Engineering faculty lead Chancellor’s Faculty Excellence Program projects

NC State University Provost Warwick Arden announced Tuesday the eight proposals selected for funding through the Chancellor’s Faculty Excellence Program. The research proposals selected are centered around eight of 12 select research fields of expertise at NC State.

The Chancellor’s Faculty Excellence Program is part of NC State’s effort to attract 43 new top faculty members to work in interdisciplinary efforts to solve some of the globe’s most significant problems.

Faculty members in the College of Engineering are leading or co-leading five of the eight proposals and are serving on the proposal teams of two other projects.

The projects being led or co-led by engineering faculty include Carbon Electronics, Global WaSH (Water, Sanitation and Hygiene), Microbiomes and Complex Microbial Communities, Sustainable Energy Technology and Policy and Visual Narrative. Faculty members in the College are also involved in the projects on Quantitative and Computational Developmental Biology and Emerging Disease Biology and Global Food Security.

The Office of the Provost received 49 Faculty Excellence pre-proposals in December 2014 from faculty members representing the university’s 10 colleges. Thirteen potential clusters were then invited to submit full proposals.

This second cohort of clusters will bring the total number of Chancellor’s Faculty Excellence Program clusters to 20.