Five faculty members received the Alexander Quarles Holladay Medal for Excellence, the highest honor bestowed by NC State and the university’s Board of Trustees. Chancellor Randy Woodson will recognize the awardees during an in-person Celebration of Faculty Excellence on May 4.
2022名荣誉是：
- Audrey Jaeger, W. Dallas Herring Distinguished Professor, Department of Educational Leadership, Policy and Human Development
- James Kiwanuka-Tondo, Professor, Department of Communication
- James Lester III，杰出大学教授，计算机科学系
- Veena Misra, Distinguished Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
- Richard Spontak.，化学和生物分子工程系的杰出教授
The award was named in honor of Alexander Quarles Holladay, NC State’s first professor of history and its first president. This year’s award winners have made outstanding and sustained contributions to the university through achievements in research, teaching, or extension and engagement. Honorees receive an engraved medal and framed certificate, and will be honored at NC State’s spring commencement ceremony on May 7.
Jaeger收到了她的博士学位。来自纽约大学。她的研究审查了教职员工和学生之间的关系和经验，吸收过渡，访问，气候，代理，语言和公民和社区参与的问题。此外，她的研究探讨了环境的各个方面，从劳动力市场条件到机构政策，影响教师和学生。Jaeger在组织理论，高等教育治理和学生事务中教授课程。
在NC州，Jaeger也是社区学院领导和研究中心的执行董事，并指导了国家领导和机构效益的倡议，该组织专注于为提高体制效率和学生成功而致力于加强机构效益和学生的成功。她从John M. Belk捐赠中获得了1100万美元，以支持北卡罗来纳州的社区学院。Jaeger是一个助理编辑高等教育研究n和编辑委员会Journal of Higher Education和Journal of Higher Education Outreach and Engagement。Her own work has been published in journals such as theJournal of Higher Education,高等教育研究，教育政策,Community College Review,Journal of College Student Development,Journal of Higher Education Outreach and Engagement, and others.
She is a member of the Academy of Outstanding Teachers and Academy of Outstanding Faculty Engaged in Extension and Engagement at NC State as well as one of the Community Engaged Faculty Fellows. Dr. Jaeger was inducted into The Academy of Community Engaged Scholarship in 2017, as well as received the 2016 Association for the Study of Higher Education Mentor Award, 2015 NASPA Robert H. Shaffer Award for Academic Excellence as a Graduate Faculty Member, 2015 Council of Southern Graduate Schools Outstanding Mentor Award, and the 2013 Women in Higher Education Achievement Award from The National Panhellenic Conference.
Kiwanuka-Tondo received his Ph.D. in communication sciences at the University of Connecticut. His main area of research is health communication campaigns with particular emphasis on HIV/AIDS. He integrates community-engaged research into his teaching of communication campaigns, in which students collaborate with local nonprofit partners to create strategic communication plans for their key audiences. Kiwanuka-Tondo is also known internationally for his work on HIV/AIDS communication campaigns. His research with black female college students has helped improve communication about HIV/AIDS prevention to black female college students in the U.S.
At NC State, Kiwanuka-Tondo teaches courses in Communication Research Methods, Communication Campaigns, International Health Issues; and International/Intercultural Communication. He has also been actively involved in study abroad and has taken undergraduate and graduate students (as well as faculty) to East and Southern Africa while teaching a course in international and intercultural communication. Using a community-engaged research model, Kiwanuka-Tondo in collaboration with colleague Dr. Fredrick Semazzi, a professor in the Department of Marine, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences worked with local fishermen to design and implement a survey about the challenges they experienced and weather patterns on Lake Victoria, Africa’s largest lake by area and the world’s largest tropical lake. The goal was to strengthen meteorological services on Lake Victoria which serves millions of people to enhance safety and navigation and make recommendations for the efficient exploitation of natural resources. Their technical report led directly to the creation of early warning systems and the creation of several plans related to global energy and water exchanges (GEWEX) as well as hydroclimate initiatives.
Kiwanuka-Tondo has been honored for his work on behalf of African American students at NC State with an Advocacy Award for Promoting the Presence of African Americans at NC State from the Association for the Concerns of African American Graduate Students (2008) and the inaugural Lawrence Clark Faculty Excellence Award, from NC State’s African American Cultural Center (2013).
