SCHOLAR

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Celebrating 15 years... 15 YEARS
Fall 2014

To be a national university, we must have a

national-caliber scholarship program, and this
is it.
President Emeritus
James F. Barker said
these words soon after
his 2000 inauguration.
This was the
National Scholars Program, and though he
said this before the first
National Scholar set
foot on campus, he had
a clear vision of what
the NSP could mean to
the Clemson community.
That vision, it is safe
to say, has been exceeded
with the investment in 161
top high school students

from throughout the

United States paying off
with leaders in every area
of campus. National Scholars have excelled in the

classroom and in research

labs, in the Calhoun Honors College, and in student
government, student media, service organizations,
fraternities and sororities,
intramurals, and more.

NSP alumni have accepted positions at Fortune

500 companies and enrolled at top medical, law,
professional, and graduate
schools around the
world.

As Clemson
celebrates being
named a top 20 public
university, the NSP
likewise celebrates 15
years of being a driver
of achieving that goal,
shaping the Clemson
academic experience into
one that attracts remarkable students to enroll and
engages them with top
professors and community
leaders.

...and $260,624.21
The Natty Cup Giving
Competition has
inspired Scholars,
alumni, and NSP
parents to donate more
than a quarter million
dollars to the NSP
Excellence Foundation
since its 2009 launch.
More than 130 friends
of NSP gathered on
Oct. 11 for the sixth
annual NSP Reunion
Tailgate to celebrate this
milestone.

by the
numbers

588NSP finalists
161National Scholars
1507average SAT of

5Norris Medalists, CUs

31retreat team members

22countries visited on

2Fulbright Scholars

National Scholars

NSP study trips

Belgium, Belize, Bhutan,

Bosnia and Herzegovina,
Canada, England, France,
the Galapagos Islands,
Germany, Iceland, Ireland,
Italy, Montenegro, the
Netherlands, Russia,
Scotland, Serbia, South
Africa, Wales, Sweden,
Turkey, plus U.S. locations
including Denali, Grand
Canyon, Yellowstone, and
Zion National Parks.

74Awards of Distinction
presented to mentors

15National Scholars

inducted into Phi Beta Kappa

annual award for top

graduating senior

6National Science Foun-

dation Graduate Research

Fellows

NSP Alumni

34engineers and science

researchers
26economists, business
leaders, and entrepreneurs
22doctors
16professors, advisors,
educators, and teachers
6lawyers
5public policy, health, and
environmental leaders
3architects and urban
planners
2ministers
1actor
1veterinarian

National Scholars and NSP Finalists have come from

throughout the U.S., as well as Indonesia, Spain, and Germany.

Pres. Jim and

Mrs. Beth
Clements joined
the NSP Reunion
on October 11.
Scholar Winners,
2012 Scholars

Parent Winners,
2014 Parents

Congratulations also to
the Alumni winners of
the 2014 Natty Cup, the
2002 Scholars.

Clemson University National Scholars Program

(864) 656-6160
www.clemson.edu/national_scholars
232 Brackett Hall Clemson, SC 29634-5108
Director
Jamie Williams
Assistant Director
Katie Maxwell
Graduate Assistant
Megan Morgan

Faculty Fellows
Michael LeMahieu
Sarah Winslow
Director
Calhoun Honors College
Bill Lasser

SUMMERSTORIES

Fifteen Scholars visited Bhutan in May to meet

with government and environmental leaders, following a spring course on wildlife preservation and
natural resource management with Clemson Director for Parks Dr. Bob Powell. Another nine studied abroad in South Africa
in June and July after a spring course on African history and culture with history professor Dr. James Burns. Later in the
summer, Scholars pursued service, research, and internships around the world.
BHUTAN | En route to visit Taktsang
Palphug Monastery at Tigers Nest, a
Bhuddist shrine and temple

SOUTH AFRICA | Entering the Southwestern Township to visit the Nelson

Mandela Home and Hector Pieterson
Memorial and Museum

BHUTAN | Meeting with

government officials in
Thimphu
SOUTH AFRICA | Visiting the Constitutional
Court in Johannesburg

SOUTH AFRICA | Hiking the

Drakensberg Mountains

FALL NSP

Pres. Jim and

Mrs. Beth
Clements
hosted an
Oct. 28 lunch
for first-year
Scholars.

Author of
Privilege: The
Making of an
Adolescene
Elite and
Columbia
University
sociologist
Dr. Shamus
Khan led the
freshman
seminar on
Nov. 18 prior
to a campuswide lecture.

AUSTIN HERBST | Volunteered in the Dominican

Republic with the Foundation for International
Medical Relief of Children (FIMRC)

More than 20 Scholars and NSP staff

volunteered Sept. 13 for a morning
of service at a local Habitat for
Humanity build.

OLIVIA KEANE |
Received an Honors
College grant to
intern with FIMRC
in Costa Rica

JENNY WILSON | Received a National

Science Foundation REU to conduct
research in St. Louis

KATIE STAHEL | Taught

computer skills in
Namibia

2014GRADS
Jeffrey Fine
Political Science
Rusty Guill
Blue Key Honor Society
Leidy Klotz
Civil Engineering

The graduating Scholars presented the

2014 Awards of Distinction to the advisors and professors pictured below and
listed at right who made a significant
impact on their intellectual, personal, and
professional development.

