May 13, 2004

Sliwinska-Bartkowiak Named ‘State Professor’ in Poland

Dr. Keith E. Gubbins (left) and Dr. Margaret Sliwinska-Bartkowiak are greeted by Polish President Alexsander Kwasniewski at Radzwill Palace in Warsaw. (Photo courtesy Radzwill Palace, provided by Dr. Gubbins)

Dr. Margaret Sliwinska-Bartkowiak, adjunct professor of chemical engineering at North Carolina State University and professor of physics at Adam Mickiewicz University (AMU) in Poznan, Poland, recently was awarded that country’s highest professor title — State Professor. Polish President Alexsander Kwasniewski honored faculty members receiving this award at the Radzwill Palace in Warsaw, April 2.

Sliwinska-Bartkowiak also serves as head of the Dielectric Physics Program at AMU, one of three large scientific universities in Poland. She visits NC State regularly to collaborate on joint research programs with Dr. Keith E. Gubbins, W.H. Clark Distinguished University Professor of Chemical Engineering at NC State. Gubbins’ research is in the area of computational nanoscience and is currently focused on novel nanoporous materials and self-assembled structures and their use in chemical processing.

Gubbins attended the award ceremony as a guest of Sliwinska-Bartkowiak. Both honorees and guests met and talked with President Kwasniewski.

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