Alumni in the Spotlight

The Clemson University Alumni Association recognized Alan McCrary Johnstone, P.E., (B.S. Electrical Engineering ‘32) with its Distinguished Service Award, the university’s highest alumni honor. As a student, he was a member of Tiger Brotherhood, president of Tau Beta Pi honorary engineering society, served on the student government high court, and was a founding member of the Clemson golf team in 1931.

Johnstone served his country during World War II and was awarded the Bronze Star. He has distinguished himself as a licensed professional engineer in South Carolina and North Carolina.

Johnstone is the sole surviving charter member of IPTAY. A charter member of the President’s Club, he has been recognized as a Clemson Ambassador and Clemson Fellow through the Alan McCrary Johnstone Scholarship, established by his children to benefit electrical engineering students. Johnstone attended every Clemson home football game for 70 years, with only World War II interrupting his record.

Walter P. Moore, Inc. named Vicki Ford, P.E., (B.S. M.S. Civil Engineering ‘97) the 2005 recipient of the firm’s Javier F. Horvilleur Outstanding Young Engineer Award. This award recognizes design excellence, outstanding client service, and business acumen. Ford was selected from nominees from throughout the firm’s nine offices nationwide.

She is a senior associate and structural design engineer in Walter P. Moore’s Dallas office. A graduate of Clemson University, Ford joined the firm in 1998, and has been a key participant in many major projects. She is a licensed professional engineer in the states of Texas and Maryland.

A premier national firm celebrating its 75th anniversary in 2006, Walter P. Moore provides a broad range of engineering and consulting services to public and private sector clients.

Owen Long, (B.S. Physics ‘91) an assistant professor of physics at the University of California, Riverside, received a 2005 U.S. Department of Energy Outstanding Junior Investigator award. The award is one of only seven issued nationally this year.

Long, who joined the UCR faculty in 2004 from UC Santa Barbara, is an authority in the experimental study of particle-antiparticle symmetry, which is related to the dominance of matter over antimatter in our universe.

The Outstanding Junior Investigator program began in 1978 to identify exceptionally talented new high-energy physicists and to support the development of their research programs.

Perry J. Robertson, P.E., (M.S. Ph.D. Electrical Engineering ‘87) was recently recognized with an R&D100 Award for his work on “The Global Link,” a hardware innovation that allows highly interactive applications to be used effectively over long distances. Robertson is a principal member of the technical staff at Sandia National Laboratories, where the Global Link was invented. Commercial applications are being developed by Logical Solutions, Inc. of Milford, CT. The R&D100 Awards are selected each year by the editors of R&D Magazine.

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