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 Thomas Boland
Department of Bioengineering
420 Rhodes Hall
phone: 864.656.7639
email: tboland@clemson.edu
Website: http://www.ces.clemson.edu/bio/people/boland.htm

Research:
Dr. Boland's research interests are bioengineering, tissue engineering, cell printing.

Henry Rack
School of Materials Science and Engineering
213 A Olin Hall
phone: 864.656.5636
email: rackh@clemson.edu
Website: http://mse.clemson.edu/htm/faculty/Rack.htm

Research:
Dr. Rack's research interests are planar flow casting of amorphous metals, severe-plastic deformation of advanced metallics and composites, and adaptive manufacturing of smart materials, to name a few.

John R. Saylor
Department of Mechanical Engineering
229 Fluor Daniel Engineering Innovation Building (EIB)
phone: 864.656.5621
email: jrsaylor@ces.clemson.edu
Website: http://www.ces.clemson.edu/~jsaylor

Research:
Dr. Saylor is currently researching two topics. The first is the study of lightning. Specifically he is investigating the statistics of lightning and how it is related to rainfall. Secondly, Dr. Saylor is looking at problems related to infrared imaging from space. Specifically his group studies the use of infrared (IR) images to obtain information about lakes and nuclear reactor cooling ponds. For example, recent work has focused on measuring the heat flux emanating from a nuclear reactor cooling pond via special processing of IR imagery. One application of this work is to ascertain how other nations are using their nuclear reactors.

Kelly C. Smith
Department of Philosophy and Religion
208 Hardin Hall
phone: 864.656.5366
email: kcs@clemson.edu
Website: http://people.clemson.edu/~kcs/

Research:
Dr. Smith's has conducted research on a wide array of interdisciplinary topics, including the concept of genetic disease; the relationship between religious faith and scientific reasoning; the ethical implications of new biotechnologies; complex systems in developmental and evolutionary biology; the origins and nature of life and, most recently, philosophical issues surrounding the search for life on other planets.

Ya-Ping Sun
Department of Chemistry
469 Howard L. Hunter Laboratory
phone: 864.656.5026
email: yaping@clemson.edu
Website: http://www.ces.clemson.edu/lemt/research.htm

Research:
Dr. Sun's group research is on the development of nanostructures and nanomaterials for optical, electronic, and biomedically significant applications.


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 Jon Hakkila
Dept of Physics and Astronomy
101 Science Center
phone: 843.953.5593
email: hakkilaj@cofc.edu
Website: http://www.cofc.edu/~physics/facstaff/hakkilaj.html

Research:
Dr. Hakkila's research interests include gamma-ray bursts, peculiar abundance stars, and multi-wavelength observational astronomy.


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 Swapan K. Ray
Department of Neurosciences
96 Jonathan Lucas Street, Suite 323K
phone: 843.792.7595
email: raysk@musc.edu
Research:
Space radiation may have an effect for induction of brain tumors in astronauts and pose a serious challenge to the NASA missions. Glioblastoma is the most prevalent and malignant brain tumor in humans. A research project in Dr. Ray's laboratory explores the photodynamic therapy for induction of proteolytic mechanisms for programmed cell death or apoptosis in human maligmant glioblastoma cells. Results of this investigation will be helpful in designing preclinical studies for glioblastoma.

Sakamuri V. Reddy
Osteoclast Center, Childrenšs Research Institute
173 Ashley Avenue; Room 216
phone: 843.792.7367
email: reddysv@musc.edu
Research:
Dr. Reddy's research interests include bone biology or bone loss.

Donna Roberts
Department of Radiology
email: robertdr@musc.edu
Research:
Dr. Robert's has a grant from NASA for the upcoming year (through the end of next summer) to work on data processing from data that we collected in a joint study with NASA's Johnson Space Center.