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Dr. H. Lee Allen Jr. |
Dr. H. Lee Allen has served NC State for 29 years. He assumed the directorship of the Forest Fertilization Cooperative in 1981; under his leadership it became the internationally recognized Forest Nutrition Cooperative, a teaching, research and service partnership between NC State, Virginia Tech, the University of Concepcion (Chile) and 38 commercial and public forestry interests across the southern United States and Latin America with 24 million acres of forest plantations under management. Allen’s research on sustainable production and silviculture, or the development and care of forests; ecophysiology of trees; and genetic differences in resource acquisition and use has yielded more than 240 research publications and millions of dollars in research funding. He has supervised 18 doctoral and 35 master’s students – including 26 international students – who now hold influential positions around the world. He has delivered workshops to more than 3,500 foresters and forest landowners. His service to the Southern forestry industry has increased its competitiveness, resulting in an estimated 15 million more tons of wood and $400 million in additional value annually. He is a member of NC State’s Academy of Outstanding Teachers, a recipient of an Outstanding Extension Service Award and Outstanding Teacher Awards, and has received a U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service Certificate of Appreciation.
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Dr. Ruben G. Carbonell |
Dr. Ruben G. Carbonell has devoted 23 years to research, teaching, service and administration at NC State. Since 1999, he has directed the William R. Kenan, Jr. Institute for Engineering, Technology and Science. He established the highly successful Kenan Fellows for Curriculum and Leadership Program, which has become a national model for university K-12 outreach. Also, since 1999, he has co-directed the NSF Science and Technology Center for Environmentally Responsible Solvents and Processes, which was created by a National Science Foundation grant that was the largest ever received by the UNC system at the time of the award. He also served as head of the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering for five years. Carbonell’s research has resulted in more than 190 publications, 22 patents and more than $22 million in research funding. He has advised more than 70 master’s and doctoral students and 33 postdoctoral students and visiting faculty. His recent work in bioseparations led to the identification of a specific ligand for the prion protein responsible for mad cow disease in humans. This ligand is being used to remove prion protein from blood products. He is a fellow of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers and a recipient of a number of teaching and research awards, including NC State’s Alumni Distinguished Graduate Professorship.
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Dr. Todd R. Klaenhammer |
Dr. Todd R. Klaenhammer has served NC State for more than 28 years. A member of the prestigious National Academy of Sciences, Klaenhammer pioneered the industrial application of molecular genetics to dairy lactic acid bacteria, research that has led to 170 research articles, 32 book chapters, 201 abstracts, 12 patents, and more than $16 million in research funding. He has supervised 40 master’s and doctoral students, six of whom received the prestigious Kenneth R. Keller Award for the outstanding Ph.D. dissertation of the year in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. He has taught a number of courses in the areas of food, dairy and fermentation microbiology, with special emphasis on the application of molecular biology and genomics to practical issues facing the food and dairy industries. He has presented 165 invited seminars, the majority to national and international audiences. In 2006, he was recognized as a distinguished lecturer by Sigma Xi, the scientific research society, and speaks frequently on the topic of “Eat Bacteria-Get Cultured: New Horizons in Bioprocessing and Health.” His novel and significant scientific contributions in the areas of food science and microbiology have resulted in 18 research awards and teaching distinctions, including election as fellow in the Institute of Food Technologists, the American Academy of Microbiology and the American Dairy Science Association. He is also an NC State Alumni Distinguished Graduate Professor.
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Dr. Walt Wolfram |
Dr. Walt Wolfram has served NC State for 15 years. He is an internationally recognized pioneer in sociolinguistics and dialect study who has developed one of the world’s top graduate programs in sociolinguistics. His research program in language variation studies has been supported by 14 externally funded research grants, including continuous funding from the National Science Foundation for more than $1.5 million. He has developed an outreach program on language diversity in North Carolina that has become an international model for sociolinguistic engagement and the dissemination of knowledge in the public sector, including the production of several award-winning TV documentaries, museum exhibits, and dialect awareness curricula. During his tenure at NC State, Wolfram has authored or co-authored nine books, edited or co-edited four books, and published more than 125 articles in professional journals and book collections. He has served as president of the Linguistic Society of America, the American Dialect Society, and the Southeastern Conference on Linguistics, and was inducted into the inaugural class of Fellows of the Linguistic Society of America. University honors include an Alumni Distinguished Graduate Professorship and the Alumni Association Outstanding Research Award. He served on the National Advisory Panel for the Linguistics Program at the National Science Foundation and the Council for the International Exchange of Scholars for the Linguistics Program.
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