Meredith McCarroll
English
Elizabeth Stephan
General Engineering

2014AWARDS

Julie Wilkerson
Architecture
David Zumbrunnen
Mechanical Engineering

2014 graduates
and honorees

The 2014 graduates pursuing graduate school were accepted to top programs, including Carnegie Mellon University, the Georgia Institute of
Technology, Harvard University, Johns Hopkins University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Northwestern University, the Scripps
Research Institute, and the University of Slovenia.

WELCOMETONSP
Winslow (with hammer) at
the September NSP Habitat
for Humanity build day.

Megan Morgan joined

the NSP in August as
our newest graduate
assistant. Megan
graduated from
Clemson in 2014 with
degrees in psychology
and sociology, and is
pursuing a masters
degree in IndustrialOrganizational
Psychology.

LeMahieu hosted a
series of lunches
with Scholars
before departing
for his fellowship
at Yale in spring
2015.

Congratulations to
NSP Faculty Fellow
Dr. Michael LeMahieu on being named
a Faculty Fellow at
Yale University in the
Gilder Lehrman Center
for the Study of Slavery,
Resistance, and Abolition. LeMahieu will spend spring 2015 conducting research for his next book project on
Civil War memory in contemporary literature.
This project emerged from LeMahieus 2011
to 2013 NSP freshman seminars on the Civil
War and the Civil Rights Movement.

Sociology professor Dr.

Sarah Winslow joined
the NSP this fall as Faculty Fellow. She teaches
the freshman seminar,
focusing on class and
privilege, and mentors
new Scholars. Winslow
researches gender,
class, work, and family.
Winslow also serves as
Faculty in Residence
in the Honors LivingLearning Community in
Holmes Hall.

Brittany Avin Barry M. Goldwater Scholar Ross Beppler

Samuel B. Earle Award for Outstanding Senior in Engineering from the College of Engineering and Science National
Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship, honorable mention Kristin Buhrow Department of Sociology and
Anthropology Travel Grant Award Aaron Gordon Alpha Phi
Omega J. Lawrence and Renee P. Keese Award from Alpha
Phi Omega service fraternity Named a CEDC
Scholar Lauren Harroff
(12) National Science
Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Shannon Kay Janine Anthony
Bowen Undergraduate
Scholar Award from the
Department of Industrial
Engineering Jessica Lau
National Institutes of
Health Oxford-Cambridge Scholars Program, national finalist National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship, honorable mention Kelly Moran Outstanding Junior
in the Sciences Award from the College of Engineering and
Science Jenny Tumas James F. Byrnes Award in American
Government from the Department of Political Science Most
Meritorious Research Award from the College of Business
and Behavioral Science Outstanding Debater Award from
the Department of Communication Studies

The NSP welcomed the 14 new

Scholars at an August retreat planned
by Andrew Carlin, Caroline Hensley, Paige
Pribonic, Katelyn Ragland, and Zachary
Whiteman and team leader Katie Stahel.
Perennial retreat favorite
hula hoop challenge

The Retreat incorporated a

half-day of service at a local
Habitat for Humanity site.

At May commencement,
Provost Nadim
Aziz presented
Jenny Tumas
with the Algernon Sydney
Sullivan Award,
one of the top
senior awards.

The 2014 Scholars

Kristin Fuller, Daphne, Ala.
Zachary Girvin, Simpsonville
Grace Glenn, Mt. Pleasant
Patrick Gorospe, Rock Hill
Neha Kumar, Simpsonville
Joseph Litts, Florence
Killian McDonald, Columbia
Tyler Rodgers, Charleston
Ansley Sackett, Greensboro, N.C.
Jessica Schnorr, Mt. Pleasant
Sarah Timmins, Memphis, Tenn.
Sarah Waldvogel, Central
Casey Young, St. Leonard, Md.
Eric Zuberi, Lincoln, R.I.

232 Brackett Hall

Box 345108
Clemson, SC 29634-5108

Support
the

NSP

Gifts to the NSP Excellence

Foundation support the lifechanging educational enrichment
and professional development
experiences that are the hallmark of
the National Scholars experience.
In recent years, donations have helped
bring to Clemson speakers like The Laramie
Project playwright Moises Kaufman, author
and senior editor of The Atlantic magazine
Ta-Nehisi Coates, authors Tayari Jones
and Shamus Khan, and German Minister
of Parliament Harald Leibrecht who have
shared their visions and expertise with
Clemson students.

Honors, NSP build towards 2016

In collaboration with University
Housing, the Calhoun Honors College
and the NSP are helping build the new
Core Campus project.
For Honors students, this means
double the number of beds currently
available in the Holmes Hall LivingLearning Community (including singleroom options for upperclassmen) and

triple the meeting and study space in

the current Honors Center.
For the NSP, we will have more than
twice the space that we long ago outgrew in Brackett Hall.
Below are renderings of the overall Core
Campus project and a peek inside. Final
design is subject to change before Core
Campus opens in fall 2016.
Honors Housing will be located in the
middle and north towers. Honors and NSP
suites will be located in the north tower.

Donate to the NSP Excellence

Foundation account at
http://tiny.cc/SupportNSP
Donations to the NSP are tax deductible.

Follow the progress of the Core Campus project at

http://housing.clemson.edu/initiatives/core