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CoES researcher first to be recognized
as gifted young scientist in South Carolina
 How
do scientists with 10 years in the lab compete with those with 40?
They don’t, leaving many brilliant minds without due recognition
-- until now. The Governor’s Young Scientist Award for Excellence
in Scientific Research was created to honor the accomplishments
of gifted young researchers in South Carolina. Clemson University’s
Ya-Ping Sun is the first recipient of this award.
It’s
a big award for a scientist who works within a very “small”
world — a world 1/80,000 the width of a human hair. Sun heads
a research group focused on the development of nanomaterials for
optical, electronic and biomedical applications. Nanomaterials are
comprised of building blocks that are very, very small, giving researchers
greater control over their properties and functions.
Sun
received Clemson’s 1999 College of Engineering and Science
Award for Excellence in the Sciences and 2001 Provost’s Award
for Scholarly Achievement. In 1995, he was named one of the “15
Brightest Stars in Analytical Spectroscopy,” by the editorial
board of Spectroscopy, and he recently was named to fill the Frank
Henry Leslie Chair of Natural and Physical Sciences.
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