March 10, 2005

National Academy of Engineering Selects Grant as Engineering Education Fellow

Dr. Grant

Dr. Christine S. Grant, associate professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering at North Carolina State University, has been selected as one of the first Boeing Company Engineering Education Senior Fellows by the National Academy of Engineering (NAE). She will serve a 12-month appointment beginning January 1, 2005.

Awarded for the first time this year, the Boeing Company Engineering Education Senior Fellows is part of the NAE’s initiative on engineering education. Three individuals were selected as fellows for 2005. Recipients produce analyses for the NAE’s Center for the Advancement of Scholarship on Engineering Education (CASEE) and present a white paper on their findings at the CASEE annual meeting to be held in October 2005.

As part of her appointment, Grant will develop an institute that will focus on ways to mentor engineering faculty members from underrepresented populations towards success in the academy. A multidisciplinary faculty think tank will be at the core of the institute’s professional development initiatives. She will use information gathered from minority and women faculty scholars to create a best practices guide for faculty and administrators to recruit, retain and promote faculty members from underrepresented populations.

Co-director of the National Science Foundation (NSF) Green Processing Research Program at NC State, Grant is the 2003 recipient of the NSF Presidential Award for Excellence in Science and Engineering Mentoring. She received her Ph.D. in chemical engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology in 1989.

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(Photo: Roger Winstead)

Media contact:
Jennifer Weston, (919) 515-3848, weston@ncsu.edu

Technical contact:
Dr. Christine Grant, (919) 515-2317, grant@eos.ncsu.edu

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