiawah Island

August 10, 2026

Clemson alum Sophie Ayers crouched down on a concert stage, taking a photo of the band Winyah while they perform.

The road less traveled: classroom to tour bus

August 6, 2026

Experiences Simardeep Singh learned while earning his degrees motivated him to pursue advanced research to develop practical solutions that improve farming systems.

Family farm inspires sustainable agriculture research

August 5, 2026

A large group of penguins is walking on ice.

Satellite images show how penguins’ diets are changing in response to Antarctic climate change

September 3, 2026

A female hand is removing a bunch of lettuce-like greens from a grocery store produce shelf.

How does Salmonella contaminate everything under the sun? A food safety specialist explains how you can stop its spread

August 31, 2026

The milky way galaxy shows a strip of clustered stars against the night sky.

Upcoming telescopes could shed light on dark matter – astronomers are looking for these ‘fingerprints’ of the elusive substance

June 8, 2026

Kapil Chalil Madathil (left) and John Ballato talk about a lathe used to make optical fiber.

60 years of fiber optics: How a carrier of light you can’t see underlies much of the modern world

March 24, 2026

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J.E. Sirrine Endowed Chair in Optical Fiber, Department of Materials Science and Engineering – College of Engineering, Computing and Applied Sciences; Founding member of the Center for Optical Materials Science and Engineering Technologies (COMSET)