Research and Scholarship Award Recipients
Past Service Award Winners
2022 Research and Scholarship Award Recipient
Donald L. Collins, Emeritus Professor in Planning and Landscape Architecture, College of Architecture, Arts and Humanities was selected as the 2022 Emeritus College Research and Scholarship Award recipient. The award was established by the Emeritus College to recognize emeritus faculty members who continue to produce extraordinary research and scholarship, either in their discipline or in a new field.
Don retired in 2005, but that has not kept him from contributing to his field in unique ways. He has carved out an applied research niche advising architects and fire departments on the design of fire stations. Don is from a family of professional firefighters so when the invitation was extended early in his academic career, it was natural for him to become a member of the Clemson University Fire Department. When traveling on university business he would often stay at fire stations. The discussions that would ensue during these stayovers frequently lead to insights about fire station design that he applies in his present-day design advisory role.
Since his retirement, he has participated in 21 fire station related projects ranging from assessment studies to schematic designs and construction documents. Fifteen new fire stations in the US and Canada have been placed online with his input. Fire station designs that Don has encouraged embody elements that are unique to the requirements of each site, space needs program and fire department. Don has successfully advocated for training rooms that double as community meeting rooms for stations in Clemson, SC, Santa Monica, CA and Ankeny, IA. He has also been an advocate for fire stations that address firefighter welfare issues of physical and mental health and occupational safety at the station. One such example of this is his insistence that all Fitness Rooms be placed in a high-traffic area with plenty of opportunity to see into the room because there have been firefighter deaths resulting from solo physical fitness workouts in an isolated fitness area.
Seven of the 15 fire station designs in which Don was engaged have won design awards. These include state AIA, Firehouse Magazine, and the Fire Industry Education Resource Organization’s Fire Facilities Design Awards Program. Don’s Brandon, Manitoba fire station, designed in conjunction with George Cibinel of Cibinel Architects, Ltd. has been ranked by one writer as among the world’s greatest fire stations.
The Emeritus College congratulates Don Collin on being the 2022 Emeritus College Research and Scholarship Award.
2020 Research and Scholarship Award Recipient
Dr. Hedetneimi background included a B.S., University of Michigan, 1960, Mathematics, M.S., University of Michigan, 1962, Communication Sciences, and a Ph.D., University of Michigan, 1966, Communication Sciences. He
graduate degrees in Communication Sciences, which was the forerunner of Computer Science, enabled him along with other personal qualities to be on the ground floor of the emerging discipline of Computer Science. In other words, throughout his academic career of 42 years and continuing into his retirement, he has been in demand and has been very active in forming Ph.D. programs in computer science department at various institutions and always seeking to help students in their academic endeavors.
He served at University of Oregon, Department of Computer and Information Science as professor and Department Head) before joining the Clemson University School of Computing (1982-2011, Professor; Acting Department Chair; Department Chair. In 2000, he received the Board of Trustees, Award of Faculty Excellence). During his career, Dr. Hedetniemi published 225 journal articles and other refereed publications. There is very likely a Stephen Hedetniemi algorithm that has been re-adapted and is likely used in Google searches according to a reliable source of Stephen! The thrust of his publications after retirement involve algorithms and graph theory.
Post-retirement from 2012-2020, Dr Hedetniemi has published (with co-authors), 64 articles in respected journals; edited three books in which he published 10 articles/chapters. His total publication count as of today stands at 300.
He currently has 16 publications accepted and not yet published that include two books (Springer is the publisher.), which he co-edited and which likely includes chapters that he authored and co-authored. The two books are Graph Theory and Topics in Domination in Graphs. A third book to be published by Springer honors him in the title and does not include him as an editor: From Domination to Coloring with the subtitle Stephen Hedetniemi’s Graph Theory and Beyond. Dr. Hedetniemi was asked what motivates him in his career and what still motivates him today to be so heavily involved in research and scholarship? “I love making discoveries. I enjoy working with other professionals and developing computer-based strengths in students. Currently, I am working with a number of students during this COVID-19 pandemic because it so difficult for them to function in these times as students.
He has a current h-index of 58, with 7,000 of his total number of citations, that is approaching 20,00, and 64 publications toward his total lifetime.
2019 Research and Scholarship Award Recipient
Dr. Bodde background (B.S., West Point Military Academy, (Served in the Army in Vietnam), M.S., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1972, Nuclear Engineering. M.S., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1973, Business Management. Doctor of Business Administration, Harvard University, 1976
Vice President, Midwest Research Institute , Assistant Director of U.S. Congressional Budget Office Deputy Assistant Secretary in the U.S. Department of Energy and finally as Professor, ICAR, Clemson University, 2004-2016 was the foundation for his post retirement activities.
