Honors and Awards

The Samuel B. Earle Award recognizes the most outstanding senior in engineering on the basis of scholarship and character. This year’s honoree is James Timothy Kearns (left), chemical engineering.

Ann Katherine Abole (right), chemistry, was honored with the Outstanding Senior Award in the Sciences, which is based on scholarship and character.

Brittany Nicole Knick (above, center), biosystems engineering, was the recipient of the Robert W. Moorman Award, which honors the most outstanding junior in engineering on the basis of scholarship and character.

The Outstanding Junior Award in the Sciences is given on the basis of scholarship and character. This year’s honoree is Caroline Leigh Yount (right), physics.

Tau Beta Pi is the national engineering honorary society. Membership is restricted to those with outstanding academic scholarship and exemplary character. The Tau Beta Pi Award recognizes the sophomore in engineering with the highest academic record based on scholarship and number of hours of engineering courses taken. This year Tau Beta Pi chose to recognize Layne Alan Madden (left), mechanical engineering.

Joshua William Timm (right), electrical engineering, was recognized with the J. Wesley Davis Leadership Award, for outstanding scholarship, leadership in a student engineering organization, and high potential for success in the engineering profession.

Each college is invited to select one student to receive the Phi Kappa Phi Certificate of Merit. The student must be a graduating senior with a GPA of 3.4 or above and have made noteworthy contributions in such areas as leadership, service, and creative endeavors to his/her department, college, and Clemson University. The chosen student was Ashley Elizabeth Eaddy (left), biosystems engineering.

Anna Lousie Sanford, (right), biosystems engineering, was recognized with the Blue Key Academic and Leadership Award. Tigerama funds established an award endowment for one student in each of the University’s five colleges who has distinguished themselves in academic scholarship and campus leadership.

Nicholas Kraft (below, left), computer science, and Nripen Singh (below, right), chemical and biomolecular engineering, were awarded Outstanding Graduate Researcher Awards, which recognizes exemplary research.

The Outstanding Graduate Teaching Assistant Award is given to two graduate teaching assistants who have been recognized by faculty, students, and fellow graduate teaching assistants for their skills in undergraduate teaching. Chosen this year were Timothy Flowers (below, left), mathematical sciences, and Esengul Tayfur (below, right), industrial engineering.

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