Fall 2015

SCHOLAR

National Scholars Program Transitions

stories

The summer and fall of 2015 brought several changes to the National
Scholars Program. After 13 years of tremendous service to the NSP,
Jamie Williams left to become Director of the Undergraduate Scholars
Program at the Coca-Cola Scholars Foundation. Jamie arrived at Clemson
in 2002 as the Assistant Director of NSP, became Associate Director of
the Calhoun Honors College in 2009, and was promoted to Director of the
National Scholars Program in 2010. Jamies numerous contributions
to NSP include overseeing the NSP Excellence Foundation, which has
raised over $300,000 since its inception in 2009; coordinating study
abroad and Maymester trips to over 20 countries; and mentoring and
supporting over 150 National Scholars toward their academic, personal,
and professional goals. Current and alumni
National Scholars, faculty, and friends of
NSP celebrated Jamies contributions at a
farewell reception in August. We will miss
him tremendously at Clemson and wish
him the best of luck in his new position.
Dr. Sarah Winslow, previously NSP
Faculty Fellow, assumed the position of
Interim Director of NSP in August. An
Associate Professor in the Department of
Sociology and Anthropology, Dr. Winslow
came to Clemson in 2006 after earning her Ph.D. at the University
of Pennsylvania. Dr. Winslow also serves as Faculty-in-Residence in
the Honors Living-Learning Community and brings over a decade of
experience in teaching, advising, and undergraduate program oversight
to her new role with the National Scholars Program.
Katie Maxwell, who joined us as Assistant Director of NSP and the
Calhoun Honors College in 2013, has been promoted within the Honors
College to the new position of Director of Advising and Recruitment.
Katie will remain with the National Scholars Program through the 2015
2016 academic year before transitioning to her new role, in which
she will grow and develop the Honors Colleges advising programs and
capacity to better serve all students. Although NSP will be sad to see
Katie go, we congratulate her on this promotion and look forward to her
sharing her many talents with all Honors students.

Clemson University National Scholars Program

(864) 656-6160
www.clemson.edu/national_scholars
232 Brackett Hall Clemson, SC 29634-5108

2015 Parent Winners

Natty Cup Competition

NSP Excellence Fund

Keeps Growing!
The Natty Cup Giving Competition
has inspired Scholars, alumni,
parents, and supporters to donate
$316,626.60 since its 2009
launch. Donations to the NSP
Excellence Fund ensure that
current and future Scholars will
continue to enjoy the unique, lifechanging learning opportunities
that are hallmarks of the National
Scholars Program. Over 100 NSP
family and friends gathered on
September 12 for the seventh
annual NSP Reunion tailgate to
celebrate the program and our
winning Natty Cup cohorts.

Interim Director
Sarah Winslow
Assistant Director
Katie Maxwell
Graduate Assistant
Megan Morgan

Faculty Fellow
Michael LeMahieu
Director
Calhoun Honors College
Bill Lasser

SUMMER STORIES
Seventeen Scholars visited Ireland in May, following a spring course with history professor Dr. Michael
Silvestri, to explore the history, society and culture of Ireland with a particular focus on how Irish
people, both in the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland, have attempted to come to terms with
complex and often divisive legacies of Irelands history. Another thirteen Scholars studied abroad
in South Africa in June and July after a spring course on African history and culture with history
professor Dr. James Burns.
IRELAND I Hiking and touring castle ruins,
Northern Ireland

IRELAND I Touring site of 1972 Bloody

Sunday, Derry, North Ireland

SOUTH AFRICA I Touring the Voortrekker

Monument in Pretoria

IRELAND I Meeting with Mayor Elisha

McCallion of Derry, North Ireland

SOUTH AFRICA I Visiting Kruger National Park,

one of Africas largest game reserves

2015 GRADS
Kerry Smith
Genetics & Biochemistry
Vladimir Matic
Political Science
Tamara McNealy
Biological Sciences

The graduating Scholars presented

the 2015 Awards of Distinction to the
advisors and professors, pictured
below and listed at left, who made a
significant impact on their intellectual,
personal, and professional development.

Petrea Warneck
Performing Arts
Windsor Sherrill
Public Health Sciences
Cheryl Ingram-Smith
Genetics & Biochemistry
David Freeman
Environmental Engineering
& Earth Sciences
Michael LeMahieu
English

The 2015 graduates pursuing graduate and medical schools will

be attending top programs next year, including Cornell University,
Johns Hopkins University, Medical University of South Carolina,
University of North Carolina School of Medicine, University of
South Carolina-Greenville, and Yale University.

