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Dr. Christine Grant, professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering and director of the PURPOSE Institute at North Carolina State University, has been appointed associate dean for faculty development and special initiative.
The new position was created to provide support for faculty in the College of Engineering. A critical component of this position is the development and facilitation of a set of programs and initiatives that will foster faculty success. The ultimate goal is to create an enhanced faculty community that will foster easy, identifiable and productive collaborations in teaching, research, extension and service.
Grant’s research focuses on surface and interfacial phenomena related to the areas of biomaterials, electronic materials and polymer thin films. She is widely recognized as a leader in mentoring and has received numerous top honors, including an NSF Presidential Award for Excellence in Science, Mathematics and Engineering Mentoring, a National Technical Association Top Women in Science and Engineering Award, and she was among the first to be selected as a Boeing Senior Fellow of the National Academy of Engineering’s Center for the Advancement of Scholarship on Engineering Education (CASEE). She is the founder and director of the Promoting Underrepresented Presence On Science and Engineering Faculties (PURPOSE) Institute, an organization dedicated to increasing the number and success of engineering faculty members from underrepresented groups.
Grant received her B.S. in chemical engineering from Brown University in 1984 and her M.S. and Ph.D. in chemical engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology in 1986 and 1989, respectively. She joined the NC State faculty in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering in1989, becoming the first African-American woman faculty member in the College of Engineering.
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