Professorships

Jun 16, 2025

Bill Rand Appointed New Goodnight Executive Director of Institute for Advanced Analytics

Bill Rand will be appointed Goodnight Executive Director of the Institute for Advanced Analytics effective July 1. Rand is the McLauchlan Distinguished Professor of Marketing and Analytics and the executive director of Business Analytics and AI Initiative in the Department of Business Management in the Poole College of Management.

Jun 16, 2025

Taiwan Delegation, NC State College of Engineering Convene on Semiconductor Innovation

The College of Engineering welcomed a distinguished Taiwanese delegation last month for a campus visit that centered on the Commercial Leap Ahead for Wide-bandgap Semiconductors (CLAWS) as the U.S. and Taiwan explore potential partnerships to advance semiconductors and microelectronics innovation and manufacturing. John Muth, Progress Energy Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, serves as director of CLAWS.

Jun 3, 2025

Kelliher Named Roberts and Mikhail Distinguished Chair in Plant Genome Editing

Timothy Kelliher will join NC State this July as the Roberts and Mikhail Distinguished Chair in Plant Genome Editing of the Genome Editing Center for Sustainable Agriculture (GEC). Integrated with the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences’ state-of-the-art N.C. Plant Sciences Initiative and its expertise in genome editing and CRISPR, the GEC is poised to revolutionize agriculture.

Jun 3, 2025

Microcleaners to Catch Microplastics

NC State researchers have shown that an integrated system leveraging unique materials could be used to capture and remove microplastics from bodies of water. Orlin Velev, the S. Frank and Doris Culberson Distinguished Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, is the paper’s corresponding author.

May 27, 2025

Poole College’s Ram Janakiraman Receives New Distinguished Professorship

Ram Janakiraman, a professor of marketing analytics in the Poole College of Management, has been honored with a distinguished professorship. Janakiraman is the first R. Randall Rollins Distinguished Professor, bringing the total number of distinguished professors in Poole College to 15, including Stephen P. Zelnak Jr. Dean Frank Buckless.

May 27, 2025

Johnston Named ASCE Distinguished Member

David W. Johnston, Edward I. Weisiger Distinguished Professor Emeritus in the College of Engineering’s Department of Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering, has been named a Distinguished Member of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE). This high honor — only 12 of the group’s 160,000 members can be recognized in this way each year — acknowledges Johnston’s impactful contributions to construction engineering research, education and licensure.

May 27, 2025

Triangle Finnish Association Honors Baliga

The Triangle Finnish Association and Duke University recently hosted a special event in honor of B. Jayant Baliga, the Progress Energy Distinguished University Professor Emeritus of Electrical and Computer Engineering at NC State. Baliga earned Finland’s 2024 Millennium Technology Prize for his invention, development and commercialization of an energy-saving semiconductor switch he invented in 1980 as a researcher at General Electric.

May 27, 2025

Studies Look for Potential Therapy Targets for Dogs With Chiari-like Malformation

A pair of recent studies from NC State researchers, including Natasha Olby, the Dr. Kady M. Gjessing and Rahna M. Davidson Distinguished Chair in Gerontology at NC State, looked for biomarkers and genetic markers of a syndrome associated with skull malformations common in Cavalier King Charles spaniels and other toy breeds. The findings could lead to better targeted therapeutics for symptoms as well as potential genetic targets for treatment.

May 27, 2025

NC State ECE Researchers Secure DARPA Funding for New Project

Researchers from the College of Engineering’s Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering have secured a three-year, $5 million grant from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) aimed at improving energy-efficient communications for a variety of applications. Team leaders include co-principal investigator Fred Kish, MC Dean Distinguished Professor.

May 20, 2025

William Enck Named Goodnight Distinguished Professor in Security Sciences

William Enck, a faculty member in the College of Engineering’s Department of Computer Science since 2011, has been named the Goodnight Distinguished Professor in Security Sciences. This generous investment by Dr. Jim and Mrs. Ann Goodnight will further his work by funding research into new areas, creating undergraduate and graduate education experiences and more.