Faculty and Staff Notes

Eileen Goldgeier will join NC State as vice chancellor and general counsel on March 15.

Goldgeier Named General Counsel

Eileen Goldgeier has been named vice chancellor and general counsel, effective March 15. Chancellor James Woodward made the announcement following approval of the Board of Trustees.

Goldgeier has spent the last six years as general counsel at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington. She has more than 17 years of higher education legal experience, including six at NC State as associate general counsel. Her previous legal experience includes working at Johns Hopkins University and in private practice in Baltimore.

A native of Durham, Goldgeier received her undergraduate degree from Brown University and a Juris Doctorate from Emory University. She replaces Mary Beth Kurz, who retired in October.

NC State Makes Service Honor Roll

NC State has been named to the 2009 President's Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll by the Corporation for National and Community Service. The selection recognizes the university’s commitment to service and civic engagement on campus and in the nation.

Honor roll awards will be presented at both the American Council on Education annual meeting in Phoenix in March and the National Conference of Volunteering and Service Conference in New York City in June. The entire honor roll list is available online.

Dr. A. Blanton Godfrey won the American Society for Quality's top award.

Quality Society Recognizes Godfrey

Dr. A. Blanton Godfrey, dean of the College of Textiles, received the Distinguished Service Medal from the American Society for Quality (ASQ).

The medal, the organization's highest award, recognizes a distinguished career of contributions to the quality profession.

It is given to honor individuals who have established broad quality improvement initiatives in health care, education and industry, as well as for personally demonstrating exemplary quality practice internationally by blending statistical and managerial quality methods.

Researchers Win Microwave Prize

Researchers in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering will receive the 2010 Microwave Prize from the IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques Society. The award recognizes the most significant paper in the field that has been published in the preceding year in any IEEE publication.

Recipients are NC State’s Jonathan Wilkerson, Dr. Kevin Gard and Dr. Michael Steer, along with collaborator Dr. Alex Schuchinsky of Queen's University Belfast, Northern Ireland. They were honored for "Electro-Thermal Theory of Intermodulation Distortion in Lossy Microwave Components," IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques, published in December 2008.

The work showed that the underlying limit to the performance of communication systems is signal distortion resulting from electro-thermal effects. The performance of communication systems, as well as of high power radar systems, can be improved through appropriate measures to remove heat and by the choice of materials with particular thermal characteristics. The work was done at NC State with support from the U.S. Army Research Office as a Multi-disciplinary University Research Initiative.

Muddiman To Receive Biemann Medal

Dr. David Muddiman, chemistry professor, will receive the 2010 Biemann Medal sponsored by the American Society for Mass Spectrometry (ASMS). The award recognizes significant achievements in basic or applied mass spectrometry made by an individual early in his or her career. The award is presented in honor of Professor Klaus Biemann, whose  legacy is the training of students and postdoctoral associates over a 40-year period at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The Biemann Medal is endowed by contributions from students, postdoctoral associates and friends of Professor Biemann. The medal will be presented at the ASMS annual conference and includes a cash award of $5,000.

Mathematics Receives NSF Grant

The Department of Mathematics has been awarded a National Science Foundation grant titled "Alliance for Building Faculty Diversity in the Mathematical Sciences" that will fund postdoctoral fellowships to new Ph.D.s for a period of up to three years. The program specifically targets minority candidates. A typical three-year postdoctoral fellow will spend one year at a national institute and two years at a university. Alliance universities are Arizona State University, Howard University, Iowa Alliance (University of Iowa and Iowa State University), NC State, the University of Arizona and the University of Nebraska. The project is under the direction of Dr. Aloysius Helminck, head of the NC State Department of Mathematics.

Register for Spanish Language Proficiency Certification

Speak Spanish? Wondering how you could translate your bilingual skills into income or a career? Earn your Spanish language proficiency certificate in business, tourism, or Spanish health services from the internationally recognized Madrid Chamber of Commerce Program. The Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures is the only location in the southeastern United States to offer the testing, and has provided this service to students and the community for 16 years. Registration is open through March 10, with an exam scheduled at 10 a.m. on Tuesday, April 20. Contact Ana Gray  at ana_gray@ncsu.edu for more information. To view sample proficiency questions, or to register for the exam, visit this Web site. 

Apply for Summer Institute by March 31

Sign up now for the 12th Annual Teaching and Learning with Technology Summer Institute for Faculty, May 17-21, in the D.H. Hill Library. March 31 is the deadline to apply for the summer institute, a program for NC State faculty interested in Web-enhanced or online instruction. The institute includes 20 hours of workshops, plus lunchtime seminars and optional lab sessions, spread over one week.

Benefits:

• Learning new ways to teach using technology
• Developing camaraderie with like-minded colleagues
• Listening to experienced lunchtime speakers (lunch provided, thanks to the sponsors)
• Receiving software and equipment in support of Web-enhanced teaching endeavors

To apply, visit http://delta.ncsu.edu/summer_institute/apply.