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WU+D participated in the ribbon-cutting ceremony for the new Sapphire Dispersions facility in Greenville, SC, highlighting innovation in advanced manufacturing and sustainable materials. 🔗Read more on our blog blogs.clemson.edu/wud/

WU+D has launched a strategic partnership with the Clemson University Forest to integrate conservation, applied research, and market-driven innovation across the forest-based bioeconomy. 🔗Read more on our blog blogs.clemson.edu/wud/

Clemson University’s Wood Utilization + Design Institute (WU+D) is advancing mass timber through research, collaboration, and real-world projects across the U.S. 🔗 Read more on our blog blogs.clemson.edu/wud/

WU+D and the Clemson Packaging Science Student Club are reactivating the TAPPI Student Chapter at Clemson University 🌲 🔗 Read more on our blog: blogs.clemson.edu/wud/ #WUDInstitute #ClemsonUniversity #TAPPI #PackagingScience #StudentLeadership

Applications for the Montana Summer Field Program are due in one week! 📍 Students interested in learning about agricultural production and natural resource management on a working cattle ranch should apply by Nov. 21. 🐄 ✍️ prairieecology.blogspot.com 📺 youtu.be/sw-Ty2Phn-I?si…

Fourth graders from Bob Jones Academy and Walhalla Elementary kicked off the first of four days of the Wood Magic Forest Fair at Piedmont Forestry Center in Tamassee today. Wood Magic is a day full of forestry-related educational experiences and demonstrations that combines hands-on activities with visually engaging presentations to teach children about the importance of forest lands to wildlife, the economy and our daily quality of life. Students visited different stations during the fair, including an introduction to Wood Magic, good fire/bad fire, gifts of the forest, equipment and tree cookies, sawmill, makin’ paper and a magic show.

Today we kick off National Fire Prevention Month with a simple reminder to THINK BEFORE YOU BURN to prevent wildfires! Hurricane Helene swept through South Carolina just over a year ago, leaving stands of downed trees and woody debris covering the landscape. These downed fuels increase the risk of wildfire by making ignition and spread more likely and also block access for firefighters, which slows response times. If you plan on conducting any kind of outdoor burning, please follow these reminders and exercise the utmost caution! 1. Don’t burn if you don’t absoutely have to. • Consider bagging your yard debris and taking it to a landfill. 2. Check the weather. • Wait until later to burn if it's windy outside, especially if relative humidity is low and/or it's been a while since good, soaking rain. 3. Notify the Forestry Commission before burning yard debris. It’s required by state law! • Use our online system or call your county's toll-free notification line, both available at scfc.gov/notify. 4. Take the proper precautions: • Limit the fire to woody, vegetative material like leaves, limbs and branches. • Clear a firebreak around the fire (at least as wide as the burn pile itself). • Have water and tools at hand to keep the fire under control. • Never leave the burn for any amount of time, and stay with the fire until it is completely out, preferably drowned out with water.

We hope you will consider attending the Green Gold: Wood Residuals Summit 2025 in Traverse City, MI. The speakers are covering a wide range of topics. @Patlayton mifbi.org/event-5896633

Only 2 weeks left until the International Mass Timber Conference! Connect with top industry minds at the world's largest mass timber event and hear from 100+ speakers on the full supply chain. Visit our Booth #853 #masstimberconference #IMTC25 i.snoball.it/p/fW2RO/t/1

It was an honor to present Dr. Robert Baldwin with the Class of ‘39 Award for Excellence in recognition of his impact in teaching, research and service!

We attended the @SCForestryAssoc today. Great to celebrate our students who won scholarships.

‘Building with Mass Timber, with Pat Layton’ by Resources Radio is on #SoundCloud on.soundcloud.com/WfwP3Yx6Dc2k3G…

Clemson University's School of Architecture has begun a search for the  Thompson E. Penney and Gretchen M. Penney Distinguished Professorship in Architecture in Evidence-Based Design (EBD). apply.interfolio.com/157502

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Do you love trees? Do you love bugs? Do you love bugs that are IN trees? Well then check out this webinar on #invasivespecies and #foresthealth pests as I talk about woodborers in urban settings. August 26, professional credits available! #arboriculture eventbrite.com/e/woodborers-i…

Today is International Tiger Day. In 2017, @ClemsonPrez chartered the Tigers United University Consortium and tasked Brett Wright, Ph.D., to lead. Director Emeritus Wright and many others since have joined in the global effort to save wild tigers. 🐅

Exposed timber also... Interesting 🙂Does Oslo follow Euro code? Anyone know?

Our Forest Products Summer Camp crew has been busy, visiting @Boise_Cascade, Roseburg, Canfor Anthony Glulam & @HuberWood. Students learned the process of making different types of panels, such as OSB, LVL, GLUMAM, & plywood. The raw material required varies between products!🪚🦺

This week, Forest Resource Management students in Dr. Brunela Pollastrelli Rodrigues' "Summer Camp" program are participating in Forest Products Week, where they travel across South Carolina and Georgia to visit several different Forest Products industries.🪵

A SC delegation is attending the Finland Bioeconomy Trade and Study Mission. Nine states and Nova Scotia are in attendance. Business Finland is hosting the event. This morning, we met the US Ambassador to Finland, Douglas Hickey. @patlayton