Category: Research

The Division of Research strives to support faculty and students who continue to push the boundaries of scholarship and discovery at Clemson, a Carnegie R1 research institution. Its mission is to enhance Clemson’s reputation as a world-class research institution while promoting a culture of discovery and excellence in a collaborative, diverse, safe and inclusive environment.

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Food is a science, and so is how it’s grown

Food is a science, and so is how it’s grown

Finding a solution for hidden hunger

Finding a solution for hidden hunger

Aleda Roth stands in a P.O.D. store in Sirrine Hall with shelves of food on either side of her.

Deconstructing the food chain

Joe Mari Maja, a researcher at Clemson's Edisto Research and Education Center, believes Unmanned Ground Vehicles (UGVs) can be used to make cotton harvest more efficient.

Clemson researchers study using UGVs for cotton harvesting

Field peas

Clemson researchers optimizing pulse and cereal crops for organic production in S.C.

Clemson University breakthrough in self-healing materials detailed in journal Science

Psychology, chemistry professors appointed newest CUSHR faculty fellows

Psychology, chemistry professors appointed newest CUSHR faculty fellows

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Researchers using 3D facial scans to aid diagnosis of children with rare genetic syndrome

Predatory mite

Clemson researcher studying ways to pit good mites vs. bad to reduce crop damage

Erin Powell, research, management,

Clemson study finds all talk, no empathy thwarts partnership progress

Pic of JOhn DesJardins

Meet a Tiger: John DesJardins

Trudy Mackay and Robert Anholt work with tiny fruit flies to make big discoveries.

Center for Human Genetics receives $1.87M to study genetic underpinnings of complex traits

Clemson entomologist Al Wheeler discovered this bug, Tenthecoris tillandsiae, at the Clemson Coastal REC in Charleston. This is the first time this bug has been reported being seen in the United States.

New plant bug discovered in Charleston may have hitchhiked on Spanish moss

Why have food insecurity rates not fallen below pre-recession levels 10 years after the Great Recession?

Why have food insecurity rates not fallen below pre-recession levels 10 years after the Great Recession?

Harrison Fried and Sruthi Narayanan check soybeans in their research field.

Clemson researchers study ‘hidden half’ of soybean plants to improve drought tolerance

A recent meeting of researchers from across the United States who are looking in to ways to control Armillaria root rot included a visit to Titan Farms in Ridge Spring.

Armillaria root rot project image gallery

Garcia instructs former student Mauro Ferreira-Santos, who now works at JPL-NASA.

Chemistry professor Garcia elected Fellow to distinguished Royal Society of Chemistry

Armillaria root rot

Researchers meet to plan attack on Armillaria root rot

PhD student Kathryn Peruski works at the Electron Microscope Facility with Brian Powell, Fjeld professor in nuclear environmental engineering and science.

Nuclear researcher and doctoral candidate receives $20,000 Hitachi fellowship

Streptococcus mutans converts sugar into acid, causing enamel erosion.

$1.85M grant supports scientist’s study of tooth decay in young HIV patients

A cartoon representation unveiled by the study shows the closed-like state of the PDZ domains.

Molecule studies reveal potential treatment for stroke patients

Paing is a student of professor Ken Marcus in the department of chemistry.

College of Science graduate student wins nuclear technology award

Pic of Ronnie Chrestman

Meet a Tiger: Ronnie Chrestman

Nelwyn Landreth's hands are seen holding a photo of her father, Roy Thomas "Smiley" Pruitt. In the picture he's sitting on a motorcycle.

Witness to war

Brian Powell, right, works on a test bed that was developed for the team's research.

Renewed project could protect environment for millennia

Emily Scircle, a Clemson senior, inside Brackett Hall

Clemson senior named undergraduate student representative for The Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi

Clemson to begin series of professional development seminars for new teachers

Xian Lu

Three College of Science faculty honored with prestigious NSF CAREER awards

Clemson to host world energy conference in the U.S. for the first time

Clemson to host world energy conference in the U.S. for the first time

Aleda Roth, Zeki Simsek, Phil Roth, influential authors, management

Management professors rank among top influential authors

McLaren puts students in driver’s seat of Erwin Center project

Irrigation water

Clemson research dollars support breakthroughs in water conservation, crop production

Sorghum is one of the world's leading "green" crops.

Multidisciplinary team tackles agricultural threat to global food security

Art designed for the researchers' publication represents the twenty-seven institutions around the world who collaborated on this project.

Research devises protocol for measuring distances within biomolecules