Distinguished Professorship

Jun 5, 2017

College of Sciences Highlights Professorships

Endowed professorships honor top faculty leading the way in research, teaching and creativity -- providing funds and freedom to go beyond their everyday work and imagine the extraordinary. Meet the College of Sciences' professorship holders and learn how philanthropic support enhances what they do. 

May 23, 2017

Award Connects Faculty with Practitioners for Skepticism Research

Joseph Brazel, Jenkins Distinguished Professor of Accounting in the Poole College of Management, and his research colleagues received recognition from the Center for Audit Quality and the Auditing Section of the American Accounting Association. 

May 22, 2017

NC State Honors Outstanding Faculty

Distinguished professors are among 28 faculty members honored for their dedication to teaching, learning, research and service -- and recognized for winning prestigious awards and creating new knowledge and advancements in their disciplines -- during the 2017 Celebration of Faculty Excellence on May 2. 

May 8, 2017

Geneticist Mackay Named Goodnight Innovation Distinguished Chair

The College of Sciences announced the honor for Trudy Mackay, a prominent geneticist who joined the NC State faculty in 1987. Her groundbreaking work focuses on the genetic and environmental factors affecting variation in complex traits, characteristics that can be tied to one or more genes in an organism. Her signature project is the Drosophila Genetic Reference Panel, a collection of more than 200 fruit fly lines that hundreds of researchers around the world use in their work. 

May 8, 2017

Physicist Ade Named Goodnight Innovation Distinguished Professor

The College of Sciences announced the honor for Harald Ade, a prominent physicist who joined the NC State faculty in 1992. He has received international attention for his interdisciplinary work on understanding the physics of organic solar cells and light-emitting diodes, creating novel devices, and inventing and using new characterization methods with an emphasis on applications to organic devices. 

Apr 25, 2017

Data Detectives in Action

Yousry Azmy, Distinguished Professor of Nuclear Engineering, and his NC State colleagues lead the important Consortium for Nonproliferation Enabling Capabilities, a partnership funded by the National Nuclear Security Administration. CNEC’s partners comprise seven universities and four national laboratories, all collaborating to stop the illegal proliferation of nuclear weapons. 

Apr 17, 2017

Apprentice-Style Learning

When Stacy Wood came to NC State in 2010, the university had no reputation in her field of consumer research. However, with support from the Langdon Distinguished University Professorship in Marketing, Wood has built a research program that benefits students, the university and partner companies. 

Mar 20, 2017

NC State’s Sederoff Honored for Molecular Genetics Work with Forest Trees

Ron Sederoff, a Distinguished University Professor of Forestry and the Edwin F. Conger Professor of Forestry and Environmental Resources, has won the 2017 Marcus Wallenberg Foundation Prize, an international award for scientific achievements in fields important to forestry. 

Mar 13, 2017

Hidden Potential

Hasan Jameel, the Jordan Family Distinguished Professor for Natural Resource Innovation, and his students are working to unleash untapped potential in America’s forests that could help reduce the nation’s dependence on nonrenewable resources. 

Mar 6, 2017

Reflection of a Legacy

A new documentary — set to premiere on campus this month — explores how language and speech manifest in the everyday lives and experiences of African-American English speakers. Walt Wolfram, the William C. Friday Distinguished Professor of Linguistics at NC State, is the film’s executive producer.