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June 15, 2004

NC State’s Gilligan Gains New Duties as Interim Vice Chancellor

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Dr. John G. Gilligan

Dr. John G. Gilligan, vice chancellor for research and graduate studies at North Carolina State University, has been named the university’s interim vice chancellor for extension and engagement, effective July 20. He succeeds Dr. Stephen Jones, who has been appointed chancellor of the University of Alaska at Fairbanks.

As interim vice chancellor for extension and engagement, Gilligan will direct all aspects of the extension and engagement office, overseeing the university’s extension, outreach, and non-credit distance and continuing education efforts and staff, including the McKimmon Center for Extension and Continuing Education. He will share reporting for the North Carolina Cooperative Extension Service and the Industrial Extension Service.

Effective immediately, the Centennial Campus Development Office reports to Gilligan, with the director also having a dotted reporting line to the vice chancellor for finance and business.

Gilligan began his service at NC State in 1983. He was promoted to professor of nuclear engineering in 1990 and served as associate dean for academic affairs in the College of Engineering from 1994 to 1996, interim dean of the College of Engineering in 1996, and associate dean for research and graduate programs in the College of Engineering from 1996 to 2002. He began his position as vice chancellor for research and graduate studies in 2002.

A specialist in plasma-material surface interaction, low-temperature plasmas, plasma accelerators, fusion-energy technology, and engineering education, Gilligan received his bachelor’s degree in engineering sciences from Purdue University in 1971, and his master’s and doctoral degrees in nuclear engineering from the University of Michigan in 1973 and 1977, respectively.

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