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A Clemson University professor noted by his colleagues for an uncommon ability to intertwine "emotional connections with scientific facts" is now a MacArthur Fellow.

McCORMICK — This story could have ended many ways. Four years ago, the remote John de la Howe campus in rural McCormick County, at the time serving as a state boarding school for kids kicked out of their local districts, lost its academic accreditation from the South Carolina Department of Education. A series of investigations since 2010 had turned up financial irregularities, including a document-shredding episode in the summer of 2010. The school's enrollment was dropping, loyal faculty were leaving and John de la Howe was on its third superintendent in six years. The school, ...