Professorships

Feb 15, 2022

Kish Named National Academy of Inventors Fellow

Fred Kish, M.C. Dean Distinguished Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at NC State, has been named a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors in its 2021 class.

Feb 8, 2022

Extraordinary Difference: Dr. Natasha Olby

The Dr. Kady M. Gjessing and Rahna M. Davidson Distinguished Chair in Gerontology, Professor Neurology and Neurosurgery provides Dr. Natasha Olby with critical funding to better understand and care for aging pets. This chair is one of more than 100 endowed faculty positions created during NC State’s Think and Do the Extraordinary Campaign to help the university recruit and retain top researchers and educators from around the world.

Feb 8, 2022

Two CNR Professors Named 2021 AAAS Fellows

Two professors in the College of Natural Resources have been named 2021 Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the largest general scientific society in the world. University Faculty Scholar Jason Delborne and former CNR dean Mary Watzin, both of the Department of Forestry and Environmental Resources, are among the 564 scientists, engineers and innovators from around the world to be recognized as 2021 AAAS Fellows for their “scientifically and socially distinguished achievements.”

Feb 8, 2022

Technique Speeds up Thermal Actuation for Soft Robotics

Researchers in the College of Engineering have come up with a new design for thermal actuators, which can be used to create rapid movement in soft robotic devices. Yong Zhu, the Andrew A. Adams Distinguished Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at NC State, is a corresponding author of the paper.

Feb 8, 2022

Aaron Kiess: Focusing on Direct Industry Impact

Aaron Kiess was recently named the Braswell Family Distinguished Professor in Commercial Layer Management, Physiology or Nutrition in the Prestage Department of Poultry Science, where he is working to solve issues facing the commercial layer industry in North Carolina and beyond. Before joining NC State’s College of Agriculture and Life Sciences in 2021, he spent 13 years at Mississippi State University, where his primary focus was with the broiler industry, although he has previously worked with the turkey and layer industries.

Jan 18, 2022

NC State Fundraising Campaign Comes to an Extraordinary End

After five incredible years, NC State’s Think and Do the Extraordinary Campaign has come to a close. This historic fundraising effort saw more than 1,300 new scholarships and fellowships endowed, 104 distinguished professorships created and more. All told, the university’s friends and alumni donated $2,103,932,120 toward its ongoing success.

Jan 14, 2022

Protecting Our State’s New Rural Cash Crop

Sweetpotato acreage in America has been growing in recent years, particularly in North Carolina, which is by far America’s largest producer of sweetpotatoes. NC State’s Craig Yencho, a William Neal Reynolds Distinguished Professor of Horticulture, has been one of the leading researchers stimulating this specialty crop’s growth — and, in turn, North Carolina’s agricultural economy.

Dec 14, 2021

Study of African American Language Wins Prestigious Linguistics Award

A book documenting the results of a groundbreaking 20-year study led by Walt Wolfram, William C. Friday Distinguished University Professor in the Department of English, has won the award for book of the year from the Linguistic Society of America. The book, titled “African American Language: Language Development from Infancy to Adulthood,” received the society’s Leonard Bloomfield Book Award for 2022.

Dec 7, 2021

Michael Dickey Receives 2021 R.J. Reynolds Award

Dickey, the Camille and Henry Dreyfus Professor in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, received the $25,000 R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company Award for Excellence in Teaching, Research and Extension on Nov. 11. He also delivered a lecture during the award ceremony entitled “Beyond the Terminator: Liquid Metals, Stretchable Electronics and Shape-Changing Materials.”

Nov 30, 2021

Expert: Technology Could Help Clothing Retailers Become More Sustainable

In a recent article, Byoungho Ellie Jin, Albert Myers Distinguished Professor of Textile Economics and Management, explored the role that technologies such as artificial intelligence, virtual reality and 3-D printing could play in addressing industry problems like oversupply.