THE VALUE OF NSP

National Scholar and Undergraduate

Student Body President, Shannon Kay.
When I first considered running for
Student Body President, I knew that
I needed to devote significant time
to ascertaining why I wanted to run
and to ensure I wanted to run for the
right reasons. My most notable
motivating factor existed in the
legitimate albeit somewhat clich idea
of wanting to give back to something
that has given me so much. My experiences at
Clemson stand unparalleled, and the majority of
those incredible experiences relate either directly
or indirectly to the National Scholars Program.
Without bonding with my cohort at the Freshmen
Retreat, traveling to South Africa, Bhutan, and
Ireland with other cohorts, taking classes with
well-regarded professors, and hanging out in the
NSP office between class, my Clemson experience
would have been significantly different, and I would
not have had the widespread foundation of support
which helped make assuming the role of Student
Body President possible. Many fellow scholars,
Jamie, Katie, and others affiliated with NSP helped
make the capstone to my Clemson experience
possible, and they still support and advise me to
this day.

2015 AWARDS
Brittany Avin Outstanding Senior in Genetics, Phi Kappa Phi Merit Award, Norris

Medal, 3rd Place in Undergraduate Poster Competition at national meeting of

AACR. Kristin Buhrow Clemsons College of Business and Behavioral Science
Outstanding Senior in the Social Sciences Award, Clemson Language Departments
Chinese Laoshi Award for Best Achievement. Andrew Carlin J. Wesley Davis
Leadership Award from Clemson. Kaitlin Carter 1st place in Tiger SpeakOut
Persuasive Speech Competition. Carter Ellis Alpha Delta Pi Honor Society, Order
of Omega. Amanda Farthing Spring 2015 Tau Beta Pi South Carolina Alpha
Scholarship. Grace Glenn Presidents List (4.0 Fall semester). Austin Herbst
Goldwater Scholarship. Shannon Kay Robert W. Moorman Outstanding Junior
in Engineering, Industrial Engineering Outstanding Junior, Order of Omega Greek
Woman of the Year. Neha Kumar Dixon Fellow and Global Policy Scholar Scholar.
Matt Miller Eastman Chemical Outstanding Senior in Mechanical Engineering
(department award). Kelly Moran CES Outstanding Senior in Sciences Award
from the College of Engineering and Science. Katelyn Ragland Accepted into
Omicron Delta Kappa. Michaela Reinhart Outstanding Senior in Biochemistry.
Tyler Rodgers Participant in the Clemson Night of the Arts as the representative
for the School of Architecture. Jessica Schnorr Residence Hall Association
Secretary of the Year. Sarah Waldvogel Presidents List, Apha Lamda Delta
Honors Society (Treasurer). Lisa Watkins Thomas M. Keinath Environmental
Engineering Award. Zachary Whiteman Clemson School of Architecture Rudolph
E. Lee Award. Jenny Wilson Goldwater Scholarship.

Welcome to NSP
The NSP welcomed 11 new Scholars at an August retreat planned by Sarah
Waldvogel, Zach Hawks, Casey Young, and Caroline Hensley. The team leader was
Katelyn Ragland.

The 2015 Scholars

Aditya Aswani, Clemson, SC

M.J. Carpenter, Charlotte, NC
Jason Erno, Columbia, SC
Mansi Joglekar, Anderson, SC
Rami Major, Orchard Park, NY
Haley Meier, The Woodlands, TX
Sam Michelich, Frisco, TX
Kevin Rabinovich, Columbia, SC
Lindsey Richardson, Little Mountain, SC
Michael Summers, Greer, SC
Jonathan Vogel, Tucson, AZ

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Box 345108
Clemson, SC 29634-5108

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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 building update

Construction on the Core Campus
project, a collaboration between the
Calhoun Honors College, National
Scholars Program, and University
Housing and Dining, is well underway!
The Honors College and NSP Offices
will move to Core Campus along with
the Honors College Living Learning
Community. For NSP, we will have

more than twice the space that we long

ago outgrew in Brackett Hall. For Honors
students, the new facility will have 60
percent more beds than are currently
available in the Holmes Hall LivingLearning Communityincluding single
room options for upper class students
and triple the meeting and study space in
the current Honors Center.

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