Distinguished Professorship

Aug 4, 2020

Aligning Strengths to Advance Medicine

The Comparative Medicine Institute is making NC State a destination for innovative research and training in biomedical sciences. The institute encourages interdisciplinary collaborations among more than 200 biomedical sciences-focused researchers in six colleges and 26 academic departments at NC State, as well as researchers from UNC-Chapel Hill, Duke University and N.C. Central University. Co-directors are Joshua Pierce, LORD Corporation Distinguished Scholar in the College of Sciences, and Jorge Piedrahita, Randall B. Terry Jr. Distinguished Professor of Translational Medicine and Alumni Association Distinguished Graduate Professor in the College of Veterinary Medicine. 

Aug 4, 2020

Agriculture, Agribusiness Generate a Sixth of the State’s Income, Jobs

North Carolina’s agriculture and agribusiness industry remains a powerhouse, generating about one-sixth of the state’s income and jobs, and it recently set a record in terms of its contributions to the state’s gross domestic product. Those are among the highlights of a recently released industry snapshot – the latest in an annual series that economist Mike Walden, William Neal Reynolds Distinguished Professor in the Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, began compiling in the 1980s. 

Jul 28, 2020

All Systems Go

From her active research on pandemic disease spread to leadership as the head of the Fitts Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, A. Doug Allison Distinguished Professor Julie Swann thinks beyond boundaries and puts solutions into action to build a better world. 

Jul 28, 2020

Grunden Named Assistant Director of North Carolina Agricultural Research Service

Amy Grunden, a William Neal Reynolds Distinguished Professor of Microbiology, has been named assistant director for the life sciences for the service. As part of her new role, she will serve as a liaison and advocate for faculty and staff members. Since arriving at NC State in 2000, Grunden has led numerous microbial biotechnology-focused research projects; mentored early career faculty; taught hundreds of undergraduate and graduate students in general microbiology and microbial metabolic regulation, respectively; and advised dozens of graduate and undergraduate students. 

Jul 21, 2020

College of Sciences Surpasses Campaign Goal

The College of Sciences has surpassed its $60 million goal for NC State’s Think and Do the Extraordinary campaign more than 18 months of schedule. As of May 31, the college had raised more than $62.3 million during the Campaign, including funding for 61 new scholarships and fellowships and 13 new professorships. These funds have supported the Campaign priorities of creating extraordinary opportunity, purpose and experiences for students and faculty throughout the college with funding for current operations, facilities and endowment. 

Jul 21, 2020

A Distinguished 30-Year CALS Career

After dedicating the last three decades to the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences at NC State, Rebecca “Becky” Boston, a William Neal Reynolds Distinguished Professor and former assistant director of the North Carolina Agricultural Research Service (NCARS), has entered the ranks of professor emerita. Her impactful dedication to research and science started at an early age. 

Jul 21, 2020

We Are the Wolfpack: Meet Akram Khater

Akram Khater is a University Faculty Scholar and professor of history at NC State, holds the Khayrallah Chair in Diaspora Studies and serves as director of the Moise A. Khayrallah Center for Lebanese Diaspora Studies, which he helped create. Learn more about Khater and his work spearheading a massive effort to preserve the history and culture of Lebanese Americans. 

Jul 10, 2020

NC State Spin-off TreeCo To Breed a Better Forest

Rodolphe Barrangou, NC State's Todd R. Klaenhammer Distinguished Professor in Probiotics Research, and Jack Wang, an assistant professor in the Department of Forestry and Environmental Resources, have co-founded TreeCo, a new company that aims to revolutionize the forestry industry by combining insights from tree genetics with the power of genome editing. 

Jul 6, 2020

Metabolite Analysis of ALS Patient Blood Plasma Could Reveal, Rule Out, Possible Biomarkers for Disease

NC State's David Muddiman, Jacob and Betty Belin Distinguished Professor of Chemistry, and Michael Bereman, associate professor of biological sciences, have co-authored a paper that sheds further light on a pathway involved in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) disease progression and appears to rule out the role of one environmental neurotoxin. 

Jul 6, 2020

NC State Researchers Continue Improving Sweet Potatoes for Africa

Craig Yencho and Zhao-Bang Zeng, both William Neal Reynolds Distinguished Professors at NC State, are developing new genomic tools to improve sweet potato breeding while focusing on the needs of farmers in Sub-Saharan Africa.