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Vijay Shah

Jul 9, 2025

Shah Wins Prestigious NSF CAREER Award

Shah’s continuing grant will support his project, “O-DSM: An Open Dynamic Spectrum Management Framework for Enhanced 6G Coexistence.” 
Yuchen Liu, holding a microphone while standing behind a lecturn, addresses a seated audience.

Jul 2, 2025

Liu Wins Prestigious NSF CAREER Award

Liu’s continuing grant will support his project, “CatFly: Towards Resilience-Native Wireless Networks through Learning, Twinning, and Reconfiguring Co-Design.”
NC State gateway at sunset

Jun 18, 2025

MAE’s Lee Receives NSF CAREER Award

Andrew Lee has received a highly competitive Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award from the National Science Foundation to support groundbreaking research on the behavior of deployable shell structures
A woman wearing a white lab coat peers into a microscope.

May 7, 2025

Forest Biomaterials Professor Nathalie Lavoine Wins NSF CAREER Award

Lavoine will use the five-year, nearly $750,000 grant to advance her research on cellulose nanocrystals for the creation of sustainable colors and materials for various products.

Apr 7, 2025

Xu Wins NSF CAREER Award

Dr. Ruijuan Xu, an assistant professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at North Carolina State University, has been awarded a prestigious National Science Foundation (NSF) Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) award.
Lin Wiu

Feb 7, 2024

Liu wins NSF CAREER Award

Assistant Professor Yin Liu has been awarded the National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER Award for his research in electronic and photonic materials.
Memorial Belltower

Jun 6, 2023

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The latest awards and honors earned by faculty of the College.
Yeast growing alongside human intestinal cells. Probiotic yeast (S. boulardii) are stained in blue, and primary human colon cells are stained in purple.

Jan 10, 2023

Nathan Crook receives NSF CAREER Award

Professor Nathan Crook has received a National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER Award for his proposal, “Enhancing Probiotic Yeast Colonization for Stable in Situ Biomanufacturing.” The NSF describes CAREER awards as among its “… most prestigious awards in support of early-career faculty who have the potential to serve as academic role models in research and education and to lead advances in the mission of their department or organization.”
Aerial view of The Oval and surrounding Engineering buildings and Hunt Library on NC State's Centennial Campus.

Dec 1, 2022

Faculty highlights

The latest awards and honors earned by faculty of the College.