Dr. Jay Narayan Receives Holladay Medal

The North Carolina State University Board of Trustees has awarded the Alexander Quarles Holladay Medal for Excellence to Dr. Jagdish “Jay” Narayan in recognition of his outstanding career at NC State. The Holladay Medal is the highest honor bestowed on a faculty member by the trustees and the university.

Narayan is the John C. Fan Distinguished Chair Professor of Materials Science and Engineering in the College of Engineering.

Narayan came to NC State in 1983 as a senior professor. He is the recipient of numerous awards, including the 2011 Reynolds Prize, which recognized sustained excellence in research, teaching and extension by the College of Engineering, and the 2011 Acta Materialia Gold Medal for his pioneering contributions and leadership in materials science worldwide. He is also well-known for earning his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley in the record time of one year.

Narayan was cited for the Holladay Medal due to his research in novel materials and groundbreaking contributions in materials science, his mentorship of a large number of highly successful graduate students and postdocs, and his service to the science and engineering community through professional societies and the National Science Foundation, where he served as director of the Division of Materials Research from 1990 to 1992. Narayan has received 35 patents and published over 500 papers in archival journals, which have over 12,800 citations and an h-index of 55 so far.

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