Key activities post retirement included:
- 2016-17, Provided expertise to the National Academies (of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine) by serving on a committee charged with evaluating the joint science and technology programs in the U.S. Department of Energy and U.S. auto makers. Co-authored in 2017 the final report, entitled, "Research Program of the U.S. Drive Partnership".
- 2017, Invited lecture, Long Island University, "Making Sense of an Unknowable Future: Innovation and Entrepreneurship When You Can’t Possibly Know Enough".
- 2018, Invited lecture, Clemson University-IEEE Power Systems Conference on technology disruption in the electric industry entitled, "Exponential Technologies and Innovation Ecosystems".
- 2018-20, Served as an invited speaker, writer, and expert for the in three venues for the Inter-American Development Bank on the topic of self-driving cars.
- 2016-2020, Senior scholar with the Ewing Marion Kaufmann Foundation wherein he developed issue papers on entrepreneurship and urban mobility, including a model mobility enterprise to enable low-income, inner city residents of Kansas City to reach jobs in the far suburbs.
Expanding from his work at the Kaufmann Foundation, he has begun a book project with a working title of "Missional Entrepreneurships: How Values-Based Enterprises Build Freedom from Chronic Poverty". This is a faith-inspired endeavor of his through Evangelical churches utilizing intercity missionaries and principles of technology-based entrepreneurship principles to relieve chronic poverty.
Dr. Bodde continues his life as a scholar, applying his knowledge and expertise to societal challenges such as global energy issues, technological changes that threaten the automotive industry, and, yes, chronic poverty
Dr. Bodde believes after our COVID-19 pandemic passes, chronic poverty by displaced workers will prevail in the United States and that more will be needed than economic incentives. Namely, secular and church programs that touch and enrich the human spirit.
2018 Research and Scholarship Award Recipient
Professor Emeritus Morse authored 135 research publications in pre-retirement (4.1/yr.) and 47 in post-retirement (4.7/ yr.). He was the major advisor of 30 graduate students (0.9/ yr.) in pre-retirement (18 M.S., 12 Ph.D.) and has been the “co-advisor” of 12 graduate students (1.2 / yr.) in post-retirement (9 M.S., 3 Ph.D. and a Ph.D. candidate currently). Research proposals funded since 1980 total 2 million + dollars with ~$72 k/yr. in pre-retirement from 70 sources and $532,000 (53.2 k/yr. in post-retirement) from 9 sources. From 1978-2008, he gave 144 invited papers, seminars, colloquia, or workshops (4.8/yr. in pre-retirement). Since his retirement in 2008, he has given 33 such presentations (3.3/yr. in post-retirement) including 18 in the U.S. and 15 internationally: China (7), Thailand (3), Iraq (1), Mongolia (1), Russia (2), and Singapore (1). Internationally, he has collaborated with scientists and students, providing lectures and workshops that facilitated research programs enabling biomonitoring.
He taught 10 courses (100 times) 3.0/yr. in pre-retirement. Since retirement, he has taught 4 regular courses (22 times) and 13 creative inquiry courses (3.5/ yr. in post-retirement). As a Professor Emeritus, he has served as an editor of a professional journal and reviewed/edited 238 manuscripts and was a co-editor of two international symposia wherein he reviewed/edited 86 manuscripts.
All post-retirement activities have been unpaid and voluntary.
Other continuing activities that bear mentioning include: teaching a two-week course (twice each summer) on aquatic insects at the Highlands Biological Station (NC) and he has taught a Sunday School Class at Pendleton First Baptist for 30 years.
This professor emeritus has been as productive in post-retirement as in pre-retirement based on the data comparisons of research and scholarship indicators sited in his nomination letter. This arc of sustained productivity implies that he has clearly found his passion in his professional calling. He has not slowed down to this day despite two bouts of cancer in recent years. And as his nominator states: “He possesses a keen intellect, a strong work ethic, a giving spirit and has the support of a very loving and encouraging wife.”
Dr. Morse’s accomplishments have been recognized throughout his outstanding career—since his retirement he has been recognized with the
- 2015 Distinguished Service Award, Society of Freshwater Science
- 2015 Distinguished Research Leadership Award, SC Governor’s School (mentor for 16 high school students);
- 2017 Alumni Distinguished Service Award, College of Agriculture, Forestry and Life Sciences.
In Dr. Morse’s 43-year faculty career, he has been instrumental in establishing the use of aquatic insects as bio-monitors that indicate the health of freshwater ecosystems. He’s the world’s most respected specialist in the systematics of caddis flies and is pursued for collaborations worldwide by researchers and students.
In 2008, Dr. Morse and his wife, Suzanne, established the John C. and Suzanne E. Morse Endowed Chair in Arthropod Diversity. This gift ensured two realities: that arthropod diversity and systematics would continue in perpetuity at Clemson; and the large arthropod collection/museum on campus that Dr. Morse established would remain.
