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May 6, 2004

Engineering Professor Grant Honored with NSF Mentoring Award

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Dr. Christine Grant, associate professor of chemical engineering at North Carolina State University, is the recipient of a 2003 Presidential Award for Excellence in Science, Mathematics and Engineering Mentoring (PAESMEM) from the National Science Foundation (NSF).

Dr. Christine Grant

The award recognizes outstanding mentoring efforts designed to enhance the participation of underrepresented groups in science, mathematics and engineering. The awardees are considered exemplars for others interested in developing similar programs. Grant received her award alongside eight other honorees today in a special White House ceremony. Each award includes a commemorative presidential certificate and a $10,000 grant to provide for continued mentoring work.

Grant is one of only six African-American women faculty members in chemical engineering nationwide. Her outreach activities serve students from K-12 through graduate education. She includes students in her research agenda and gives additional attention to mentoring junior faculty. She is co-director of the NSF Green Processing Undergraduate Research Program. She also serves as mentor to engineering students in Ghana, West Africa.

Grant’s research focuses on interfacial phenomena in both microelectronics and environmentally benign chemical processing. She received the YMCA Academy of Women Science and Technology Award in 2000 and the Top Ten Women in the Sciences Award from the National Technical Association in 1998. She was recently elected to the board of directors of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE).

This is the eighth year of the PAESMEM awards, and with today’s announcement, 78 individuals and 62 institutions have now been recognized for PAESMEM honors.

Grant received her bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering from Brown University in 1984, and her master’s and doctoral degrees in chemical engineering from Georgia Institute of Technology in 1986 and 1989, respectively.

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