莱斯特收到了贝勒大学历史上的艺术学士学位，以及艺术学士学位，科学硕士和博士。德克萨斯大学在奥斯汀的计算机科学中。他也是NC州教育信息学中心的总监。他对人工智能改造教育的研究中心。他目前的工作范围从AI驱动的叙述环境和虚拟代理商学习，用于学习多模式学习分析和基于草图的学习环境。莱斯特是200多百多个出版物的作者，主要是在AI技术的教育技术领域。他和他的团队创造的AI驱动的学习环境已被全球数千名K-12学生使用。
Lester的教学代理人的基础工作已经通过IFAamas的自治机构联合会和多层系统认可了。他是国家科学基金会（NSF）职业奖和BEST纸质奖励国际人工智能国际会议，AAAI国际人工智能和互动数字娱乐会议的ACM国际会议。国际用户建模，适应和个性化会议。他已被北卡罗来纳州立大学杰出教师奖认可。
Lester has served as Editor-in-Chief of the国际教育人工智能杂志。他曾在2020年国家教育技术计划技术工作组。他的研究计划得到了美国国家教育部教育科学研究所，国家卫生研究院，国家标准研究所和陆军期货指挥。他是人工智能进步协会的研究员。
臭鼬获得了学士学位，硕士学位和博士学位。在NC状态的电气工程中。她也是NC国家协助（集成传感器和技术的先进自动系统）中心主任。她的研究侧重于物理电子，光子和磁性;电力电子和电力系统;电子能源系统包装;和功率半导体器件。
Under her leadership, NC State won an NSF Engineering Research Center on ASSIST. Through her role as director of the ERC on ASSIST, Misra is highly effective in building a community of faculties from many universities who work together with common research, education, and technical goals and are supported by a partnership with leaders in industry. Her most important contributions to engineering education come from the culture she has established through ASSIST and her other work.
She has enabled students to gain a rich interdisciplinary research experience, capped off by experience in designing and building innovative technology. In this capacity, Misra has provided students a pathway to fulfilling engineering careers in academia and industry. She has also made significant advances in the area of wide bandgap devices, metal electrodes and high-K dielectrics for CMOS applications for which she also received the IEEE Fellow citation in 2012. Misra’s work in hybrid molecular-silicon memories is also noteworthy since she demonstrated fundamentally new directions with the convergence of solid-state devices and organic chemistry. The total funding with Misra either as a PI or a mission-critical Co-PI exceeds $59 million.
Spontak获得化学学士al engineering from Penn State and his Ph.D. in chemical engineering from the University of California at Berkeley. Although active in a diverse range of disciplines, his primary research interests relate to the phase behavior and morphology/property development of nanostructured polymers, polymer nanocomposites and coatings, electron microscopy, and stimuli-responsive soft materials.
在他的29车eer, Spontak has demonstrated a consistent track record of delivering outstanding original, not derivative, research in an incredibly broad area of soft materials, especially elastomers. His discoveries have helped to advance the field of elastomers technology and have resulted in many innovations with real-world impact. Spontak develops advanced soft materials that impact contemporary technologies and also provides a fundamental understanding of scientific phenomena. Most recently, he developed broad-spectrum antimicrobial polymers capable of inactivating bacteria, viruses (e.g., SARS-CoV-2) and black mold to >99.9999% in most cases in five minutes or less, and these innovations are being licensed (they received emergency EPA approval for use by Delta Airlines in U.S. airports).
To mitigate global climate change, he is developing polymer membranes that are CO2 ultrapermeable AND ultraselective for inexpensive, scalable and effective carbon capture. Spontak has cultivated a vast collaboration network with researchers across different fields and across different continents, initiating a truly multidisciplinary and multicultural approach to his research. In addition to his prolific research, Spontak continues to invest a significant amount of his energy in developing his graduate students to prepare them to be world-class researchers and mentoring his undergraduate students for successful careers in a broad range of disciplines.
An elected fellow of the American Physical Society, IOM3, and the Royal Society of Chemistry, he is or has been on the editorial advisory board of more than 20 international journals and holds editorial positions on three of them. He has received college- and alumni-level Outstanding Teaching Awards, as well as the system-level Board of Governor’s Award for Excellence in Teaching, the highest institutional honor bestowed by the University of North Carolina system. He has also received the 2006 International Network for Engineering Education & Research Recognition Award and the 2009 American Society for Engineering Education Southeast Region Outstanding Mid-Career Teaching Award, and he has served as a Fulbright Senior Specialist and an Erasmus Fellow.
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