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obtained his master’s degree in Mathematics education.
Quentin is now pursuing a doctoral degree in mathematics.
Aposia Singleton is currently
enrolled at Morris College pursuing a
degree in biology. Since her freshman
year, she has exhibited seriousness,
focus and determination to succeed.
During her freshman year, she was
selected to participate in a summer
research internship at the USDA, ARS
Charleston. In the summer of 2011,
she participated in staghorn coral
research as a member of the MUSC’s Summer Undergraduate
Research Program (SURP) at the Marine Biomedicine and
Environmental Sciences Laboratories. Aposia plans to pursue
a graduate degree in biology after graduating from Morris
College in 2013.
Oliver Holmes is a junior
mathematics major at Morris
College. He is one of the
rising stars in the Division of
Natural Sciences and
Mathematics. After
completing his sophomore
year at Morris, he was selected
to participate in summer research at the Oak Ridge National
Laboratory, in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. Oliver was featured on
one of the Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s videos this
summer (July 25, 2011). His mentor, Dr. Erdman, has invited
him to return next summer to continue his significant work.
Oliver plans to obtain a PhD in mathematics.
Nathaniel Robinson graduated
Magna Cum Laude from Morris
College in 2008. Nathaniel’s
zeal for mathematics and
research dates back to 2004 when
he received SCAMP and HBCU-
UP financial support to study and
conduct research. He took his
academic responsibility seriously and remained on the
President and the Dean’s lists for four years while conducting
research on campus and in the Savannah River Site in Aiken,
S.C In August 2009, Nathaniel earned a Master’s Degree in
Business Administration from Texas A & M University –
Texarkana. Robinson expects to receive his PhD in
Mathematics in 2013 from the University of Maryland.
Caleb Eljach is a senior majoring in
Bioengineering, and has been involved in
orthopaedic research at Clemson since the
summer of 2010. He will be presenting
his project on micropatterned surfaces for
orthopaedic designs at the annual
Biomedical Engineering Society
Conference in October 2011. Caleb has
co-authored one published article in the
Journal of the Mechanical Behavior of
Biomedical Materials and is currently working on two more
articles.Caleb plans to attend graduate school to pursue a
Ph.D. degree in Bioengineering, specializing in Orthopaedics.
Caleb’s desire to represent his Hispanic heritage in
engineering has led him to pursue a degree in medicine and
technology.
Amir Matlock, a 2007 graduate of
Clemson University’s Mechanical
Engineering Dept,. earned an MS degree in
Aerospace Engineering from the
University of Michigan. He is currently
employed as Associate Staff at the Johns
Hopkins University Applied Physics
Laboratory in Laurel, MD. Amir’s role is
the overall planning, execution and
analysis of the Aegis Weapon System against ballistic missile
threats. The moment Amir he realized he was born for rocket
science was the moment he witnessed his first successful
intercept of a ballistic missile.
Andre Loyd graduated magna cum laude
from Clemson University with a BS in
Mechanical Engineering in 2002. He is
currently a PhD candidate in biomedical
engineering at Duke University, where he
is the James B. Duke Fellow and a
National Science Foundation Fellow.
Located in the Injury and Orthopaedics
Biomechanics Laboratory, Andre’s
research involves creating car crash
dummies to reduce the number of deaths
from car accidents. Andre can be seen
talking about graduate school and about his research on
Youtube at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1o5LptpNTrw
Kenneth Rice completed the B.S. degree in
computer engineering at Clemson in 2006
and the M.S. CpE degree in 2008. He is
currently pursuing the Ph.D. degree in
computer engineering with an emphasis in
computer systems. Ken has four journal
papers and three conference papers
published or accepted for publication and
two additional journal papers and one conference paper
currently under review. In 2008, Ken received the Harris
Award for Outstanding Graduate Researcher at Clemson
University.
Dana Broughton is currently an
Assistant Professor of Chemistry at
Victory University (formerly
Crichton College) in Memphis, TN.
She earned her B.S. in Chemistry
from Clemson University in May
2002 and a Ph.D. in Chemistry from
the University of South Carolina in May 2009. She completed
her postdoctoral research at St. Jude Children's Hospital in
Bio-Organic Chemistry. Dana is currently working on
transitioning into patent law.
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