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NSF Career Award Winners
Promising Young Researchers in Science and
Engineering
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Dev. P Arya
Assistant Professor of Chemistry
Developing More Potent Antibiotics
 Dr.
Dev P. Arya’s research could lead to the production of more
highly selective and potent antibiotics. Arya has found that
aminoglycosides, which have been at the forefront of antibacterial
therapy for 50 years, bind not only to ribosomal RNA but
to other types of RNA/DNA as well. This suggests that binding
of aminoglycosides is more complex and offers more potential
than previously realized. Arya received his Ph.D. in bioorganic
chemistry from Northeastern University in 1996. Following
postdoctoral work at the University of California-Santa Barbara
from 1996 to 1999, he joined Clemson’s chemistry department.
David A. Bruce
Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering
Reducing the Cost of Drugs and Agricultural
Products
Dr.
David A. Bruce has developed a research program to prepare
solid oxidation catalysts, which could lower the cost of
producing lifesaving pharmaceuticals, aroma chemicals, food
additives and insecticides. This new preparation method eliminates
the costly purification process used today. Bruce earned
his Ph.D. from the Georgia Institute of Technology in 1994
and completed one year of postdoctoral work before joining
Clemson’s chemical engineering department in 1995.
Karen Burg (PECASE Winner)
Assistant Professor of Bioengineering
Helping Breast Cancer Patients Recover
Dr.
Karen Burg has established a nationally recognized and innovative
research program in breast tissue engineering for cancer
patients. Burg’s work holds the promise of being able
to implant a cellular material - developed using the patient’s
own healthy cells, to replace tissue removed during breast
cancer surgery. Her research has the potential for widespread
medical uses in other areas such as liver repair and cartilage
replacement. Burg earned her M.S. and Ph.D. in bioengineering
at Clemson and completed a tissue engineering postdoctoral
fellowship at Carolinas Medical Center in Charlotte, N.C.
She returned to Clemson in 1999 to join the bioengineering
department.
Elizabeth R. Carraway
Assistant Professor of Environmental
Toxicology
Keeping Our Water Clean
Dr.
Elizabeth R. Carraway’s investigation of iron chemistry
is aimed toward developing better ways to clean contaminated
groundwater and surface water. The importance of iron in
the environment ranges from treating contaminated groundwater
with “iron walls” to releasing nutrients in oceans,
lakes and rivers by sunlight. Carraway uses the rusting of
the Titanic to illustrate iron chemistry to her students.
She received her Ph.D. in chemistry from the University of
Virginia and did postdoctoral work in environmental chemistry
at California Institute of Technology and the University
of Michigan. She joined the Clemson environmental toxicology
department in 1999.
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