Eileen Goldgeier has been named North Carolina State University’s vice chancellor and general counsel. 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 Johns Hopkins University and private practice in Baltimore.
A native of Durham, Goldgeier received her undergraduate degree from Brown University and a Juris Doctorate from Emory University.
The appointment is effective March 15. Goldgeier replaces Mary Beth Kurz who retired in October.
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Dr. Seth Sullivant, assistant professor of mathematics at North Carolina State University, has been awarded a prestigious Packard Fellowship for Science and Engineering valued at $875,000 over five years.
The Packard Fellowship is awarded by the David and Lucille Packard Foundation and supports creative researchers early in their careers. Sullivant is one of 16 recipients this year.
The award will support Sullivant’s research in applying techniques from algebra to address theoretical and computational problems in statistics and biology.
Sullivant joined NC State in 2008, after serving three years as a Junior Fellow in the Harvard Society of Fellows. A native of San Diego, he received his Ph.D. in mathematics from the University of California, Berkeley, in 2005. He received his master’s degree in mathematics from San Francisco State in 2002, and his bachelor’s degree in mathematics from the University of California, Berkeley, in 2000.
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Curriculum and contemporary media specialist, Dr. Lodge McCammon, can discuss the use – and abuse – of social media inside and outside the classrom.
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What: North Carolina State University will host a lecture series this spring to examine the economic, social and cultural forces that have shaped – and are shaping – the South. Titled the “New New South,” the series will place the region’s current transformation into an information economy into the context of the earlier shift from agriculture to manufacturing in North Carolina.
Who: Hosted by the North Carolina State University Libraries and the North Carolina Research Campus.
When: North Carolina Workers and the Industrial South – Thursday, March 4, at 6 p.m.
Dr. David Zonderman, NC State professor of labor history
Rising to the Research Challenge of the Twenty-first Century : The New Workforce – Thursday, March 25, at 4 p.m.
Dr. Tom Miller, NC State vice provost for distance education and learning technology; Dr. Larry Monteith, former NC State chancellor; and Donnie Goins, COO and president of Tavve Software Co.
Communities in Transition –Thursday, April 15, at 4 p.m.
Dr. Michael Walden, William Neal Reynolds Distinguished Professor of Agricultural and Resource Economics at NC State
Where: All public lectures take place in D.H. Hill Library on the NC State campus.
Cost: The lecture series is free and open to the public.
Contact: For more information, contact David Hiscoe at 919/513-3425 or david_hiscoe@ncsu.edu.
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A “metal foam” that has a similar elasticity to bone could mean a new generation of biomedical implants that would avoid bone rejection that often results from more rigid implant materials, such as titanium. Researchers at North Carolina State University have developed the metal foam, which is even lighter than solid aluminum and can be made of 100 percent steel or a combination of steel and aluminum. Continue Reading »
What: North Carolina State University will host David Frum, best-selling author and adviser to former President George W. Bush, as part of its John W. Pope Lecture Series. Frum will be speaking on “A Modern Conservatism.” Continue Reading »